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Articles Listing

Scratchbuilding N Scale Passenger Cars

The author describes and shows how he built passenger cars using sheet brass stock. Includes construction diagrams, how to form the shapes, interior details, and a scale drawing of the Milwaukee Road Lake Pepin car.

John Street Tower

Prototype photos and scale drawings of the tower found on the CN and CP main lines in Toronto.

Basics of Thatcher's Inlet Part 3

This installment covers the basic construction of the layout, such as benchwork, track laying, and wiring. Many construction photos are included.

O&W's Light 400's

In 1922 the New York, Ontario & Western received four "400" 4-8-2 steam locomotives for passenger train service. This article includes many prototype photos, a center-spread painting, and scale drawings

RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award

The author created an SD9 from two Athearn GP0 shells.

CNR Section Car

Scale drawings and prototype photo accompany this short article about this Model-T-like car and a flat car.

Milwaukee Road/Canadian National Sleepers - P-S-1948

Scale drawings and prototype photos, as well as a listing of the road numbers/names of this car are the main part of the article.

CN's "Circus Cars"

Three boxcars and a cylindrical hopper car were colorfully painted with representative symbols indicating what was carried by that car as part of the company's advertising campaign.

Space-saving Control Panel

The idea is to build your control panel on a slide-out drawer. The author describes how he built his with several photos and detail drawings.