Weathering, upgrading and developing a standard for your
        
        
          rolling stock.
        
        
          
            Locomotives:
          
        
        
          Loco kitbash to model a specific locomotive or unique fea-
        
        
          tures to a specific railroad
        
        
          Tuning up your locomotive to improve its performance
        
        
          Lighting, decoder, and sound installation
        
        
          Detailing of the trucks and body to improve the appearance
        
        
          of your locomotive
        
        
          
            Track:
          
        
        
          Lineside and support structures for the railroad
        
        
          Track details. Yes, the track is a model.
        
        
          Bridges, from small culverts to the large three-span
        
        
          through truss.
        
        
          Building turnouts, diamonds, highway crossings with gates,
        
        
          and signals.
        
        
          So, here are more than 16
        
        
          topics to get the creative
        
        
          juices going. There are many
        
        
          more possibilities.
        
        
          What are we looking for in
        
        
          an article?
        
        
          We need a clear and con-
        
        
          cise manuscript describing
        
        
          the project. Don't be vague.
        
        
          Read it aloud, to yourself.
        
        
          If it doesn’t make sense to
        
        
          you, don’t assume that we
        
        
          will understand what you
        
        
          intended.
        
        
          MRH-May 2013