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October 1999
NCMBER 10

FEATURES 20 22 26 31 34 38
Kitbashing a SOO SD40-2B
by Bob Boudreau

PL ANS: SOO SD40B 6450
by Patrick Lawson



The Aleo PA - The Burly Beauty Part 9: Southern, UP & Wabash
b y George Melvin



DIESEL DETAIL CLOSE-UP

Santa Fe EMD F7A&B
by Rich Picariello FREIGHTCAROLOGY

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Using the Computer as a Modeling Tool: Selective Compression
by Jeff Scherb

Walthers Enclosed Autoracks in HO Scale
by David G. Casdorph

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MODELING MODERN INTERMODAL

Spine Cars, Part 5B: Modeling the Trinity 53' All-Purpose
by Doug Geigel; MMR

Jeff and Luke Carnett's Canadian Great Western Railroad: The Lower Door To The West Shore (HO)
by Art Fahie

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ON TRACK

The Feeding of our Track Part 1: The Specifications
by Jim Mansfield

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The Latest Scenery Techniques
by Clayton Berry

Light Duty Floatbridges by John Teichmoeller

61



BEHIND THE SCENES

Into the Night - Oro Grande: Part 1
by Margaret Mansfield

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Scenery can make or break your layout. Scenes like this one on Clayton Berry's N scale layout once could only be created by using scenery materials that "weighed a ton." B ut now, thanks to the use of Styrofoam and specially designed tools and supplies, lightweight scenes like this can be created with ease. Turn t o page 44 to learn how. P hoto by Clay/on Berry. I NSET: T he s ao e nded lip with a rather unique SD40B unit thanks to a rebuild after a wreck. Patrick Lawson has plans for it on page 22, while Bob Boudreau shows how he "cheated" and kitbashed an SD40-2B patterned after the sao's unit starting on page 20. Photo by Bob Boudreau.