Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | S Scale Resource 2015-02/03
Articles Listing

Remembering Se Young Lee Founder of Samhongsa Models

The author, owner of SouthWind Models, describes meeting Mr. Lee in 1974.

Port Rowan in 1:64

The author describes the history of Port Rowan, Ontario, on the north shore of Lake Erie, and proceeds to describe his layout, which is a small S-scale switching layout, built to Proto:64 standards. Included are lots of layout photos, a track plan, and a description of the operational scheme.

Milwaukee Road Water Tank

This article contains photos of the Mid Continent Railway Museum's (in North Freedom, Wisconsin) Milwaukee Road water tank. The article also includes drawings of the structure.

Old Decals

The author letters a River Raisin PRR X33 for a Detroit Toledo & Ironton box car, which used the same design as the PRR's box car. He also shows a Northern Pacific 40-foot box car, using the RR PRR X31 box car. Both of these were lettered using leftover decals from other projects.

Concrete Bag Retaining Walls

The author provides two photos where a small retaining wall was made out of bags of concrete.

Making Small Bushes

The author describes how he makes small bushes from dried flowers from Queen Ann's Lace weeds.

Thoughts On Soldering

This article is an overview of what solder is, some of the tools used in soldering, and some techniques. Includes many photos that show the various tools, soldering techniques, and of under-construction models.