Model Railroader July 2009

How to build a small railroad town
Structures and details make a convincing scene
By Steve Harris

Keep that car from rolling
Make derails to keep cars in place on a grade
By Olaf Melhouse

Fruit Growers Express reefer
Illustrations for a common prototype built in the 1920s
By Harold W. Russell

Keeping true to the Soo Line
Modeling the steam0to-diesel transition in the Midwest
By Mark Preussler

Updating a 1990s Amtrak F40PH
Detail modifications for a Walthers HO scale model
By Matt Snell

Easy layout control panels
How to make track schematics for your layout
By Wayne McNab

6 decades on the South Shasta Lines
Southern Pacific steam inspired this O scale layout
By Godfrey Humann