MRH staff notes - 5
Bruce Petrarca will be back next month, bright-eyed and bushy-
tailed, raring to show you more DCC cleverness.
In this issue ...
This month’s cover story features part one of James Eager’s
City of
Miami
car-for-car name passenger train build. The City of Miami
was an Illinois Central crack passenger train from the 1940s, and
James shows you how to model it from his carefully researched
data. James’ modeling techniques can be applied to any such pas-
senger train project, so don’t skip the article just because you
don’t think you would model this specific train. Don’t miss all the
good tips!
Animation master Geoff Bunza is back with another layout anima-
tion project, this time making a model railfan photographer to put
into a layout scene. And follow along as Mike Tylick shows you his
tricks for modeling tar paper and similar such structure roofs.
We present the third place winner of our $500 layout design con-
test this month: Ben Kaur. Ben’s design shows what’s possible using
free design software, and we like how Ben used the free 3D design
package SketchUp to explore fitting the benchwork into the room.
Finally, Assistant Editor Don Hanley finishes off his building the
1950’s Erie boxcars series by showing us how he painted and deca-
led his resin cars.
Regular Columnist Charlie Comstock continues the saga of building
the new central peninsula housing his layout’s major yard, and in
the process he’s sharing the trials and tribulations of making sure
MRH-Jul 2013
