Model Railroader – September 2019

20 http://www.ModelRailroader.com Ask MR Q I have five Digital Command Control- equipped N scale engines on my layout with about ...

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N Scale Insight 22 http://www.ModelRailroader.com By Jim Kelly Disassembling N scale diesels In the 1990s, Kato pioneered its cl ...

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Step by Step Model railroaders are tinkerers, and there’s satisfaction in making a recalcitrant component operational again. Oth ...

STEP 1 STEP 2 TOOLS OF THE TRADE LAYING TRACK September 2019 25 By Eric White I gathered my tools at the work site (the solderin ...

STEP 3 PAINT AND BALLAST 26 http://www.ModelRailroader.com Step by Step After the track was in place and wired back into the Dig ...

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28 http://www.ModelRailroader.com The HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie Ry. models transition-era scenes in the upper M ...

September 2019 29 My HO scale Rice Lake, Dallas & Menomonie Ry. (RLD&M) is named after a short line in northwestern Wisc ...

30 http://www.ModelRailroader.com Benchwork and track The layout has two decks connected by a helix and also features staging tr ...

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32 http://www.ModelRailroader.com Wiring and control I originally designed the layout for direct-current (DC) block operation. T ...

September 2019 33 Most of my passenger cars are kit- bashed Athearn models. I also have a few ready-to-run Soo Line cars made by ...

UPGRADING AN N SCALE STEAM LOCOMOTIVE Converting Model Power’s N scale 2-6-0 Mogul into an 0-6-0 switcher that looks as good as ...

September 2019 35 T he layout I’m building is an N scale, proto- freelanced railroad roughly based on Brooklyn’s Bush and Fulton ...

36 http://www.ModelRailroader.com ❸ Applying a paint wash. I started the weathering with the cab roof. I mixed up a weathering w ...

❼ Disguising thick walls. To minimize the thickness of the molded window mullions, I painted their inside faces flat black using ...

How to set up a model railroad for the third trick By Douglas Kirkpatrick • Photos by the author except where noted NIGHTTIME OP ...

September 2019 39 What do you do with a finished model railroad? My 25 x 37-foot HO scale Virginia & Western RR (V&W), m ...