Model Railroader July 2007

Cover story
Scenery Step by Step
Improving commercial trees
Cody Grivno

Build a dense forest
Combine two simple techniques for a great forest
Tom Harris

Perfect scratchbuilt pines
A new twist on an old way to make evergreens
Ron Morse

Freelancing a transition-era RR
The HO scale Hudson Point & Hawthorne
Paul Dolkos

Designing a mid-size N scale layout
The evolution of a track plan Tom Danneman

Install white LED headlights
Realistic lighting effects using surface-mount diodes
Lutz Kuh

lUrban switching on 59th Street
This freelanced 1950s city track plan took first prize
Stan Sweatt

Modeling caboose operations
The many regulations that dictate caboose handling
Jim Hediger

Signal detailing
Building code line cables with copper wire and styrene
Bruce Petty

Upgrading an HO scale masterpiece
New superdetailed scenes highlight this layout
Dana Kawala