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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine 1993 February Scratchbuild a SOO Line Engineho
Railroad Model Craftsman 1993 February
Departments
6 Notes on an Old Timetable
Editorial-Harold H. Carstens
8 Safety Valve
Letters from our readers
16 Dispatchers report Product and industry news
28 Railbooks
Book news and reviews 33 RMC Timetable
Scheduled events and notices
102 Test Track
Product reviews
132 Collector Consist
Robert Sherman,
locomotive builder by Keith Wills
134 Editors Notebook Commentary-William C. Schaumburg
137 Classified Advertising Commercial listings
138 Dealer Directory Recommended hobby dealers
139 Exchange Place
Non-commercial listings
145 Advertising Index
Special features
60 Perspective: Wall murals by Mike Small
Murals painted on the sides of buildings are common in cities and towns across America. Adding one to a building on your layout can create a visual focal point and convey a message about your layout's setting to viewers.
68 Craig Tice's HOn3 Mojave & Panamint by Don Mitchell
This beautiful layout is set at the turn-of-the-century and inspired by the railroads of the California/Nevada desert region.
76 Model railroad photography by Christopher P. D'Amato
If you've ever wanted to photograph your layout or models, but weren't sure of how to go about it, this article will explain what you need and how to do it.
94 Setting the stage: Part two by Gene Fusco and Randy Ditton Last month, we covered using valences and profile boards as a stage for a layout, this month we'll discuss the application of a theatrical style lighting system to a model railroad.
Modeling
62 Using scale artwork made from photos by Charles Montgomery Here is how you can use pictures of signs and advertisments on your model railroad.
66 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing Marmoraton Mining's limestone plant by Michel Boucher
After visiting a limestone preperation plant to learn about its operations, the author kitbashed a model of one from a Heljan kit. 84 Detailing a D&RGW SD45 by David Bontrager
This model has a Rail Power Products shell and an Athearn frame. 88 An enginehouse for Crandon by Bill Ehlert
This scratchbuilt, two-stall wood enginehouse serves the author's Wisconsin & Northern HO layout. It is based on a Soo Line structure that was located in South Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
Prototype
74 Cummer Sons Cypress Company water car and disconnect truck by Tom Yorke
The two cars featured in these scale drawings were used by this Florida logging line into the early 1960's.
96 Southern Pacific's AAR boxcars by Anthony Thompson, Richard Hendrickson and Steve Peery
After acquiring large numbers of composite, single-sheathed boxcars in the early 1920's, the SP added no new boxcars to its roster for an entire decade. Starting in 1936, the SP began ordering AAR designed boxcars and continued modernizing its fleet following WWII. This article describes the differences in these cars.
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