Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 1990-05
Articles Listing

Modeling a Sanding Facility

The author describes how he built this modern-day version of a sanding facility that includes a building that is no longer used (implying history). Includes scale drawings, materials list, and prototype and model photos.

The Mississippi River & Bonne Terre

This railroad was created in 1888 by the St. Joseph Lead Co. to transport lead from the world's greatest lead mine. Includes historical photos, area map, and a proposed design to model this railroad in HO in a 15 by 24 foot space.

The Modern South Penn

This 12 by 24-foot layout models portions of what might have been the future version of a the South Penn RR (which was never completed). This line ran between Harrisburg and Pittsburg, PA. The author's version assumes the line was built and later became part of Conrail via all the of PRR mergers. Includes trackplan, layout photos, area map, and schematic trackplan.

Illinois Central Green Diamond

The Green Diamond was a lightweight articulated train that ran from May 1936 to 1947 between Chicago and St. Louis. Includes prototype photos and scale diagrams of the locomotive and cars.

The N Scale Burlington Northern Part 4

Laying track and building hills. Includes the track wiring diagram, how to lay track and deal with easements, preparing turnouts, and creating bridges

Symposium on Electronics

This installment covers building repeater relays for throwing many points in complex tracks like double crossovers with one switch, creating a Mars light flasher, using the random-sequence generator from the February issue of this magazine to drive circuits for a telegraph sound module, a realistic flickering fire module, diesel sound, creating random on/off lights for residential homes, and traffic light synchronization.

Canton RR State-flag Switcher in HO Scale

The author painted a SW1500 in the livery that uses the state flag.