Alaska Railroad and Canadian RRs

2007

 

Fall                                 A Pictorial Essay - The Rocky Mountaineer - Vancouver to Jasper, Canada   

 

 

 

2008

 

July/August                 Photo Gallery - The Alaska Railroad

 

July/August                 The Alaska Railroad - Maintenance of Way Equipment               

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ask Doctor Dick – The Scenery Doctor

 

 

2003

 

February                    Gravel Industrial Parking Lot                                                                 

 

April                            Scale Fall Leaves

 

June                            Plaster for Rock Castings

 

October                      Spices on Your Layout

 

November                  Backdrop Painting

 

December                  Basic Scenery Steps

 

 

2004

 

January                      Rock Tunnel Liners

 

February                    Scenery Under Trestle Bents

 

March                         Conifer Trees - Realistic Scratch Built

 

April                             Peppergrass Trees – Making Deciduous Model Trees

 

May                              Furnace Filter Conifer Trees

 

June                            Commercial Pine Trees – Four Easy Improvement Ideas

 

July                              Rivers  - Construction and Use of EnviroTex Lite

 

August                        Forest in a Flash Scale Trees

 

September                 Rock Casting - Making a 10” x 87” Large  Plaster Casting          

 

October                      Rock Casting - Filling the Space Between Castings

 

November                  Wood Retaining Wall

 

December                  Layout and Scenery  - Minimizing the Expenditure

 

 

 

2005

 

January                      Photography for Your Model Railroad

 

February                    Scenery Suppliers

 

March                         Wet N-Shape Cotton Craft Cloth and USG Hydrocal Plaster

 

April                            Model Railroad  - Basic Steps

 

May                             City Scape – Basic Steps

 

June                           Gluing Ground Foam to Tree Branches

 

August                       Tools – Doctor Dick’s Favorite Modeling Tools

                                                              

September                EnviroTex Lite – Application and Advice
 

October                      Layout Improvement Ideas

 

 

 

2006

 

January                      Plaster – Mix Ratios

 

February                    Gauge Vs. Scale

 

March                         Tortoise Turnout Control

 

August                        Painting Plastic Parts

 

September                 Sawmill Complex – Planning a Mill and Log Pond

 

           

                                   

2007

 

Fall                              How to Mount Photographic Prints on Foamboard

 

 

 

 

2008

 

 

Jan./Feb.                    More on Mounting Prints on Foamboard 

 

May/June                   Sawmill Flow of Materials

 

 

 

2009

 

 Sept./Oct.                  Modeling Miniature Lanterns

 

 

 

 

 

Bath and Hammondsport Railroad

 

 

2004

 

January                      Color Post Card Depicts the B & H RR Depot at Keuka Lake, NY   

 

May                              Part  1 – The Overall Plan

 

June                            Part  2 – The Structures:

                                                                                   Lyon Brothers Grape Packing House

                                                                                   Ice House

                                                                                   Shed

                                                                                   Freight Depot

                                                                                   Passenger Depot

                                                                                   Wharf Shed

                                                                                   Band Stand

                                                                                   Boat House

                                                                                   Engine House

 

 

July                              Part  3 – The Trestle

 

August                        Part  4 – The Vineyards

 

September                 Part  5 – The Wiring

 

 

 

2005

 

April                            Part  6 – Boathouse Dock and Floor

 

May                             Part  7 – Fishing Shack and Dock

 

June                            Part  8 – Passenger Depot

 

 

 

2007

 

February                    Photos: Original Passenger Depot,  2nd B & H Engine House, Original Power House

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ben Brown Articles

 

2006

 

May                                 Photo Gallery - The Steamboat Mary Ellen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Betty James Articles

2005

 

February                         All Aboard - The Pullman Connection

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Brown Articles

 

2006

 

January              Photo Gallery - The LARC - Model Railroad of Bill Brown    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bill Carr Articles

 

2005

 

August                             Modeling an Interlocking Panel - Part I

 

September                      Modeling an Interlocking Panel - Part II

 

 

2006

 

April                                  Modeling an Interlocking Panel - Part III

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Barker Articles

 

2007

 

Summer                         Editorial - Oil Fields of Pennsylvania; Oil Well Eccentrics                        

 

 

 

2008  

 

March/April                   Chemung Depot

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Estes Articles

2006

 

March                              Modeling an Icicle Breaker Railcar

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Hogarth Articles

2005

 

March                                Scenes form the B & H RR model railroad of Bob Hogarth

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bob Lennox Articles

 

 

2005

 

December                    Rare Earth Uncoupling

 

 

2008

 

Sept. /Oct.                    Constructing a Wedge Building

               

 

 

 

 

 

Building a Large 1:87 Scale Sawmill

and Log Pond Complex

 

 

2006

 

September                 Bibliography - Eastern and Western Logging   

 

September                 Part 1 -  Planning a Sawmill and Log Pond

 

December                  Part  2  -  The Benchwork

 

 

 

2007

 

January                      Part  3  - Tools and Techniques

 

Summer                      Part  4  - The Dynamite Shed

 

Summer                     The 2007 Bark Peelers' Convention - Pennsylvania Lumber Museum - Sawmill

 

Fall                               Part  5  - The Boat House

 

 

 

 

2008

 

Jan./Feb.                     Part 6 - The Slab Bin

 

March/April                 Part 7 - The Sawdust Conveyor

 

May/June                    Part 8 - The Circular Saw

 

May/June                    Sawmill Flow of Materials (Ask Doctor Dick article)

 

July/August                Part 9 - The Log Unloading Platform

 

Sept./Oct.                     Part 10 - The Log Brow

 

Nov./Dec.                     Part 11 - The Edger

 

 

 

 

2009 

 

Jan./Feb.                     Part 12 - The Live Rolls

 

March/April                 Part 13 - The Trimmer and the Slasher

 

May/June                    Part 14 - The Log Carriage

 

July/August                Part 15 - The Lumber Transfer

 

Sept./Oct.                     Part 16 - The Log Haul

 

Nov./Dec.                     Part 17 - The Log Deck

 

 

 

2010

 

Jan./Feb.             Part 18 - The Dry Rollway

 

March/April                  Part 19 - The Trusses

 

May/June                     Part 20 - The Steam Engine

 

July/August                 Part 21 - The Slab Conveyor

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carl Cornish Articles

2005

 

February                      Photo Gallery - O Scale Models by Carl Cornish

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cass Scenic Railroad, WV

 

 

2005

 

December                     Cass Scenic Railroad State Park, Cass, WV - Shay # 6 , Shay # 2

 

 

2006

 

January                         Cass Scenic Railroad State Park - Heisler # 6

 

 

 

2007

 

February                        Images of Cass Scenic RR

 

 

 

 

 

 Civil War Modeling in 1:87 Scale

 

 

2005

 

August              Cover - Civil War Diorama at the Medina RR Museum  - Overview

 

 

September                 Cover - Civil War Diorama at the Medina RR Museum - Union Soldiers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Danby, Ludlow & Springfield RR, Ned Spiller, MMR

 

 

2005

 

August                         You Can Take It With You - Designing & Building a "Transportable" Layout - Part I

 

October                        You Can Take It With You - Part II

 

November                    You Can Take It With You - Part III

 

 

 

2006

 

May                                 An Alternative Way to Wire a Tortoise Switch Machine

 

October                         Rutland/B & M Ball Signal on the D, L & S RR  -  Part I

 

November                     Rutland/B & M Ball Signal on the D, L & S RR  - Part II

 

 

 

2008

 

Jan./Feb.                       Rebuilding the Danby, Ludlow & Springfield Railroad

 

 

 

2009

 

Jan./Feb                        D L & S Progress report - Part I 

 

March/April                   D L & S Progress Report - Part II

 

May/June                      D L & S Progress Report  - Part III

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Rouse Articles

 

2005

 

April                                Photo Gallery & Cover - Crystal River Southern On30 Model Railroad

 

 

 

 

 

Dave Thompson Articles

 

 

2005

 

November                     Dave Thompson's Award Winning On3 San Juan Train

 

 

 

2009

 

 

Nov./Dec.                       The Kinzua Bridge - Destroyed

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decoders - How to Install in Older Locomotives, Dave Mitchell

 

 

2006

 

June                              How to Eliminate the Hum in the Soundtraxx DSD-B3TSLC Decoder

 

July                                How to Install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Part I

 

August                          How to Install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Part II

 

September                   How to Install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Part III

 

October                         How to Install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Part IV

 

November                     How to Install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Part V

 

December                     How to install Decoders in Older Locomotives - Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dick Roth Articles

 

2005

 

June                                 Plan Before You Build - Part I

 

July                                   Plan Before You Build - Part II

 

August                             Plan Before You Build - Conclusion  

 

 

 

2006

 

October                           Building a Hot Wire Cutter - Part I 

 

November                       Building a Hot Wire Cutter - Part II

 

December                       Building a Hot Wire Cutter - Part III

 

 

2007

 

January                           Building a Hot Wire Cutter - Conclusion

 

 

 

2008

 

Jan./Feb.                         Hassle-Free Small Parts Organizer

 

 

 

 

 

 

Doctor Duck

 

2006

 

April                                   Alan Asks About DCC - The NCE Power Pro System

 

May                     Installing a Soundtraxx Decoder

 

June                                  Decoder Comparison - Soundtraxx DSD-B3TSLC vs. Soundtraxx Tsunami

 

July                                   Quality of Model Railroad Products

 

 

 

 

 

Frank Smith Articles

 

2005

 

February                         The Brienz Rothorn Bahn

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fred Cupp Articles

2006

 

February                          Editing Model Railroad Digital Images - Part I

 

March                               Editing Model Railroad Digital Images - Part II 

 

April                                  Editing Model Railroad Digital Images - Part III

 

 

 

 

2007

 

January                            Lap Sidings

 

 

2008

 

Jan./Feb.                          A Trip Down Nostalgia Lane

 

March/April                      Salvage the "Impossible" Track Along the Wall

 

 

 

 

 

 

       Gerald Brimacombe Images

 

2005

 

November                            Cover - Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad - Loco Climbing to Cumbres Pass 

 

 

2006

 

January                                Cover - Bath and Hammondsport Railroad - Passenger Depot

 

May                                        Cover - R & E Algerine St. Station, near Canandaigua, NY

 

December                Cover - Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad, New Mexico

 

 

2007

 

February                              R & E Rapid Railway, B & H RR Passenger Depot, Cumbres & Toltec RR            

 

 

2008

 

March/April                          Cover - Twin City Rapid transit Company's Wood Street Car                                     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Fewster Articles

 

2007

 

Summer                               Memories - Hojack and Ontario, NY 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Gordon Spalty Articles

2006

 

February                             Things to Ponder - Modeling New England Railroads

 

March                                  What's in a Name - Modeling New England Railroads

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jack Matsik Articles

2006

 

August                               Modeling Freight Loads - Part I 

 

September              Modeling Freight Car Loads  - Conclusion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Cordaro Articles

 

2007

 

Fall                                       The S Scale Layout of Joe Cordaro

 

 

 

 

 

Joe Palmer Images

 

 

 

2008

 

 May/June                       Photo Gallery of Joe Palmer - Cherryfield, Maine

 

 

 

 

 

Lincoln Pinn Articles

 

2005

 

September                       Lehigh Valley Shanty, Fish Creek, NY 

 

October                            B R & P Crew Shanty, Caledonia, NY

 

 

2006

 

March                                Letter to the Editor - "Sociology of Model Railroading"

 

June                                  Touring the Floquil Paint Factory

 

 

 

 

 

 

Leo Adamski Articles

2005

 

July                                  International Car Exchange

 

December                      Photo Gallery - Mary - Land Northern Railroad

 

 

 

2006

 

May                                  A Station for Siegel Street

 

 

2009

 

March/April                    Siegel Street Revisited

 

 

 

 

 

 

Martin Collard Articles

2006

 

March                                 Photo Gallery - The N Scale Layout of Sy Diamond

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mark Rossiter Articles

2006

 

May                                     Letter to the Editor  - "Sociology of Model Railroading"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Matt Kovacic Articles

 

2005

 

July                                       Aging Wood Siding

 

 

2006

 

July                                      Cover - HO Scale Oregon View model railroad of Matt Kovacic

 

July                                      Photo Gallery - The Models of Matt Kovacic

 

 

2008  

 

March/April                        The Wood Cutter Shack   

 

 

 

 

 

Medina Railroad Museum

 

2005

 

May                                   Thomas the Tank Engine Comes to Medina, NY

 

 

2009

 

July/August                    A Day Out with Thomas at the Medina RR Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mid-Atlantic Narrow Gauge Guild

 

 

2009

 

July/August                    Scenes from the Kimberton Module Show, May 2009

 

Nov./Dec.                         Scenes from the Gardiner, NY Meet, October 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Model Railroad Post Office - Norm Wright

 

2005

 

 

March                              Number 10 - 4-4-0 Toy Locomotive - Czechoslovakia

 

April                                 Number 11 - Lionel 0-4-0 - Tanzania

 

July                                  Number 13 - Toys - Denmark

 

 

 

 

2006

 

May                   Number 14 - Painted wooden toy steam locomotive - Canada 

 

June                                Number 15 - Transports of Delight - Great Britain

 

July                                 Number 16 - Toy wood steam train - Uruguay

 

August                            Number 17 - Children at Play - Poland

 

November                      Number 18 - Electric toy Train - USA

 

December                       Number 19 - Solomon Island Stamp

 

 

2007

 

Summer                          Number 20 - B & O Tunnel Loco #5, Lionel, 1904 - Tanzania              

 

Fall                                   Number 21 - Europa Stamp - Great Britain                        

 

 

2008

 

March/April                     Number 22 - Ives Train - Grenada

 

Nov./ Dec.                       Number 23 - International Day of Children - Poland

 

 

 

 

 

Movie and Book Reviews

 

 

2005

 

January                            "Playing with Trains - A Passion Beyond Scale"  - Sam Posey

 

2007

 

Fall                                    "Boxcar Bertha" - Barbara Hershey and David Carradine

 

 

 

 

 

National Model Railroad Association (NMRA)

 

 

 

 

2005

 

November                       NMRA - NFR Lakeshores Division 2005 Fall Meet, Canandaigua, NY

 

 

 

2008

 

May/June                        NMRA - Niagara Frontier Regional Convention

 

Nov./Dec.                        NMRA LSD Fall Meet 2008 - Layout Tours - Part I

 

                 

 

2009

 

Jan./Feb.                          NMRA LSD Fall Meet - Layout Tours - Part II

 

March/April                      NMRA LSD Spring Meet - Part I

 

May/June                         NMRA LSD Spring Meet - Part II

 

July/August                     The NMRA Niagara Frontier Region -  Woodstock Turn Convention, 2009

 

 

 

 

 

 

N Y O & W R

 

2005

 

May                                     Photo Gallery - Bill Schneider's NYO & W RR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Oil Creek Rail Road Company

 

2002

 

 

May                               OCRR News

 

August                         Cover - Reflections on Oil Creek; Model RR Updates - The OCRR

 

December                    Environmental Sounds on the OCRR; OCRR Expands  

 

 

 

2003

 

September                   Cover - Oil fields on the OCRR

 

 

 

2004

 

October                         Cover - Pioneer. PA on the OCRR - Oil Wells and Coal Mine

 

October                         Densmore Tank Car, Allegheny Transportation Company, Pioneer RR Bridge

 

 

 

2005

 

        

January                          Cover - Treyz Chemical Works

 

January                          NRHS Presentation - Oil Creek Rail Road 1860 - 1868

 

February                        Cover - 4-4-0 Loco Stops for Photo Shoot on the Pioneer RR Bridge

 

March                              Supersage Trees, Large Trestle and Coal Mine on the OCRR

 

March                              Shooting Digital Images Using a Mirror - Allegheny Transportation Company

 

March                              Coal Mine, Densmore Oil Tank Car, and Miller Farm on the OCRR

 

June                                Cover - A Small Town in the Late 1800s - Shay & Log train; Coal Mine

 

June                                Oil Creek Logging & Mining RR - Inside the Coal Mine; Shay/Tunnel Portal; Lantern

 

July                                  Oil Derricks on the OCRR - Close-up Model Image and Information on Oil Derricks

 

 

 

 

2007

 

 

February                         Cover - Oil Creek RR 4-4-0 at the Pioneer Bridge - Prototype Image Circa 1866

 

February                         Model of the Above Scene

 

February                         Pennsylvania Road Marker for the Densmore Oil Tank Cars

 

February                         Model of the Large Truss RR Bridge Over the Oil Creek

 

February                         Image of an Original OCRR Stock Certificate

 

February                         Prototype Image  -  4- 4- 0 Locomotive with Oil Barrels on Gondolas

 

 

 

 

 

Pete Darling Articles

2006

 

April                                  Photo Gallery - The Rochester Model Railroad Club

 

December             A Model RR Club Chief Engineer's Trials and  Tribulations - Part I        

 

 

2007

 

January                           A Model RR Club Chief Engineer's Trials and Tribulations - Conclusion

 

 

 

 

                        

 

 

 

 

Railroad Exploits of Jim Hutton

 

2008

 

Nov./Dec.                        Shepaug Valley Railroad Tunnel

 

 

2009

 

Sept. Oct.                        Jim Hutton's Post War Lionel Layout

 

Nov./Dec.                         New York and Harlem Railroad

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ray Howard Articles

2006

 

April                                   The Care and Feeding of the Tortoise

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

RIT Model Railroad Club

 

2006

 

June                                  The RIT Club - Part I 

 

July                                   The RIT Club - Part II

 

August                             The RIT Club - Part III - Foreign Interchange, Train Shows, Club Cars

 

 

 

 

 

 

R W & O RR

 

2004

 

December                        R W & O RR - Part I -  Prologue; The Beginnings

 

 

2005

 

 

January                            R W & O RR - Part 2 - Rome & Watertown RR; Northern RR                           

 

February                          R W & O RR - Part 3 - R W & O R; The Syracuse Northern; Lake Ontario Shore RR
 

March                               R W & O RR - Part 4 - D & W RR; U & BR RR

 

April                                  R W & O RR - Part 5 - Under Parsons; New Line to Rochester; The Vanderbilt's

 

May                                   R W & O RR - Part 6 - The New R W & O; Decline and Fall

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sociology of Model Railroading, John Bruce

 

 

2005

 

June                                Introduction

 

July                                 Swap Meets

 

August                            Train Shows

 

September                     E-mail Groups

 

October                          Modelers' Meets

 

November                      Model Railroad Clubs

 

December                      The NMRA

 

 

 

2006

 

January                           Hobby Magazines - Part I

 

February                         Hobby Magazines - Part II

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Levine Articles

 

2005

 

March                                 Steve Levine's N Scale Model Railroad

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Trees - How to Model in 1:87 Scale

 

2002

 

 

August                            How to Improve Commercial Pine Trees

 

 

 

2004

 

March                              How to Make Realistic Scratch Built Conifer Trees

 

April                                 How to Make Peppergrass Trees; "Learnings" from Making Peppergrass Trees

 

May                                  How to Make Good Looking Furnace-Filter Type Conifer Trees

 

June                                Improving the Appearance of Conifer Trees

 

August                            Forest in a Flash

 

September                     How to Make Scenic Express Supertrees

 

December                      Pete Vassler's Model Railroad Conifer Trees

 

 

 

2005

 

January                           The Forest Magic of Canyon Creek Scenics - How to Make Great Conifer Trees

 

March                               How to Make Scenic Express Supersage Trees

 

June                                  How to Glue Ground Foam to Tree Branches

 

April                                   Cover - Fall Peppergrass Trees on the Rochester Model Railroad Club Layout

 

July                                    Cover - Model Trees on the Layout of Matt Kovacic

 

 

 

 

 

 Victor , NY

 

2008

 

Sept./Oct.                        Inaugural Rail Festival, Victor, NY      

 

Nov./Dec.                        Speeder Parade in Victor, NY

 

 

2009

 

Sept./Oct.                        Motor Cars (Speeders) in Victor, NY     

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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