Description
Contents: Editorial A Decade Of Model Railroad Planning; Cover Story Blueprint For A Model Railroad (John King is capturing a Baltimore & Ohio branch line in HO scale one town at a time); Michigan Car Ferry Operations (Rail traffic across Lake Michigan is the focal point of this HO railroad); “Prototype” For A Freelanced Railroad (The HO scale Illinois & St. Louis has roots in favorite Midwestern railroads); Building The Central Vermont In Sections (Achieving a Currier & Ives look); Designing The Deepwater District Using CAD (Computer-Aided Design offers flexibility and accuracy but takes time to master); Compact Layout: 1 Lots Of Switching, Small Space (An HO industrial layout in 1 x 6 feet); Compact Layout: 2 Portable Port Layout (The HO Deepwater Ry. & Navigation Co. fits in a station wagon); Compact Layout: 3 Folding Belt Line On A Shelf (A plan for California’s Almeda Belt Line in N scale); Operating The Shady Grove & Sherrill (Setting up the first operating session on an On2 1/2 railroad); Layout Design Element Track Planning With Val Maps (Designing an N scale layout to represent the Pennsylvania RR at Harrisburg); Layout Improvement: 1 It’s Done With Mirrors (Small ones, in fact); Layout Improvement: 2 Crew Lounges (For off-duty operators); Layout Improvement: 3 Finishing Off The Layout Room (Skirting and carpeting do the trick); Layout Improvements: 4 A Sense Of Place (Names and labels confer identity); Layout Improvement: 5 Lighting For Lubbock (Three ways to light a layout room); Layout Improvement: 6 Managing S Curves (How to minimize adverse effects); More Action On The Carolina Central (Adding staging to an N scale layout); Reader Forum Sharing Questions And Ideas; Planning Tip Drawing Curves On Roadbed (How to support a trammel’s center point); Planning Tip Increasing Yard Capacity (Lay no. 6 turnouts on a no. 4 angle); Planning Tip Curved Yards (It all depends on where you put the curve); Planning Tip Manual Turntable For Staging (No need to handle locomotives); Rear Platform Ten Years Of Progress (Jack’s been working on the railroad)
Issue: Model Railroad Planning 2005
Condition: Very Good