Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Railroad Model Craftsman 2003-07
Articles Listing

The Back Side of Buildings

Photos of the back side of buildings that reveal severe weathering and older industrial structures.

South-Central Ontario, 1958

Model Engineers Society layout of modules. The articles has many photos and module diagrams.

The Tank at Pepito Tey

A water tank in Cuba. The article contains model photos and a detailed drawing of the parts.

S Scale Gas Station Kitbash

Using American Model Builders' Dill's Market kit to build this gas station. Includes two model photos.

The Lowly Shed

Description for building a handcar or storage shed. Two different models are shown in the photos.

CB&Q's Coburg, Iowa, Station

A small freight and passenger station. Contains no photos but detailed drawings.

Detailing Athearn Sieco and Branchline Berwick Boxcars

Prototype and model photos. Detailed photos of constructing the grab irons. Painting and weathering shows how to simulate a boxcar belonging to a former railroad but that name has been over-painted.

Modeling a Southern Pacific SD50

Prototype and model photos. Detail photos of the various enhancements made to the Life-Like 2K SD60 model.

Fred Oster's HOn3 Denver & Rio Grande Third Division

Photos, and track plan.

Essential Freight Cars Part 4

Prototype and model photos of the NP's 10000-series double-sheathed boxcars. It has an excellent sidebar on how to make grab irons.

Easy-to-model Small Bridges

Building a small bridge over a creek.

Modeling an Auto Loading Facility

Many prototype photos set mostly in the 1960s. The article shows how cars were transported and loaded. There is an aerial photo of the Bain auto loading facility. A trackplan of this facility is also included.

Mid-century Prototypes part III

Early diesel models.