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Issue #10
Sept/Oct 2003
Features
Vol. 2, No. 5
Editor/Publisher
Joe Giannovario 4 Alex Azary’s DAMN Railway & Transportation Co.
John Henke spins the tale of his friend Alex’s layout.
Art Director
11 Babbitt Atlantic Modifications:Cab & Boiler
Jaini Simon
Personalizing a common kit,Bob Garrelts makes his unique.
Contributing Editors 15 Super Detailed Track
Ted Byrne Want to make your trackwork look super realistic? Clark Howell
Gene Deimling gives us the details on how it’s done.
Bobber Gibbs
Roger Jenkins 18 Southern New England Model Railroad Club
Jeb Kriigel Rich Godfrey spreads the word about a very active club
Neville Rossiter
26 The L&N and Southern RR
Brian Scace
John C. Smith Carey Hinch’s contest entry is a switching layout built on a helix.
Don Woodwell
34 Scale Command - Part III
The final installment in Don Woodwell’s coverage of TMCC™for
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Cover:Steam and Traction run with equal aplomb on Alex 46 Reader Feedback – Letters to the Editor
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60 Events Listing
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One often hears the statement, “I just present L-shaped 23 feet long by 10 feet friend’s layout with 84 inch radius curves.
don’t have enough room for it”or “ I love wide size,the southern 10 ft of which nar- Much of Alex’s present collection of
the detail and realism of O scale, but...”. rows to 6 ft wide. A workshop,a den and engines is based on experiences from the
Some then go on to fill half a room with an area for Mrs. Azary’s hobbies forced past. As a child living in Dayton, Ohio,
HO layouts,which although very nice,just Alex to improvise in the small area indicated. Alex and friends used to bum rides on a
can’t match the authenticity of the “King Over the past 12 years,Alex has built PRR B6sb switcher at the sidings on Day-
of Scales.”Others claim that the cost of O and modified his layout and collection,He ton’s west side. Alex fell in love with the
scale is just too high (arguably a justifiable has constantly upgraded his roster of Pennsy Atlantic #460 (the so called Lind-
claim) and then proceed to spend large engines and rolling stock through trades bergh engine) after seeing Charles Lind-
amounts of cash on numerous HO engines and purchases following the lineage of bergh fly over his home after his return
and rolling stock or on a few high-priced, Max Gray through U.S. Hobbies and from Europe. A Max Gray model fills the
brass HO products. Westside models to Iron Horse models, niche. Pulling his ore train is a Kemtron
Alex Azary’s Dayton and Michigan with side trips to Overland,Precision Scale Wabash Mogul. A prototype of this engine
Northern Railway and Transportation and NJ Custom Brass.
Company (D.A.M.N.), a former Pennsy He has one lonely plas-
branch line,on which Ann Arbor Railroad tic AHM Indiana Harbor
has trackage rights, is an answer to those Belt 0-8-0 switcher.
who just don’t seem to be able to make the A lover of steam and
step to O scale. large locomotives, Alex
Alex,a man of many interests,convert- has downsized to
ed to O scale in 1976 after being involved Moguls, Atlantic’s and
in HO for a number of years. He has devel- GP35’s. He still main-
oped his skills over the past 60 plus years, tains a beloved Pennsy
repairing, rebuilding and painting models Q2, but it just can’t
for himself and others. In 1990,he moved make it around the
to a new home and because of limited curves on Alex’s layout
space had to downsize his layout to its so it is stabled on a
An Ann Arbor GP35 (Overland) stops at Ann Arbor Station. Note the Whitcomb
Steeple Cab Ann Arbor #1.
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The D.A.M.N. Railroad Transportation Museum. Entrance to Trolley Museum showing
mainline at P.V. Tower. Westbound track with “clear” signal.
the Pennsylvania Railroad. Thus the dual-purpose layout has
evolved. The D.A.M.N. Railway Trolley Museum,complete with
a trolley barn and overhead wires,allows him to run a fine collec-
tion of interurban models based on prototypes from both East and
West coasts,as well as several from in between. An Eastern Mass.
Street Railway snowbrush,a prototype of which can be found in
the Sea Shore Trolley Museum in Kennebunkport,Maine,repre-
sents the East. The West is represented by a Pacific Electric 1000
series “Big Red Car”. Several other trolleys make up the museum
collection. Recently acquired Divi-
is housed in the National Trans- sion Point Rail Diesel Cars (RDCs)
portation Museum in St. Louis, fit nicely in the Ann Arbor Michigan
Missouri. Alex has a HO scale locale. RDCs were once used on the
model of the Wabash Mogul and Jackson to Ann Arbor, Michigan,
at one time owned a 1.5 inch commuter line. These cars are
scale live steam model of the among Alex’s favorites.
same engine. A second Mogul is Although a variety of passenger
a Pennsylvania F-3 built by rolling stock has resided on the
Gem. Other smaller engines D.A.M.N. in the past,currently pas-
include a pair of Pennsylvania senger operations are limited to the
B1 “Rats” by 3rd Rail, and an
Overland Whitcomb 44 ton
diesel known as the Ann Arbor
Overview of P.V. Tower, powerhouse, Noble-
“1 Spot”. Two GP-35 diesels by
Onee Packing Company, Jiffy Mix grain storage
Overland (one lettered PRR,the (a Chelsea, Michigan landmark), and the Trolley
other Ann Arbor) complete the Museum with Pennsy GP35 on mainline.
diesel roster.
The Pennsy B 1 “Rats” on the main pass by a
Alex has long been a traction
warehouse near the engine facility. Note that the
fan and,in fact,when he moved Overland GP-35 and three steamers (Max Gray
to his new home he started out Atlantic and Gem B6sb and Mogul) wait on the
building an interurban layout. sidetracks.
This was necessitated by the
small space and the tight curves
Aclose-up of Chelsea’s Jiffy Mix milling tower area.
that arose out of that situation.
The Pennsy GP-35 (Max Gray) rumbles by on the main. A
The initial layout utilized true Feather River Lumber Company Shay (Max Gray) is on the
scale road bed that was found to sidetrack. The “reefer” in front of the packing company is a
be too limiting and so Alex con- Custom Brass model.
verted to cork road bed with Trolley Museum and its inhabitants. For senti-
Atlas flex track. mental reasons Alex does retain a GI Pullman
He found, however, that he passenger car (in which he rode many miles
could not abandon his love of during WWII) and a Wabash heavyweight
railroading and particularly of (because of its past connection with the Ann
Arbor railroad). The present layout features
mainly freight operations, with a variety of
hoppers,boxcars,gondolas,tank cars,and cabooses,
Carefully selected and weathered structures and accessory
vehicles accent the 1950s venue. Pennsylvania Railroad style sig-
nal towers give the railroad a distinct Pennsy flavor,as do the over-
head wires, The setting is a combination of the Ann Arbor area
and an elevated Pennsylvania mining town,which is situated atop
a hill traversed by a two-track tunnel,
Alex’s wife,Jan,a miniaturist and artist,has supplied the artis-
tic talent that has converted a somewhat ordinary layout into a
The Ann Arbor GP-35 (Overland Models) heading into a tunnel beneath the Village of Itsall.
The B6b is exiting the tunnel.
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um adds interest with overhead wires so typical of the first half of
the twentieth century and are reminiscent of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. Alex has used a single inverted N scale rail for his over-
head wires. This provides an excellent and durable overhead. It
accommodates both trolley shoes and pantographs very nicely.
Wooden trolley poles,by John Pilling,support the system.
The layout has a double track mainline with designated east
and westbound tracks. Three sources of power are utilized,a dual
Kurtz-Kraft power supply rated at 18 volts D.C. and 5 amps,each
furnishes power through two cabs. For trolley operations, the
Kurtz units are disconnected and two A.C. transformers,rated at
AChecker Cab, hoping for a fare, sits next to Chelsea Station as #460
(a Max Gray Atlantic) pulls up for a stop.
work of art with a splendid hillside scene and a wooded backdrop
with a painted blue sky and clouds.
A leisurely trip around the layout begins at the Ann Arbor pas-
senger station and heads west past the companion freight station.
Passing under a Pennsy style signal bridge (Superior Models Lim-
ited) one comes on an Model Masterpieces interlocking tower and
Overland 35,000 gallon water tank. Following the mainline, two
sidings, one for cabooses and one for engines, are noted to the
right. In addition, a turntable lead connects the mainline to a
D.A.M.N. Railroad Transportation Museum showing a variety of traction stock.
Bowser motorized turntable using a Dallee electronic indexing kit.
Tracks from the turntable lead to a generic engine house in which 24 volts and 4,amps provide power one to each track. A recently
resides the IHB 0-8-0 switcher. On the adjacent track sits the Ann installed North Coast Engineering 10 amp “Power House”system
Arbor “1 Spot”. provides Digital Command Control. This array of options pro-
Across the mainline from the engine house one encounters the vides tremendous flexibility on a small layout.
Dexter Farm Bureau warehouse. Continuing along the main the Bench construction utilizes 2 x 6 ft sections, many of which
Chelsea, Michigan, passenger station is on the right. Continuing were moved from Alex’s previous layout. Each section is coded
through Chelsea one passes Chelsea Milling Company silos and The Itsall Mine Tipple and Hoist. Note the Shelby Cobra.
mill,famous for “Jiffy Mixes,”and ahead a little further encoun-
ters the Noble-O’Nee Packing Company. On the left,the General
Light Power Company can be seen just in front of the D.A.M.N.
Trolley Museum. The PV interlocking tower, obtained from and
named for the late Pennsylvania Railroad fan and modeler, P.V.
Risinger,is also seen on the right. Passing under a second Pennsy
style signal tower one rounds the curve and enters a new venue. A
distinctly Pennsylvania flavor is evident on approaching the por-
tals leading under Tunnel Hill.
The village of Tunnel Hill,
seated on the hill,is the home of
the Itsall Mine Company. Its ore
tipple is an Oak Ridge kit and
the hoist house is scratch built. for easy assembly and disassembly. Atlas flextrack and Roco #6
Passing through the tunnel exit, turnouts on quarter inch cork roadbed, applied using rubber
a road crossing is encountered cement,has allowed rearrangement of trackage on more than one
and the Ann Arbor, Michigan occasion. The present layout has 48 inch and 36 inch radius
area, with its passenger and curves. The detection system and Pennsy-type block signal system
freight stations, looms just was designed and constructed by Jay’s Engineering (Joe Kocsis)
ahead. of Westland,Michigan.
The D.A.M.N. Trolley Muse- If you happen to be in the Ann Arbor area and want to see a
magnificent small O scale layout, look Alex up. You will be
Aman of many interests, Alex is an avid impressed! ◆
Michigan football fan. No, he did not play
for the 1879 Wolverines!
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Well, this column is a year old, 20 amp clean DC power supply for found this stuff works nicely on plastic
now, and this magazine has grown about $150 sound to you? It is marketed handrails as found on the older Weaver
rapidly in that year. For all you folks by Crest Hobbies and sold through RS-3’s, for instance. No chipping or
who have signed on after the initial Micro-Mark as item number 82721 (call flaking like the stuff we use.
one of these musings hit the stands, 1-800-225-1066, or visit www.micro- The lesson here is most valuable for
I’ll recap a couple things. First, of mark.com). I bought one and am very you folks coming to us from such disci-
course, is a hearty welcome to our pleased with it, using it both with con- plines as the HO world and the Hi-rail
somewhat dis-functional band. As the ventional DC cab control,and now with community. In your old worlds, you’ve
title of this lamentable error in judge- Loco-Link. Loco-Link, a very robust been very used to having everything you
ment by the Editor implies, we are command control system (using radio as need at your fingertips. ‘T ain’t so,here in
exploring those things that a newcom- the carrier rather than through the rails O scale,and it wasn’t necessarily so then.
er would find useful. By “newcomer”, as in NMRA DCC), is another product The Big Lesson:
we are also assuming that you have marketed (in this case, by Kiethco) for Other modeling disciplines, like us,
come from other modeling disciplines, the G scale and #1 gauge crowd that I bring out techniques and products useful
such as the HO and N world, or per- find very advantageous for use in O. to them. They,like us,tend to operate in
haps you’ve made the leap from the Here’s another case in point. One somewhat of a social vacuum,so there is
three-rail community. Now, repeat day, while shopping with my darling some wheel re-invention going on as
after me: “I’m an O scaler, and it isn’t bride (earning those points, don’t you these separate groups find solutions to
my fault!”Whoops! Wrong meeting… know!), there befell upon my delicate what really are common problems. The
Scace’s Snappy Patter virgin ears an unholy screeching sound. ship modeler folks have stuff to make
Not too long ago, I attended a train Quickly realizing that this was an their own pewter-like castings and lots
show that was a real eye opener. No, it unusual sound to be heard in a sober of really neat woodworking tools we
wasn’t an O scale show, but it gave my state, I hastened to investigate this don’t know about. Go to an IPMS
fuzzy brain a real boot, and (with the apparent case of air tool abuse, only to (International Plastic Modeler Society;
assistance of suitable libation) subject discover grown men racing R/C gas race you know, the military diorama folks)
matter for this issue’s Snappy Patter. The cars about in the parking lot. I had stum- show. They have different scenery tech-
show in question was a “Large Scale” bled on a radio controlled race car con- niques than we do, many of which are
show. These folks are the garden railway vention. Feeling it was my moral duty to much more realistic than what we’re
types, LGB aficionados, live steam wade in amongst this gathering of hea- used to. They are the pioneers of foam/
addicts,and a small but growing number then and lend tone to what was other- hot-wire scenery, and can teach you to
of scale neurotics and rivet counters. All wise a vulgar brawl, I passed through paint figures as nice as the ones we buy
said and done, a nice group of people. the portals and went in to see what I from Arttista. Diecast car collectors
So, why would Scace the O Scale Guy could see. “What happened next?”, show automobiles we lust after. The race
want to go to a show like this? Well, to asked the breathless congregation lean- car people have paint and several neat
learn something,that’s why. We all have ing forward in the pews. Illumination! lines of gears. Plastic airplane folks do
a tendency,especially after being at this These people use slippery plastic vacuum-formed parts in amazing detail.
for a few years,to pull our horns in and stuff much like what we have for The doll house folks have useful hard-
only go to the gatherings of,in our case, handrails on diesels and cabooses to ware such as hinges and small power
O Scalers. At this show, for instance, I make bodies for their race cars. And, tools that we would find more than use-
saw all kinds of useful stuff for us. they have paint that sticks to these car- ful. My wife even showed me a lighting
These folks need power, and lots of bodies. It doesn’t even flake off upon system for buildings made for the
it,for instance. We’ve had several letters impact with the proverbial li’l ol’lady in Department 56 folks (those expensive
here at OST regarding power sources, the parking lot (bent the by-junior out of miniature ceramic houses that your wife
yet the garden folks have several power one leg of her walker,though; she must sets up into towns at Christmas-time,
supplies we’d love to use if we only have been a rum-pot.). I left,clutching a which is why the cat becomes nervous
knew about them. How does a 14 volt/ bottle (of yellow paint! Jeez!), and and hides with you in the basement dur-
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ing December). Found:a simple elegant
solution to my building lighting issues,
and they even have a pretty fair “snow”
in a spray can!
The Challenge:
Here is where Scace throws down the
O Scale
rubber gauntlet with a resounding
Realty
“thwapp”. As you folks who have loyal-
ly read this column in spite of your bet-
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Conclusion:
Get thee hence, and explore the world
around you! There is treasure (and knowl-
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wouldn’t expect. You might feel like a pil-
grim in an un-holy land among the doll-
house people or in the craft store (take your
wife along like it’s her trip! You get points
for that!), but you’ll find solutions, tools,
and details in the most bizarre places.
Some of my best tree models started with
the twigs and that weird brown waxy tape
the “dry arrangement” folks push at the
craft store. Let’s go Exploring! ◆
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