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July 2005

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Contents
Big and getting bigger >>Online Bonus: More on the Bay State Museum Club
By J. Robert McLaughlin
The Bay State Museum club builds from west to east
Modeling modern highways >>Online Bonus: Road signs for your layout
By Pelle Søeborg
All the information you need to build realistic roads
A realistic N scale fleet >>Online Bonus: More N scale locomotives
By Tom Danneman
Small changes give diesels a uniform level of detail
A window to big vistas
By Flemming Örneholm
This HO scale layout appears bigger than it is
Weathering a little at a time
By Robert Smaus
Techniques that go beyond "recipes"
John Allen's Timesaver revisited
By Ed Vondrak
The classic switching problem along a wall or on a curve
Moving mountains
By Cody Grivno
An O scale layout that takes Appalachia on the road
Transporting your trains
By John Van Bramer
Build this carrying case to easily move rolling stock
Illinois interurban
By David L. Waddington
A steel-sheathed wooden car with ITS standard features
Departments
From the Editor
News & Products
Railway Post Office
Information Desk
Workshop
Step by Step
DCC Corner
Product Reviews
>>Online Bonus: Video of the latest HO GE diesel with sound
>>Online Bonus: Video of the NYC Niagara in action
New HO Niagara from Broadway Limited is great for the Great Steel Fleet
Athearn HO scale SD45T-2 is a mountain climber
HO GE diesel offers gold-standard performance
Trains of Thought
Trackside Photos
Index of Advertisers
MR Project Illustrated
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