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Model Railroader Magazine 2009 December Build a backdrop Realistic Operation
Model Railroader 2009 December
6 Brighten up your layout
From the Editor by Neil Besougloff
8 Now on ModelRailroader.com
The latest features on our Web site by Dana Kawala
10 News & Products
Hobby industry news and product announcements by Steven Otte
18 MR Sweepstakes rules 20 Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers by Eric Stelpflug
24 Car orientation in unit coal trains
Information Desk by Jim Hediger
28 Dust covers
Workshop by Jim Hediger
BACKDROP SPECIAL
34 Building a backdrop
Step by Step by David Popp
38 You, too, can paint a backdrop
Easy backdrop painting for first-time artists by Steven Otte
42 Wunderland goes to Switzerland
This massive display layout expands yet again by Erhard Baltrusch
48 Troubleshoot a DCC layout
Five steps to find, correct, and prevent problems by David Popp
52 A modeler's guide to gondolas
Facts about transition-era cars and how to model them by Tony Koester
58 Adding operations to a layout
How to develop and manage operating sessions
by Brooks Stover Online bonus ModelRailroader.com
64 Model a small logging camp
How to build basic camp structures and equipment by Jeff Johnston
68 The main line of the Minutemen
Modeling 1950s railroading on the Boston & Maine by Thomas Oxnard
76 DCC and turnouts
DCC Corner by Mike Polsgrove
78 Product Reviews
Athearn's HO Union Pacific gas-turbine, Broadway Limited's sound-equipped N scale E8s ... and more by Dana Kawala
92 Trackside Photos
98 Everything is relative
Trains of Thought by Tony Koester
100 Cartoon
113 Index of Advertisers
114 Authority to use the main line - part -I
The Operators by Andy Sperandeo
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