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Model Railroader Magazine 2009 July How to build a small railroad town
Model Railroader July 2009 Vol 76 No 7
CONTENTS
6 Comments encouraged
From the Editor by Neil Besougloff
8 Now on
The latest features on our Web site by Dana Kawala
10 News & Products
Hobby industry news by Steven Otte
20 Railway Post Office
Letters from our readers by Eric Stelpflug
23 Trolleys without wires
Information Desk by Jim Hediger
27 Cleaning paint brushes
Workshop by Lionel Strang and Jim Hediger
30 Disguise a tunnel with trees
Step by Step by Steven Otte
COVER STORY
34 How to build a small railroad town
Structures and details make a convincing scene by Steve Harris
41 Keep that car from rolling
Make derails to keep cars in place on a grade by Olaf Melhouse
PROTOTYPE DRAWING
42 Fruit Growers Express reefer
Illustrations for a common prototype built in the 1920s by Harold W. Russell
46 Keeping true to the Soo Line
Modeling the steam-to-diesel transition in the Midwest by Mark Preussler Online bonus
TRACK PLAN CONTEST FIRST PRIZE
54 A double-deck N scale track plan
Maine Central in the White Mountains in 12 x 16 feet by John Koukol Jr. Online bonus
58 Updating a 1990s Amtrak F4OPH
Detail modifications for a Walthers HO scale model by Matt Snell
62 Easy layout control panels
How to make track schematics for your layout by Wayne McNab
66 6 decades on the South Shasta Lines
Southern Pacific steam inspired this O scale layout by Godfrey Humann Online bonus
70 Back-electro-motive-force control
DCC Corner by Mike Polsgrove
72 Product Reviews Rivarossi's sound-equipped HO Big Boy ... and more by Dana Kawala Online bonus
84 Trackside Photos
88 Retrofitting operations on the F&SM
Trains of Thought by Tony Koester
93 Cartoon
101 Index of Advertisers
102 Choosing locomotives - part 2
The Operators by Andy Sperandeo
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