Model Railroader Magazine 1981 August

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Model Railroader Magazine 1981 August

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Contents:  Bill of Lading – The Cumberland Valley Systems (The Reid Brothers’ beautiful N scale railroad.), Ortner five-bay hopper cars (These bulk commodity cars are operated mostly in unit trains.), Closeup: Instrument houses (Wayside structures from a few pieces of wood or styrene and wire.), Eric Bronsky’s Illinois Terminal HO scale class B locomotive (The Model of the Month award.), A frugal factory kit bash (Our unstoppable kit mingler turns two barbershops into an all-purpose factory.), Designing and scratch building a roundhouse (Fundamental concepts to guide you in building a tailor-made roundhouse.), Wild Willie’s uncoupler (It makes manual uncoupling of Kadees so easy you could do it in the dark.), Downtown Chicago in HO scale (These skyscrapers are the highlight of the Chicago Terminal District RR.), Kit bashing a free-lanced Twelve-Wheeler (Ideas for changing a popular heavy 0-8-0 switcher into a husky road engine.), The ghosts of Allentown Terminal (A once-bustling terminal remembered with a camera and some HO scale models.), Lackawanna wheel crane (A simple and minute servicing facility for a freight yard.), Modifying a Tyco/Mantua 4-6-0 (Change your “Petticoat Junction” 4-6-0 into a “typical” Ten-Wheeler.), HO scale automatic brake system (A gadget that solves the lurching problem in long trains running downgrade.), Prototype Date and Drawings – Ortner five-bay Rapid-Discharge hopper cars, Lackawanna wheel crane

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