+ 60¢ <AMERICA'S RAILROADING HERITAGE ... AND TYCO ONE OF THE GREAT ‘STOCK’ LOCOMOTIVES Locomotive and Tender was designed " locomotive and intended primarily. for smaller railroads. Catal value of the lead and trailing trucks to enter switches easily when running in either dit But they were so ideally suited to mid-west plains that literally hundreds of them were purchased and employed for years by such roads as the Santa Fe, Burlington, Mil waukee and the Northern Pacific in Mainline freight service. Eastern roads found them equally useful Tyco selected the Alco 0-30 as its prototype and the Clean-styled, beautifully detailed model shown here is the It your dealer is out of stock on TYCO color eatalon: result. Tyco’s Dyna-balanced, 5-pole nylon worm and gear drive motor insures performance that fully matches its appearance. Operating headlight included, See it at your dealer's. Lighted R/T/R, Series T234 $21.98. Kit form, K234 $14.98, Tyco The Other Vame $0r Quality v8 25c to Dept. TC TYCO INDUSTRIES, INC., Woodbury Heights, NJ, 06097April 1968 Railroader Bure THE TRAIN WIRE OF BILL OF LADING OX TEE COVER. Do Goh Lae Port Rema i: prodally became’ ‘lub pike and profited rom the combined ete pou fal ‘altos The. ever phe ar . minal Ry. By Jim Boyd 22s ‘Tower was recorded by Hit Boyd, who i Lake Bort & Neon By By Ses Bay % Zope was receded by Sin Bort wb ow Ban Gots eet bac eso Falter ant on ba ie mene ber ofthe dub. For me pices of His Traction on the WET gt TO sytem ace page 28 ‘Secondory system meanders over, wnder, and eround the ein rod [NEW PRODUCTS ... Suncosst Models i Stern am sro Pat” mene a: | Sertch a piggyback. By W. A. Gardner. © = a8 tira for’ © and HO. eal whe wich le oe Bh anlar so po eters mae Te ane PO cg shee Conta on pget || Ralls inthe sweets, By Dovid Richter. = + =a Wik on example from the CES and Senta Fe in Cave Springs ee Trackside photos... and how they are selected, - = = a8 Photos vse inthe Trackside Photos poges brie ewer Willd V. Anderson - Managing Editor = Gordon Odegird = = Amociate Editor we. Attimber deck truss bridge. By Jack Work, - = = BR John T. Hla ~ =~ Amociate Editor inte your longest staan ses how it improves the sens, Margaret J. Ters ~~ Editorial Secretary George A. Glo 2 2 = = Are Disector ‘Beam headlight for loco or trolley. By Gene Pearson. - = 58 Rede ag, inant Ast Director Honest 1 sorclight sor of heodlomp it now oveilble, ALL Schmidt ~~ Photographer He aeotnewtesatiet ‘Are and Layout: La Verne Bleifus, Robert Wegeer, Lawrence Lust, Joho A. Swatsley, Kathleen Datiy A.C Karmacs, Ponustien Prototype drawings: ACPs Witch Hiker flotears. = = = sss 88 Coldwater freight station. On the New York Central. = 50 Timber decktruss bridge. - 88 Departments andl miscellany: Off the ain wire A the vate s Rathooders Rirory == 7 hocks photos a Schedles = 8 Modal the month ” cure rode topes == 10 Ballwin = e ‘sous’ SSL "Suae"heeuetd ss Uae Rellwoy post office MR clinics Foshiog ghte a arc cade Concont =e Index of edvetiaes ” April 1968. ’‘The new 1968 RMS Catalog is now available. Be sure to get your free copy today Writes REPLICA MAIL. SPECIALTIES mo MAIL ORDER ‘custom PAINTED LOCOMOTIVES THE TOY sHoPS #107 Factory Building Wood Crofnmen kit—HO Scala Feotwres dcut wally mitered foundation Firven oreo. die". $498. ponpoi apo moet woRKs fox Haze Evonon, Uh, 60204 Continued from page 3 styrene in 010" to 000" thickness, plus she seale strips 2", 4°, 6% 8° and i2" in width, Styrene sheets and stripe are also offered separately. . .: Champion Decal Cale new decals are svailable in O and HO scale for jumbo Santa Fe caboose lettering, Burlington caboose (aluminum ‘oF gray), splt-ral Minos Central Teter Ing for hood diesel and Erie Lackawanna passenger cars. Fine Scale Mini~ atures hes a pockege of metal tree stumps at 10 for §2; possibly these could be used by 0, 5, and HO seales as small, amedium, or large stumps - Holgate & Reynolds's new HO seale SP high-level ‘commuter coaches as used on the “penin= ula” run into San Francisco shotld be fvailable in your hotby shop. HAR is falso marketing 2 snowplow ‘casting, for Tow-hood diesel. HSM is. working fon an HO kit based on the Wells Fargo Banke built at Columbia, Calif, in 1857 Everett Smith i currently ofering a ‘uisde-braced boxcar in TT seale; the Plymouth diese recendy reported in Of the Train Wire has been delayed in order te rework some patterns for beter deta "AHMC hae announced ite entry into ‘he N seale train get market; no details as yet. IN THE NEWS... A new importer of ‘brass locomotives in HO seale s Hallas ‘Models of Dallas, Tex. This began some time ago when Me, Eobbye Hall of the well-known Bebkye Hall's Hobby House realized there war a need for models of MKT and other local prototypes not here- tofore imported. A catalog has now been LU) Olena 7a 7 a ae Uk ede Pee 2 COMING! OVER 50 NEW ITEMS THIS YEAR! SEE YOUR LOCAL HoBY DEALER ENGINE SHED KIT $17.98 ey een THIS YEAR THAN aera tts OF COMPETITION ELECTRIC CROSSING GATES $14.98 ELECTRIC TURNTABLE with CONTROL PANEL $39.98 issued and material is on order, soon to be announced in detal. Roads covered range from IC through Mopac, MIT, Santa Fe, Frisco, TAP, Rock Island, Bur~ lington, ‘and soon.” The. firm's” EMD GP was already announced in the [December MR issue ed by Hallmark. It expected about April 1 for forwarding to Gealers ove you ever otended on NMRA cvgionel fenvection? Thayre fon —ond bald i ery Ioeatty. NABA member eft $500 6 year. Manton your ovgee Nation] Medel Ralroed Auodtion 7.0, Bon 1526.4, Station © ‘Centon, Ob 44706 Pah eT aS) for MODEL RAILROADING in, Trek, Sractre, onal, Par Sein TROS ea Wholerale Sine 19 2129 W. 47h St, Ch No, 0851 —Track segment 0882 con be owrongnd ot engler of © Ininimom of Ti dagrect," Overall da, 10% Model RailroaderSs NEw JGAS ELECTRIC MOTOR & TRAILER 1968 ‘HO’ CATALOG 0 seconyaTine WaLtHans: sow uorion [silanes pow EE a ‘DYWA-MODEL PRODUCTS PI Steers P82 Oleverien, PE Contre JORDAN HIGHWAY mintATURES. 2191925 Mode "Tory it), §1,29F aac] Tooter pup tp oan a8] Str THE DETAIL catavoss Moe wo 0 Aso aratabie tn 1967 © anaeg Ee April 1968. 5IN THE MARKET . . This has been banner season in model ralroading. Most dealers sold more HO trains and. acces series than in any year before. Some had emerkable increases. If this were all T had to say about it, it would be good news, But put_on top of that the fact that N seale soldat least 15 percents well as HO, and that this business is in fddition to HO business and in « top-eo~ for year and you really have something to think about. Tl rave a bit more. I understand that business wat off generally in many of out country’s and Canada’s shopping centers. Don’t ask me why; I'm just all the more ‘lad that model ralroading ‘Was food Bisiness to be in this seeoon — expecally ood. ‘Don't forget these two fects: HO was higher than ever; N seale was the icing cn that high cake. This ean happen again ext year if things continue the way they fare going. ‘The recipe requires an impor {ant ingredient —new products in both HO and Nvscales, There might be a tend- eney to let HO ride when 90 much ew tooling’ must be done in N scale. “AS rarket stimulants both seales ean benefit From new production like never before Tm talking about new production of items, not overproduction in. quantity — tnd this brings up touchy point. ‘Last year when I warned that Ns could get into trouble from overprod tion, some individual modelers who are working in N scale took st as a slap. T teant it as # help. T would rather sce al the makers that get Into NV seale stay in it When HO train sets came out some Years ago, some af the makers produced {co much’ and hurt themselves. Some of therm folded. Had the production quanti= tics been closer to the market need, most of them might still be here, and doing better. Some of those we lost were pretty big. ones, to, ‘This year, dealers told me they could have sold more in WV scale if they could have gotten ald of more merchandise This ie not too bad, really —its. far Letter than having too much om hand. All down the line the profits are greater fohen you miss the target low instead of high, Put in another form” 90. percent of the potential sales made at normal price is rouch mere. profitable th porvent sold ata p Temove therm. The that bullsceye sand alm a tifle Low seems like many in the industry aimed Well this year —L. FLW. LITERATURE . .. Remember Hilton and rosenie scan wo Heke 1 E Due's great bosk The Blectric Interurben Raiiweys in America? Coauthor John F. Duo has dene s similar wore, The Inter city Blectrie Radiooy Industry sx Conada, published by the University of Toronto ress. No photor to speak of, but that 4s not the purpose of the book. It ie a record of just What its title cays in his= tory, technical progress, and veonomie dificulty. Simple mape illustrate 8 num= ber of the systems. Just looked over an Lteresting booklet, the Exhibit Guide to the National Museum of Transport at Saint Louis. It sontaine brief bat com= prehensive motes on all of the loceme- tives, cars, and other railreadiana to be . Mode! Roilroaderseen st the museum, No price on our (copy, 20 We don’t know if tie available by mail, You can check this by writing ‘the museum, Address S015 Barretts Stax tion Ral, Saint Louis, Mo. 68122... Lat fet issue of the 8 Gaugian, Tolono, Il hhas an interesting piece on trees showing the rate of growth of m Dotila fir and illustrations, of ‘other hardwoods. Pub- lisher Don Heimburger informs us that the price har gone 1 35 cents per lasue, $2 lor the six issues a year. -'N Gauge With ‘he new postal rate increase, you t send 12 Grcent starmpe instead of Srecnters for your free subscription, OVERSEAS ... A new onganization mown as the N Gauge Society has been formed in England with the purpose of ‘working for the beticrment of N gauge ‘modeling. The word “gauge” was select- ed dolibarately for the name of the Society because of the use of the tom bby most manufacturers to describe com- rmercisl products; snd to avoid possinle confusion arith the 2 Bim. Seale Associa tion, which champions a slightly larger scale, Interested overseas readers can fet details from the Honourable Secretary, Gauge Society, 28 Woodside View, Cot- tingley, Bingley, Yorkshire, England. lent of 18 pages of rowing, By" 11" (21:28 mm). Paperbound, 7 tant about 51.30; odd 25 cant for posoge). Museon ‘This latest publication of the series is of particular Interest to American mod= fers, since it contains not only. the ala ready frequently published woodcuts of the Grant locomotive but also addiional Setail drawings, making this very com= plete set for building the famous 4-4-0, ‘This was the engine that was sent to the Paris Exposition inthe late 1860's; later ran ‘on the Reck Island, sinning a small contract with i speed. The engine Shocked. some Europeans at Paris with Its gaudy coloring. In later years, when U.S locomotives were painted drably, it wes In Eusope and England that colors and striping cxine into fashion "In the came folder are drawings of a very early locomotive used an the frst French rallway, aside view af ane of the coal wagons it hauled, several passenger ‘earriges of the “mnulliple stageenach” patter, and a 1905 Wagon-Lite seeping ar All are in © scale, 45:1 proportion Other books of 7 Besides Scrapbook No, 25, Museon di Rodo has issued nos 20, 21, and 22 at April 1968 SPECIAL MAIL-ORDER atta WALUES Ean HO RR. PARTS| GRAB-BAG Pes EE39% ca. saeenttnnn: TRAIN SETS ET ro ee eee the same price, There are a number of rctve LLOYD'S etch Oe _iDTa vor Ra. — Towson, ma 21204 yt ‘CoamrTs DLT CATALOG econ buat aluThe fable of « coupler, ‘or, Hooked by a horn ‘Once upon a time (as in all good fairy coupler which Feceived the blessing of the NMRA was finally designed. It supposedly bad all the merits of the then-popular Mantua ‘coupler, plus a bit mare resemblance to & vale coupler, In fect, it wes eo well re~ garded that the NMRA tock credit for i Twas called the NMRA coupler and was referred to by. this name for" many yours thot the NMRA coupler was not quite as food ss everyone hed been saying. MB Stopped calling it the NMRA coupler and fering to it a5. horn-hook coupler, However, it was not easy to die~ fown the nowaugly stepchild: even after a the "NMRA. couple ‘So MR took a drastic step, hopin to ty dragon once and forall told statement om page 41 of the December 1967 MR that the term NMRA coupler “has been ised incorsecty te describe this coupler” Moral: “If you are going to tell a li, sake it big enough and maybe somebody will believe it NORMAN MOORE April 1968 4 » AUTHENTIC HO REPRODUCTIONS IN BRASS 5 7 TLUSTRATED FOLDER 15¢ SEE YOUR DEALER TODAY +o, sox75 riwconte cauromsn MODEL RAILROADER BOUND VOLUME NO. 34 NOW READY! 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