Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 1982-04
Articles Listing

Steam Locomotive Servicing

This small article briefly describes the various things that go on in a yard to service a steam engine, and how we could model those in our layouts.

Kitbashing Pennsy Cabin Cars

The author describes how he converted a Tyco PRR cabin car into a better representation of a PRR N8 cabin car, and a MDC center-cupola caboose into a PRR N5c. Includes prototype photos of these cars in both PRR, PC, and Conrail livery. Also included are detailed drawings, and scaled drawings (N8 only).