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Magazine Articles By George Sebastian-Coleman

A Porter's Step Stool for the Layout

Building a classic passenger car porter's step stool that is used during layout construction or for when smaller visitors want to see the layout.

ACF Center Flow

Prototype photos. Scale model drawings.

Auto-Max Bigger is Better

To be able to efficiently move both sedan as well as SUV automobiles, the Gunderson company designed and built the tri-level, secure automobile transport cars. It has adjustable loading racks. The article includes prototype photos and scale drawings.

Benchwork

This article briefly introduces a couple of different ways that benchwork can be constructed. It describes the open grid and L-girder methods, and also covers how to build legs.

Canadian Pacific Dynamometer Car

Prototype photos, scale drawings.

Franklin!

George Selios has made it to the town of Franklin on his layout. Includes lots of great photos and a full trackplan of the layout to-date. George has switched to DCC and sound.

General Electric's New AC6000CW

Describes the locomotive and how it differs from the AC4400. Includes many prototype photos and scale drawings. Also includes a brief paragraph on how to model these in HO.

Narrow Gauge in a Garage Part 1

This first installment discusses the how and why of building an O-scale layout in a garage shared with the family car. Layout photos, trackplan, and sidebars are includes. One sidebar is about On3 v.s On2-1/2, and another is on converting a Bachmann 2-6-0 to On3. There are several more on On3 trucks, and adding DCC to an On2-1/2 Porter.

Narrow Gauge in a Garage Part 2

This installment covers building benchwork, with specific focus on the tight constraints and sloping floor of a garage. It also covers backdrop construction, and building storage shelves upon which the layout rests.

Narrow Gauge in a Garage Part 3

This installment covers installing DCC, installing roadbed on the new layout, and installing Tortoise switch motors using the NCE decoders.

Northstar '99 Model Contest

Includes photos of the contest winners, including Tom Lennon's model of a converted American Flyer 0-8-0 to a scale Northern Pacific model that won the Steam Locomotive contest.

Pennsylvania RR 10-6 Sleeping Car

This article describes the riveted lightweight cars built by American Car & Foundry for the PRR. They were also seen in blue, silver, and gray of the Missouri Pacific's Eagles, and in both the two-tone gray Overland scheme and the yellow-and-gray City colors of the Union Pacific. Includes prototype photos, scaled drawings of the outside, interior, and underbody details. Hints for how to model them in N-, HO-, and O-scale are also provided.

Plastic Kit Basics

The basics of how to build a plastic kit

Presenting the Winners of the 1999 Readers' Choice Awards

Shows each of the new-for-1999 products that received the most votes.

Sn3 Rio Grande Southern C-17 2-8-0

The author reviews the Railmaster Exports of New Zealand's narrow gauge engine, which is a mostly white-metal kit. Additional resources are highly recommended as the kit's instructions are spartan. A ready-to-run model was also available.

Sn3, HOn2½, Nn3: Breaking the Code

Definitions of narrow gauge railroading.

Using Rock Molds

The author describes how he built the walls of a rock quarry by using real rock of which he made the molds.