Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroad Hobbyist 2018-07
Articles Listing

Publisher's Musings

The magazine is looking for a new DCC columnist. Don't pay attention to the scale when reading articles in MRH.

MRH Q-A-T

How to seal wooden benchwork. Are ocean-going containers refrigerated? Using a piece of foam as a place to stick often-used tools (e.g. knives).

DCC Impulses

How to deal with locomotives stalling. Includes a listing of the various keep-alive supercapacitor boards offered by manufacturers.

What's Neat

Covers Bill White' s G-scale layout, Ron Pare Chinese architecture in HO-scale, Steve Mann's HO-scale layout, build a lift-out section, and look at some
G-scale autorack cars from USA Trains.

Imagineering Column

The author shares ideas, using his home layout as an example, of how he has broken the model railroading rules to make a unique layout.

Modeling a Rock Island U25B

The author converts a Bowser U25B to make it look like the one he photographed in 1977.

A Farm House for Goff Brook

The author discovers that there was a house near the tracks, so he shows how he built it.

One Module Challenge

The author designs two modules based on the One Module approach, and shows various diagrams about how they would fit into a larger layout. Includes lots of diagrams, and a materials list.

Modeling a Frisco USRA 2-8-2

The article describes how the author bought a PRR Akane brass engine, and converted it into the Frisco model.