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SPECIAL ISSUE
Model Railroad
Planning
2014
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A branch line with mainline character.
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Editorial
A perfect viewing height – somewhere!
Tony Koester
Cov e r s to ry
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Modeling SP’s Siskiyou Line
in N scale
A multi-deck N scale railroad set in the 1970s
Larry Over
Action at the New Orleans Union
Passenger Terminal
Accommodating lots of action and detail
on a peninsula
Alice Street revisited
A 4 x 8-foot N scale layout that includes almost
every feature of its Santa Fe prototype
Andy Sperandeo
Cliff Powers
A moving experience
An update on a “retired” layout and a progress
report on a new one in a retirement community
Harry Bilger
Switching for breakfast
An overview of the challenges of switching
a Post cereal plant in Michigan
Lawrence Bolton and Bill Neale
5 layouts, 4 scales in 14 x 34 inches
It all fts within the footprint of a typical bookcase
Bill DeBuvitz
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Passenger operations in the Big Easy.
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Simple plan, plenty of action!
Keeping things manageable by limiting a
railroad’s scope and size
Lance Mindheim
On the cover:
New Orleans Union Passenger Terminal
was served by seven railroads and therefore offers Cliff
Powers a chance to operate a variety of colorful
locomotives and passenger cars and to model a classic
passenger station. Cliff also took the photo.
BIG train, small layout
How do they run such long trains in what looks like
a one-loop wonder?
Eric Block and Evan Daes
C&NW’s Chicago commute
Passenger and some freight action of the
1960s in 8 x 20 feet
Photos, clockwise from top: Tim Miller, Mike Rinkunas,
Clark Propst, Ryan Moats, Cliff Powers
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Model Railroad Planning
2014
Byron Henderson
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Add operational interest with helper service.
Page 78:
Sometimes the idea of a wye is all you need.
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Slogging up to Locust Summit
A hard-coal-hauling railroad designed with coal
drags and helpers in mind
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Space-saving wye-less wyes
Modeling the functionality of wyes in a more
compact area
Jim Hertzog
Jason Klocke
The vertical interchange
Swapping cars between two railroads that cross at
grade – on different decks
Not-so-dumb dummy tracks
Unconnected tracks can enhance scenery and
imply additional operation
Tony Koester
Paul J. Dolkos
Depicting a specifc era
Identifying and modeling visual and
operational characteristics of a time and place
A passenger terminal in 15 x 18 feet
Designing a big-city station to ft on narrow shelves
K. Clarke Crandell
James McNab
Staging you can live with
Adding scenery to a visible staging yard makes it
suitable for a living space
Paul J. Dolkos
Enhancing and backdating
a published track plan
Reconfguring a published plan to meet specifc
needs
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R e a d e R F o Ru m
Sharing questions and ideas
Pl anning TiP
Protective fascia
Paul J. Dolkos
Pl anning TiP
Ryan Moats
The value of feld trips
Jared Harper
R e a R P l aT F o R m
Realizing an ambitious dream
David Stewart
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Fitting more action into a mid-sized space.
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