Magazine Issue

July 2007

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Model Railroader has been the leading model train magazine for the past 75 years. Each month, Model Railroader brings you step-by-step modeling projects, fascinating photo tours of model train layouts, unbiased product reviews, new product announcements, tips from the experts, and much more!

Plus, subscribers get exclusive online access to hundreds of track plans, product reviews, videos, bonus articles and more. Whether you’re new to the hobby or a seasoned veteran, this magazine is for you!

Contents
Scenery Step by Step
Improving commercial trees
By Cody Grivno
Build a dense forest
Combine two simple techniques for a great forest
By Tom Harris
Perfect scratchbuilt pines
A new twist on an old way to make evergreens
By Ron Morse
Freelancing a transition-era RR
The HO scale Hudson Point & Hawthorne
By Paul Dolkos
Designing a mid-size N scale layout
The evolution of a track plan
By Tom Danneman
Install white LED headlights
Realistic lighting effects using surface-mount diodes
By Lutz Kuhl
Urban switching on 59th Street
This freelanced 1950s city track plan took first prize
By Stan Sweatt
Modeling caboose operations
The many regulations that dictate caboose handling
By Jim Hediger
Signal detailing
Building code line cables with copper wire and styrene
By Bruce Petty
Upgrading an HO scale masterpiece
New superdetailed scenes highlight this layout
By Dana Kawala
Melvyn Wolf''s free-lanced HO scale Leadville Mines & Mid-Atlantic RR
By Cody Grivno
Departments
From the Editor
News & Products
Railway Post Office
Information Desk
Workshop
DCC Corner
Enter Model Railroader's Pike-size-train contest!
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Review the contest rules and regulations
MR's list of pike-size prototype trains
Trains of Thought
Cartoon
Trackside Photos
Index of Advertisers
The Operators