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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine 1996 October Modeling Reading Mahanoy Tunnel e
Railroad Model Craftsman 1996 October
Departments
5 Notes on an Old Timetable
Editorial-Harold H. Carstens
6 Safety Valve
Letters from our readers
9 Dispatchers Report Product and industry news
31 Railbooks
Book news and reviews 38 RMC Timetable
Scheduled events and notices
92 Test Track
Product reviews
108 Collector Consist Snapshots: 1954-1958 -by Keith Wills
110 Editors Notebook Commentary-William C. Schaumburg
116 Classified Advertising Commercial listings
117 Exchange Place Non-commercial listings
118 Dealer Directory Recommended hobby dealers
122 Advertising Index
Special features
46 Perspective: Historical societies by Doug Geiger
Historical societies can be a great source for modeling information. 58 Boomer Trail
RMC presents photos from its readers.
72 Jim Powers' C&S layout by Charles Stevens
This beautiful On3 layout captures the look and feel of the Colorado & Southern's narrow gauge operations in its waning years.
82 Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad of the Nineteenth Century: Pt. Il by Franklin Doeringer
This month we'll look at the cars and equipment of the late 1800's.
Modeling
48 Reading's Mahanoy Tunnel by Jim Hertzog
In 1901, the Reading erected a ventilation/blower system at the east end of the 3,400-foot long Mahanoy Tunnel to help rid it of smoke and noxious fumes from passing trains. This large ventilating system makes an interesting modeling subject.
54 Installing DCC decoders in small steam locomotives by Don CabralI
This plug-in system allows the decoders to be hidden in the tenders of small steam locomotives.
56 Modeling a "double-wide" by Richard Olson
Factory-built homes carried on trailers have become a common sight on our nation's highways. Here is how you can model one.
67 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing an MP15AC for the "home road" by Wayne Nelson
By combining parts from a Con-Cor MP15DC, and Athearn SD40-2T and SW 1500 models, the author was able to kitbash an HO scale MP15AC for his fictional railroad.
Prototype
62 Canadian National's 30-foot twin hoppers by John Riddell with drawings by Robert McLerty
These steel hoppers served the railroad from the turn-of-thecentury until the 1960's.
89 Pennsylvania Railroad freight cars of the 1870's text and drawings by Eric Neubauer
Small by today's standards, the caboose, stock car, hopper-bottom gondola and boxcar featured here were typical of the equipment of the day.
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