From the Editor By Hal Miller
8 http://www.ModelRailroader.comModel railroading is fun!
Among diamonds, the coal shines brightest
While out West in Salt Lake
City for the National Model
Railroad Convention and
National Train Show in July, a
number of things occurred to
me about railroads, both
modeled and full-size:I didn’t make it to Promon-
tory Summit to celebrate 150
years since the completion of
the First Transcontinental
Railroad, but I did get outand about. It was enough to
get a real feel for what an
arduous task it must have
been to build that line across
desolate terrain in a climate
that says, “Nature doesn’t
really want you here.”I think if the hobby is experi-
encing growth anywhere, it’s
in N scale. Younger people
coming into the hobby are
embracing the smaller scalefor its economy and footprint.
That’s the way I see it.An hour train ride north of
Salt Lake City is Ogden
Union Station and the Utah
State Railroad Museum.
Among its rolling-stock high-
lights: Union Pacific gas tur-
bine 26, UP Centennial
DDA40X no. 6916, UP 4-8-
no. 833, and Denver & Rio
Grande Western tunnelmotor SD40-2T no. 5371.
Also, an ordinary UP 40-foot
Association of American
Railroads-standard boxcar.
Guess which one got the
most attention?
The grand behemoths are
great, but the details on the
lowly old boxcar are far more
useful for modeling.
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embrace – the mundane on
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Title registered as trademark. All rights reserved.Some of the all-time greats
are on display at Ogden
Union Station. None were as
useful as the 40-foot boxcar.