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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine 1984 December Modeling Sears home Pass car fol
Railroad Model Craftsman 1984 December
Departments
6 Notes on an Old Timetable
Editorial-Harold H. Carstens 8 Safety Valve
Letters from our readers
20 Dispatchers Report
Product and industry news
42 Railbooks
Book news and reviews
53 RMC Timetable
Scheduled events and notices
105 Test Track
Product reviews
136 Observations
-Visiting an Ntrak meet by Carlos Martinez
138 Tips and Techniques
Modeling methods and ideas
140 Collector Consist
-The Allstate Orange Special by Keith Wills
146 Editors Notebook
Commentary-William Schaumburg
150 Classified Advertising
Commercial listings
151 Exchange Place Non-commercial listings 152 Dealer Directory
Recommended hobby dealers
159 Advertising Index
Special features
60 Perspective: A look at a railroad town by John Nehrich
Chatham, N.Y., is the example used in this look at the development of a commercial block along a railroad right-of-way.
Modeling
62 Kitbashing a UP SD40 by Jim Six
A GSB SD40-2 was used as the basis for this HO scale model.
68 A freight house for Vanderheyden Island by Stafford Swain
Winnipeg modeler Stafford Swain volunteered his services to build a structure for the NEB&W club in Troy, N.Y. Here is a look at the finished project and how he did it.
74 The Catoosa Southern Railroad by Ray Hargis, Jr.
The inspiration for this Texas layout came from the hills of east Tennessee.
85 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Watertower lighthouse by Pierre Davis
From two structures designed to hold water the author built one to overlook it.
86 Building a traverser by Bob Shepherd
When a lack of space hindered the development of a staging yard, movable staging tracks were the answer.
88 An American classic: the Sears home by Julian Cavalier
This two-part series begins with the construction of the walls and foundation on our 1/4" scale Sears Modern Home No. 102.
96 Protofile 33: Reading class XMLG boxcar by Bobb Losse
With a few detail changes and the addition of a Youngstown door to a Details West single door boxcar, the author had himself a pleasing model of a Reading prototype.
98 Freight car fencing by John Campbell
Here's an interesting scenery project using freight car doors.
99 Lombard log hauler by Jim Auman
It was a coal burning, saddle tank steam engine that didn't run on wheels. Instead it ran on tracks like a bulldozer and had a pair of skis in front. It was a Lombard logging tractor, and Jim Auman tells how he modeled one of these contraptions.
Prototype
78 New York, Ontario & Western passenger cars by Bob Mohowski, with drawings by Julian Cavalier
The O&W operated wood-sided passenger cars until its demise in 1957. Here are HO scale plans and a description of five different style cars.
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