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S Scale Articles in
Mainstream Magazines
Revised October 13, 2002
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Reference Section
         
HO>>S<<O
FAQ's
S Articles
S Prototypes
S Models
Photos
Vehicles

Special thanks to Lee Johnson who supplied MANY entries for this list.
Please inform mhrreast AT yahoo.com if you know of other articles for this list.

Title Author Magazine Issue Summary



2002
Photographic Backdrops Mike Brock Mainline Modeler Jan. 2002 Featured layouts include these Sn3 layouts; Joe Brooke's RGS, and Art Cominio's RGS








2001
Sn3 RGS Layout  Roger 
Russell
Great Model RR's 2001 GREAT MODEL RAILROADS - 2001
Steel Station Beams  Dick Karnes RMC Nov. 2001   Steelwork for elevated railroad stations
Joel Shank's Sn3 Layout
RMC Oct. 2001
Painting a brass Sn3 D&RGW Tom Troughton NMRA Bulletin Sept. 2001
Editorial on S Andy Sperandeo MR Aug. 2001  
Mike Fyten's Kaw Valley Paul Dolkos MR Aug. 2001 Layout feature article
Sn3 Lake Tahoe Railway & Navigation Company Dave Dewey RMC July 2001  
The Mikeldon Cantilever Don Ledger Mainline Modeler March 2001 Lattice steel bridge construction article, bridge on Ed Loizeaux's S Scale Layout













2000
Photography, Indoors Vic 
Roseman
RMJ Dec.
p. 52
Includes photos of  "CNJ New York & Newark Branch" featuring a brace of Southwind's 12,000 gal. tank cars..
AF, and S scale track plan Paul Nelson CTT Nov. 2000
RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing a Union Station Dick
Karnes
RMC Oct. "Using Walthers' HO scale Bailey Savings & Loan Building, the author kitbashed a city station for his S scale layout." 
The Bridges at
Silver King Junction
Tom 
Troughton
RMC July
p. 85
"These scratchbuilt bridges serve the 
author's Sn3 layout."
Aged To Perfection Don 
Ledger
Gazette Mar./Apr.
4 pp.
 
Kit-Bashing North Pacific Coast
#13 in Sn3
Paul 
Scoles
Gazette Mar./Apr.
4 pp.
 
Set Them Up, A. C. Roger Carp CTC Mar.  5pp.  
The West Side Lumber Co. Steve 
Anderson
MR Feb. 
6 pp.
COVER ARTICLE
Flyer at its Finest Ted Hamler CTC Feb.   5 pp.  
So Common, So Rare Roger Carp CTC Feb.   1 p.  
Notes On Scratch Building
An Sn3 Porter
Tim
Galgerud
Gazette Jan. / Feb.
3 pp.
 
Spiral Hill Railroad  Frank Titman Great Model RR's 7 pp. GREAT MODEL RAILROADS - 2000
Evolution of the Pelican Bay Paul Scoles   4 pp. MODEL RAILROAD PLANNING - 2000








1999
Still in Training After All
These Years
Jim & Julie
Patterson
Classic
Toy Trains
Dec.
5 pp.
 
Landforms for Your Layout Gaylord Gill NMRA Nov.  4 pp.  
NYC Gondola 
MM Oct. p. 18 Product Announcement, Funaro & Camerlengo, RD #3, Box 2800, HOnesdale, Penn. 18431   40' NYC gondola kit. 
An Sn3 Ridgway Sand House Lind
Wickersham
Gazzette Sept/Oct
2 pp.
 
San Juan & South Western Sn3 George 
Pierson
RMC Sept
p. 48.
"Set in the San Juan mountains of southern 
 Colorado, this freelanced Sn3 layout captures the look and feel of the D&RGW and RGS." 
Building Cimarron 
Canyon Trestle
Tom
Troughton
RMC Sept
p. 71
"While the model was built in S scale, the techniques  used by the author can be applied to any scale."
The Hudson & Harlem Division 
in New York City
Mike
Palmiter
Railmodel
Journal
Sept.
8 pp.
An S scale model railroad tour.
Mike is former editor of the NASG Dispatch.
Redetailing A First Run 
PBL Sn3 K37
Tom 
Troughton
NMRA
Bulletin
July
4 pp.
 
Regearing A First Run 
PBL Sn3 K37
Tom
Troughton
NMRA
Bulletin
June
5 pp.
 













1998
Review - S Helper Service EMD SW9
Rail Model Journal Oct. 
Working Marker Lamps for RGS
Caboose #0400
Bill
Busacca
Gazette Mar./Apr.
2 pp.
 
Modeling 70-ton former Railbox cars in S scale. Randy 
Wilson
Model 
Railroader
March
p. 132
Photos of repainted Railbox cars as repainted since 1982, featuring American Models' Railbox boxcars, and des Plaines Hobbies detail parts.. 








1997








1993
Review - American Models EMD GP35
Rail Model Journal June








1989
Rusty Paulus' Cheyenne Mountain RR  Bob 
Werre
Model 
Railroader
July, 
p. 58 - 62
Scenery of New Mexico and Colorado,
Layout construction assisted by Houston S Gaugers.
S Scale EMD GP9/18  Dick Christianson Model  Railroader May, 
p.40, 43
Product Review or AM GP9/18








1987
50 golden years with S scale Sam Powell 
Jeff Wilson
Model 
Railroader
May
p. 80
Short history of  S (1:64th) scale, current products, and Modular S scale railroading (Don DeWitt)








1986
Powell's Produce
Part I
Phil
Hodges
Narrow 
Gauge and
Short Line 
Gazette
Mar/Apr

 

Nice model work of an old building on a stone 
foundation.  Part II in next issue?








1983
RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: 
S scale Baldwin DS44-1000
William 
Geracci
RMC June 
p.65
".....modifying an American Flyer Baldwin S8 Switcher."








1982
S Scale FP7 Road Diesel -  Review by
J.D.H.
Model
Railroader
Dec. 
pp. 60 - 61
"Its slow speed was really surprising as few models can operate steadily at 3.14 scale miles per hour.  Excellent!"
4-6-0 Locomotive: S Scale Frank Titman RMC  Sept
pp. 92, 93
Review of Ten Wheeler kit by American Scale Model Corporation








1980
Double-sheathed boxcar:
S scale by H.D. Scale Models
Review by
Frank Titman
RMC Feb.
pp. 108-109
"This car has no specific prototype."  "... basic body parts made from fine- grained pine."






 
 
 
 



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