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Magazine Articles By Stuart Thayer

 

60' Auto Box Car

Magazine:

Mainline Modeler 1992-05

Page:

48

Category:

Freight Cars - Box Cars

Scale:

HO

Greenville-built box cars for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad to transport Ford vehicles. The article covers ways to build this car, and includes scale drawings and model photos.

Modeling Louisville & Nashville Phase 2 GP30's

Magazine:

Model Railroading 2002-11

Page:

22

Category:

Locomotives - Diesel

Scale:

HO

Prototype and model photos. Includes a materials list.

Modeling Pennsylvania Railroad EMD SW7 & SW9 Switchers

Magazine:

Model Railroading 1997-10

Page:

45

Category:

Locomotives - Diesel

Scale:

HO

The author describes a bit of history about these two switchers, and then describes how he modeled them. For the SW7 he used an undecorated Athearn model as a starting point. For the SW9 he used the Life-Like Proto2000 PRR model. The article includes model photos, detail drawings, prototype photos of both engines, and tables listing the PRR roster of both engines.