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Celebratingthe art of1:48 modelingIssue #28Sept/Oct 2006Art DirectorJaini Giannovariojaini@oscalemag.comContributorsTed ByrneBobber GibbsMike CougillCarey HinchVol. 5 - No. 5PublisherJoe Giannovariojag@oscalemag.comEditorBrian Scacebrian@oscalemag.comAdvertising ManagerJeb Kriigeljeb@oscalemag.comCustomer ServiceSpike BeagleHobo D. HirailerRoger C. ParkerNeville RossiterSubscription Rates: 6 issuesUS - Standard Mail DeliveryUS$35US - First Class Delivery (1 year only) US$45Canada/MexicoUS$55OverseasUS$80Visa, MC, AMEX & Discover acceptedCall 610-363-7117 duringEastern time business hoursDealers contact Kalmbach Publishing, 800-558-1544 ext 818 or email tss@kalmbach.comAdvertisers call for info.O Scale Trains ISSN 1536-9528www.oscalemag.comPublished bimonthly (6 times a year) byO Scale Trains MagazinePO Box 238, Lionville PA 19353-0238© 2006 OST All Rights ReservedPrinted in the U.S.A.Contributors: O Scale Trains welcomes your feature articles,photos, and drawings. Such material should be sent to theabove address for possible publication. If we accept, you willbe notified immediately. For more information concerningarticle preparation guidelines, please send an SASE to theabove address and request our “Guide For Authors” or visit ourwebsite at: www.oscalemag.com.Cover: Lauther’s Perfect Pickles gets a load of vinegar delivered. Photoby Martin Brechbiel.Centerspread: Nearing retirement and no longer allowed onthe mainline, two aged Canandaigua Southern hacks sit in theNorthumberland Yard on Pete Trunk’s Philadelphia & Erie Railroad.Photo by Pete Trunk.Features4 Building Lauther’s Perfect Pickles—Part 2Martin Brechbiel completes the pickle factory17 Cedar Grove Feed MillBased on his “Idea File” article from last issue, Mike Cougill scratchbuildsa small feed mill .31 Building a Small O Scale Layout—Part 11Using modular wall sections, Mike Culham shows how to make structuresthat fit any space.45 Steel Crankpins from “Scratch”A simple “how-to” by Nick Pulskamp58 Photos from the 2006 O Scale National ConventionDepartments13 Easements for the Learning Curve – Brian Scace15 Confessions of a HiRailer – Hobo D. Hirailer27 Traction Action – Roger C. Parker28 Reader Feedback – Letters to the Editor39 The Art of Finescale – Mike Cougill41 Narrow Minded – Bobber Gibbs43 Modern Image – Carey Hinch53 Product News & Reviews67 Advertiser Index68 Buy-Sell-Trade Ads68 Events Listing70 Observations – Joe GiannovarioSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains •

Building Lauther’s Perfect Pickles - Part 2Martin BrechbielAt the end of Part One, I hadstopped with the first floor basically completed,except for the installation of the doors and windows, whichremain as one of the last steps. All of the interior details for thefirst floor were also installed, and the boiler house was nearlycompleted with only the actual roofing and the closing in of thegable end remaining. The pair of large exterior barrels were alsocompleted. At this point, I want to revisit defining the compassas it pertains to this building. You can refer back to Part Oneor just remember that, for the main building, the wall with theporch is “South”. The opposite trackside wall is “North”. Theboiler house is on the “East” wall, leaving the sheltered tanks atthe “West” wall. With that said, here’s how I built the secondfloor, the various roof components, and finished building Lauthers’Perfect Pickles.Building the Second Floor of the Main BuildingUnlike the modular prefabrication approach that I used forbuilding the first floor (pre-assembling the walls, then installingthem as completed units), I only partially applied this strategy tobuilding the second floor walls. I stopped at the framing stage,and installed these walls into the building prior to adding theclapboarding. I confess to not being entirely sure why I deviatedfrom how I started, but in part this was due to some uncertainty1 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06as to how the porch roof and the roof overthose large barrels outside the West wall were both goingto be tied in.So, I started building the second story of the main buildingby installing perimeter sills of 1/16” x 3/16” dimensional lumber.These rest directly on the tops of the 2 x 4 caps of the first floor(Photo 1). I had to add a shim from the scrap box to the interiorof the East wall sill to bring it out flush with the interior wall.Then, the East stairway stringer was set in place with the top ofthe stringer being set flush against that same interior wall, withits top flush with the joist sill. The stair stringers were cut from1/32” scrap with a rather large rise-over-run ratio, as this wasintended to be a workspace as opposed to a residential stairway.The floor joists for the second floor were made from thesame 1/16” x 3/16” dimensional lumber as the sills. They wereinstalled starting from the West end of the building by first boxingin the shaft and supports for the “elevator”. The lighting unitswere also added during this phase, since they were mountedinto these joists prior to their being glued in place. After all thefloor joists were installed, going from West to East, and the stairwellwas boxed in, the West stairway stringer was set in place. Iused a chemical structure drawing program to create templatesfor making scale-able stairway stringers. The treads were cutfrom HO 3” x 22” and glued into place.Lighting the First FloorI decided that, if I was going to have a finished and accessibleinterior, lighting was required. The first step was toassemble actual lamp assemblies. I took nine Grandt Line #3510lampshades, modified (widened the aperture with my handyscalpel) to accept Model Power #255 amber bulbs. The bulbswere secured in place with a dab of Goo. I pre-painted theseunits with Floquil Brass on the inside and Polly S Steam Blackon the outside. Evergreen 1/8” styrene tubing was cut to lengthto span two floor joists with the wiring passed through a holedrilled in the middle of each piece of tubing. The wires for eachof the lamp assemblies were then threaded through the tub-

ing. Each piece of tubing was notched/mortised at both endsto create a neat and solid mounting to two floor joists (Figure1). Three lamp assemblies were mounted equidistant, betweentwo floor joists. After the glue had set, the wiring for the lightingwas soldered together. I drilled holes in the joists, to allowthe wiring to be neatly run throughout the range of joists fromWest to East. The first two-joist/lamp assembly was set intoplace and the ends secured against the sills with Walthers Goo. Ifrequently use Goo for butt-joints, as CA tends not to have verymuch shear strength. The remaining individual joists were theninstalled working from West to East. As needed, two additionaltwo-joist lighting units were inserted. The electrical leads wereeventually passed into the boiler house. Here, they were solderedto a two-wire lead with an external disconnect throughthe floor to facilitate installation into my layout. The ultimateplan is for the entire structure to be on a lift-out section, so that Ican change scenes periodically.Building the Elevator ShaftI wanted a very simple rudimentary “lift” for taking barrelsof cucumbers up from the first floor to the second floor for storageand subsequent transfer to my pickle cars. To achieve this,I made a simple heavy platform, boxed in with angle iron, thatcould be manually cranked up and down. I made the “iron”framework from four pieces of Evergreen styrene 1/8” angle,pre-painted with Polly S Steam Black, running from the firstfloor to five feet above the joist for the second floor. These wereend-glued into place on the first floor, and edge-glued to theboxed-in joists for the second floor. A length of pre-painted 1/8”Evergreen styrene angle was also glued to the floor of the firstfloor. This represents the base of the frame that would be boltedthrough to the first floor joists, providing an anchor point for theuprights.The Second Floor DeckingThe flooring was again made from 1/32” thick Northeastern3/32” scribed siding. The perimeter portion of the floor, approximatelysix to eight inches in from each wall, was glued (CA)into place by sections. Installing this scribed siding included“wrapping” it around the lift and the stairwell. Also, the stovepipefrom the first floor must be provided for; a small washerpainted black was added to anchor it to the floor (Photo 2). Theremaining center section was installed by edge-gluing two largepieces of the same scribed siding with added reinforcementfrom below (dodging the floor joists), designed to very tightly fit2the opening. This entire section was intended to be a “lift-out”,populated with barrels, castings, figures, and other details. Thelarger details provide a “handle” for lifting out the second storyflooring, permitting access to the first floor as needed.Building the Second Floor WallsAll four of the stud walls were pre-assembled with 2 x 4studs, 7-3/4’ long, set on two-foot centers with a 4 x 4 on eachend (Figure 2, Photo 3). The 2 x 4 studs below the windowswere doubled for support, and headers over the windows wereinstalled in all walls as needed.3The North wall was a 40’ long unit, and set up to accept oneGrandt Line #5031 window (Figure 2). An opening for a largecenter drawbridge-hinged door was framed up with a 4 x 4 oneach side. I framed the louvered venting at the east end with acripple wall of 2 x 4 studs on two-foot centers, leaving a 4’ x14’ opening. A 4 x 4 was added to each end. The louvers weremade from HO 3” x12” wood set at a 45 degree angle, andsecured with Goo. The drawbridge door was built up from HO8” x 22” planking with HO 4 x 8 cross-bracing at the top andmiddle. HO 4” x 22” was used at the bottom for mounting thehinges. A set of the Houseworks Ltd. #1131 hinges were mountedat the base of the door with an HO 2 x 12 across the framingbase to bring the mounts out flush. This doorway and the louveropening were trimmed out with HO 4 x 4 and HO 4 x 8 lumber.I’ll come back to how the door mechanism was built.The South wall was 40’ long, just like the North wall. Sincethere was no door, the wall is a little simpler. I framed for twoGrandt Line #5031 windows at the east end, to be installed overthe opening for the stairwell (Figure 2). The louvered venting atthe east end was framed out identically to the North wall, withanother 4’ x 14’ opening made from HO 3” x12” lumber. TheWest wall was 29-1/2’ long and assembled to accept a pair ofGrandt Line #5031 windows, spaced at each end overlookingthe roof of the boiler house (Figure 2). The East wall was also29-1/2’ long and was the only wall without any openings forwindows. The second floor walls were then glued to the perimeteredge of the second floor with CA. I used the same overlapof the end framing as was used for the first floor walls, matching4aSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains •

4b4c4d5up the HO 4 x 4 on the ends and securing with CA. The exteriorof all of these walls was then finished in individual clapboards,just like the first floor walls (Photos 4a-d). An HO 2 x 8 kick outboard was glued at the base of the West and South walls due tothe installation of the support beams for the shed roof and porchroof. Clapboards of HO 1” x 16” lumber, no more than 12’ inlength, were used to finish all these walls, installed with nooverlapping joints. Openings for windows were cut out and thewindow castings were tested for fit.The Drawbridge Door MechanismCounterweights were made up from capped off brass tubing,soldered with a Kemtron “eye” loop casting to accept thechain that opens the door. Pulley assemblies were made of0.015” brass stock, wrapped around a 6mm Model Shipwaysbrass sheave mounted on a 0.040” brass wire axle. A centerhole above the sheave was drilled to accept an 0-90 screw, sothat the assembly would pivot on the screw head after it wasall soldered together (Figure 3). The end of the screw was thensoldered to an “L” bracket, cut from brass stock. The “L” bracketwas then soldered to a mounting strap made from the samebrass stock. This required making a left- and a right-hand version • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06(as I found out right after the solder cooled the first time). Themounting strap was drilled for four Grandt Line #23 nut-boltwashercastings (nbw’s). After installation of the nbw’s, theseunits were painted Polly S Steam Black, and mounted on eachside of the door. I soldered 21-link-per-inch, Model Shipwayscopper chain to each end of a 0.015” brass strap, slightly longerthan the width of the door. After drilling this for more nbw’s, Ipainted this Polly S Steam Black, and mounted it on the upperlateral brace of the door. The chain was then fed through thesheaves, cut to length, and 0.010” brass wire was used to connectthe chain to the counterweights.The Porch RoofThe exterior of the South wall second floor sill was doubledwith a second 1/16” x 3/16” length of dimensional lumber (DL)to provide a support for the porch roof rafters (Photos 2, 4a).The seven porch roof rafters and the perimeter sill were made of1/16” x 5/32” DL and rests on 1/16” x 1/8” DL support beams/posts. The rafters were beveled to match the slope of the roofwhere they tied into the building wall. They were also slightlymortised to lock onto the perimeter sill and were secured withminimal Goo. I added a fascia board fashioned from HO 1” x14” and gap sheathed the roof with HO 1” x 24” for support ofthe metal roof. Fill boards, made from individual 1/16” x 1/4” DLboards between the rafters, were added where they tied into thewall. Immediately above the rafters and these same fill boardswas where the clapboard kick out board made from HO 2 x 8was set, initiating the second story clapboards on this wall.Clapboarding the West Wall & Building the Shed RoofThe clapboard for the second floor West wall was continuedup from the first floor wall for three feet (Photo 5). Then, a 1/16”x 5/32” DL board was glued (CA) across the stud wall spanningthe entire distance. Another 1/16” x 5/32” DL board, 1/8”shorter was set centered above this, leaving a 1/16” gap at eachend. Then, clapboard was continued up the wall starting withan HO 2 x 8 kick-out board above this shorter 1/16” x 5/32”DL board leaving 10/32” from the top of the stud wall. At thispoint, another 1/16 “x 5/32” DL board was added spanning thedistance, leaving a 5/32” gap ar the top. This 5/32” opening wasfor the rafters to set on. After the shed roof rafters were in placethe remaining gaps were filled with sections of 1/16” x 5/32” DLwhich completed this wall.Shed and Shed RoofThe shed was erected with four 16’ support posts made ofHO 12” x 20” lumber set ten feet apart (Figure 4, Photo 5).

the rafters into place, creating a single unit. Scrap 1/32” stockwas glued into the interior corners of the roof above the spanningbeams to stabilize the corners. Lead weights were Goo’dthere, as well, to hold the entire assembly down and to maintainits shape. The entire roof and skylight roof was gap-sheathedwith HO 2” x 20” lumber, leaving a gap for that stove pipethat originates all the way from the first floor (Photo 7a,b). TheEast and West ends of the main roof and the skylight roof wereclosed in with board-and-batten made from individual HO 1” x24” and 2 x 4 boards (Photo 8).8lateral beams. The North and South skylight walls were thenclosed up with HO 1” x 16” clapboarding, with the same kickoutboard as before (Photo 10). Corner trim of HO 1” x 10”stock was added and the windows were then trimmed out withO Scale 1 x 3 lumber.Finally, the East gable end of the Boiler House was alsoclosed with individual clapboards, just like the sides were finished.Having clapboard above the board-and-batten sidingseemed to provide additional contrast and interest to that end ofthe building.RoofingAll of the roofing was done with Builders in Scale metalribbed-seam roofing material. All of this material was pre-cut tofour-foot widths prior to gluing it down. The Boiler House roofwas done in two courses on each side, using eight-foot longsheets and fitted around the chimney (Photo 11). I used Goo to11The skylight windows, made from the same castings ofunknown origin that were modified for the boiler house, wereassembled into a long unit. I pre-assembled these as framedunits for installation of one window unit between each of therafter assembles. I first made the 2 x 4 side-support framing foreach window. These were glued to each window casting, aftereach window had previously had a 2 x 4 glued to the top andbottom of the casting and a support 2 x 4 added to each side.These units were then painted with two coats of Polly S AgedWhite, and glazed with microscope cover-slip glass (Photo 9).After drying, these assemblies were individually fitted and gluedin place, centered into the openings created by the rafters and910secure this, which worked very well to hold this material down.With the seams cleanly overlapping, I worked left-to-right startingfrom the bottom corner of the roof, leaving a small overhang.The seal to the exterior East wall of the main building was doneusing this same roofing material. The seams lined up the nextcourse, as I had tested fitted the arrangement of two coursescovering this roof, with reasonable overlap top-to-bottom, andwith the top of the second course ending at the peak. The peakwas sealed over using sections of just the standing rib, cut fromscrap roofing sections, with a small portion of the roofing left asflashing attached at each side. These pieces were very carefullyformed by hand to conform to the standing seams of the roofing,secured with Goo with small areas of overlap as well.The skylight roof was three courses on each side, usingfour-foot wide material, but here six-foot long sheets were used12 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

(Photo 12). The peak was, again, sealed over using sections ofstanding rib with a small amount of flashing attached at eachside. The main roof was three courses on each side, with theeight-foot long material fitted around the skylight exterior andnotched to seal up against the board-and-batten siding on theends of the skylight. The peak was sealed over as before.The shed over the barrels was done the same way, with threecourses of eight-foot long pieces, while the porch roof was onelower course of six-foot material followed by a course of fourfootmetal roofing.All of the metal roofing was painted with two coats of a 1:1mixture of Polly S Mineral Red and Special Tan, to simulate anolder red oxide painted roof that has been oxidized and faded bythe sun. Brown staining of old rust breaking through was addedusing a Minwax stain mixture that was “dropped” into the seamswith a small brush, then allowed to wander about on the roof.After drying, these areas were drybrushed with Polly S RoofBrown and Rust. All of the joints, for example where the shedroof butts up against the building, around the chimney, or wherethe boiler house roof meets the exterior wall, were also sealedwith “tar” using Polly S Steam Black. The entire roofing array wasthen Dull Coated to seal this effect. And, the entire interior framingof the roof was also stained with Pecan Minwax.A hole was left in the main roof for the stovepipe that comesfrom a pot-belly stove on the first floor. I wish I could claim thatI managed to align that tubing with my smokejack casting on theroof, but this time my best efforts came to naught. The smokejackwas an old casting (Scalecraft , perhaps) painted SteamBlack, that ended up getting mounted as part of the roof withsome Goo and some CA from the interior with a little SquadronWhite Putty to fill the gap from the slope of the roof.One of the last details on the roof was the sign for Lauthers’Perfect Pickles. I made this using a green script font, printed onan Inkjet printer. The paper was trimmed, glued to some 1/32”scrap, and framed with 1/32” wooden angle. The framing wasfirst stained with Minwax, then painted in the same scheme asthe rest of the exterior. The sign was mounted with some bracesmade from scrap and minimal Goo.Finishing the Interior of the Second FloorI chose to leave three of the four interior wallsunfinished, while I did close up the East interiorwall with HO 1” x 20” stock. To finish off therest of the interior of the second floor, the floorand interior walls were first stained with MinwaxPecan. After installation of the collection of detailparts and figures, mixed stains and paints wereused on the floor to establish walkways and dirtpaths (Photo 13). The winch for the elevator wasinstalled. The lift-out perimeter was covered withvarious barrels from Berkshire Valley and variousother sources, leaving some clear walkways.Ramps for the drop door for the carts were madefrom scrap wood and scrap brass. Additional castings(crates, shelving, a workbench, and more barrels)fill the space, along with those carts for thebarrels. And lastly, it’s just an empty room withoutpeople in it, so the room was “populated” with figuresfrom Arttista. With the exception of the people,all of the detail parts were extensively paintedwith a variety of Floquil, Polly S, Model Master,and Testors paints.Painting and FinishingAll of the exposed wood, the baseboard, andstone foundation were stained with my Minwaxmystery mix (I don’t know what’s in it.) and/orPecan. After this dried, all of the weather exposed siding of thebuilding was handpainted with an undercoat of Floquil WisconsinCentral Gold. This was done very quickly and unevenlyusing a fairly large, stiff brush to work it into the clapboards.While this sounds sloppily done, it was in fact done carefullyso as not to get this color anywhere else. Then, all of the exteriorsheathing was given a top-coating of Polly S Mineral Red.Those portions given the Floquil undercoat were top-coatedafter no more than an hour after application of the undercoat.This resulted in all of the Polly S painted surfaces, with the stilltackyFloquil paint undercoat, to actually glaze and crack. Thisgave the appearance of peeling paint of one color revealing theprior color underneath, while the surfaces more sheltered fromweather have a more evenly painted surface. While WisconsinCentral Gold may seem very bright, after this technique wascompleted it took on a more creamy color. This paint was alsocompletely unlike any other Floquil paints that I have used. Itwas very thick and appeared to have gloss added, as well.Windows and DoorsAll of the doors and windows were pre-painted with twocoats of Polly S Aged White, glazed with cover-slip glass, andinserted after the building was painted. The three freight doorson the first floor were also installed, held in place with a combinationof 1/16” Northeastern “Z” stock and angle stock that waspre-painted black. Some light dry-brushing with Aged White,to simulate streaks from water running off of the windows, wasadded after the exterior building painting was completed.To finish this building off, I lightly airbrushed an oversprayof Floquil Grimy Black with a heavier pattern on and aroundthe chimney. The East wall adjacent to the chimney was heavilyblackened to complete the exterior. The final touch was to capthe chimney with a crow from Arttista.That just about wraps up how I built Lauthers’ Perfect Pickles.While you might not want to take on a project like this, I dohope that it inspires your creativity and gets you building! uFigure 1: Lamp Assembly Between RaftersSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains •

Figure 2: Framing Patterns for the East, West, North and South Walls of the Main Building - 2nd FloorFigure 3: Drawbridge Door Counterweight Mechanism Bracket & Pulley10 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

Figure 4: Framing for the Shed Posts and Roof Support over the Large BarrelsFigure 5: Patterns for the Three Main Building RaftersSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 11

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Since last we met, much has happened down in the subterraneancatacombs of the Wonderful World of Scace. The shopis up and running, and several rolling stock projects have beenresurrected from the myriad boxes of bits that have resided underdust for far too long. Out in the not-so-wide open spaces, benchworkis rising from the pile of sawdust mixed with now-driedblood, and things are really taking shape. Other than having toswipe another one of the O Scale Poster Child’s Elmo Band-aids(“How many fingers do you have, Son? Okay, how many fingersdoes Daddy have?”), it’s a good feeling. Here’s something thatcame up while I’ve been considering backdrops on the newrailroad. It’s somewhat amazing to me that a very basic conceptreally hasn’t had the re-mention that it so richly deserves. Hence,I’ll do it here because I can.How does one establish a convincing backdrop that doesn’tlook disjointed or just plain weird? The key, my friends, is in thehorizon. Back in the Prose of the Ancients, oft was mentionedthat one’s horizon should never be below the viewer’s eye-level.How simply elegant, how true, and how forgotten. You don’tlook down at the sky, now do you! Let’s carry this one a little further,and have a look at the Perfect Tool from this day and age.First, my horizon’s lowest visual point is at my eye level.Scenery and backdrop hills, trees, and all that other obligatorystuff rise from that point. It’s already starting to look pretty good.The next thought is to remember that “eye-level” is best definedwhile standing. Even if you do your operating sitting on a stool,sooner or later you’ll probably stand up. If your horizon wasestablished for the seated position, because that’s the way youview the railroad most of the time, it still visually stumbles whenyou finally get your butt off the stool. If, on the other hand, youhave to look up a little when you’re firmly planted in the supervisoryposition, it doesn’t visually hurt anything a bit. At least youreyes are getting a little exercise!If your backdrop still looks kind of disjointed, or if you’re inthe construction mode and you want to avoid the next pitfall,you might look at the consistency of the horizon. That’s a sneaky,insidious problem that many folks have, yet can’t really put theirfinger on. Enter the previously mentioned Perfect Tool, the laserlevel.Go get one, set it up on a tripod, and shoot a horizontalline around the space at that eye-level-standing-up line we previouslymentioned. If you’re starting out, draw that line on thewall, and don’t paint any blue below it. If you’re troubleshootingan existing scene, don’t think you have to redo the whole bloodything, just cover over any “sky” that shows below the line andhave a critical look at the baselines of those distant mountainranges. Use a flat, build a hill, plant some trees, or just paint overany issues that you find. You’ll be amazed.While we’re on the backdrop subject, here’s a stunt that getsyou closer to visual Nirvana quickly. If you know what flavor ofscenery you want, paint it on the backdrop first. Do the samewith man-made features; use a scanner to scale up a photo ofa building, glue it on some crafter’s foam board, and slap ‘er upthere, as an example. You get two bonuseses, er bonus’s, uhboni, (Oh, Nubbins!) out of the deal. First, this helps you visualizehow features will work in context with each other. Don’t likeit? Paint over that hill, or move the building photo. Second, thisstep makes a very satisfactory scenic placeholder until you getto that stage of construction. You can then tell someone to dropATSF 237745 at Lugubrium Plant Number Ten, even though youhaven’t built it yet, rather than at the siding over there just afterthe third rib of benchwork (“I told you last month that the LugubriumPlant was there! Can’t you remember anything?”) Paint iton, or stick it on, then cover it later with the three-dimensionalstuff. What remains uncovered is your backdrop, already testdrivenfor perspective and context. Ain’t we slick!By the way, you’d be amazed at what you can mock up usingthe afore-mentioned foamcore poster board, some map pins ora hot glue gun, and a sharp drywall knife. Just cut out the basicdimensions of a building, plop it in place, and either adjust to fitthe existing track plan or adjust the track to fit the mockup. Youcan avoid using up your weekly allocation of seaworthy linguisticexpression by testing perspective, fit, and operational flow with afew foamcore mockups of buildings, bridges, tunnels, and otherpotentially troublesome features. Just be careful with the knife.Hey, Son! Can Daddy have another Elmo Band-aid? All that’s leftare the Barney ones? No, thanks, Son. I’ll just bleed.Lets Go Exploring!uSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 13

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No Satisfaction…The lyrics to the Rolling Stone’s famoussong, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”, seem tosum up my current experience as a HiRailerin transition. You see, I can’t get no satisfaction.I tried, I’ve tried and I have tried.Making the transition from being a life-long3-Rail guy over to 2-Rail realism is tough.No one said it was going to be easy, so Ihave no one else to blame but myself.Not content to enjoy a fairly large multitieredlayout that had 72”radius (yes, radius)curves and long straight runs with passingsidings, I became restless. You might call ita middle-age crisis. I deserted the one I had,to go after the one I thought would give methe modeling satisfaction I desired. I madethe choice to chuck it all to experience andsally forth into scale operation. I chasedafter my dreams.It is a serious decision for a life-longmodel railroader. It is a drastic decisionfor someone with a passion for operatingmodel trains. After all, I am a HiRailer whois living with the transition into scale2-Rail and This is My Story.Man, have I tried. I have pulled upover 100’ of 3-Rail flexible track and afair amount of cork roadbed so far, and Ihave a lot more to go. I have disassembledbenchwork, widened radii, and basicallydestroyed the layout I used to enjoy. I can’toperate the trains until I get everything putback together, and that is tough.To make matters worse, the 2-Rail flextrackthat I chose looks great on the workshopcounter. You would think that I wouldknow how to lay track with over 50 yearsof experience. Wrong! This track is tough towork with. It doesn’t have the “helper-stabilizingrail” running down the center thatI have grown used to for all of these years,so it is much more flexible and floppy. It isbasically very unforgiving. I chose to alternatethe track connections for realism. Thatinvolves sliding half the rail out on one sideand shoving it in the next piece of track.Then, try to line everything up (includingthe connectors) so that it transitions smoothlywithout any kinks. “Ya, sure, Shurelock.”This hobby is supposed to be aboutsatisfaction, different strokes for differentfolks, whatever lights your fire. From theloop lovers to the seasoned and establishedprototype modelers, everyone pursues thehobby in their own individual way. But,it is still supposed to be fun and enjoyableregardless of the modeling level youchoose. This Old Hobo still believes that itis supposed to be enjoyable. Changing thistrack out sure isn’t. Don’t even talk to meabout handlaying my own track and turnoutsat this point. I haven’t even masteredthe basics yet. When does it really start tobe fun?You could analyze my situation and saythat I am going through some withdrawal,for I am a train junkie. I miss being able tocome home from working in the office allday long and go down to the railroad andoperate the trains for even a few minutes.After all, all day long I listen to other people’sproblems and offer solutions and suggestionsto get them on the right track. All Iask for myself is some satisfaction of seeingthe trains run.I suggest that most of my 2-Rail friendswere either born into scale modeling ormade the transition years ago. They are notonly ahead of the curve, they are alreadyaround the curve, through the tunnel, andover the bridge! (Note: I did not say theywere over the hill.) But, they are way aheadof me. Too, they have probably all forgottenthe joy and excitement of laying scale trackfor the first time. My HiRail friends have yetto experience this phenomenon. It may justbe one of the excuses they use to continuestaying with that track with the center rail.We will discover an easier way. I am confidentof that.Transitioning into 2-Rail is a commitment.In my pursuit of my own satisfactionI made the decision. I simply had to do it. Iwould not have been content to just sit backand wonder about changing to scale. I hadto experience it for myself in my modelingpursuits. There will always be obstacles andchallenges. Nobody said it was going to beeasy. Such is life. Somebody else has alsosaid, “No pain, no gain.”I have considered that I could makeshelf-queens out of my locos and rollingstock, get display cases and put them onmy mantel, and resign myself to operatingfrom the comfort of my armchair as somehave done…quite successfully, I might add.But I am an operator and driven to pushbeyond the norm. So here we are in Transition,a momentary station stop somewherebetween HiRail and our destination, Scale2-Rail.Mick Jagger used the words “I try” over adozen times in his famous song about satisfaction.I guess I will have to keep on tryingto get this track laid and find ways to makethe process work. Hobo will let you knowhow it all goes in future columns. After all,tomorrow is another day and someday I willget satisfaction.uSilver Plume Houselaser cut wood building kit desinged from theoriginal building in silver Plume Colorado,the kit features laser lattice and picket fenceand reasonalby easy assembly...footprint is 8 1/2” x 9 1/4”#6091 O scale $134.95www.bantamodelworks.com421 Hopkins RoadDummerston, VT05301800-653-8214Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 15

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Cedar GroveFeed MillMichael L. CougillI supposethat, next to a coalmine, a grain elevator hasto be one of the most commonindustries on our layouts. My Indianaand Whitewater is no exception.As I’ve written before, the I&W is a Proto48switching layout representing a single town. My baseprototype is a branchline of the real Indiana and Ohio thatruns 26 miles from Valley Junction, Ohio, to Brookville, Indiana.At Cedar Grove, Indiana, there was a double-ended team trackthat served the Cedar Grove Feed Mill (Photo 1).This structure has all the character one could want in amodel railroad industry. There are two buildings connectedby a covered drive, and who can resist those stone foundationpiers? Unfortunately, I don’t have enough depth on my layout toinclude both buildings. Therefore I chose to model the smallerbuilding with the stone piers. This article describes my modelingtechniques. Of course you can always substitute your favoritematerials and methods.I measured and photographed the mill in early 2000, and1made some modeling notes (Figures 1-4). The smaller buildingmeasures 20’ wide by 32’ long. I guessed it was about 24 feettall to the ridgeline, with the side walls measuring about 16’high. The foundation piers are five courses high and are threefeet square, three feet high, and spaced roughly 6-1/2 to 7’apart. There are twelve of them in all. so I’m guessing that thiswas a storage building for the loaded sacks of grain and feedwith a substantial floor structure to carry the weight. The eastand west ends are covered with corrugated tin siding with thewest end painted white. Both ends have several access doors.WallsI began the project by laying out the walls on a sheet of0.040” styrene (Photos 2-3). All dimensions will be in scale feetand inches, except whereotherwise noted. Accuracynow will make life easierlater on, so take your timeand make certain things aresquare.I like to detail the wallsbefore gluing the buildingtogether. Therefore, on theside wall that faces the viewer,I drew some guidelinesfor the 0.020” x 0.188” stripsthat make up the scale 1 x10 siding (Evergreen #128).These lines help keep thesiding from wandering offvertically (Photo 4). Con-Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 17

234tinue all the way across the wall, spacingthe strips slightly apart and leaving twogaps. One gap is for a small 18" squareaccess hatch is located a scale 7’-3” fromthe bottom edge and 5’-6” from the lefthandcorner. The other gap is for the slidingdoor, which measures 3’-3” x 7’ andis 12’-6” from the left edge and one footfrom the bottom (See the elevation drawingand Photo 5.)5out. If you are following along, just laythe siding material all the way across thesub-wall.Once all the siding was on, I sanded itwith some 80-grit sandpaper to impart awood grain texture to the smooth styrene.This doesn’t take a lot of effort since the80-grit paper is pretty aggressive. Be certainto sand in an up-and-down directiononly. You don’t want the grain runningsideways! This effect doesn’t really showup well in the photos until the walls arepainted and weathered.To begin turning this plastic intosomething resembling wood, I startedwith a wash coat of Floquil Grimy Blackpaint. As you can see in Photo 6, this is a6very thin mix (really more of a stain thanpaint). I just gave the bottle a couple ofshakes to mix the paint, testing things ona scrap piece until I got what I wanted. Ialso dusted on some brown pastel dustand brushed it in along the bottom wherethe weathering would be heavier. Next,I dry-brushed a layer of red, using ModelMaster #4632 Guards Red acrylic paint.Once again, this is more of a stainingcoat, although a little heavier. I reallygave the brush a workout here, as youwant to have the Grimy Black undercoatshowing through (Photo 7). If it seems7doesn’t look right to you, try it again.Practice on scrap material until things satisfyyou before risking the actual model.Photo 8 shows the partially finishedwall section. I painted the opening for the8loading door Grimy Black (full strength foronce), and added the track for the loadingdoor. The track is made from some brassscraps I had in my material drawer. I don’thave any sizes to give here. The hangingrail was soldered to the two brackets andthe whole thing attached to the wall withWalthers Goo. I crudded things up withthe usual mixture of Grimy Black andburnt sienna chalk dust for a nice rustyeffect. The door was made with a core of0.040” styrene covered with more of the0.020” x 0.188” strips, sanded for woodgrain, painted, and weathered like therest of the wall. The hangers are madeof wire (I think it was 1/32” piano wire,but I’m really not sure.) They were justeyeballed into the shape needed with apair of needlenose pliers and attached tothe door with Walthers Goo. The bracketshook over the door track, althoughthe door itself was glued to the wall withstyrene cement. The walls can finallybe glued together now. Much has beenwritten about building basic boxes, so Iwon’t go into a lot of detail. Just make surethings are square and well-braced againstwarpage (Photos 9-10).Being new to O Scale, I’m still learningwhat’s available and what isn’t. At thetime I didn’t know of a source for corrugatedmetal siding in a scale thickness, soI made my own using heavy-duty aluminumfoil. Using a sheet of Evergreen metalsiding as a guide, I taped a piece of thefoil to it and scribed in the corrugations9One mistake I made at this point wasnot running the siding all the way acrossthe wall. You’ll notice in the photos thatI left a gap at each end, to be covered bythe corrugated siding. Without somethingunderneath this gap, though, a bumpwould show after the corrugated tin wasapplied. I wound up gluing in some stripsof 0.020” x 0.188” styrene to level things18 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06that I’m a bit vague with the instructionsat this point, it’s because these types ofeffects are very subjective. The sameeffect will look great to one person andlousy to another. Furthermore, most ofthe time I’m just flying blind doing this,experimenting as I go. Dumb luck is ahuge factor in my modeling. If something

10say whether the double-sided tape willbe permanent, at this point, since it is anexperiment. If you have a favorite methodfor attaching metal siding to wood orplastic, then use what works for you.13and gluing the two separate panels to thebuilding became a pain. As you are gluingin the strips that represent the standingseams on the Evergreen roofing, becertain to leave a space for the elevatorhousing on the one side.The Elevator HousingThe elevator housing (Photo 15) on15with a blunt stick (in this case, the end ofa paintbrush). A wooden skewer workswell too. I’ll admit this was tedious (Photo11) but not bad for such a small amount.I’ve since learned that K & S Metals is nowproducing scale corrugated siding for OScale, so give that a try if you like.11Once I had enough siding materialscribed, I cut it into roughly 3’ x 10-12’panels with a pair of scissors. The scribedfoil is surprisingly strong and won’t crushunder normal handling. To attach it to thebuilding shell, I tried another experimentand used doubled-sided Scotch brandtape. There are two kinds, permanentand removable. I used the permanenttype. I’ve had trouble with styrene warpageusing rubber or contact cement.Walthers Goo or CA might work, but Ididn’t want to chance it. I simply ran tapealong the top and bottom edges of eachrow of siding. I was very generous withthe tape, putting it wherever I needed tohold the siding down (Photo 12). I can’t12Photo 13 shows the partially completedbuilding with the corrugated sidingall finished and painted. For the endpainted white, I just used some flat spraypaint from an aerosol can. The rest of thetin was brushed with full strength GrimyBlack and weathered with burnt siennafor some rust effects. There are severaldoors on the west (white) end that wereindicated with simple panels of tin andsimulated door tracks made of some styrenescraps.RoofingThe roofing is a standing-seam typemade from Evergreen roofing material,0.040” thick with 3/16” spacing (#4521).I simply cut it to size, making an allowancefor the overhang on all four sides,then scoring the material along theridgeline. The Evergreen sheets weren’twide enough to cover the entire building.I had to splice two sheets together.For the moment, I left the roof off of thebuilding so that I could glue some moreof the 0.020” x 0.188” strip material onthe underside to represent the individualboard sheathing often seen on buildingslike this (Photo 14). I gave these14the top was made with a core of 0.040”styrene and covered with more aluminumfoil. See the drawings for dimensions. Ileft the foil smooth, since the prototype isjust covered with sheet metal. A coat offlat white spray paint and more Evergreenroofing material finished it off. Once it isglued to the roof with styrene cement, fillin any standing-seam strips around it. Aridge cap of 0.060” square styrene completesthe roof construction. I used moreof the Model Master Guards Red to paintthe roof, followed by a weathering coatof rust colored chalk dust for a nice flat,dry look.The FoundationWith the basic building shell finished,we can focus on the foundation. I castthe stone piers out of ordinary plaster ina styrene mold. I just made one long stripthat I cut into twelve pieces, rather thantrying to cast individual piers. The mold(Photo 16) was made from 0.040” styrene16boards a coat of Floquil Rail Brown and,since they wouldn’t be seen that much,I didn’t weather them. Adding these wasmuch easier with the roof off the building,although the excessive handling andflexing broke the score line at the ridgeand scaled out at 3’ wide, 3’ tall, and 36’long. As you can see in Photo 17, neatnesswasn’t a major concern during thecasting process. I didn’t bother to coat theinside of the form with anything as, theplaster wouldn’t stick to the plastic. OnceSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 19

17the plaster set up enough to be handled, Istripped off the form, cut the casting intotwelve pieces, then carved in the stonework(Photo 18). I put the greatest effort18into the piers and sides that would be themost visible. Those on the interior werejust carved along the edges to roughenthem up a bit. The prototype buildinghad a lot of junk and scrap wood tossedunderneath, so I replicated this on thebase of the model (Photo 19). Now is the19time to completely detail the base. I usedWoodland Scenics cinder material andground foam along with whatever scrapsof wood and anything else I could find inmy supply drawer. Since the piers in themiddle row really don’t have any detail, Ipainted them with some Grimy Black tode-emphasize them. Once the building isin place, the lack of detail doesn’t reallyshow.Other DetailsThe driveway is a piece of 3/16” thickfoam-core board with the paper strippedoff of the top. I sanded a taper into it forthe driveway apron, then painted andweathered it with acrylic craft paints inconcrete colors.The final detail is some guttering.I couldn’t really tell from my photoswhether the prototype even had any gutters.I think they really add somethingto a building, so I put them on anyway.Figuring that this detail would be the firstthing to break, I made them out of 0.005”thick sheet brass from K & S Metals.20 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’0620As shown in Photo 20, I bent the brassover a piece of 0.030” piano wire usinga pair of pliers. It wasn’t the neatest jobI’ve ever done, but the end result wasa nice, battered, beat-up gutter suitablefor a building like this (Photo 21). I made21some hangers out of soft brass strip material(from Special Shapes) by bendingthem over the same piece of wire, thensoldered them to the bottom side of thegutters (Photos 22-24). All of these pieces222324were made oversized, then trimmed tofinal dimensions after forming and assembly.I thought that making these would bevery hard, but was pleasantly surprisedat how fast and easily it went. I attachedthe gutters to the undersides of the roofoverhang with some Walthers Goo, thenpainted them with Grimy Black and Rustfor a really great effect (Photo 24). Thecompleted building awaits final detailing,once I install it on the layout. This was afun project that will add a lot of characterto the I & W.uMaterials ListEvergreen Styrene(1) 12" x 24" Sheet of 0.040" Plain Styrene(2) Packages of 0.020" x 0.188" Strips(PN #128)(2) Packages of 0.040" Thick Metal Roofingwith 3/16" Spacing (PN #4521)(1) Package of 0.060" Square Strips(1) Package of Corrugated Siding, 0.040"Spacing, 0.040" Thick (if makingyour own siding along with heavy-dutyaluminum foil) or Commercial Sidingfrom K & S or PlastructWood:(4) Lengths of 1/4" x 1/2" Balsa orBasswood for Internal Wall BracingMetal:0.005" Brass Sheet from K & S Engineering0.030" Spring WireOther:Plaster or Durham’s Rock Hard Water Putty(for casting the stone support piers)Paint:Floquil Grimy Black, Rail Brown (orequivalent colors of your favorite brand)Model Master Insignia Red and/or GuardsRed (or equivalent color)Various Shades of Browns and OtherStone Colors.Various Shades of Earth-Colored Artist’sPastels (burnt sienna, raw umber, burntumber, etc.)

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Traction ActionRoger C. ParkerModeling The Washington, DC, Terminal of the Washington,Baltimore, & Annapolis RailroadIn the last issue, we covered the Baltimore terminal of theWashington, Baltimore, & Annapolis Railroad. The Baltimoreterminal was a large multi-track installation, capable of storingseveral trains at one time. It contained a return loop, coveredplatforms, passing sidings, several storage tracks, and a largefreight house.This time we consider the Washington, DC, terminal at theother end of the line, in higher-rent territory. In contrast to theBaltimore Terminal, the trackplan of the line’s Washington Terminalis considerably simpler. Here, reversing the cars for thereturn journey takes place on a loop located on adjacent citystreets. All trains enter from the same direction, stop to disembarkand load passengers, and depart relatively quickly.The Washington infrastructure consists of just three passingsidings, open platforms, and a relatively large waiting roomlocated on a roughly triangular plot of land.Advantages for ModelersThe Washington terminal of the WB&A, as based on photographsand drawings in John E. Merriken’s excellent EveryHour on the Hour (1993), offers modelers and module buildersnumerous modeling advantages.1. Simple Trackplan: The trackplan is relatively simple, thosreducing costs and speeding construction. There are relativelyfew turnouts to be built, and severalcan be spring switches. The single-slipswitch on New York Avenue does nothave to operate, but can simply existas a crossing. Likewise, the switchesand trackwork on Eleventh Avenue donot have to initially operate.2. Easier Overhead Construction:Since the trackwork is relatively simple,the overhead construction can berelatively straightforward. Perfect overheadoperation is only needed for themost commonly used routings.3. Freedom from Platform Canopiesor Trainsheds: The lack of platformcanopies will make it easier to manuallyraise and lower trolley poles andto make any overhead adjustmentsnecessary.4. Station Detailing: The terminal,itself, can be as simple or as complexas desired. The terminal interiors canbe completely detailed, or the emphasiscan be on making the trainshedand track areas as detailed as desired.The station courtyard, too, could bedetailed with models of period carsand taxis.5. Operation: Although the trackplan is relatively simple,there is space for continuous operation while showcasing twoor more trains (depending on length) at the platforms. Operationcould be automated so that the arrival of one train will beaccompanied by the departure of another.6. Variety: Depending on available space, the Washington,Baltimore, & Annapolis’ heavy interurban traffic could be mixedwith local streetcar service on the adjacent streets. The contrastin size between the city and interurban cars could be verypleasing.7. Scenery: The adjacent Hotel Annapolis, which would belocated along the bottom edge of the terminal plan, could providea large view-block, or background. This, in conjunctionwith the buildings along New York Avenue, creates a pleasingimpression of an “urban canyon” on New York Avenue.8. Comic Relief: Notice that, once again, the station areacontains an unfenced inspection pit that could cause anunwanted surprise for unwary passengers or pedestrians. I wonderwhat OSHA would say!What’s Your Favorite?Do you have any suggestions or favorite prototype trackplansyou’d like me to include in future columns? Send references, ordrawings, to me at roger@oscalemag.com and I’ll try to coverthem in future issues!uSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 27

More on GenerationsBrian: I liked your “Observations” inOST #26 very much. It mirrors what I’vebeen saying for many years (which iswhy I liked it of course). The cry comingfrom the old-timers (I’m 57) has beenthat we are watching the demise of OScale “as we know it”.My reply has been that the decline inpopularity of O Scale is attributable, inpart, to the fact that anything really newis looked on with great cynicism. I don’tmean new kits and brass locomotives. Imean new ways of reaching the desiredgoals, or even the goals themselves.There are those that still think that asuper-detailed scratchbuilt caboosesitting on a piece of 3/4” plywood isa thing of beauty, while denigrating aready-to-run box car on a realisticallydetailed scene.Times have changed. It’s no longergood enough for a yard to hold madeuptrains waiting their turn to circuit thelayout. It’s no longer good enough foran engineer to be more concerned withwhich toggle switch to throw to keepcontrol of his train, rather than thinkingahead to his next task. I don’t find anythingwrong with a scratchbuilt cabooseon a piece of plywood, but I do takeexception to the idea that it is whatmodern O Scale is all about.Now, I model in On2, so you knowhow much ready-to-run equipment Iown. But, I’ve been modeling most ofmy life. This is where I’ve ended up, notwhere I began. If it wasn’t for Lionel, Idon’t know that I’d be writing this message.If it wasn’t for Athearn, MDC,Atlas, and HO ready-to-run, I don’tknow that I would be still interestedtoday. If it wasn’t for Central Valley,Northeast Scale Models, Ambroid, etc.,I don’t know if I’d be in On2. Lionelgot me hooked on trains, RTR got mehooked on scale model railroading,and craftsman kits got me hooked onscratchbuilding. Times have indeedchanged, but the process hasn’t. Trainsets have replaced Lionel, Atlas hasreplaced Athearn, and resin kits havereplaced Central Valley. What haschanged is that the overall railroad hasreplaced the collection.I don’t have a massive collection ofantique brass. I can’t afford to buy everynew brass locomotive that comes out. IfI end up with four or five nice locomotives,I’ll be happy. That will be enoughto run my “railroad”. Why the guys withmassive collections dominate the DCCdiscussions with comments like, “I can’tafford to convert all my locomotives”,I’ll never understand. Why would theseguys even comment on something thatis of no relevance to what they aredoing? It would be like me commentingon traction.I think you have done a great serviceto O Scale. You’ve made it acceptableto rethink the way you look at thehobby, and that from an “old-timer”.Who knows, in time, you may evenget away from using wire with braidedinsulation!Ed Kozlowsky, Sanford, MEMaking DoI operate 3-Rail locos and cars. Thisis tolerable, but necessary, since I havea 4’ x 16’ space to run trains. I find thatmuch of today’s 3-Rail equipment is“dead-on” except for the horrible thirdrailand huge flanges and couplers.Otherwise I enjoy O Scale which would[normally] require a 16’ x 64’ space. Iam sure you have many [readers] likeme, right? We might be the silent majority...but without a political agenda. Mylayout features a four-track hump yardwhich works, but was an operationalchallenge.Herb Cearley, Long Beach, CAJoe says: Well, I think a lot of readerswould like to see your hump yard.Send us a photo and we’ll find space in“Modeler’s Shelf” for it. I estimate about40% of OST readers are HiRailers, soyou are not alone Herb. Thanks for yourcomments.More Slope Sheets, Less Gee-WhizHi Joe : Just got your latest issuetoday [#27]. Regarding the NMRA/OScale National possible combinationwould be the issue of membership inthe NMRA and that is not cheap. Wein this area think that it is basically anHO organization, hence none of ourguys take any interest in joining. Yearsago there were many very good articlesdone in the NMRA Bulletins by O Scalers,but that has gone away since. Inregards to the conventions, they arevery expensive to attend these days.We have discussed them and believe OScale will ultimately end up at Chicago,Indianapolis, the California show, oneof the Eastern shows, and our Clevelandshow. Why these areas? Because theseareas will support them.In regards to DCC, TMCC, &c, Mostof us don’t like it because of the complicatedand expensive extra electronicsinvolved and it takes up space. Everwonder why Sunset does not do slopesheets in the tenders of their steamlocos? You got it. 3-Rail TMCC. Theheck with the sound. We prefer theslope sheet. 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Building a Small O Scale LayoutPart ElevenMichael CulhamIn Parts 8 through 10 of my series, I covered the building andfinishing of a structure from a basic plastic kit. We’ll continue onwith our look at structure modeling over the next four parts ofthis series; I will show you how to build a structure using DesignPreservation Models (DPM) modular wall sections. In Photo 1,you can see the finished building. Now some of you may shyaway from using these, as you may think that it’s too much workhaving to figure out what wall sections to use, how many youneed, putting them together and painting them. Don’t be shy.They are easy to use and I am going to show you how. DPMmakes a variety of different wall sections to choose from. Thereare walls with three different window styles, blank walls anddoor walls. With all these you can design all sorts of buildings.They have also produced kits, with all the wall sections you needto build the structure that they have planned. I have found thesekits a great way to get a lot of wall sections all at once. When Ifirst got back into O Scale, I purchased three kits, which gave melots of wall sections to work with in designing some buildings formy layout.Deciding What to BuildOn the layout, I have an area between the backdrop and asiding for which I wanted a factory building that could be servedby two 40’ boxcars (Photo 2). Since I had lots of different DPMmodular wall sections in my future project drawer, I decided tomake my new factory out of these.I’ve demonstrated, on the last building I showed you, how Ilike to add a little humor to my layout. I quite often name companiesafter my train friends with a humorous twist as well. Agood friend of mine from England, Ivan Maxted, is a very goodmodeler of British railway stock in O Scale and has been a greathelp with some of the ideas used in building my layout. As wellas his love of trains, he also likes to make reproductions of oldmusical instruments, his latest being a clavichord (I’ll let youfigure out what it is.) I had not named an industry on my layoutafter Ivan as of yet, so I decided to name my new industry afterhim, hence the name “ Maxted’s Clavichord Factory”. With allthis in mind, it is time to design and build our new building.Designing a BuildingThe first thing you need to do when designing and buildingyour structure is to work out the area that it will cover. This is thebuilding’s footprint. Once you know this, draw it out full-size ona piece of paper. From this, you can work out how many wallsections you will require by placing them on the footprint. Youcan see from Photo 1 that the area that I have for my building is atriangular shape. The overall size of the area is 8” x 25”.You will find, in O Scale, that most of your buildings will bejust flats, because of the amount of real estate required. On mylayout, about fifty percent of the buildings are flats, as is thisone. Figure 1 shows the shape I would like the finished buildingto have, to fit in the intended space. I wanted four walls on mybuilding, with Walls #1 and #2 to be at right angles to each other,Wall #3 to taper back from them, and Wall #4 to be at a rightangle coming off the end of Wall #3. After a little playing aroundand fitting wall sections around the area, I decided that Wall #1needed to be 5-3/4” wide, Wall #2 would be 4-1/2” wide, Wall#3 would be 20-3/4” wide and Wall #4 needed to be 4-1/4” wide.I also wanted the building to be two stories in height. Knowingthis, I could now figure out how many modular sections Ineeded for each wall. In Figure 2, you can see the design conceptfor each of the four walls.I decided to use the Curved Window Section #901-2 for thesecond story on all the walls, and blank wall sections on theground level. I wanted a door at street level on Wall #1, so Ichose Wall Section #901-01. To give the building some height, Ialso used Riser Wall/Dock Section #901-08. I finished the topsof the walls with Cornice Section #901-09. I planned to havetwo dock doors along Wall #3, so I fitted in two #901-07 FreightDoor Wall Sections. In Figures 3 through 6, you can see howI placed all these sections together to make each wall for mybuilding. I have also made the following list of modular wall sectionsthat will be used and the quantity needed for each one.Wall Module # Name Quantity901-01 Door Wall 1901-02 Window Wall 8901-03 Blank Wall 5901-07 Freight Door Wall 2901-08 Riser/Dock Wall 8901-09 Cornices 9You will also need a large sheet of 0.040” styrene for the roof,some 0.125” x 0.125” strip styrene for braces and supports, and abottle of liquid plastic cement.As already mentioned, Wall #1 is intended to be 5-3/4” wide.Since the wall modules are only 4-1/2” wide, I have a couplechoices. I would either have to cut some wall sections to a 1-1/4”width to make this wall, or I could make a section out of styreneSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 31

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The Art of FinescaleMichael CougillStandards—Part 1I’ve been reading a collection of Norm Buckhart’s old ProtoJournal recently, and learning about the early days of Proto48has been interesting. What surprised me was how often thesepioneers met with adversity and, in some cases, even outrightanimosity from the established model railroad community.Thanks to their persistence, we now enjoy a healthy networkof P48 products and suppliers. One can get started in no time atall, where once considerable effort was required just to have alocomotive, a few cars, and some track to run on. But P48 stillhas a way to go. One thing that would go a long way to popularizingP48, for new converts, would be a track system.P48 is about modeling to higher standards of accuracy andfidelity to the prototype. Most guys handlay their track. Handlayingmodel track really isn’t hard, and the information is readilyavailable. Many still find it intimidating, tedious or not totheir liking for whatever reason. True, it takes time and effort toproduce track that looks prototypical and runs well. For thoselike myself who enjoy it, it’s a relaxing part of the hobby. Forothers it’s just plain work, which brings me back to the idea of atrack system.One has only to look at the success of On30 and the smallergauges, particularly HO, to trace the contribution that readilyavailable track systems have made to their popularity. Further,the smaller gauges never had to deal with the gauge discrepancythat O Scale still wrestles with. HO track is correctly gauged at4’ 8-1/2” whether it is made for toy trains or scale models.I don’t think that P48 needs a finescale version of snap-track.I fear that the temptation to a major manufacturer would be tocompromise accuracy and detailing for the sake of appealing toa broader market in order to recoup their investment quickly.What would be nice would be a set of matching componentsthat are fully detailed, to scale, that would speed up or simplifythe tracklaying process. Such as system may be in our futurevery soon.Many of you know Jim Canter of Indianapolis. A long timeadvocate for P48 and 1/4” modeling; Jim runs Canter Rail Services,a sideline business featuring a line of track templates,gages and other accessories for P48. He also organizes a showin the Indianapolis area each September for 1/4” and P48 thathas become a major event in the O Scale community.Jim is planning a large layout. This means lots of track and alot of work on that track. He wanted to speed things up on thelayout, and started thinking about a tie-strip product geared toP48. Always thinking “big picture”, he reasoned if he could useit, others could too.I spoke with Jim recently, and learned that the tooling for thedies is underway and that matching #8 turnout strips will also beproduced. These products will have all the detailing, tieplates,rail braces and so on, built in. All the modeler has to add is rail.The strips will accept both Code 138 and 125 rail, since thewidth of the rail base is nearly the same. Joint bars will also beincluded on the sprue, and can be clipped off and attached tothe rails every scale 39’ if one wishes.What is really exciting with the turnouts strips is that Jim hascollaborated with John Pautz of American Switch and Signal, toensure that his tiestrips and John’s frog and point castings will beperfectly compatible with each other. Cooperation of this sortadvances the hobby for everyone.Remember, both of these guys have day jobs. The incomederived from their model railroad projects likely just covers theexpense of production (hopefully). It doesn’t pay the bills orput food on the table. Bringing top quality products to a ficklemarket is a major risk. A substantial chunk of their own moneyis tied up in development and marketing, with little guarantee ofsuccess.The P48 community should welcome their efforts, and thoseof many others, who bring us the products we enjoy. As wecontinue to press for more prototypically accurate products (notonly track, but rolling stock, buildings and scenery), the futurefor all O Scalers looks bright indeed.For further information about any of Jim’s products contact:Canter Rail Services1203 Rotherham LaneBeech Grove, IN 46107-3323E-mail: jcanternkp@sbcgobal.netuTHE WESTERN RESERVE “O” SCALE TRAIN SHOWCLEVELAND, OHIOSaturday, November 4, 2006 9:30 am - 2:30 pmAdmission: $5.00 6’ Tables - $35.00LAKELAND COMMUNITY COLLEGEI90 and ST.RT. 306 (S.E. Corner)Held in the Auxiliary Gym / Athletic Center24 Hr. Police • Public Welcome • Free Parking • 2-rail “O” scale only • Please no other gaugesSORRY NO PASSES ACCEPTED AT THIS SHOW • THIS SHOW IS NOT AFFILIATED WITH THE WESTERN RESERVE O SCALE COMMITTEE WHO ANNUALLY PUT ON A SIMILAR SHOWBOB FRIEDEN - 9695 CHILLICOTHE ROAD - KIRTLAND, OHIO 44094 - 440-256-8141 - FAX: 440-256-1749Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 39

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Narrow MindedBobber GibbsI hope there were a good numberof entries in the Narrow Gauge/Industrialcategory of our Third AnnualDigital Photo Contest, because thereis a brand-new Bachmann On30 Consolwaiting to be delivered to our firstplace winner. By the time you read this,the contest will be over, so you mighthave to wait for one more issue to findout who won in the four categories,which also included Steam, Diesel andTraction.Once again, I suggest that the qualityof digital cameras has gone way upwhile prices have come down, and thata digital camera will help make you abetter modeler. I recently upgraded toa Sony DSC-H5 Cyber-shot with 7.2mega-pixels, 12x optical zoom, and ahuge three-inch screen. The big screenis such a useful feature that I stronglyadvise you not to settle for anything lessthan a three-inch screen. In my opinion,it is unlikely that screens will getmuch bigger.The 26th National Narrow GaugeConvention was held in Durango, Colorado,on August 21-26. I hope to havephotos for our next column. It’s not tooearly to start planning for NNGC #27 tobe held in Portland, Maine, on August29 through September 2, 2007. I haveoffered to conduct an On30 clinic, andI hope to meet and talk privately withevery person who attends and joins inon our group howl. Watch [http://www.27thnarrowgaugeconvention.com/] fordetails.At this time, the best value in OScale narrow-gauge model railroadingis the combination of the BachmannDCC-equipped On30 Davenport Dieseland the Bachmann E-Z Command DCCsystem. For under $100 for both, plusa few Grandt Koppel ore cars, sometrack and turnouts, you can join theDigital Age and create a small O Scalenarrow-gauge quarry or mining layout.Be advised that you might not be ableto resist adding a second Davenport ora rail truck, to really enjoy the benefitsof DCC.Speaking of Davenports, I recentlypurchased an old, unpainted On3 Fujiyama30-ton Davenport switcher oneBay, mainly because I suspected fromthe seller’s description that it mighthave a better drive than the model Ialready owned. This is the D&RGW#50 model that was imported by PacificFast Mail in 1971 and sold for $85. Theone I had runs nicely, but the neweracquisition has had the Faulhaber conversionkit installed. The husky canmotor is mounted vertically under theengine cover, and contains a reductiondrive that makes this switcher justcrawl. I intend to change it to a genericindustrial switcher.Fans of D&RGW #50 will appreciatethat Davenport 2245 (built in 1937)is currently being rebuilt at the ColoradoRailroadMuseum.When Iinquired inJuly aboutany recentprogress, theCRM advisedme that theywere waitingfor thetransmissionto arrive,and also abull gear, before repairs could be completed.When 2245 returns to service,I predict that there will be a surge ofinterest in this critter.Davenport 2245 was built in 1937as Number 101 for the Sumpter ValleyRailway in Oregon. It operated as aswitcher at Baker City for 24 years until1963, when it was sold to the D&RGW.It was run through the Denver shops,where the strap ladders on all fourcorners were replaced with old steamtender steps. It was painted black, yellow,and orange, given number 50,then assigned to Durango as the shopswitcher.In 1970, it was sold to the RoaringCamp & Big Trees tourist line in California,retaining its D&RGW colors. Atsome point, it sustained major damageto the transmission and, in 1981,it was acquired by the Durango RailroadMuseum. The Colorado RailroadMuseum purchased it in 1984. Havea look at [http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Davenport2245/]. By the way,I was recently advised by Accu-craftTrains that their new On3/On30 modelof Davenport 2245 should be availablebefore Christmas of this year.Happy trains to you...Bobber GibbsuStevenson Preservation LinesO Gauge Kits and Parts from pastMaster ModelersCatalog 2005 Price: $3.00Baldwin Model Locomotive WorksLobaughAdams & SonsLenoirKansas City KitHines LinesAlexanderPearce Tool Co.Bob Stevenson, 2326 230th St. Boone, IA 50036Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 41

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Modern OrderThe biggest part of model railroading is thetrain. I started the last column that way, but itis true to such a high degree it deserves sayingagain. It shouldn’t be surprising that if we,as modelers, follow modern railroad operatingpractices, then we should also follow modernDOT (U.S. Department of Transportation) safetyrules when building a model train consist. Whena crossing arm stops the average morning commuter, I doubtif they wonder why there are four locomotives, then a boxcar,then a tank car, then six more boxcars followed by eight moreflats and so on. Don’t they know they are watching efficiencyroll past? Don’t they care that their safety is in the balancewith every click-clack, click-clack? My thought is, probablynot. Thankfully the railroad and the government do care andthey know how to keep things in order.The DOT has written guidelines for train consists to ensurethe safest transport of everything from t-shirts to TNT. TheDOT guidelines require special placement of critical freightcar loads in the train consist. Those critical loads are usuallyclassified as hazardous materials. The DOT rules dictate howa train can be built in the yard. No hazardous material car canbe placed within six cars from a locomotive. Highly flammablematerial should never be placed close to a chlorine tankcar. Chlorine, while not flammable itself, is an oxidizer. It willfuel the fire and could make it impossible to extinguish. Onthe other hand, it is safe to place hazardous material cars likesulfur dioxide tank cars with the chlorine tank cars, becausesulfur dioxide will neutralize the chlorine and visa-versa,should they ever come in contact. That would be the hopeanyway.Obviously, you can’t separate a hazardous material carfrom an engine by six lengths when the train is made up ofonly four cars. Yard switching, local switching deliveries, anddeliveries on the mainline can take exception to some of theserules, if a slow maximum speed limit is observed and thereare personnel with radios available to observe the movement.When you, as the yardmaster, are contemplating the order ofassembly for trains in the next operating session, give somethought as to hazardous material car placement. We cannotalways build a train long enough on our layouts to follow allof the guidelines mentioned here. However, slowing downand taking extra time to switch a hazardous material car willachieve the same point and purpose. In the end just gettingthere safely is half the battle.Railroads make money by delivering freight cars to customers.The more cars delivered, the more money the railroadmakes. Keeping the train consists in an order that benefitsswitching will minimize the time-consuming process of settingout and picking up cars. I can tell you that train crews likethe switch list to be ordered, too. Unfortunately, that doesn’talways happen. When a road crew is operating in a territorythat isn’t familiar to them, the engineer would like a train builtwith consideration to horsepower, as opposed to the weightof the train. It can be jerky night on the rails if the yardmasterhas put too many heavy cars at the end of a train and there isslack in the couplers. Heavier cars like 60’ boxcars, large tankcars over 50’ in length, and loaded hoppers should be placedforward in the consist (giving due consideration to DOT safetyrules). Lighter cars, like double-stack well cars, large autorackcars, and empty freight cars, should be placed to the rear.Heavy-to-light is a good rule of thumb. The exception wouldbe a unit train, such as a coal train, where every car is eitherloaded (heavy) or unloaded (light).Now a personal note about this column. It has been myextreme pleasure to be able to do this column for O ScaleTrains Magazine. However, this will be the last installment of“The Modern Image” that I will be writing.Happy railroading!(Publisher’s note: No, we didn’t fire Carey. He is going backto school and will not have the time to devote writing a regularcolumn. However, Carey will still do drawings for us and occasionallysubmit an article. Carey’s good friend and modern-eraO Scaler Gene Clements will be taking over the helm of thiscolumn. In addition to being a model railroader, Gene worksas an engineer for the BNSF. You can’t get more modern-erathan that! We hope to have Gene’s first contribution nextissue. —Joe G.)uNew! O Scale BirneyThis is a true O Scale 1:48 model. The die wasmade from the drawings of a real Birney!The model comes with a complete interior, less powertruck and lighting package: $35.95. We expect a 4-wheelpower truck kit in mid-April, followed by the lighting kit.Pa Heritage Models Ltd.715 Ridgeway Road, Birdsboro, PA 19508www.paheritagemodels.comSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 43

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Steel Crankpinsfrom “Scratch”Pressing new steel crankpins into out-of-production drivingwheels can be a challenge. They are often fragile; a little toomuch stress and the driver is gone forever. Here is at least oneway to avoid over-stressing those old castings while securelyanchoring removable steel crankpins. With this method, wecan do this ourselves in very little time with tools found in mostmodelers’ inventory, and at virtually no cost. Starting with ordinary,inexpensive, hardware-store steel machine screws, we’llflatten some of the threads to form the bearing end of the crankpins.The remaining unmolested threads can then be used toanchor the pin in the driver.The photos illustrate the process. I used a drill-press, an inexpensivedrill-press vise and a small keyless chuck held in placein the vise. You could certainly use a lathe if you have one. Onthe other hand, this could evenbe done with a regular vise anda hand-held power drill, but thatwould require someone withsome real skill!Start by cutting the headoff a screw that will becomea crankpin (I used 1-1/4” long#6-32 machine screws). Eitherease around the cut so that thescrew can be threaded into a nuthead-end first, or run it througha matching die.Chuck the screw, head-endfirst, about 3/8” into the keylesschuck. Grasp (snugly, but nottightly) the protruding end of thescrew in the drill chuck. Lowerthe drill chuck about 1-1/2” andsecure it at this level.Set the vise on the drillpresstable and raise the tableto where the vise will securelygrip the keyless chuck stem.Carefully align the vise with thestem. Tighten the keyless chuckstem in the vise. Avoid stressingthe screw. Securely fasten thevise in place on the drill-presstable carefully, checking to makesure you still avoid stressing thescrew. Now the tools are alignedand the work is in place to formthe first crankpin.Release the press’s chuck andlet it rise away from the work.Put a drop of cutting oil onthe upper threads. Put on yourleather-palmed gloves and lowerthe drill-press so that the press’schuck, when loosely holding thescrew, covers about 3/8” of theNick Pulskamptop threads. Lock the press’s chuck vertically at this level.Turn on the press at a slow speed. CAREFULLY and GEN-TLY close your gloved hand around the drill-press chuck sothat the chuck closes gently to rub – not grip - the threads. Wewant to burnish these threads almost out of existence; that is,we will rub them down to a smooth surface without removingany material. We’re using the smooth inside surface of the jawsof the drill-press to re-form part of the surface of the screw’sthreaded shank.Be patient. Do not allow the chuck to grab the screw. Keepthe work cool with your cutting oil. Actually, the oil will feed tothe work from the bottom of the thread. This phenomenon willwork to our advantage again on the engine. Back off (up) occasionallyto observe the progress. There will be a shrinking channelat the bottom of the thread corresponding to the growing flatsurface where the thread tops used to be.How small this channel becomes is up to you. It will holdlubricant on the engine so it’s probably useful to keep somethingof a channel, however small. Also, you might settle on afavored diameter for the crankpin, in which case the channelsize will take care of itself. Just keep an adequate bearing surfaceto minimize wear on your rods later.With the screw still in the keyless chuck, put your nice shinynew 2-56 tap drill in the presschuck. Still running slowly, drilla tapping hole down into thescrew about 3/8” deep. Easydoes it here; forcing the drillcould deform the outer surface.We now have what could becalled a crankpin blank, readyfor fitting and final tapping toreceive the screw and washerthat holds the rod on the crank.Drill and tap a #6-32 holethrough a spare driver or otherpiece of flat stock that is as closeas possible to the thickness ofthe drivers you will use on yourengine.Thread your blank crankpin into the spare driver as far asit will go. The smoothed-thread part of the pin will stop thethreading. Don’t torque it down now; you will use a tap for thatnext. Using the skills learned through countless constructionarticles, tap the hole inthe pin as shown, in thiscase #2-56. Again, easydoes it. Forcing the tapcould deform the outer(bearing) surface. The tappingtwist will drive thepin into the wheel to an“optimal” depth withoutover-tightening.Grind or file the pin tothe desired length. CleanSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 45

the tapped hole. Ease the edgesaround the end of the pin.Turn the wheel over and removethe excess threaded length downflush with the back of the wheel.Cut or grind a flat screwdriver slotacross the pin in back of the sparewheel. I use my Dremel tool witha thin cut-off wheel. You can seefrom the photo why we’re using aspare wheel! Using a screwdriver,drive the new crankpin out of thespare driver.This is the finished crankpin. It isready to be attached to your “good”driver. With some practice thesepins will be cranked (!) out andmounted at a rate of less than tenminutes each. The trick is to do allthe burnishing, then all the drilling,tapping, and finishing, for the day’sbatch of pins.To prepare the “good” driver,carefully drill a #6-32 tapping holewhere you want the new crankpin.Tap carefully so as to inflict theleast possible stress on what mightbe some pretty soft zinc or brittle cast iron.Start your new crankpin gently into the new threaded hole.Turn the driver over and, using your screwdriver, “back” thescrew down into the hole, seating it firmly without over-tightening.Check that the exposed end of the pin is completely smooth,with no threads beyond theouter surface of the wheel. Ifthey are out there, remove thepin and slightly countersinkthe hole from the outer surface,reinsert, and snug the pinagain. When you are satisfiedwith the setting of the pin, puta small drop of Locktite or thinCA on the threads at the backof the wheel. The “glue” will wick up the threads into the wheeland hold it with almost no stress on the wheel. A nice hex-headand washer in the crankpin and you’re ready to go.This is a Varney wheel from the 1950s, cast in what appearsto be a good quality zinc alloy. It’s a beautiful wheel, but seemsa little fragile. Its fragility is what led to this crankpin technique.There’s very little distorting stress on the thin casting, and thelarge mating surfaceof the threads disburseswhat stressesthere will be duringoperation.These pins arealso working wellin cast iron wheels,cast iron tendingto brittleness ratherthan softness. Eitherway, less stressis better. Happymodeling. It’s a funhobby!u46 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

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Nos. 16001-18500 O SCALE/PROTO 48 • Kit #124/124-P … $49.95•Based on 1917 prototype builtby Mt. Vernon Car Co.•Double sheath with Dreadnought ends•Steel underframe•Andrews trucks•Kit includes couplers and decalsAlso available –SACRAMENTO NORTHERNBoxcar Nos. 2301-2350Kit #125/125-P … $49.95 Coming soon – SP Sugar Beet GondolaSubscribe toO Scale Trains MagazineSubscription Rates: 6 issuesUS - Standard Mail Delivery US$35US - First Class Delivery (1 year only) US$45Canada/Mexico US$55Overseas US$80Visa, MC, AMEX & Discover acceptedCall 610-363-7117 duringEastern time business hoursO Scale Trains mth october 06.qxp 7/3/2006 2:00 PM Page 1 50 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

Precision Turntables for the Discerning ModelerFEATURING PRO-DEX TM INFRA-RED POSITIONING & DYNAMIC BRAKINGNow it’s easy & exciting to operateprototypically: 1. Select direction2. Push run button 3. Watch bridgeadvance to any of 48 positions, thenslow & lock on desired track whenyou release button!AAA PRECISIONTURNTABLESPO Box 64, Plantsville, CT 06479, USA1-800-569-1423 • www.AAATurntables.com• Heavy-duty museum-quality construction• Realistic operation!• Painted and ready to run• Manufactured in all scales from Z to Gand all bridge sizes on a per order basis• Mfg in U.S.A. by skilled machinists usingCNC precision parts. Hand assembled & tested• Call for specs or visit our websiteHow To:Get Started in2-RailScaleRealistic • Accurate • AffordableCome Discover Modern O-Scale Modelsat These 2-Rail O-Scale MeetsVisit www.oscalekings.org for links to many 2-rail O-scale sites.This ad runs twice a year, so check it in 6 months formeets that have been added or changed dates.For an illustrated brochure please send an LSSAE #12 envelope to:O Scale Kings, 304 Christopher Place, Union, MO 63084-2931.Ad sponsored by O Scale Kings & the 2-rail O scale meets listed at right.February 16 - 17, 2007, San Francisco, CA area17th Annual O Scale West MeetLSSAE for information to:O Scale West, Dept. OSK876 Boyce AvenuePalo Alto, CA 94301-3003July 17 - 23, 2006, Parsippany, NJ2006 O Scale National ConventionLSSAE for information to:Robert Lavezzi C/O New York Society of Model Engineers341 HobokenCarlstadt, NJ 07072September 22 - 23, 2006, Indianapolis, IN areaIndianapolis Midwest "O" Scale Fall MeetLSSAE for information to:James Canter, Dept. OSK1203 Rotherham LaneBeech Grove, IN 46107-3323October 7 - 8, 2006, Oklahoma City, OK areaSouthwest O Scale MeetLSSAE for information to:George B. Wallace, Dept. OSK11937 Stratford DriveOklahoma City, OK 73120Irish TracklayerCOMING SOON!Etched rail anchors: Price TBASearchlight Signal Kit: $80Signal assembled: Price TBASemaphore Signal to followCheck our website for many brasssteam and Diesel castings.WWW.IRISHTRACKLAYER.COM2682 West Palo Alto AveFresno, CA 93711WHO’S BEEN WORKING ON YOUR RAILROAD?Realistic Figures Bring Your Layout to LifeSend $1.50 for our latest full color catalog featuring the over 375 PEWTER Figures and Accessorieswe produce in O Gauge All Made and Hand Painted in the USA with Pride. $7.95 S&H per order.VISA & MC orders call 1 800 316-2493. For Information:302 455-0195. FAX orders: 302 455-0197Painted/Unptd1399 Conductor looking at watch ................... _5.50 / 3.50_1400 Conductor Waving ................................. _5.50 / 3.50_1401 Engineer standing ................................. _5.50 / 3.50_1402 Engineer standing #2 ............................ _5.50 / 3.50_1403 Engineer looking forward ...................... _5.50 / 3.50_1404 Engineer leaning looking back .............. _5.50 / 3.50_1405 Engineer Waving ................................... _5.50 / 3.50_1406 Fireman Waving .................................... _5.50 / 3.50_1407 Standing fi reman with shovel................._5.75 / 3.50_1408 Brakeman hanging on ........................... _5.50 / 3.50_1409 Man holding up orders .......................... _5.75 / 3.50_1410 Station Janitor ....................................... _5.75 / 3.50_1411 Tower Worker throwing switch ............... _5.50 / 3.50_1412 Tower Boss............................................ _5.50 / 3.50_1413 Equipment driver ................................... _5.50 / 3.50_1414 Farmer driving ....................................... _5.50 / 3.50_1415 Engineer and fi reman seats .................. _6.50 / 3.75_1416 Tools ...................................................... _6.50 / 4.00_1417 Acetylene torch set ............................... _16.99/8.50_Visit us at www.arttista.com for color photos 105 Woodring Lane Newark DE 19702Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 51

NEWS: Structure KitsB.T.S. P O Box 856, Elkins, WV 26241304-637-4510 • www.btsrr.comProduct News & ReviewsSinger Watch Repair (Cabin Creek Series) #17234, MSRP $46.95Mr. Singerwas always busykeeping therailroad watchescleaned andkeeping perfecttime. Watchrepair is alwaysneeded in anytown. This kitconsists of lasercutbasswood,plywood, andcardstock, selfadhesiveshingles,signs, brassdoorknobs, andsmokejack. The siding is clapboard. The tabbed, well-engineeredconstruction provides for easy assembly. The footprintis about 14’ x 27’.Junior’s Shiner (Goin’ Home Series) #17405, MSRP $49.95Down by the tracks is the location for this early mobilehome, fit for any time period from the 1930s to the present.The nickname “shiner” referred to the unpainted aluminumsiding used on many of the early models. This is a laser-cutkit, featuring styrene sides and a wood core. It has been totallyre-engineered for easy assembly. Included are venetian blinds,colorawning,and oiltank. Thefootprint,withoutawning, isscale 29’x 10’.Covered Wood Rick #17800, MSRP $54.95Open Wood Rick #17801, MSRP $34.95A “Rick” is an old agricultural term for a large quantity ofhay or straw, stacked into a rectangular shape for storage andcovered at the top to protect it from weather. It seems likelythat early railroaders, fresh off the farm, looked at the piles ofwood for the locomotives and called them the same thing.These ricks represent the style used during the mid-1800s, andare part of our War Between the States Series. Each kit willbuild two scale 40’ long ricks, or they can be combined intoone of 80’ length. The model features laser-cut wood components,including laser-engraved nail holes, and material isincluded to create the cut firewood.PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT: Structure Kit, P Bragg & Son ProduceMt. Albert Scale Models, 18647 Centre Road, Mt. Albert, ON, L0G 1M0, CANADA905-473-3161 • www.mtalbert.comMt. Albert Scale Models, a subsidiary of Mt. Albert Scale Lumber, hasannounced the first in a series of limited edition craftsman kits in O Scale, 1:48.The kit, P. Bragg & Son Produce, represents a fruit and vegetable distributor(a similar model was produced in HO Scale many years ago by CampbellScale Models.) The new kit was designed by Roger Malinowski, well knownand respected for his line of craftsman kits under the name Stoney CreekDesigns. Roger also provided the laser cutting services for the new kit.P. Bragg & Son Produce features laser-cut sheetwood and plywood,board-by-board construction, full interior, cast resin detail parts (fromSchomberg Scale Models), exterior ‘clutter’ on the loading dock (providedby Hamm River Model Products), unique brass industrial lightfixtures with 1.5V lamps, full-color signs, and four pages of full-sizearchitectural drawings.The kit also features operating double-hung windows, which webelieve to be a first for O Scale craftsman kits. All the basswoodis from Mt. Albert Scale Models. This kit is a limited run of 200 numberedmodels. The retail price is $200.00 US. It is available only directfrom the manufacturer.Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 53

Product News & ReviewsNEWS: Code 100 & 125 Tie Plates, see below for pricing.Smoky Mountain Model Works, 35 Springwood Drive;Asheville, NC 28805-1626828-777-5619 • www.smokymountainmodelworks.comNow shipping: Tie Plates in Code 100 and 125. Either sizefits Micro Engineering’s rail. The Code 125 plates also fit RightO’ Way Code 125 rail. Both sizes are available in packagesof 500 for $11 each and 1000 for $15 each (plus $5 shippingper order for USPS Priority). The parts are cast in a semi-rigidurethane that grips the spike shank as you insert it throughthe tie. There are 100 tie plates per sheet, tinted a light brownto simulate moderate rusting.NEWS: Loads for Weaver Hoppers; MSRP: $8.95 ea.St Charles Model Works, PO Box 27, Claytonville, IL 60926815-457-2453 • www.trainloads.comTrainloads.com, a division of St. Charles Model Works, hasannounced a full line of coal loads for all Weaver hoppers.Trainloads.com offers four different loads per car configurationin fine, medium, large, and mine-run for 2- and 3-bayhoppers. For 4-bay hoppers they offer two fine and twomedium loads.BOOK REVIEWS: Cincinnati on the Go (ISBN 0-7385-3337-8), The Cincinnati Subway (ISBN 0-7385-2314-3)Arcadia Publishingwww.arcadiapublishing.com • 881-313-2665reviewed by: Roger C. ParkerAlthough publishers of railroad books often feature themass transportation networks of larger cities like Chicago andNew York, there are often equally-fascinating stories in thetransportation histories of smaller cities, like Cincinnati, Ohio.Luckily, there are authors like Allen J. Singer, and publisherslike Arcadia Publishing, to serve the needs of readers interestedin the transportation history of America’s “other” cities.Arcadia has published two highly entertaining and informativebooks by Allen Singer about public transportation in Cincinnati:Cincinnati on the Go: A History of Mass Transit, and TheCincinnati Subway: History of Rapid Transit.Cincinnati on the Go describes, in pictures and text, thesurprising variety of ways individuals moved throughout thecity in the days before the proliferation of the automobile.Readers are treated to a visual tour of everyday citizens usingriverboats, cable cars, horsecars, streetcars, railroads, interurbans,and busses between home, work, and entertainment.For example, when level areas of the city became built up,residential growth took place vertically on Cincinnati’s numeroushills. This required a new technology, inclines. Inclineswere used more in Cincinnati than in most other cities.Inclines transported pedestrians, horsecars, and trolleys up thecity’s steep hills. Restaurants, dance pavilions, opera facilities,and bowling alleys were constructed at the top of the inclines,serving citizens looking for higher altitudes, cleaner air, andlower temperatures during the summer evenings.Indeed, Chapter 3, Carriages, Horses, and Inclines, is oneof the highlights of the book, because it contains line drawingsand photographs of several of Cincinnati’s signature inclines,one of Cincinnati’s most visible and unique mass transportation“systems.”Chapter 1, On the Shores ofthe Ohio, is my second favoritechapter, not only because of theriverboat pictures, but because ofthe discussions over what to dowith the Miami-Erie Canal, whoseimportance was supplanted by railroadslate in the nineteenth century.One of the most elaborate was touse the canal bed as the entry to aproposed two-level union stationthat would have rivaled St. Louis’ ifit had been built.What Might Have BeenSinger’s earlier volume, The Cincinnati Subway describesthe birth and death of an urban subway system that was virtuallyready to run, but never operated when it was abandonedseven years after constructionbegan. (This book was reviewedin detail in this publication’sModelers Bookshelf blog/forum.)The story of Cincinnati’s subwayis a story of civic endeavorthat was doomed to failure by aninability to put the public goodabove that of private gain. Likemany other civic transportationstories, the Cincinnati subway wasunderfunded and underminedby short-sighted apathy, glowingpromises about bus transportation,and partisan politics.As a result, the two mile rightof-waywas never operated as a subway, notwithstanding thefact that signage and benches had already been installed inthe stations. Stalled by the war, the subway was deemed obsoletewhen the postwar automobile age ushered in a new, butdisastrous, optimism.Intended MarketBoth Cincinnati on the Go and The Cincinnati Subway illustrateArcadia Publishing’s primary strength, to hire knowledgeablelocal and regional historians to treat topics too specificfor many of today’s colorful “art books,” yet too importantto go unreported. Both books are available for less than $20each, and both contain hundreds of quality photographsshowing what things were like from contemporary points ofview.In doing so, Arcadia Publishing provides modelers withdocumentary evidence of what life was like in a differentcentury. Today’s modelers can see not only the examples ofthe railroads, streetcars, or subway structure featured in eachbook, but also the surrounding streets, buildings, and signagethat form the environment within which the transportationsystems operated.AvailabilityBoth volumes are available at area bookstores, independentretailers, on-line bookstores.54 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

REVIEW: NYC J3a 20th Century Limited Hudson (4-6-4),MSRP $999.95, 2- or 3-Rail.MTH Electric Trains, 7020 Columbia Gateway Dr., ColumbiaMD 21046410-381-2580 • www.mth-railking.comreviewed by: Brian ScaceEven though it isn’t a New England train, the New York Central’s1938 Century is probably my favorite passenger train of alltime. I’ve assembled and painted four of them, over my O Scalelifetime. After a while, I sold each one with the justification thatit doesn’t fit into my scheme of things. Later, I’d get the urge,and do another one. My latest Century will stay, just becauseI’ve finally admitted to myself that this cycle is a little foolish.Anyway, this classic Henry Dreyfuss streamline design wasapplied to ten J3 Hudsons. Before you start writing the “I caughtScace” letters, I’ll add that similar shrouding was retrofit to theoriginal Commodore Vanderbilt J1e Hudson (#5344), and anappropriate version was designed for the Empire State Expressdesign of 1941. Although others will argue passionately aboutbeauty, I’ll still say that the Dreyfuss design was probably themost recognizable steam locomotive treatment of the pre-warStreamline Era of industrial design.For those who care, the original order of Dreyfuss Hudsons,#5445-5454, was broken down into two discrete groups, byvirtue of their running gear. Boxpok drivers and standard solidbearingrods were applied to #5445-5449, while Scullin disctypedrivers and lightweight roller-bearing rods were originallyfeatured on #5450-5454. Sometime after the 1944 explosion of#5450 (crown-sheet failure), the running gear from the remainsof 5450 appeared under 5447, and the Boxpok/solid-bearingrod arrangement from 5447 appeared on the re-built 5450.Otherwise, the rod/wheel sets remained constant through thelifetime of these locomotives.MTH sent us a couple different versions that have recentlycome to market, one with the solid-bearing rod/Boxpok runninggear, and one with the roller-bearing rod/Scullin runninggear. Both have PT tenders. A word about PT tanks is probablycalled for, as they’ll figure in Scace’s Notes for the Neurotic.These huge pedestal tenders (“centipedes”), with their 43-46ton capacity, were designed to reduce the number of coalingstops required of NYC passenger trains. The original PT typeapplied to the Dreyfuss Hudsons, the PT-1, started appearingduring WWII. They were replaced with a second type, the PT-3/4, relatively quickly. The second version had a water scoopingsystem that could be used at some 80 MPH, featuring a largeair-compression chamber visible behind the slope sheet on therear cistern deck and a series of large overflow pipes throughthe tender frame that discharged onto the roadbed. It is this secondversion of the PT tank that MTH has chosen to model.Joe did some running tests, and here are his observations.“Running on unfiltered DC, the engine started at eight voltsand 1.0 amp. Under maximum load on the 3+% test grade, itdrew 12 volts and 1.8 amps. After turning off the smoke unit,the minimum startup voltage was four volts and the currentdropped to 0.6 amps. Slow speed running was not smooth. Performanceunder DC control was average. Running on DCS, theengine drew 0.4 amps (smoke unit set at “minimum”) at idle.Under light load it drew an average of 0.6 amps and at maximumload 0.8 amps. With a setting of 1 smph on the controller,the loco ran at an actual 1.09 smph. Slow speed running wasvery smooth. Performance under DCS control was excellent.One note: the instruction book says the loco with PT tenderhas a minimum radius of 54”. I ran it on 44” with no problems.”And Now, Scace’s Notes for the Neurotic.I broke out some dividers, a dial caliper, and a scale rule.Armed with an NYC Classification book, I went to town on thismodel for two reasons. I’ve a real soft spot for these engines,and something, somewhere, just wasn’t hanging together rightfor me. So, a’hunting we did go.The drivers measured out at 77” rather than 79”. I can livewith that, given the mechanical accommodation needed forO Scale flanges. The overall driver wheelbase is spot on. Thelead truck is about two scale feet too long, no doubt to accommodateHi-rail flanges. Since this is a cross-cultural engine(convertible from 2-rail to 3-rail operation), one has to wonderwhy this is a perceived requirement anymore, since you’re notswapping wheels to switch it back and forth.Overall length of the locomotive, from rear cab-wall to thetip of the pilot, was very close to the correct 54’, so I startedsearching for that extra two feet that the pilot truck introduced.After some searching, I found it in extra boiler length, thoughthe slope of the pilot shrouding was brought down at a sharperangle to make the overall length correct. Very clever.Still, I couldn’t lay my finger on that something that wasupsetting my Neurotic-O-Meter. Then, there it was. Actually,there they were. First off, the cylinders. On a black engine, thisisn’t so obvious. On these, since the caps are shiny silver, it’sobvious. Again probably to clear those historic 3-rail flanges,the cylinders are undersized and the steamchest sits very high.It looks positively tiny. The other issue has to do with the caband firebox sheeting. There isn’t enough angle at the bottomof the sheetmetal over the firebox, not enough “up-swoop”(It’s an industry term.) to the rear. Although this treatmentreduces the “air” resulting from moving the trailing truck a littleSept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 55

Product News & Reviews(more flange-clearance history, perchance?), this gives a tailheavyappearance to the engine, hence my “It doesn’t quitehang together” impression. Also, the cab walls are adjusted toaccommodate, deepening the windows (which, by the way,should be three-panel, not two). Such is the risk of modeling alandmark piece of design history. “Feel” can be lost very quickly,since visual balance was a hallmark of Streamline-Era design.Paint and LetteringThe original striping and lettering on the ‘38 Century wasdone in Dupont Duco Flat Aluminum and Onyx Blue. Twothings happened with this paint with the daily washing of bothlocomotives and cars. The Flat Aluminum faded to a chalkyalmost-white, giving rise to the long history of models of NYCpassenger equipment lettered and striped in white (which reallyisn’t a bad approximation, by the way). The other issue was thatthe Onyx Blue peeled off in great big chunks. While the FlatAluminum remained as the standard lettering and striping colorthroughout the various developments of NYC gray passengerequipment until the merger, the Onyx Blue had to go. A newcenter striping arrangement was made standard in 1939 withthinner stripes, all in Flat Aluminum.The MTH PT tank is striped in white. While I could probablylet that one go with just a little comment, the striping arrangementis certainly atypical, if not incorrect. The center stripeswere very thin on the prototype, about half the thickness ofthe two outside stripes. Otherwise, the paint is very nicely andevenly applied throughout.The PT TankIf you’re neurotic about details and reading this section,then you’ll probably want to deal a blow to the details on thetank. The grabs, ladders, and railings are a bit heavy for mytastes. There are these lovely air lines and pipes for the ATSsystem that delicately flow along the lower edge of the tank,supported by these huge pipe supports that I also found abit disconcerting. Take off the piping, thin down the teeth ormake some new brass piping supports, and (while opportunitypresents itself) redo the piping following a photo or two toarrange it correctly. Toss an ATS shoe on the truck, and a boxon the tender deck.While the piping supports are huge, the little tiny bumps thatrepresent the overflow pipes are fodder for the grinder as well.Knock ‘em off and replace them with some overflows madefrom brass tubing or styrene. A styrene or sheet brass splashshieldin the rear and a steam line coupling will help bring thetender up, as well.Shrouding on the Locomotive, vs. ChronologyVery soon after entering service in 1938, it was discoveredthat there wasn’t enough airflow around the pilot-mounted aircompressors, which were almost totally encapsulated by thepilot shrouding. The shrouding was trimmed back from thesides of the pilot to prevent the compressors from overheating.That change isn’t reflected in the model, making the locomotiveinappropriate for any later configurations beyond “as-built”.Also, by the time that the PT4 tanks were applied, the sheetmetal over the power-reverse and air tanks had been bobbedback, and the shrouding sheets over the ashpans had beenremoved. These sheets were hinged to be swung up and clearwhen the ashpans were being cleaned. Being an impedimentto quick servicing, they were removed during the course ofWWII and were gone by the time the PT-4 appeared. I couldhave gone with the original firebox shrouds on a PT-1 equippedHudson, however.I suspect that MTH chose not to change the basic casting ofthe locomotive to keep costs down, however they would havebeen better served, fidelity-wise, to have stuck with the originaltank or a PT-1. Also, they would have been better served toconfigure the dies originally to the second pilot-shroud arrangement,making the locomotive appropriate to everything fromthe original tank/blue stripe configuration through the PT-1/silverstripe configuration.56 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

REVIEW: X29 Boxcar, MSRP $64.95 (2-Rail) or $59.95 (3-Rail).Middle Division, PO Box 332, New Cumberland, PA 17070717-975-2698 • www.middledivision.comAtlas-O, 378 Florence Avenue, Hillside, NJ 07205www.atlaso.comreviewed by: Brian ScaceAtlas O and Middle Division have brought their secondcollaboration to market, this time the ubiquitous PRR X29 boxcar.I won’t get into the history of the Pennsylvania Railroad’sattempts to come up with an acceptable ARA (later the AAR)standard boxcar, but certainly the X29 was an icon of thesteam-era PRR. Not only should this car be represented onPennsy turf, but on every steam-era model railroad built witheven just a smattering of neurosis. There was just too many ofthe things to ignore.There have been several models of the X29 made over theyears, and I’ll just mention two of them for our purposes. Bothare brass renditions, the more common Precision Scale modelfrom the 1980s, and the much scarcer model made by SteveGrabowski. The Grabowski car was, hands down, the bettermodel, but uncommon enough so that the only fair comparisonhere is probably with the PSC X29.The Atlas/Middle Division car is very impressive. One of thegreat visual jars of the PSC model has been dealt with, here.The roofwalk needed lowering on every PSC X29 that passedthrough my hands, and it was a painful process (though worthdoing). The roofwalk on this new X29 is so much better.Everything else on the Atlas/Middle division car is as nicelydone. There is one thing that raises aquestion, for this neurotic (albeit non-PRR) modeler. Now, before I go on,this feature may be correct at sometime period or with some group ofthese cars. However, one characteristicthat shows in PRR drawings I haveon hand, and bear up in any photo Ihave of the brake-end of the car, is therouting of the retainer line. The Atlas/Middle Division car I have has the lineREVIEW: Display Cases, 48” long $250, 60” long $425Greenway Products, 139 Ramsey Road, Ligonier, PA 15658724-238-6268 • www.greenwayproducts.comreviewed by: Brian ScaceOne of the things I like to do is to show things that folksmay find useful, outside of the normal rolling stock/locomotive/kitregime. Here are some nice cases that might interestfolks who have too muchstuff for the railroad (No!),nifty pieces they wantto show off that may notreally fit in the scheme ofthings, or are (horrors!)just plain collectors.So many of the wallcases out there are justplain too flimsy for ourindustrial strength (andweight) loot. Some comewith a fit and finish thatcould only come straightout of a bad day at HighSchool woodshop.Now, these cases haverunning straight down to the left side of the draftgear box. Thedrawings, photos (and my hard-sought Grabowski X29) havethe line cutting diagonally across the car end to the right sideof the draftgear box. It’s one of those spotting features that I(knowing only enough about PRR stuff to be dangerous) pickout right away. Again, knowing enough to be dangerous, Ialso know that there were many many varieties of this car, so Icould be lamenting something that, although perhaps atypical,may well be correct. Myself, I’ll just take a little brass wire andre-route the retainer line where I like it, and touch it up with alittle freight car color.Arise Rejoicing, Ye Oppressed! Atlas has redesigned thetwo-rail truck! The new truck is a full six scale inches narrowerat the journal boxes. It looks soooo much better, and the sideframedetail is much nicer, by quick comparison to an Atlas ONew England Alcohol (Now, why did my hand just naturallygravitate to that particular car?) tank car. It’s nice to see commentstaken seriously and acted upon. Thank you.Also new on the O Scale plastic car front, the variousroadnames have different details reflecting the individual prototypes.The PRR car, in the photo, for example, has a stemwinderbrake staff and push-type cut levers, while the SAL carhas a power-winder geared brakewheel and lifting-style cutlevers.This is a nice rendition of a ubiquitous car. I hope the newstyletrucks will be available for separate sale, and I hope Atlas(and Middle Division, on the Pennsy stuff) will continue withthe detailed-for-specific-road concept in future offerings.solid oak frames with plywood backs rabbeted into the frame,rather than stapled in behind. The shelves are screwed into thebacks, for added strength. The backs are white on the insideso you can see your stuff. All the frame joints are dovetailedand pinned. When you screw these puppies up on the wall,there’s no worries that the backs will stay up, while the frames,shelves, doors, and contents come crashing to the floor. Lookat the photo. Figure ten pounds apiece for what I have in there.Do the math. These will hold up.The stock sizes are 48” long and 60” long. Each has fiveshelves and 4-1/2” clear shelf width. I asked for a pair of 42”long versions, to fit the space in the photo, and Greenway washappy to oblige. The fit and finish is nice, doors are temperedglass with ground edges, wood tracks, and the shelves aregrooved for O Scale wheels. No plastic, no cardboard, and nostaples here. I’m pleased with mine; they look nice and theyare stout enoughso I can sleepat night withoutwondering whenthe crashingsound will come.Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 57

Above: The John Deere dealership was scratchbuilt by Bernard Steinbacher.Below: Shaker Heights Rapid Transit #8 was built by Jan K. Lorenzen.58 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

Above: Another scratchbuilt structure by Bernard Steinbacher.Below: The C&L barge by Richard Baron was voted Best of Show by the convention attendeesand it also took First Place in the Structures category.Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 59

Above: This freelance line car was built by Martin Brechbiel and took Third Place in the Traction category.Below: Ed Bommer won many awards in several categories. His B&O transfer caboose C721 won First Placein the Caboose category.60 • O Scale Trains -- Sept/Oct ’06

Above: This Delaware, Lackawanna & Western 4-8-2 was scratchbuilt by Frank Miller and is owned by Tom Shore. It won ThirdPlace in the Steam category.Middle: Joe Foehrkolb built this B&O E27 from an old set of sand castings. It won Second Place in the Steam category.Below: This CNJ Baldwin “Babyface” was scratchbuilt by Paul Yanosik. Paul uses what most people would consider “junk”plastic parts to build his models. This one started as 4-inch PVC pipe. Paul won First Place with this model and Second Placewith an EL C424 in the Diesel category.Sept/Oct ’06- - O Scale Trains • 61

Above: Another Ed Bommer model. This Staten Island Rapid Transit #29 won Ed First Place in the Steam category. The locostarted life as a Locomotive Workshop “Economy” 0-6-0 kit.Middle: This flat car with machine loads was built by Richard Baron.Below: Each car in this seven-car work train was scratchbuilt board-by-board by Martin Brechbiel.It won First Place in the MoW category62 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

Above: Atlas O set up a nice display showing off their new Gunderson stack cars.Below: A scene from the Central Jersey “O” Scalers' modular layout.Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 63

Above: Another scene on the Central Jersey “O” Scalers' modular layoutBelow: One end of the East Penn Traction Group’s modular layout.64 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

Above: This is the middle section of the East Penn Traction Group’s modular layout.Below: The other end of the East Penn Traction Group’s modular layout.Sept/Oct ’06 - O Scale Trains • 65

Above & Below: O Scaler John Dunn of New Jersey built this small layout (about 2' x 6') . Who says you can’t do O Scale in asmall space?66 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06

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Buy–Sell–Trade EventsBuy-Sell-Trade ads are $5 for 30 words plus your address information. Additional words are $0.25 each. Subscribers are permitted one free ad per subscriptioncycle. All B-S-T ads are prepaid. You may send ads by postal service with a check or money order. Ads sent by email or called in must use a creditcard. See our contact info on page 2.FOR SALE: Sunset C&O 2-10-4, new in box; Sunset UP earlyChallenger, coal version, new in box. Call 410-488-4259 between 6 and9 pm Eastern time.WANTED: Joe Fischer cars. American Standard hvywt baggage andPullmans. PSC 10 sect. Pullmans w/AC. Mail only, please. Jim Seacrest,PO Box 6397, Lincoln, NE 68506-0397WANTED: Lobaugh WWII era. Westbrook boxcars only. Oriental Ltd/AN CB&Q waycars, 3 or 4 window RTR. Mail only, please. Jim Seacrest,PO Box 6397, Lincoln, NE 68506-0397WANTED: PSC PRR X29 boxcar #15467 and similar #15453, Pac Ltd 32ARA boxcar #5000A, CN cabooses, Crown B&M ob boxcar, Reynolds(Athearn) 50’ PRR and NKP 50’ boxcars. Mail only, please. Jim Seacrest,PO Box 6397, Lincoln, NE 68506-0397INTERMOUNTAIN, Key, Keystone, Max Gray, NJ Custom Brass,Overland, Pacific Limited, PRB, Precision Scale, Sunset, US Hobbies...now stocking Intermountain HO. The BrassRoundhouse.com. Phone:727-391-3135. John Clemens, 5273 97 Way N, St. Petersburg, FL33708-3752FREE O SCALE LIST: List of O Scale shows for 2006. Send LSSAE to BobRetallack, Dept OST06, 2224 Adner Ct, Columbus, OH 43220.WANTED: Central Loco Works C&O T1 2-10-4 kit in any condition. CallSeptember 20069: Merchantville, New JerseyCherry Valley Model RR Club is hosting their Fall Train Meet at GraceEpiscopal Church, Maple Ave & Center St, Merchantville, NJ, on Saturday,Sept. 9 from 9:30 am to 1:00 pm. The Cherry Valley model railroadwill be open during the meet for visitors. Admission is $5.00, childrenunder 12 are free. Tables; $16 for first table (incl. 1 admission), 2 or moretables $12 ea. Helpers; $4 ea. For more info contact: CVMRRC, PO Box192 Maple Shade, NJ 08052 or send email to Chris Crane [p2c.crane@verizon.net] or Harry Heike [harrys_trains@comcast.net].16-17: Dothan, AlabamaWiregrass Annual Model RR Show and Sale at the National Peanut FestivalFairgrounds, US 231 S, Dothan, AL. Admission: $5 adults, childrenunder 12 are free. Open from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Saturday and from10:00 am to 4:00 pm on Sunday. Contact Danny Lewis, 491 Ashley Circle,Dothan, AL 36305, PH: 334-792-0728. Sponsored by the WiregrassHeritage Chapter of the National Railway Historical Society. Contact[dannylws@yahoo.com].22-23: Indianapolis, IndianaIndianapolis O Scale Fall Meet: two-day O Scale swap meet with over250 tables in one large hall. New and collectible 2-Rail trains and productsavailable. Also includes model contest and display layouts. Registrationby August 15 gets custom name tag. Dealer tables $40 by 8/15/05,$45 after that date. Admission $15 per person, good for both days. ContactJim Canter for more information: 1203 Rotherham Ln, Beech Grove,IN 46107, 317-782-3322 or [jcanternkp@sbcglobal.net].October 20067: Stamford, ConnecticutStamford Model RR O Scale Swap Meet and Open House: 9:00 am to2:00 pm Saturday Oct 7, 2006. General Admission $5.00; under 12 freewith adult. 150’ x 50’ O Scale 2-Rail layout with trolley line opens forviewing at 10:30 am. Located at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Main andGrove Sts, Stamford Ct. Exit 8 on the CT Tpke (I-495). General info, contactJim Mardiguian 718 347 3159, [dlwh2466@hotmail.com]. Dealerinquiries: Mike Crandall 718 829 8959, [mulinerix@yahoo.com] Tables$16.00.68 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06or write. Ph: 540-672-5270, Charles H Berterman, 18241 Beech Tree Dr,Orange, VA 22960-2767WANTED: Wisconsin Dells MINIRAMA items and information includingslides and old home movies of the operation. Contact Jeff Haertlein, POBox 328, North Freedom WI 53951. Phone 608-522-3326 between 3PM- 7PM Central time.VAN BUREN, ARKANSAS. Area’s neatest hobby store from Z to O, newand used. Visit Dave’s Hobby Shop at 600 Main St in the AnhauserBusch Building or online at [www.daveswebshop.com], 479-471-0750.FOR SALE: Atlas plastic F-7s and Plymouths from the 1970s (2-Rail,12 VDC). Send stamped envelope for list. Less than $100 each. HerbCearley, 6751 E 9th St, Long Beach, CA 90815-5001INTERMOUTAIN built-up box cars, reefers, gondolas, hoppers, tankers...$39. Keystone, Max Gray, NJ Brass, Overland, Pacific Limited, PrecisionScale, SASE. The Brassroundhouse.com. Now stocking HO. Phone: 727-391-3135 John Clemens, 5273 97 Way N, St. Petersburg, FL 33708-3752FOR SALE: Special Shapes inventory: Angles, Zees, Tees, Hex, C-channel, Square-channel, Square bars, I-beams, H-columns, flat stripstock. 30% discount. Email [peabody@core.com] or SASE for a completelist. Rick Kolenc, 7468 Princeton Ct, Mentor, OH 44060-52327-8: Oklahoma City, OklahomaSouthwest O Scale & Oklahoma Narrow Gauge Combined Meet atthe Oklahoma Christian University, 2501 E Memorial Rd, OKC, OK73013. Room reservations at the Sleep Inn, 3608 S Broadway Extension,Edmond OK, 405-844-3000. Admission $15 (includes spouse and children).Tables are $10 each for the first two and $5 each after that. Contact:George Wallace, 405-818-2277 or [thudchief1@sbcglobal.net]. Visitthe website [www.okng.org].14: Gardner, MassachusettsSouthern New England Model RR Club’s O Scale Train Show on Saturdayat the United Methodist Church, 161 Chestnut St., Gardner, MA from9:30 am to 4:00 pm. White Elephant table, sales & exhibits, operatinglayout, model display area, door prizes, food on site. 6 ft. vendor tables$15 before Labor Day, $20 after, 8 ft. vendor tables $20 before LaborDay, $25 after, setup 6:30 to 9:30 am. Admission: $5.00, $8.00 familymax. Contact: Larry Grant, (508) 337-6661 Contact [BigBrotherLar@netzero.net].28: Orlando, FloridaFlorida O Scalers Fall 2-Rail Meet. O Scalers Unite! We have arrangedto have the 7th annual 2-Rail, O-Scale meet Saturday October 28th inOrlando, FL, at the Airport Holiday Inn. Hotel registration is $99 pernight, but you must inform the hotel that you are with the Florida OScalers. Please ask for the “FOS” Code when making your reservation.Registration can be made by calling 800-206-2747. The hotel is locatedat 5750 T.G. Lee Blvd which is just off SR-436 (Semoran Blvd) and theBeach Line Expressway (SR-528). Contact [ROscaler@bellsouth.net].November 20064: Kirtland, Ohio2-Rail Train Meet of the Western Reserve. Dedicated to the memory ofGil Stovicek. Two-Rail only meet (no tinplate, Hi-Rail or other scalesallowed). Admission $5, under 12 free. Show hours from 9:30 AM to2:30 PM. Six foot vendor tables are $35. Vendor entry Friday 1:00 PMand Saturday 7:00 AM. 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Lost & FoundWe returned from the O Scale National to find a surprise onour doorstep—boxes of old O Scale Trains Magazine. It seemsour original printer moved into new digs and in the processfound some “overs” of early issues of OST, back to Vol. 1, No. 1.So, here’s the scoop. You can ONLY order these by mail. Wewill not sell these over the net, nor by phone. You can ONLYpay by cash, check or money order; no credit cards accepted.Shipping is by Priority Mail and the prices listed below includethe postage. All issues are in mint condition.• Volume 1 includes Issues 1 through 5 and sells for $50.• Volume 2 includes Issues 6 through 11 and sells for $55.• Volume 3 includes Issues 12 through 17 and sells for $55.We have maybe 15 sets of Volume 1 and maybe 20 sets ofVolumes 2 and 3, so don’t wait to order. It’s first come; firstserved. If we can’t fill your order, your money will be returned.I’d say these will be sold out by the end of September. If you arereading this after September 30th, don’t bother.Report on the 2006 O Scale NationalWe had a great time at the National and I’d like to thankeveryone who stopped by to say hello. I’d also like to offerkudos to the gentlemen and ladies of the New York Society ofModel Engineers for putting on a great convention. There wasalmost too much to do. If you weren’t interested in the tradinghall, there were 32 clinics and myriad tours, not to mention thehome layout visits.Convention Chairman Bob Lavezzi said there were over 700attendees, plus more than 100 dealers and manufacturers manningover 300 tables.There were modular layouts from the Central Jersey “O”Scalers and the East Penn Traction Group. Both were runningcontinuously during the convention.Even the Saturday night banquet was great. No “rubberchicken” here. After dinner the newest inductees to the OScale Hall of Fame were announced. Entering this year are:Mort Mann of Sunset/3rd Rail; Bob Wagner, a former NYSMEmember; and John Smith of Pecos River Brass. Also attendingthe convention was Vince and Edith Waterman’s daughter, whostopped by to thank us for the coverage of Vince’s obituary.Mort Mann was also inducted into the NYSME as an honorarymember. Mort had been a junior member but moved out ofthe area early on.Over 65 models were entered in the contest categories. Youcan see a selection of the models starting on page 58 in thisissue.The 2007 convention will be hosted by Jim Canter and OScale Trains Magazine in Indianapolis. The dates are September20th to September 22, 2007. The main hotel is the IndianapolisMarriott East, 7202 East 21st St, 317-322-3716. Register earlywith Jim by calling 317-782-3322 or email him at [jcanternkp@sbcglobal.net]. I’m setting up a website at [www.2k7OScaleNat.com] where you will be able to download a registration formand find other info as we get closer to the convention.70 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’06The 2008 convention will be hosted by the Southern NewEngland Model RR club in Worcester, Mass.The 2009 convention will be held in Baltimore, MD, andthat’s all the info I have on that at this time.I’ve also heard rumblings that 2010 could be in Detroit, MI,or possibly Milwaukee, WI. We will keep you posted on thesefuture developments.I saw some neat stuff at the convention, too. Bill Wade ofBTS was showing a prototype of his new Wabash 2-6-2 kit. Thekit uses a Babbit chassis with urethane castings for the superstructureand lost wax brass details. While I’m not a big fan ofPrairies, it was an extremely nice model and well-made. Billsays that several of these 2-6-2s were made into Pacifics, sothat’s another possible kit in the future.By the time you read this Atlas O should have announcedtheir first steam engine. If you saw the back of their early 2006catalog, you saw what might have been a steam loco headlightglowing way back in a tunnel. The latest catalog unequivocallyshows the smokebox front and pilot of a steam engine in thetunnel. My spies tell me the locomotive is a switcher, possiblyan 0-6-0. We’ll see if my sources were correct.Last issue I mentioned the NMRA had reached out to partof the O Scale community suggesting that the O Scale NationalConvention might be combined with the NMRA National. Well,that’s pretty much a dead issue now. With 2009 slotted for Baltimoreand at least two more groups in the wings for 2010 and2011, the general consensus among the convention attendeeswas that there is no pressing need to combine with the NMRAconvention. Most felt O Scale would get short shrift.One thing I did suggest to the O Scale Kings was that theybecome the repository for post-convention “lessons learned”documentation. This way, a group which would like to sponsoran O Scale National would have a known source of priorinformation. I also suggested a Convention Advisory Committeebe formed with the last three convention chairmen available tooffer advice to any group taking on the National.Coming Soon!Some of you have commented that we haven’t had a layoutin an issue for a while now. I can tell you we will have layouts toshow you for the next several issues, which will include NormCharbonneau’s unbelievable 3-Rail layout in the Nov/Dec issue,Warner Clark’s Proto48 layout, Andy Romano’s Ironbound RR,and many more. For you structure people, we’ll have articles onkitbashing a feed mill if you're not up to scratching one, buildinga saw mill, a gas station, a turntable and more. Jaini and I areworking on an article about making long stretches of stone wall.Well, I’m beat. We held back finishing this issue so we couldbring you coverage of the national and it’s time to close this up.Keep Highballin’u

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