NASG Dispatch 1983 #2 Spring Articles
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Elaine's Elaborations
Issue:
1983 #2 Spring
Page:
2
Author:
Elaine Powell
Category:
Model Railroads and People
Description:
What does a wife think of her husband's involvement in the hobby of model railroading? Elaine saw many positive attributes in her husband Sam shortly after they were married due to his involvement in the hobby.
Making the Rex 0-6-0 and 2-6-0 Locomotives Behave
Issue:
1983 #2 Spring
Page:
4
Author:
Sam Powell
Category:
Locomotives - Steam
Description:
The author tackles some design problems that they locomotives have to make them run smoother.
Modeling Railroad Competition Layout Design of the NEW and the O&LD
Issue:
1983 #2 Spring
Page:
7
Author:
Douglas Gurin
Category:
Layout Design
Description:
A busy trackplan with two competing railroads are discussed, with suggestions on how to model them.
The History of the NASG
Issue:
1983 #2 Spring
Page:
9
Author:
Claud Wade
Category:
Model Railroad History
Description:
One of the founders of the NASG provides early details of how the organization formed.
American Models AAR Freight Car Truck
Issue:
1983 #2 Spring
Page:
14
Author:
Dick Cataldi
Category:
Freight Cars
Description:
A review of the standard North American truck used from the late 1930s on, which has self-aligning, spring-plankless, and double-truss plain bearings.