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Monthly Archives: February 2006
Visual Guide to Modeling the American Environment, Part 2: Canals
Review of Robert J. Kapsch’s Canals, part of the Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in Architecture, Design & Engineering Continue reading
Visual Guide to Modeling the American Environment, Part 1: Barns
Review of Barns: Norton/Library of Congress Visual Sourcebooks in American Design & Engineer Continue reading
Classic title: Every Hour on the Hour is worth searching for
Review, Every Hour On the Hour: A Chronicle of the Washington Baltimore & Annapolis Electric Railroad by John E. Merriken Continue reading
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Relive the Expansion Years of Florida Railroads
Florida Railroads in the 1920’s shows railroads in the Roaring Twenties atmosphere of optimism. Continue reading
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Easements for the Learning Curve
Hardly a week goes by without some permutation of the following: Dear Scace I can’t choose/have chosen between DCC, DCS, or TMCC. Please (1) tell me what to use, (2) write a learned treatise about each, or (3) do not … Continue reading
The Good Old Days #25
Structures One of the major differences that strikes me, as I compare views of O Scale railroads of the 1930s and earlier (and even often in the 1940s) is the absence of structures/buildings. It is hard for those who have … Continue reading
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Observations #25
Welcome to the start of our fifth year publishing O Scale Trains Magazine. The very first issue of OST featured the Bay Ridge Harbor Railroad of Neville Rossiter from Perth, Australia. (Neville writes our feature “The Workshop” each issue.) So, … Continue reading
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Confessions of A HiRailer #25
Going Around and Around and Around At the writing of this column, the holidays are behind us. Gone too are the ornaments and tinsel and the seasonal layouts of my 3-Rail friends. The Christmas trees and decorations have come down … Continue reading
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Narrow Minded #25
In Issue #24, I wrote about the new Bachmann On30 two-bay steel hopper. While I was first examining this model, I wondered if I might be able to modify it so that a load of coal would empty properly through … Continue reading
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Traction Action #25
Decatur, Illinois, 1914, on the Illinois Terminal: An ideal focal point for home layouts and display modules One of the reasons I love railroad books so much is that they lead to wonderful modeling opportunities that you might, otherwise, never … Continue reading
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