This article covers motive power, passenger and freight trains, and environmentally friendly locomotives of the year 1994.

This issue comes with two scale drawings of F7 A and B units. The articles discusses F7 and F3 Betterments, Maintenance Modifications, Painting & Lettering, Repainting, Renumbering, Leased Units, and Dispositions. There are lots of detail drawings, close-up photos of items in the text, and accident photos (for seeing details that might otherwise be blocked from view).

Prototype information and how the author modeled it using an IHC SW1 carbody, frame and trucks from an Athearn SW1500, and a Sagami motor.

Covers the history of these second-generation engines, accompanied by several prototype photos.

Modeling a Canadian Pacific MLW RS 18 Control Cab. Includes prototype and modeling photos, and a parts list for super-detailing this unit.

The author describes how he painted and detailed three Life-Like SW9 models. Includes model and prototype photos, and materials lists.

This article covers modeling a CP Rail GP38. Includes construction details, and a parts list.

This installment covers the releases of this engine to the New York, New Haven & Hartford ("NH"). Includes lots of prototype photos.

Alco built 161 of these from 1956 to 1963. The author used a Model Power RS11 as the basis for his model. Article includes interior and exterior photos of the model.

Covers the history of the Baldwin Locomotives Works' DR6-4-2000, a.k.a. "Shark" because of its profile. Lots of prototype photos of both A and B units, mostly PRR. Includes an ownership summary.

Most EMD switchers showed little changes in over 30 years.

EMD produced matching SD units to their GP units, but they never did an SD30 (nor a SD20). The scale drawing shows what an SD30 might have looked like.

This article covers how the author built four Baldwin switchers, two DS 4-4-10, a VO 1000, and a DS 4-4-6. Scale drawings and detailed construction photos are included.

The article covers how to convert the Athearn SD40-2 model into a SD38-2, a GP40X, a SD45-2, and a GP50. Includes model photos and cutting diagrams for each of those models.

Super-detailing this locomotive in both HO and N-scale. Includes prototype photos and parts lists,

The article includes prototype photos and many modeling details to build a replica of this locomotive with a Rail Power Products' body shell.

The article describes building this model starting with the Life-Like GP20 (a low-nose version). Includes model and prototype photos, a materials list, and the historical roster of this locomotive type for the BN and WP.

In addition to the brief history of the engine modeled, the article describes how the author used a Athearn SW7 and an SW1500 body cast to build this model. Includes several diagrams, close-up photos, and prototype photos.

The author used an Atlas RSD-12 frame and a RS-3 shell to model this engine. Includes a parts list and a prototype photo.

The author modified and custom-painted this engine for the Kalmbach employee club layout. Topics includes cab details, body preparations, spray painting, applying lettering, pilot details, assembly, and weathering with powdered pastels. Includes a parts list.

Kitbash the EMD SDL39. Includes how to kitbash from parts of other locomotives and a side bar on the prototype SDL39.

Prototype photos and parts list for HO- and N-scale models.

Converting a 3-axle EMD sideframe to a GE sideframe, as part of placing a Bachmann Spectrum CW40-8 shell on a Kato SD40-2 mechanism.

Installing details and painting this Athearn model. Includes prototype and model photos as well as a detailing parts list.

Prototype information and photos, and how to model these units in HO and N scale.

Prototype and modeling photos. Includes installation of Sountraxx decoder and speaker.

Prototype and modeling photos.

The author installs marking lights on an Intermountain SD40T-2 Snoot. Includes materials list, decoder settings, and close-up photos of the installation.

Prototype photos. Details materials list.

Prototype photos and detailing parts list for HO and N-scale models.

The author describes how he did the conversion.

Prototype photos.

The author created six different models from the Atlas GP40 to add "color" to his CSX standard roster. Includes photos and descriptions of each.

This one-page article describes the history of the prototype unit and how the author created his model.

Various prototype photos of the Central Valley locomotives and their various color schemes. Includes a track diagram of the Central Vermont and Grand Trunk.

Information about how to build and paint a Rail Power Products GE C32-8. Includes model and prototype photos.

Prototype photos and descriptions and parts list for detailing an HO-scale model by Athearn and an N-scale model by InterMountain.

Covers removing molded-on grab irons, installing stirrup steps, adding m.u. receptacles and hoses, installing grab irons, painting, and weathering the Kato PA-1 and PB-1 units. Includes a parts list.

The article discusses detailing an Atlas Alco C-424. Includes model close-up photos and detail drawings. Also included is one prototype photo taken in 1963.

The author describes how he detailed an Atlas model to represent the engine on the Susquehanna. He models summer time so the roof hatches and engine comparment doors are modeled open. The engine is heavily weathered. Includes 1950's prototype photos, and model photos, including construction. A parts list is also included.

Model and prototype photos.

Turn a good-looking Atlas model into a real stand-out on your roster. Includes grab-iron construction photos.

The author modeled this engine using the Athearn GP40-2. The article includes prototype and model photos, and a parts list.

Modifying and detailing Intermountain's FT's. Installing drawbars, improving wiring, improving grills, installing visors, windshield wipers, crew, and classification flags.

Multiple-unit electrical cables and hoses, brake lines. Includes prototype photo of an F3.

Weathering diesel locomotives using fingerprint powder.

A small business, Backyard Rails, builds large-scale locomotives. Photos of their operation and their workmanship are shown in the article.

Using a Cary cast white-metal body on a Model Power E7, this article describes how accurately model a Missouri Pacific E7.

Installing ditch lights in an Atlas Dash 8.

Prototype photos (NYC and SP) and scale drawings of the E7 "B" unit are shown on this page.

Prototype photos and a scale drawing accompany this brief article about this locomotive.

50 years of EMD model GP's, all scales.

Starting with an Atlas GP35 Phase 1, the author built a GP35 Phase 2. Shows model photos, modification diagrams, and close-up detail photos.

The author converted an Atlas SD35 and replaced the shell with one from an Atlas GP38. Includes a prototype photo of this rare locomotive.

This is a two-page scale drawing of the locomotive from all sides.

Prototype photos, scale drawings.

This first installment covers the SW1000 and SW1001. These were produced in 1966 by EMD and had 1,000hp engines. The SW1000 was used for general yard duty, and the SW1001 was used in dedicated industries. The article contains prototypes photos of many railroads, and scale drawings of both models.

This installment covers the SW1500. Contains many prototype photos, production roster, and scale drawings.

Includes photos of Chicago & Northwestern, Burlington Northern, Frisco, Conrail, Missouri Pacific, Southern, and Santa Fe prototypes. Also include are scale drawings of the locomotive.

Photos of partially dismantled GP7 and GP9 locomotives.

Describes the locomotive and how it differs from the AC4400. Includes many prototype photos and scale drawings. Also includes a brief paragraph on how to model these in HO.

Western Pacific

Prototype photos.

Using his company's machine bent grab irons, the author shows how he installs them on a locomotive. http://www.BLMAModels.com/

Painting the Stewart Hobbies' U25B.

A kitbashing an Atlas RS1, modifying the mechanism, the body, and painting.

What parameters are used in the real world to determine the number of required locomotives.

Painting a GP38-2 to match the IC's black scheme. Includes information about super-detailing the model before painting. Includes prototype photo of road number 9567.

Improving the electrical contacts on Con-Cor SW1500 and Kato SD45.

Changing the interiors.

Modifying various body parts.

Prototype photos, parts list for super-detailing HO and N-scale models made by Athearn and Kato, and a historical description of this 4,400-hp locomotive.

The author describes how he super-detailed an SP SD40, an SP GP35, and a Cotton Belt GP35. Includes model photos of the finished models and parts lists.

The author describes how he made his Chicago & North Western GP50 no. 5050 from an Athearn GP35 by stretching its frame. Many detail drawings and photos are included.

The author took several kits and shells to build this Danville, Tidewater & Carolina SD45T-2 "tunnel motor" engine. Includes model photos.

The articles describes how the author build an A-B-A set of BNSF's F45 in the latest paint scheme (freelanced). Includes model photos, parts list, and cutting guide for the chasis modifications necessary.

The author shows how he cut a Kato F7 to add the prototypical extra 4 feet of body length to build a FP7 (passenger service engine). There are lots of step-by-step photos.

Has prototype and model photos. The author started with two Athearn SW1000 to create two models that were coupled nose-to-nose, as per the prototype. Parts list is included.

The author modeled this unique engine using the RPP shell and an Athearn F7 drive. Includes a prototype and several model photos.

Cover photo of a fantastic snow setting for this locomotive. Article includes prototype photos of Delaware & Hudson # 7415, #7604, and #7615. Many close-up photos of how to detail this model. The author started with Athearn GP-35s.

Putting a GP18 shell on a GP20 mechanism. Shows frame and shell modification needed to complete this project.

Prototype photos. Model details list.

Prototype and model photos of the GP38 made from an Athearn GP38-2 by back-dating the model. A complete detailing parts list is provided.

Using an Atlas U25B as a starting model, the author describes the modifications and painting he did to model two of these engines. Includes model and prototype photos.

RailPower Technologies' Green Goat is a 2,000-hp switcher engine that uses 320 batteries and a small 100hp engine to do its work. Includes many photos and a scale drawing.

The article reviews the Fairbanks-Morse H10-44 switcher and includes prototype photos, scale drawings, unit numbers and their information.

This article covers all the diesel locomotives used to pull passenger trains. In each section the available HO and N scale models are listed. It covers Alco's DL-109 and PA's, EMD's E-series, F-series, and Fairbanks-Morse's Erie-builts, Trainmasters, H-15-44, and General Electric's U-boats and Dash 8's. A handy diagram showing the time-line of when which model was active is included.

Prototype photos, drawings

Covers the S-2 switcher in general and the Boston & Maine in specific. The author used an undecorated Atlas/Roco S-2 to build his model. Several prototype and model photos are included.

Prototype and model photos.

Article include several prototype photos of these diesels that were inherited from Penn Central. The majority of the article is following the author along with how he build one of these model pretty much from the ground up. Lots of detailed model photos, and a parts list.

Conrail has 116 of these engines. Starting with an Athearn model the author describes how he built a model of this engine.

The author used resin kits to build the models. Includes prototype and model photos, close-up detail construction photos, and a parts list.

Companies lease equipment to see if it is useful to them, without actually having to buy it. GATX (General American Transportation Corp) leases equipment to railroads. The author used a Con-Cor HO-scale Conrail MP15 to create a model of the MP15 leased by St. Lawrence & Atlantic RR in 1991. A bill of materials and several detail diagrams are included.

Using a Front Range phase III GP9 and a Proto 2000 GP18, the author describes the changes he made to accurately model these two engines. Prototype and model photos are included, as well as a parts list and a listing of the LV's paint schemes.

The author built this model using an Atlas RS-3 chassis and an undecorated Bowser/Stewart Phase IIa RS-3 shell. Includes prototype, model, and construction photos, as well as a parts list for this superdetailed model.

Prototype and model photos. Detail photos of the various enhancements made to the Life-Like 2K SD60 model.

Using an Athearn model, the author created a modern version of an SD40T-2. Includes parts identification diagrams, lots of detail diagrams, and a full parts list.

Prototype photos as well as model photos are included in this article about the EMD locomotives. There are also construction/detailing and paint masking photos of the models.

Using an Athearn GP50 to build this model. Includes prototype photos, unit roster, modification diagrams and photos, and parts list.

Includes parts list, model and prototype photos for superdetailing models for this modern prototype.

Adding cab details, painting, decal lettering, and weathering. Prototype and model photos.

Article includes prototype and model photos. After discussing the prototype, the article describes how to model this locomotive using Kato's SD80MAC and SD90/43MAC.

Prototype and model photos. Includes paint scheme and chronology from 1948 through 1972.

Prototype and model photos. Includes a materials list.

Model and prototype photos. Many detail installation and construction photos.

Using a now no longer available shell, the author created this model using the Atlas RSD4/5 mechanism. The article also includes prototype photos and scale drawings.

The author started with an Athearn GP38-2 model and super-detailed it. Includes detailing diagram and model photos.

Super-detailing and installing DCC and sound in two GP9's. Article shows many close-up photos, as well as a diagram for a brake cylinder pipe bending jig.

Model and prototype photos.

Includes prototype photos and HO-scale drawings of this 2,000 hp diesel locomotive built in 1969.

A photo article of the author's roster of 1970's and 1980's Missouri Pacific locomotives.

The author talks about why the EMD E6 is his favorite locomotive. Includes several prototype photos.

The author took a AHM FP45 model, shortened the model, added and removed details, and converted it into the first F45 BN unit acquired after the merger with the GN. Includes model and prototype photos, scale drawings, and some construction details.

Includes prototype and model photos, and covers repainting the Minitrix models.

Although similar to a FP unit, these engines were unique in that they were able to run off of diesel or electric. The electric third rail of the Grand Central Terminal (where steam and diesel exhaust could not be used) required this odd arrangement. Prototype photos and scale drawings accompany this article.

Building and painting a B36-7. Includes prototype and model photos, and a parts list for super-detailing the model.

The author converts an undecorated Atlas RS-3 into a model of this locomotive. Article includes prototype photos and model details.

Prototype photo and scale drawings with a brief description of this engine found on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu in 1947.

Information about painting this model

Taking an Athearn model, and adding some details, produced a model of this engine. Parts list included as well as some model photos.

Prototype photos.

Modeling and painting this Alco Main Central model in O-scale.

Modifying the typical Japanese-looking electric engine into an Americanized diesel switcher. Includes installing a decoder. They are part of the Kato Pocket line.

Installing power into a Life-Like E6/7/8 B unit. The article includes preparations for making the model ready for a DCC decoder, but it is also useful to those