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OSN 163 2002

Contents Overview

On the Cover: Dick Lindquist's new Chicago, Burlington & Southern layout. The cover photo is CB&S 2000, a Weavers Models Valley Flyer that has been custom painted for the CB&S. Here the Flyer rounds a curve. This layout will be one of the many on the layout tours at Return of the Century (the 2002 O Scale National Convention. Photos by Greg Heier

Features

"Dick Linquist's O Scale Chicago, Burlington & Southern" by Greg Heier & Tom Nixon p. 28

"Some Tips on Small Railroad Construction" by Brian Scace p. 34

"From Three Rails to Two, Modifying the MTH Center Beam" by Paul Hemsworth p. 38

And…

"Company Mail" News AtlasO LLC (track); All-Nation Line (wood reefers, composite reefers with steel ends); Weaver Models (Baldwin die-cast 2-8-0 steam locomotive - tender available separately; Pullman-Bradley Deluxe Coaches; car weights; cast resin coal loads; and 57' mechanical reefer with diesel engine generator sound); Scaled World (mast mounted, 3-lamp block signal - kit or assembled), Rails Unlimited (40' General American Pfaudler milk reefer, 50' Great Northern single-sheath automobile car, 40' Milwaukee Road steel box car; 50' SF/D&RGW double-sheath box car; pickle car; carnival/circus flat car; 70' flat car); Bachmann Industries Inc. (On3 2-truck shay); Sunset Models (brass SP/UP Harriman standard passenger cars - 70' baggage-RPO, 74' coach - several paint schemes and era variations; K-Line Electric Trains/MDK (70 ton quad hopper), Tom Sodders/Sodders Enterprises (corrugated metal siding - aluminum); SGL Lines Electric Trains Inc. (Reading class G-3 Pacific; Reading club car Wall Street; Reading cars Schuykill and King Coal); Rich Yoder Models (GE 70 Ton Diesel Locomotive); Randy Pepprock/Downtown Deco (enginehouse); Locomotive Workshop (kits: Little Joe, 3-rail to 2-rail conversions); MTH (new diesels - scale).

"Schedules" & "O Scale Clubs"

"The Best of Everything" Reviews Weaver Models: Chicago & North Western (streamlined) 4-6-2 "Yellow Jacket" by Greg Heier Sunset Models (3rd Rail): 2-6-6-6 Steam Locomotives — the Virginian "Blue Ridge" and the Chesapeake & Ohio by Bob Turner Rich Yoder Models: General Electric 44-Ton Phase IV Diesel Switcher by David W. Richter Weaver Models: PRR Class C-1 0-8-0 Steam Locomotive by Thomas D. Dressler

"Mailbag" letters & notices Something Completely Different — Jenbach, Austria (photo Austrian Railroad); O Scale West 2002, Contest Winners (full list of O Scale West winners; brief O Scale West report from Rod Miller); O Scale West "Favorite Models" Contest website (links); Bob Turner's "Decks" at O Scale West (modeling advice and photo of winning steam models at O Scale West — Bob's of course); Kemtron Wabash Mogul, a 1995 prize winner (photo, additional reading); Vince & Edith Waterman to Sell Trackside 'O' Specialties (photo at O Scale West); More on Pendulum Cars (carplan, photo of suspension)

"Leasepool" classified ads

"More Lost-Plastic Bronze Castings — Builder's Corner" by Bob Turner

"K-Line's 2-Rail O Scale Passenger Car Trucks — A Modeler's View" by Jeff Baker

"O Scale Hall of Fame 1993 Vane Jones"

"2002 Chicago Midwest O Scale Meet Winners — From The Contest Room" photos by Greg Heier

"O Scale Spoken Here" list of OSN hobby dealers worldwide

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