Library - "Scenery - Vehicles" Magazine Articles

Category Description: Articles about scale automobiles, trucks, and buses.

1:20.3 One-horse Shay

Garden Railways 2005-12 pg. 70     Scale: F     Author: Ted Stinson

This is an insert in the magazine that provides scale drawings for building your own one-horse open carriage.

Easy-to-make Trucks

N-Scale 2003-07/08 pg. 60     Scale: N     Author: George and Chris Carroll

Modeling small trucks in less than an hour. Detailed photos, weathering, and design diagram for painting wheels are included.

MOW Hi-Rail Truck

N-Scale 2003-05/06 pg. 60     Scale: N     Author: Ron Bearden

Follow-up supplement to an article by Jake Schultz in the September/October 1999 issue of N-Scale magazine. The article shows how to build a running maintenance-of-way truck.

Perfectly Prototypical

N-Scale 2003-01/02 pg. 52     Scale: N     Author: Bill Cawthon

The article discusses recent releases of N-scale automobiles, including photos of some.

The Lite and Narrow: Building an On30 Speeder

Model Railroad Hobbyist 2010-11/12 pg. 125     Scale: On30     Author: Lew Matt

Using a HO-scale Bachmann San Francisco Cable car, the author built an On30 speeder. Includes a side-bar on the history of speeders.

Using Vehicles Effectively

Railroad Model Craftsman 2006-08 pg. 58     Scale: (none)     Author: James A. Foster

Using vehicles to identify the time period modeled, even for non-model railroading visitors.