January 2011

January 2011
Volume 79, Number 8

Special features
44 Perspective: Why love a caboose? by Karl Zimmermann
Before the advent of smaller train crews and end-of-train devices,
cabooses were employed on the rear of freight trains.

46 Southeast Division of the Milwaukee Road by Michael Duncan
The action on this large basement layout focuses on a Milwaukee Road
line in southern Indiana during the late-1970’s/early-1980’s that
served coal mines and local industries and interchanged with Conrail.

Modeling
53 Building Burnsville Jct.’s service platform by John Brown
This small, wooden servicing platform can be easily scratchbuilt.

56 The Scenery Clinic: Pt. XII: More on Rock castings by
Paul Scoles
This month we build a cliff using several rock castings.

59 Building a fire station by Bob Bennett
An easy scratchbuilding project, this simple, wooden firehouse
would look at home in any small town.

63 Designing a hoist house by Chuck Diljak
Join us for the first of this two-part series as the author describes the
workings of a typical hoist house and explains the various types of
equipment used to move men and materials into and out of a mine.

71 Refining your goals by Jack Burgess
Experience can lead to a greater understanding of what to model.

74 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Two kitbashed cabooses by
William C. Schaumburg
Stan Rydarowicz’s HO scale Chicago & Western Indiana cabooses –
modeled using parts from Athearn, Walthers and Red Caboose, along
with Evergreen Scale Models styrene – are this month’s award winners.

76 Handling small parts by Art Van DeWater
Here is a simple tool that you can construct that will help with
applying small details.

78 Detailing a Chevy farm truck by Montford Switzer
An Alloy Forms truck kit is the basis for a model that will look at
home on almost any late-1950’s or 1960’s-era farm scene.

80 Scratchbuilder’s corner: More on walls by Bob Walker
Many models can benefit from the addition of a least a partial interior.

Prototype
66 Front of the layout vignettes: No. 19, The country elevator
revisited by David Lambert
This month we begin a two-part examination of how farmers got their
grain to market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.