Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 1989-02
Articles Listing

Modeling Tenements

Tenement housing provides opportunities for detailing. The article includes scale drawings, construction details, close-up photos, and a side-bar on how to make clothing.

Adding Overhead Wire to Our Traction Layout

Provides a lot of detail about how to do overhead traction wiring, including the nomenclature. Includes prototype, detail, and model photos.

Northern Pacific RS-3 no. 852

The author converts an undecorated Atlas RS-3 into a model of this locomotive. Article includes prototype photos and model details.

The White Pass & Yakima RR

Hobby shop owners helped start this modular club layout. They own the four corner modules, while other members are free to create straight modules. Includes overhead photos and close-ups of some of the modules.

Milwaukee Electric's Snow Sweepers

Prototype photos and scale drawings. Includes notes of the author's model.

Modeling Southern Pacific's GP38-2

The author started with an Athearn GP38-2 model and super-detailed it. Includes detailing diagram and model photos.

Build an Authentic Diesel Horn for Your Layout

The kit of all the parts were available (at the time of the article) from CVP Products (the author's company). The article describes how to build this professional-looking, programmable diesel horn.

Don Phillips' Large Scale Diesels

A small business, Backyard Rails, builds large-scale locomotives. Photos of their operation and their workmanship are shown in the article.

The Kanawha Valley RR

Building a small West Virginia-based layout for the son of a friend.

Märklin's Train-ing

Using easy-to-set-up sectional layouts to teach children about digital command control and using computers.

Repowering Atlas N Scale Diesels

The author replaced the factory motor with a Sagami motor to reduce its top speed, and added weights to increase its pulling power.

Rio Grande Modernized Waycar

Rather than scratchbuilding models, we can modify existing models to more closely resemble the prototype, and then repaint them.

Symposium on Electronics

This installment covers a reverse polarity detector, which can be used to indicate reverse polarity situations in a blocked layout, or to drive scale signals.