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Modeling electrified railroads
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Well written & very informative about a somewhat neglected subject. If you are into trolleys & street traction, then this is for you. You could also use much of this info for modelling steam railroads’ use of street trackage near factories, etc.
I triedto download and got an error message
This file is damaged and cannot be repaired.
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Thanks,
Don
I do not model Traction but I did find this very interesting. There are some hints that apply to railroads othere than Traction.
The article is helpful and good to have digitally. The photographs are blurry and not clear. I guess they are scanned magazine pages. It would be good to have the MR Traction Handbook available. That is still probably one of the best traction references. Thank you for making these articles available.
Thanks to Kalmbach for this free download for subscribers.
I remember riding streetcars with my dear Grandmother, in Oklahoma City. We were in an accident in one of the old wooden card when I was about four years old. I remember my Grandmother covering me for protection and later seeing the truck that had stalled on the grade crossing. The streetcars went away just after WW2, I suppose sometime in 1946 or 47.
Thanks again for the nice bit of reference material.
Excellent Article…I’ve been thinking of adding an industrial electrified branch and this has inspired me to do some serious planning, thanks MRR
I always love the magazine, but now I have two things especially to thank you for:
firstly, the article on the CANADA CENTRAL in Montreal. I had asked for an article on something north of your border, and you delivered in spades;
secondly, the Information Station article on “Electrified Railroads” I have always wanted to do this - GREAT"
MANY THANKS BRYCE STEWART
Would be great if someone would revisit this article and update the list of suppliers and direct more attention to ways of laying track, using standard code 100 rail and creating simple overhead wiring that works reliably. It seems that this would now be an ideal DCC application, too, especially for lower speed running at prototypical speeds.
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This is great system.
Great article! Learned much about hand laying track. (Also about the history of interurbans & street cars) Keep up the great work.
Model rail roading is a hobby that not only teaches those who participate a variety of skills, it provides an opportunity to share those benefits with others of like interest. Attending shows where models are displayed provides an opportunity to observe what others have accomplished and learn from their efforts.
Excellent article on modeling electrified railroads. Great information to get me started in my own layout.
Bill Everett’s “O” Scale Trolley Layout can be seen running at
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGpQ1PJnYig
Enjoy
Patrick
I got to read it… I opened Adobe and selected all file formats in the folder where it was. I clicked on the active ASHX file and it opened.
Kalmbach’s website sometimes keeps the .ashx file extension (as referenced above) on a downloaded file. Simply rename the .ashx to .pdf using windows explorer, or your favorite file manager. You’ll then find “Modeling electrified railroads” to be a very informative traction layout book.
In response to the question on revisiting these articles, let me suggest going on the trolleyville web site. There’s great information there on traction suppliers, a helpful set of articles on traction oriented projects, and other good ideas to get started. I have started a new project after being away from the hobby for the past ten years, and I can tell you a lot has happened, especially in DCC, since MR published my story. The Bowser F-Line PCCs are great and with a conversion to DCC you get other features also. I also got a sneak peak at new PCCs coming that have sound. Very exciting stuff if you’re a traction modeler.
Enjoyed Bill’s O scale trolleys very much. Thanks to ‘Patrick’ for the tip to you tube. Thanks to MR for the post. This is a neat feature.