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April 2011 - Volume 79, Number 11

Special features
40 Perspective: Switzerland’s fabulous Furka by Robert D. Turner
High in the Swiss Alps is one of the world’s best and most
interesting heritage steam railways – the eleven mile long Furka
Cogwheel Steam Railway.

42 Rich Sorensen’s Wabash Valley Railroad by Bob Werre
Set in the 1950’s steam/diesel transition era, this colorful HO scale
layout serves the industrial valleys of West Virginia.

Modeling
48 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashed boom truck by
Jerry Wikstrom
This project involves adding a crew cab to an Athearn HO scale
maintenance vehicle.

52 Modeling a CPR enclosed water tower by Mike Chandler
The Canadian Pacific designed these enclosed tanks to withstand
the bitter cold winter temperatures of the north.

65 What’s in your corner? by Wayne SIttner
The question of how to fill and disguise a corner space on a layout
led the author to reach back in his memory and model a scene from
his childhood.

68 Scratchbuilder’s corner: A styrene tender by Bob Walker
With no available commercial model of the particular CB&Q tender
the author needed, he turned to scratchbuilding. Here’s how he did it.

72 Reweigh dates on freight cars by Anthony W. Thompson
Until 1965, freight cars were required to be weighed periodically
and the weight stenciled on the car side.

74 The Scenery Clinic: Pt. XV: Modeling water and evergreens
by Paul Scoles
Have you ever modeled water using Mod Podge®? Paul Scoles gives it a
try in this installment of The Scenery Clinic and the results are quite
convincing.

77 Modeling a C&NW GP35 slug set, Pt. II by Dennis Eggert
Having detailed the GP35’s last month, this month it’s time to turn our
attention to modeling the F-unit slug.
Prototype

59 Front of the layout vignettes: No. 21, Ice and the railroads:
Pt. I – natural ice by David Lambert
Until the advent of mechanical refrigeration, railroads depended
upon ice for cooling cars that carried perishable loads.