Model Railroader Magazine 1983 April

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Model Railroader Magazine 1983 April

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Contents:  Bill of Lading – Kit bash a Rebuilt Baldwin (Duplicate EMD’s rebuilding (almost) in N scale), An HO Version of the Rebuilt Baldwin (Kit bash a pair of HO scale models for another variation), Kit bashing a Trio of Gondolas (How to make three different modern gondolas for another variation), Tim T. Swan’s HO Scale Monon Consolidation (The Model of the Month award), The Quartz Hill Tramway (HOn2 1/2 in the Rockies, 2nd place winner in MR’s layout planning contest), Build the Wireless Throttle: 2 (Finishing the work on the controller and building the power pack), The Very Short Line Ltd. (Even though it’s for the birds, this layout won a Special Imagination Award), The VLA-CI RR Complex (A Special Imagination Award for this HO layout on the frontiers of astronomy), Trackside Stock Pens for your Layout (Featuring drawings of the Sioux City stockyards), End Twin-coil Switch Machine Frustrations (How to fix them and how to keep from breaking them), Shift Time (Don’t be a slave for the 24-hour clock), Computerizing the Great Southern (Lorell Joiner, Paul Zucchino and Ted Williams describe computer cab control), The Brooklyn East River Terminal Ry. (Turn-of-the-century waterfront railroading: 3rd place in the contest), Closeup: Bumping Posts and Car Stops (Simple devices to keep cars from running away), The Cloverleaf Subdivision (Ken Regula’s CN layout to be featured at the 1983 NMRA convention in Winnipeg), The Sykes Seagull Rail Bus (Alvin A. Lawrence drawings of this New Haven motor car), Prototype Data and Drawings – Sioux City stockyards, Bumping posts and car stops, New Haven’s Sykes Seagull rail bus

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