Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 1987-10
Articles Listing

The West Tennessee Central

Louis Ertz's 26' by 53' O-scale layout. It is a walk-in layout with generous curves, beautiful structures, and nicely painted backdrops. The whole room is finished with carpet and wood skirting to the floor.

A Small Brick Multi-use Structure

The author describes how he built this building that could be used as either a yard office, crossing watchman's shelter, or a scale house. He draws bricks on cream-colored file folders. Includes scale drawings and step-by-step instructions.

Modeling Northern Pacific Trains 57 and 58

Number 57 left Duluth with the North Coast Limited and returned as number 58. The author started with Model Power's USRA Light Pacific. Article includes model and prototype photos, scale drawings and detail close-ups.

Pike-size Steam Passenger Trains

This article describes five prototype trains and how they can be modeled in HO. It covers the Baltimore & Ohio Ambassador (1953), the Louisville & Nashville Lebanon Branch local (1947), the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines Ocean City shuttle (1954), the Southern Pacific Shasta (1949), and the Texas & Pacific Southerner (1947).

Meet the Mushroom

This article introduces the now famous mushroom design where both levels on a double-deck layout are at an ideal height simply by having a step-up platform for the higher elevation. The solution is embedded in an article about how he designed a large layout for one of his clients.

An N Scale Mikado and Consolidation

The author took a Bachmann 2-8-2 and a 2-8-0 and converted them into good models for his Rocky Coast Line layout.

The Hazzard County Short Line

A track plan and operational scheme for a 4x8 layout.

Ted Hough's HO Canadian Pacific Ry.

A 12 by 28 rectangular, around-the-walls kind of layout featuring Canadian railroading. The layout was started by Ted's brother Don and later moved to Ted's basement. The layout had been featured in Model Railroader before.

The Charisma of Trivia

Adding lots of left-over parts, fully painted and weathered, to the layout adds to the clutter that makes a scene more believable. The author describes how he uses paintbrush bristles for weeds.

ABCs of Switching Cars

This introductory article discusses what switching is, how to uncouple cars, and how to deal with trailing point and facing point turnouts

Baldwin 2-6-2 Logging Locomotive

Prototype photos and scale drawings describe the early 20th century Prairie-type for the Industrial Lumber Co. Includes some modeling notes for HO and O-scale models.

N Scale U30CGs

Includes prototype and model photos, and covers repainting the Minitrix models.

Track Inspection

The author describes how track is inspected. The article includes several photos of modern-day track inspection vehicles (converted flat-bed or SUVs).