Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 2005-02
Articles Listing

Moving Freight and Making Names

The article introduces the concept of operations and how to get started in it. It covers mapping your railroad, industrial analysis, starting with a switch list, car cards and waybills, and boxes and shelves in which to store these car cards and waybills.

Allegheny Summer

This large 22 x 24 feet layout models West Virginia in the summer of 1947. The article includes photos and the trackplan (which is quite interesting). A small sidebar is included about how the author scratchbuilt his large roundhouse.

Sound Advice

The author examines how manufacturers tackle the difficult issue of sound reproduction inside our small locomotives. Covers both steam and diesel engines. Includes a sidebar on the history of sound in model railroading.

Big-city Railroading in a Small Apartment Room

A small shelf layout can still make big-city railroading possible. Shows the author's arrangement to allow the layout and the workbench to co-exist in the same small room. Includes a sidebar on how to make switching between DC and DCC on the layout a breeze.

Modeler's Guide to Lightweight Passenger Trucks

Covers in great detail how to identify individual trucks on passenger cars. Includes technical and historical information, and prototype photos. A side bar and modeling trucks only covers HO-scale models. Another side bar covers the Budd disk brake system.

Suburban Station Renovation

The author (the general manager of Micro-Mark) takes a simple Atlas O-scale structure and turns it into a DL&W station in Berkeley Heights, N.J. This kit is also available in HO and N-scale.

Tracks and Rocks for Our Branch Line Part 2

In this installment the author discusses how to lay track, build a bridge, and cast rocks.

Detail N Scale Santa Fe PAs

Covers removing molded-on grab irons, installing stirrup steps, adding m.u. receptacles and hoses, installing grab irons, painting, and weathering the Kato PA-1 and PB-1 units. Includes a parts list.

Paint Like an Expert

The article covers the tools the author uses (such as masking tape, sculpting tools, and a paint bottle holder), painting the truck frames silver, cleaning solution, and tools used for applying decals.applying decals

Locomotive Lighting Effects

This article discusses, in general, how to install lights in locomotives, and then programming the decoder to perform special lighting functions using Decoder Pro.