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Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
5
Author:
Jeff Madden
Category:
Model Railroad Shows
Description:
How to justify the expense of going to conventions.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
10
Author:
Gerry Evans
Category:
Structures
Description:
Using a Banta Modelworks kit that is no longer available, the author shows how he builds hydrocal structures. The article covers walls, brick, concrete, stonework, decals, windows, and doors.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
12
Author:
Sam Powell
Category:
Track
Description:
This article describes grade crossings and ideas for how to model them.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
14
Author:
Roy Hoffman
Category:
Structures - Industrial
Description:
The author gives some tips on what he did to make an HO-scale kit look like it fits on an S-scale layout.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
16
Author:
George Reneris
Category:
Layouts - S
Description:
The author describes his Snoqualmie, Mohonk & Panguitch RR, which is an M-shaped 11' by 21', three-level layout.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
19
Author:
Jeff Madden
Category:
Layout Design
Description:
The author presents an S-scale version of an O-scale track plan originally published by Model Railroader magazine in the 1940s.
Issue:
2009 #1 February
Page:
20
Author:
David Heine
Category:
Model Railroad Shows
Description:
A basics article on "scale" vs. "gauge", what is narrow-gauge, how and where the various narrow gauges were used, and the history of narrow-gauge prototype railroads.