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  New Age Operations - Part III: "Finescale Operation" - The Human Element

  December 7, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 355 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  by Jeff H. Lemke, Range Research  Part I, state-of-the-art models and state-of-the-art operations, appeared in the November 1989 issue.Part II, "Model or Prototype" on adapting scale scenes to match scale models, appeared in ...
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  Operations Evolution, Part II: Model or Prototype?

  December 5, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 442 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  Burlington Northern GP35s 2520 and 2521 slowly muscle a unit taconite train through the street trackage in the town of Hamilton on the Midwest Railroad Modelers layout in Batavia, Illinois. During the early 70s, the BN used a handful of these locomoti...
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  New Age Operations - Part 1

  December 4, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 424 views - 1 comment - 1 like

  Part 1: The Frontier of Model Railroad Operations. by Jeff Lemke    Let's think about HO model railroading for a few minutes. Think about all the changes and improvements which have transpired in the last ten years or so...
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  New Age Operations - Part V

  November 28, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 407 views - 0 comments - 1 like

  OPERATIONS by Jeff Lemke Part V in this series describes the subtle pauses that happen every time a real railroad crew picks up cars at an interchange track, movements (or more accurately, lack of movement) that can make operations on ...
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  Your Top Tips

  November 28, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 281 views - 2 comments - 0 likes

  by Ron Lamparis & Bob Montague    Part of the process of applying ground foam to scenery includes vacuuming up the excess after the glue or matte medium has dried. That can waste a lot of material. You can recycle the...
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  Build the Pennsy X-29 Box Car From a C&BT Shops HO Scale Kit and Sunshine Models Conversion Parts

  November 28, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 389 views - 0 comments - 1 like

  KIT CONVERSION by Martin Lofton, of Sunshine Models The Pennsy's car had modified a standard box car body. You can perform similar modifications with C&BT Shops' kit and the Sunshine Models conversion kit.    What d...
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  PS-2 Two-Bay Covered Hoppers, Part III

  November 28, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 537 views - 0 comments - 3 likes

  MODELING WITH PAINT & DECALS by Richard Burg Part I of this series, illustrating an assortment of prototype cars built by both ACF and Pullman-Standard and HO scale models, appeared in the July 1990 issue of "The Journal." Part II,...
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  Electro-Motive Division (EMD) GP40 as Canadian National 4007

  November 27, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 373 views - 0 comments - 1 like

  DIESELS, ONE-DETAIL-AT-A-TIME Photo from the collection of Louis A. Marre    The GP40 was the 3,000-horse power B-B (two, two-axle trucks, all axles powered) produced by General Motors' Electro-Motive Division from Nov...
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  Appalachian Coal Mine

  November 27, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 670 views - 0 comments - 2 likes

  Create Your Own Kit by David Prince This compact mine serves four tracks. Build it from scratch or modify the Walthers HO scale mine kit.    This is a "Mystery Mine." The only certain information we have on the structur...
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  Masking Methods For Two-Color Paint Schemes

  November 26, 2012 - posted by David Lotz - 435 views - 0 comments - 0 likes

  TECHNIQUES by Kenneth A. Kessler Here are the tricks you need to insure that the break between two colors will be smooth and even.    Finely painted motive power is one of the most impressive parts of model railroading....