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[ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]//-->OMAGAZINESept/Oct 2009uIssue #46ScaleTrainsCelebratingthe art of1:48 modelingDisplay until October 31, 2009US $6.95• Can $8.95Celebratingthe art of1:48 modelingIssue #46Sept/Oct 2009Vol. 8 - No. 5Editor-in-Chief/PublisherJoe Giannovariojag@oscalemag.comArt DirectorJaini Giannovariojaini@oscalemag.comManaging EditorMike Cougilleditor@oscalemag.comAdvertising ManagerJeb Kriigeljeb@oscalemag.comCustomerServiceSpike BeagleComplaintsL’il BearContributorSTedByrneGeneClemenTsCareyHinCHroGerC. ParkerSubscription rates: 6 issuesuS - Periodical Class DeliveryuS - First Class Delivery (1 year only)Canada/MexicooverseasOFeatures41215212734395053911174260606162ScaleTrainsMAGAZINEThe Connecticut & Ohio Railroad – George MullerDetails Under Cover – L. Lee DavisGot Trash? – William NesbitA modest sized O Scale layout that fits the author’s needs.An often overlooked detail that adds character to a scene.Another overlooked detail that adds realism to a scene.Need a small business on your railroad? This one fits any layout.It’s time O Scale moved into the 21st century with a better wheel design.Basically a bunch of sticks, this flat car is an easy build.Is modeling in P48 really as difficult as many believe?Another use for those tiny marvels of lighting.B&O Concrete and Steel Coal Trestle – Ed BommerThe Case for a Better Wheel Profile – Gary SchraderMoW Flat Car #X-926 – William DavisA Closer Look at P48 – Mike CougillLighting Switch Stand Lanterns with LEDs – Charlie Morrill2009 O Scale National ReportuS$35uS$45uS$55uS$80Visa, MC, AMEX & Discover accepted. Call 610-363-7117 duringEastern time business hours. Dealers contact KalmbachPublishing, 800-558-1544 ext 818 or email tss@kalmbach.comAdvertisers call for info.www.oscalemag.com • ©2009 All Rights ReservedPrinted in the u.S.A.DepartmentsThe Art of Finescale – Mike CougillThe Modern Image – Gene ClementsReader FeedbackProduct News & ReviewsBuy-Sell-Trade AdsEvents ListingAdvertiser IndexObservations – Joe GiannovarioO Scale Trains Magazine, ISSN 1536-9528, USPS 24457,ispublished bi-monthly in January, March, May, July, Septem-ber and November byOSTMagazine, PO Box 289, ExtonPA 19341-0289. Subscription rates: US Periodical Mail,$35 per year, US First Class Mail, $45 per year; Canada orMexico, $55 per year; Overseas, $80 per year. Postage paidat West Chester, Pa., and additional mailing offices.PoSt-MAStErsend address changes to O Scale Trains Magazine,PO Box 289, Exton PA 19341-0289.Contributors:O Scale Trains welcomes your feature articles,photos, and drawings. Such material should be sent to the aboveaddress for possible publication. If we accept, you will be notifiedimmediately. For more information concerning article preparationguidelines, please send an SASE to the above address and requestour “Guide For Authors” or visit our website at: www.oscalemag.com.Cover:The Waterbury-Maybrook Turn arrives at Maybrook onGeorge Muller’s O Scale Connecticut & Ohio Railroad featured inthis issue. The story begins on Page 4.Centerspread:Two CO units sit idle waiting to be called up forduty outside the Diesel shops at Waterbury on George Muller’sConnecticut & Ohio Railroad.Sept/Oct ’09 - O Scale Trains • 3The Connecticut & Ohio RailroadText by George Mullerphotos by Doug ScottThe Diesel shop at Waterbury.I’ve been a model railroader since I got my first train set atage 7. After a period of modeling in HO, I discovered 2-Rail OScale at the New Haven Society of Model Engineers.I built the Connecticut & Ohio Railroad in my Middletown,Connecticut basement between 1961 and 1985. I moved thelayout from Middletown to Eastham, Massachusetts in 1996.The experience of cutting apart and moving what I thoughtwas the ideal layout was painful.The railroad is mostly rebuilt now. The idea of buildingthe benchwork in sections paid off, saving me lots of timein reconstructing the layout. Of course, it doesn’t fit in myEastham basement the same as before, so some sections werereused and others had to be completely disassembled andparts saved for new sections. The new layout is still the Con-necticut & Ohio RR, but the modeled part of it is moved alittle farther west by the elimination of Middletown, Connecti-cut which was modeled on the old layout.Minimum radius on the main line is 48 inches, with 27inch long easements between every curve and straight track.Most of the track is handlaid using code 172 steel rail andquarter-inch thick basswood ties. Sidings use 1/8-inch thick tiesand code 125 rail. Code 148 rail was used in the Port Jervisyard. Modular sections use Atlas flex track and Roco switches.Most switches are number 6, with number 5 in the Waterburyyard, and curved switches and double slips where necessary. Irun first and second generation Diesel power, with passengerequipment, and freight cars up to 89 scale feet in length.the LayoutThe Connecticut & Ohio “just growed” like Topsy inUncleTom’s Cabinby necessity and to fit the available space (SeeFig. 1). The Waterbury section (saved from a previous layout)was to go against the back wall, but the builder didn’t leaveenough room between the wall and the outside door. Aftermuch head scratching, I decided to turn the section aroundand put it along the center posts. Seventeen inches had to becut off the passenger terminal so a two foot aisle could be putin around the other end. The rest of the layout was built fromsalvaged track and track boards or built new.The layout is built as a walk-around design. I follow thetrain using Crest radio control while operating switches andblock power at local control panels.Almost all of the track is laid, and some scenery is in. Back-drops of 1/8-inch hardboard were hung from the center beambehind Waterbury and on the other side behind Port Jervis.They were painted sky blue, along with the basement walls.Clouds were dry brushed on with white paint. A suspendedceiling was installed with fluorescent light fixtures.I grew up around the Erie and Erie-Lackawanna Railroad nearCleveland, Ohio. My father worked there his entire career, soit has been infiltrating my Connecticut & Ohio Railroad slowly.There’s a close affiliation, like the Chesapeake & Ohio and theB&O at one time. The E-L uses the Connecticut & Ohio to enterNew England, and vice versa, the CO uses the E-L to enter Cleve-land. The E-L runs the passenger service on the CO.There are two interchanges between the CO and the E-L atMaybrook, NY and Port Jervis, NY. The E-L comes into May-brook and then continues across the Hudson River on theCO, branching off to New Haven, CT. At Port Jervis, there isanother junction with the E-L’s New Jersey line.The E-L is a loop around the basement with two holding4 • O Scale Trains - Sept/Oct ’09Fig. 1Waterbury – Maybrook Turn WMT1 arriving at Waterbury.Passenger train switching at Waterbury terminal.tracks hidden along the left side wall. The Connecticut &Ohioline is point to point between a reversing loop at the west endand a wye at the other end. The loop and wye tail track areused for staging trains.Taking a trip around the railroad, we start at the CO East hold-ing track which represents Providence, Hartford, Springfield, andMiddletown. It has room for two 18 car trains, including enginesand caboose. The trains are necessarily parked end to end, mean-ing that the farthest train must enter the holding track first beforeboth trains are turned around. Trains are turned around by reach-ing over a low backdrop, which hides the holding track, andswapping the engines and cabooses.Looking West over Waterbury yard.Sept/Oct ’09 - O Scale Trains • 5 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]