March 2024
The March 2024 issue of Model Railroader
Featured
In this Issue
Follow this playbook to add realism to your locomotives and freight cars.
Drybrushing, airbrushing, and powders provide quick and realistic results.
Part 3: Adding industries, railroad buildings, and storefronts to our HO scale project layout
Designing and building an HO scale version of the ATSF’s Third District in 1953.
This freelanced HO scale logging layout fits neatly in the corner of a basement room.
March’s nominees elevated the hobby of model railroading to an art
Just because a building is finished doesn’t mean it’s too late to modify it
Also in this issue:
ON TRAINS.COM, pg. 6
The latest features on our website
FROM THE EDITOR, pg. 8
Why we weather our models
NEWS AND PRODUCTS, pg. 10
Broadway Limited HO scale EMD GP35reviewed, plus the latest new products
ASK MR, pg. 16
Model steel strapping for an open-top load
STEP BY STEP, pg. 19
Build a cast Hydrocal structure kit
STEP BY STEP, pg. 24
Paint, decal, and weather boxcars
ON OPERATION, pg. 60
Camp cars for wire gangs
TRACKSIDE PHOTOS, pg. 62
Model Railroad Planning 2024 preview
INDEX OF ADVERTISERS AND CARTOON, pg. 73
TRAINS OF THOUGHT, pg. 74
Matching paint
