Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | S Gaugian 2003-07/08
Articles Listing

Scale Scene

The author describes his method for creating rivets in styrene, using a die-covered lightbox.

The Reading Railroad's Little Red Caboose

The author briefly describes the history of the Reading Railroad. He then continues with the history of the all-steel cabooses built by the Reading Shops to allow steam engines to push the train behind those cabooses, rather than to first have to remove the wooden cabooses. The rest of the article is about how A.C. Gilbert produced a model of that caboose, and also the Reading bay window caboose. The article includes a scaled drawing.

Oshkosh Trucks

The history of the Oshkosh Truck Corporation of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, which was incorporated in 1917 under the name Wisconsin Duplex Auto Company. Includes several prototype truck photos.

Building the New Buffalo Creek & Gauley Part IV

This final installment covers the "story line" of the layout and how he operates it. A little bit of prototype history is covered, including the lines' demise. On Brooks' layout, the line is doing well. He describes the car card routing system he uses, as well as the NCE DCC system he uses to run the trains. The locomotives are using the Soundtraxx Tsunami decoders.

J.J. Bowdian House

Scaled drawings (only) of this building; all four sides.

The Roundhouse

The author continues the discussion of the A.F. Turret transformers. Includes an exploded-view diagram of the 18B and 30B transformers, as well as an electrical wiring diagram of the internals.

American Flyer Collector's Column

The author covers A.C. Gilbert's offerings of 1958, the last of the "Golden Years" of the company, in which they still offered a full line of products.