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Boxed Benchwork

Building a light-weight plywood shadow-box style modular layout for easy transportation.

Enhancing Maine Two-foot Trucks in On2/On30

How to add brake beams to the trucks to make them prototypically accurate.

Growing Tall Grass and Weeds

After preparing the layout's surface, the author uses real hair as the basis for his tall grasses and weeds. Step-by-step photos accompany the text describing how he models them.

Introducing the Allagash Cartel

A group of model railroaders built a 2-foot-gauge layout in O-scale.

Kitbashing Tank Car 22

The author scratchbuilts a flat car, which is then converted to a tank car using two AHM HO-scale tank cars. Includes a materials list and model construction photos.

Modeling a Water Crane

A simple project of a watering crane used on the two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes in Kingsfield, Maine. Period prototype photos are included, as well as scale drawings, and completed model photos.

Scratchbuilding a Quarry Turntable

The author's friend, Chris Abbott (the article includes a sidebar by Chris about the mechanism) designed and built the turntable mechanism, while the author built the two-foot gauge turntable based on the Bridgton & Saco River Railroad, found in Bridgton, Maine. Includes prototype and completed-model photos, as well as construction photos.