Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroad Hobbyist 2018-06
Articles Listing

Publisher's Musings

How has this magazine (its 100th issue) fared on the advertiser-paid business model? A word about ad composition. They are introducing their Donate button, to help with the costs of the magazine. The embedded version will be no more, because it used Adobe Flash, and Adobe is getting ready to terminate that product.

MRH Q-A-T

How to make water with ripples? How to make plastic look like new wood? Cheap weathering powder (Home Depot concrete tint).

DCC Impulses

The author is retiring from writing regular monthly columns, so that he can work on his own layouts. What is the difference between the SoundTraxx Tsunami and the Tsunami2 DCC sound decoders? The author describes installing one of these decoders into a G-scale LGB locomotive.

Getting Real

This column has a rotating set of authors, with Marty being the original one. He shares what he has learned from building his layouts. Large layouts aren't a panacea. A new layout is under way after a move.

Getting Real

Why prototype modeling? Several other Yosemite Valley modelers are asked why they chose to model a prototype.

Getting Real

Why prototype modeling? The author explains that he likes doing the prototype research.

Getting Real

Why prototype modeling?

Getting Real

Why prototype modeling?

What's Neat

The author shows (through the accompanying video and photos) a tour of a big O-scale layout, and a small N-scale one, learns about trees, and builds Walthers' paper mill.

Rebuilding the White Mountain Branch

The author describes the process of removing a large section of his established layout and replacing it with some new, and the reason for doing this.

Freight Car Trucks

Prototype information and photos of freight car trucks.

Los Angeles Union Passenger Station

Prototype information and photos are interspersed with the author's model photos.

Joe Fugate's Siskiyou Line 2 Progress Update

The author has torn down his layout and is building a new one using the "TOMA" approach. He also shares the lessons learned from the previous layout that he is addressing in the new one.