This Month
May 2025
Vol. 94/No. 5
Features:
New Baltimore & Fair Haven
by GREGORY RICH, MMR — We visit a beautiful freelanced HO scale layout set in the late 1920s.
Gunderson SP&S 50’ Boxcars
by JAMES KINKAID — Built for Spokane, Portland & Seattle, these cars served into the BNSF era.
NS&T 17: Build an Electric Loco in Brass
by TREVOR MARSHALL — Using “old school” methods like resistance soldering to assemble a brass model.
Detail and Weather Single-Sheathed Boxcars
by CLARK PROPST —These mid-century wood-bodied freight cars could be found from coast to coast.
Kitbash from Harriman to Basalt
by ROBERT SCHLEICHER — This kit can be easily modified for many common station prototypes in HO.
Easy-to-Build Harbor Pilings
by JOSEPH KREISS — Make realistic details for your harbor scenes in an evening or two.
Departments
Safety Valve – Letters from our readers
Receiving Yard – Product and industry news compiled by Harry K. Wong
Test Track – Product Reviews
Railbooks – Book news and reviews
Craftsman Timetable – Scheduled events and notices
Craftsman Workshop
Painting & Weathering
Company Photographer
The Layout Doctor
Diverging Points – Opinion by Jason Shron
Editor’s Notebook- Commentary by Otto M. Vondrak
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