December 2006
HO SCALE:

Structure Modeling:
7 The Reading Coal Breaker, Scratchbuilding the Strangarity Way, by Jerry Strangarity

Locomotive Performance:
13 Genesis, by Athearn, Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy Test Report, by Dean Windsor
21 Summary of all previous Locomotive
Performance Test Reports

Diesel Modeling:
15 EMD CF-7 as Minnesota Commercial
number 484 from Athearn’s model,
by Bob Rivard

60 EMD SD-18 as CNW 6629 from Atlas’
model, by Marv Preussler

Passenger Modeling:
16 Superdetailing Coaches, Part IV:
Vestibules, by V.S. Roseman

Diesels, One-Detail-At-A-Time:
23 EMD GP40X as Union Pacific 91, 94, 954 and 957 from Athearn models,
by Louis A. Marre

Layout Tour:
27 Scott Kremer’s 24 x 42-foot Cascade
Division of the Great Northern Railway

Modern Modeling:
41 Bay Window Caboose as NJT 904 from Walthers model, by Matt Snell
53

Maintenance-of-Way Flat Car and
Generator Car, a Simple Scratchbuilding project, by Matt Snell

Steam Locomotive Modeling:
42 USRA ‘Heavy’ 2-10-2 from Proto 2000 models, by Richard Hendrickson

Freight Cars of the Fifties:
47 Santa Fe Caswell Drop-Bottom Gondolas from InterMountain models,
by Richard Hendrickson
ON THE COVER—
It’s 1955, and Great Northern Z-1 boxcab electrics work under catenary in the snow-covered Cascade Mountains near Cascade Tunnel Station. Scott Kremer is recreating the spectacular Cascade Division of the Great Northern Railway through Washington on his 24 x 42-foot layout. This is one of the layouts you can see in person by attending the 2006 National Model Railroad Association Convention (www.nmra.org/2007) in Detroit, Michigan, July 22-28, 2007, and signing up for the appropriate “Layout Tour.” A Layout Tour begins on page 27.

ALL SCALES:

Time Capsule:
3 Northern Pacific Extra 2300 at Adam Gorge, Montana, May 27, 1950, by Ken Chick
N SCALE:

Locomotive Performance:
21 Summary of all previous Locomotive Performance Test Reports
MODELING from the PROTOTYPE