RAILROADING

MODEL

January 1996
VOLUME 26 NUMBER I

FEATURES
14 T Southern Railway NW2 Switchers 18 T
MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL by Jim Six

36 T 38 T 44 T 49 T

BEHIND THE SCENES

Why Waste Your T ime Building a Backdrop?
b y Margaret Mansfield

Gunderson Maxi-Stack IIIs - Part II: The Model - An Articulated Five-Well DTTX Car
by Doug Geigel; MMR

24 T Chesapeake & Ohio Freight Cars
by Larry E. Smith, MMR

FREIGHTCAROLOGY

by Gilbert Bennett

Mercur & Topaz Railroad

Modeling the World War II Fleet Boxcars: Part 3

PLANS

by David C. Casdorph

Revolutions

27 T

DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP

Canadian National Railway Todd Creek Wood Trestle - Sooke, BC
by Patrick Lawson

Union Pacific (UP) C41-8W
by Rich P icariello

30 T Modeling Southern Pacific P-8 Pacific #2470 34 T
ON TRACK by Heather Clark

54 T

WORK TRAINS, WRECK TRAINS AND CAMP CARS

Picture Potpourri
by Alan B. Buchan

Fuel Foolery - It's About T ime
by Jim Mansfield

62 T Fayette Power Project Rotary Dump Gons:
Modeling the FPPX "LaGrange Trains"
b y Stuart R. Thayer

DEPARTMENTS

K-28 473 pulls a directors' train over the trestle above Cold Water Creek on Gil Bennett's Sn3 Mercur and Topaz Railroad. Turn to page 38 for a tour of this "test" layout bui lt by thi s noted railroad artist. Photo by Randy Lee. I NSET: U nit coal trains are a common sight between the Powder River Basin in Wyoming and power plants in Texas. Stuart Thayer shows how to model the FPPX rotary dump gons used on the "LaGrange Trains" beginning on page 62. Photo by Stuart Thayel: