Is anyone still waiting to receive their issue? I still don’t have mine!
Nope! Neither hide nor hair in these parts!
Maybe today, I’ll check the mail again at lunch.
Keeping my fingers crossed though!
Could someone please give a full rundown of the table of contents?
TABLE OF CONTENTS
8 You have to know where to look
A half-century beyond the 1950s, modeling information is still out there/By Tony Koester
12 Locomotives of the 1950s
Diesels on the arrival track, steam on the departure/By Robert S. McGonigal
18 Add realistic weathering to your motive power
Modeling steam and diesel locomotives of the 1950s/By John Pryke
28 A perfect year
Changing operations on the Surf Line were the key to selecting a favorite year/By Keith Jordan
COVER STORY
34 Modeling Chicago’s Dearborn Station
In the 1950s, Dearborn was where western railroading began/By Gary Hoover
42 Freight equipment and operations
Train makeup, paint schemes, operation: the '50s are ideal for modeling/By Robert S. McGonigal
46 Moving citrus to market
Produce stays fresh in ice refrigerator cars/By Bob Smaus
52 Quick and easy citrus groves
Signature scenery for Southern California circa 1950/By Bob Smaus
56 The billboard did it!
Subtle (and not so subtle) clues to suggest it’s the 1950s on your layout/By Paul J. Dolkos
62 Build a YMCA residence
Two HO scale DPM kits form a brickbuilding that’s right for the times/By Richard Ivins
66 Kicking the tires
From pickups to semi-trailers, a look at some common trucks of the 1950s/By Lou Sassi
70 The 1950s railroad scene
More people, more structures, more details along the right-of-way/By Robert S. McGonigal
76 Modeling the right-of-way
The steam to diesel transition makes for a diversity of trackside detials/By Bill Darnaby
80 Moving Appalachian coal in O scale
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Since I forgot to order earlier, and since I don’t have an LHS anywhere near by, I just ordered it online through the Model Railroader Store yesterday. I can wait for it to arrive.
Regards
Ed
Just looking at the table of contents, I am now kicking myself for not ordering it earlier. Will have to do it ASAP. Pryke, Smaus, Dolkos . . … should make for a great read!
Question, which John Armstrong layout article is that? It sound similar to one in a 50’s issue of MR I have.
–Randy
Everyone needs this its great. Lets hope it becomesa yearly!
How about doing an issue on Modeling Railroads at the turn of the century (1900’s). It’s a period that isn’t modeled quite as much, so that might impact Kalmbach’s thinking in terms of potential sales, but it would be fascinating. If I was going to start all over and model a different era, it would (might? in the future?) be the 1900’s. The urban railways of that time were incredibly interesting.
Still haven’t received my copy out here in San Diego… Anyone else still waiting???
George
Thanks for all the kind words about the magazine.
To answer a few questions:
- All the articles are new, including the Armstrong article,
- while we might do a follow-up, the early 1900s aren’t the most likely era (we did an article on modeling that era in January 2005, though),
- If you don’t have your issue by the middle of next week, please call Customer Service at 1-800-533-6644 and let them know.
Thanks for reading MR,
Terry
Got mine today. Superb issue. Favorite articles were the ones by Bob Smaus on the citrus biz, closely followed by Keith Jordan’s on the AT&SF Surf Line. We moved to Southern CA from Denver in early 1952, and one of the most vivid memories I have is of driving down Foothill Blvd (US 66) between San Bernardino and Pasadena and seeing miles and miles of orange groves. I also seem to remember that the Pacific Electric had a line that went up the center divide on Euclid Ave which runs between Ontario and Upland. If memory serves, that line not only served the citrus industy, but also an Arrowhead Water bottling plant as I seem to recall a cut of tank cars marked for water service trailing an ALCO switcher. My Aunt Florence had a brown 1948 Pontiac that stalled at a railroad crossing in Pomona shortly after we move to California. Car was demolished by a UP freight. Fortunately, Aunt Flo bailed out in time. God, I’m getting old.
BTW, my only real “criticism” is the Bob Smaus article on making orange trees. I’ll reread to make sure I didn’t miss anything, but I swear that Bob neglected to mention his source of HO scale “oranges”. C’mon, Bob, is this one of those “if I told you, I’d have to kill you” pieces of information???[:D]
Andre
I work for a Magazine Wholesaler, depending where you are look for it Friday or Monday at the soonest to be in Stores.
Woodland Scenics item # T47 - “Apples and Oranges”. [:D]
My wife picked it up and went through the pages, then commented “There’s a lot of old pictures of the fifties in here” ! Then she read the front cover.
I picked it up two days ago and can say I will be reading this one for a while as it has a lot of pertinent stuff in it.
Well done guys!
Fergie
How come you guys have already gotten it? According to this it shouldn’t ship out until the 30th.
http://store.yahoo.net/kalmbachcatalog/model-railroading-model-railroader-magazine-special-issues.html
Still…(cough)…waiting…
That’s the retail ship date – we all pre-ordered it at a special price. In my case, the pre-order offer came with my subscription renewal.
I’m with CBQ guy here - I liked it but was left wanting more - I’d I have liked more “how” as well as “what” for example - the billboards - where did Paul Dolkos get the ones he used? I’m not meaning to be critical and there’s much good stuff but I’m a little dissatisfied.
Chris
Like nova and CBQ, I would have liked to have seen much more “how to” and “characteristics of the time” than was actually included. While helpful, the scope of the work seems more of a brief overview of the period and a call for you to do your own research than any sort of actual reference volume.
I believe it was Andy S. who wrote a detailed WWII era reference piece in MR a few years back which I found decidedly more helpful when it came to what railroading was all about in those particular years.
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