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A high-tech history lessonInnovations have helped build
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Build a downtown business buildingModify a diesel to late 1960s appearance p. 24 p. 44
Using Google and maps for track planning p. 20
ANOTHER LOOK AT DCC STAY-ALIVES p. 54
Heavy-duty action: A modern-day
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OCTOBER 2019
Volume 86, Number 10
On the cover: A United States
Military RR 4-4-0 locomotive
crosses a trestle on Bernard
Kempinski’s O scale Aquia
Line. Bernard Kempinski photo
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Among diamonds, the coal shines brightest
10 News & Products
2019 National Train Show report
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18 Railway Post Office
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22 Heritage Fleet
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24 Step by Step
Build, paint, and weather a structure kit
54 DCC Corner
Another look at stay-alives
56 Product Reviews MREXTRA
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63 On Operation
Stations don’t need depots
64 Trackside Photos
73 Index of Advertisers
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74 Trains of Thought
Why paying close attention matters
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28 Big-time modern railroading in
the East
This 42 x 56-foot HO scale multi-deck
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Baltimore
by Bruce Friedman
36 Highball to high tech MRVP
Battery power, laser cutting, 3-D printing,
and more help bring the Civil War-era
Aquia Line to life
by Bernard Kempinski
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44 Build a late-1960s E unit
Learn how to remove porthole windows
and add lighting effects to an HO scale
Proto 2000 E
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49 Plans for the East Los Angeles
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This mission-revival passenger station was
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