Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Railroad Model Craftsman 2016-11
Articles Listing

Understanding Railroad Signals Part 11

This installment covers modern CTC, transition-era CTC, and dispatching from remote locations using CMRInet.

A Tall Tale Making Tell-tales

The author describes how he built his model out of brass.

Big Operations & Large Scale

The author describes Steve Bittinger's G-scale Western Maryland layout, covering how he constructed the outdoor layout, the track parts he used, locomotives and rolling stock found in the layout, the scratchbuilt structures, and scenery and operations. Includes the track plan of the layout, with lots of photos.

Northern Pacific's Standard 52' Flatcar

This article describes the history of these flat cars, and includes drawings and many prototype photos (including frame-only photos).

Scratchbuilding a Snowshed

For an HOn3 modular layout, the author decided to build a snowshed, modeled after a Canadian Pacific prototype.

Short Line Water Tank

The author builds a water tank as his foray into Fn3, and is surprised by how big this modeling scale is.