This is my current project.
A porter’s step stool design from a guy named Pete Harrison. I found it in an old issue of MR
Like Mr Harrison, I made it out of scrap 3/4" plywood & 1x4’s I had left over from the benchwork.
I still have some touch-up’s with the paint.
I built it with my daughter’s safety in mind as well as mine when I’m able to build a higher layout.
Let’s hear your MR based projects
Gordon
Dating myself terribly, half a century or so ago MR used to publish plans and descriptions of “Dollar Cars” (to be scratchbuilt for a dollar, more or less.) I built several (a drop-end mill gon stands out in my memory) but none of them survived their first encounter with military contract movers.
In the early 1960’s I decided to model Japanese prototypes. Since then, MR has served me as a source for ideas and inspiration, but not for specific things to model or otherwise build.
Chuck
yes the turtle creek central
I built this car load from an article in a mid 70’s MR.
The funniest one I ever heard of is from the Willimantic (CT) RR museum. They built a real 1:1 hand car (a true “gandy dancer”) using plans from Model Railroader.
Paul A. Cutler III
Weather Or No Go New Haven
Several.
The most extensive was a 6 car fleet of the Southern Pacific Double Stack 5 unit cars. The only commercial parts were the trucks, couplers, and brake details.
For the club, I built the Memory Walkaround throttles.
yes i did the frieght depot using 5 dpm scissors factory kits turned out great but the new layout has no room
jeff
I have borrowed parts of several layouts
I’ve built several of their transistor throttles. Also a high-frequency lighting generator.
I built a model of a coke pusher like Dean Freytag had in an early 1990’s issue of MR (can’t remember the exact one though):
I made a CN CPA-16-5 Diesel. Of course it was my article, so the model came first!
Bob Boudreau
wow ken nice work
K
thought about it.just couldn’t get all the supplys
I used to LOVE the symposium on electronics section, constant lighting, flasher circuits, detectors etc. I still miss those columns![V]
Of course, I also used to wait a month before doing a project, in case they printed a correction the following month.[;)]
I might build a SD20 when I get my May MR.
Built a layout based on December 1973 EE Seeley "start with a layout like this? On a website www.xdford.digitalzones.com
Regards
Trevor
I haven’t actually built anything off of MR, but I have got some GREAT ideas from the magizine. MR is one of the best!
Only one or two from the pages of MR (a small wooden highway bridge and a bucket coaling station, both from 1950’s or 60’s articles) but quite a few based on material appearing in RMC over the years.
CNJ831
Yes, a coaling tower from a 1957 MR.
Tony koester built the concord & massacuets railroad & saw it in the MR