RAILROADING

MODEL

VOLUME 25

August 1995
NUMBER 8

FEATURES 19 T
BEHIND THE SCENES

46 T

MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL

C-Shift
by Margaret Mansfield

Touring the Granite Mountain Railway - Part II Intermodal Hub Construction - Building the Bremer Hub
by Doug Geigel; MMR

22 T

ON TRACK

The Railway Junction
by Jim Mansfield

54 T

FREIGH TCAROLOGY

25 T E8/9s: The Series - Part II
The Ultimate Passenger Diesel
by George Melvin

Modern Refrigerator Cars
by David G. Casdorph

56 T

PROTOTYPE ADVENTURES

30 T Southern Railway's 5040-2
Modeling the Prototype from Athearn Power
Mark E. Sharp

The St. Maries River Railroad: A Jewel in the Gem State - Part I
by Roger M. Ingbretsen

38 T Modeling with Bowser's 40'
Round-Roof Boxcar
by Jim Six

60 T

WORK TRAINS, WRECK TRAINS AND CAMP CARS

Rail Renewal - Part II
by Alan B. Buchan

42 T

DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP

64 T CP Rail System Gondola:
CP Numbers 347000-347399 Casting These Cars is Easy
by Patrick Lawson

Southern Pacific EMD GP60
by Rich Picariello

DEPARTMENTS
4 5 10 13 15 16 18 53 B --j -------ABOUT THE COVER
The BRIM intermodal hub on Doug Geiger's Granite Mountain Railway is a busy place when a hot-shot TOFC train comes in. Yard tractors are kept busy removing trailers while the straddle crane works quickly. We continue our look at this changing layout by examining the construction of its intermocial hub starting on page 46.
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Letters to the Editor E ditorial New Products Product Reviews S ociety Page Your Trek Plan V ideo Review C omputer Applications Dealer Di rectory A dvertiser Index

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Photo by DOllg Geiger, MMR. I NSET:

Mark Sharp's Southern SD40-2 is at work on the Northern Virginia Model Railroaders' Western North Carolina

layout. Mark shows us how to model this workhorse of the Southern Railway beginning on page 30.

Photo by Mark E. Sharp.