Peter's Model Railroading | My Library | Model Railroader 2002-08
Articles Listing

Trackside Photos

Degulbeef & Cradding RR's two-truck Shay backs out of her shed before trundling off to work at Port Cradding Harbor. Alexander Zelkin of Le Mans, France, took this photo on his Sn3 diorama.

Easy Decal Alignment Jig

An easy-to-make jig that helps accurately align decals, especially individual letters and striping. The secret is in the parallel lines scribed onto a Plexiglass panel.

Realistic Weathering for Steam Locomotives

Here's how to weather your plastic steamers to look like the real thing. Includes information on how prototype engines weather.

And the Winners Are...

The 2001 Readers' Choice Awards includes S-scale's American Models' Budd streamlined passenger car set, and S-Helper Service's A and B set of EMD Phase II F3s.

Petroleum Terminals

Prototype description and photos. Modeling suggestions.

Autumn Treetops

How to make trees with a focus on the Fall season.

Santa Fe All the Way

Diaphragms on passenger cars. Free-lanced, 1940-1960.

A Building for a Century

An unusual article about how to move a building through 100 years of use and disuse, and how to model that.

Build a Baby Opera Window Center-Beam Flatcar

For transporting lumber.

16 Cool Tools

Description of 16 tools needed to do scratchbuilding.

The Donald Clerke Memorial Bridge

Retrieving and restoring a bridge from a friend's layout.

Decoding Decoders

What do the various wires on a decoder mean?

Decaling

The basics on applying decals.