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September ’02 • Issue #4 • US $8.00
Scale
Trains
Modeling
for the
O Scale
Craftsman
A. Louis Ertz's West Tennessee Central
OST Interviews Reed Artim, O Scale Realty
Working Windows
& Hatches... Part 4
Detailing a Weaver
GP 38-2
Chicago Contest
Photos
New Column...
Proto48 Modeling
And lots more...
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Modeling
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Craftsman
Issue #4
September 2002
Editor/Publisher
Joe Giannovario
Art Director
Jaini Simon
Contributing Editors
Bobber Gibbs
John C. Smith
Gene Deimling
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The West Tennessee Central
A very large, beautiful layout by A. Louis Ertz.
Working Windows, Hatches & Doors - Part 4
Harry concludes the series with drip rails and wing windows.
A Locomotive Servicing Bay
A simple workspace from Neville Rossiter.
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An Interview With Reed Artim, O Scale Realty
If you need a custom structure, Reed’s the “go to” guy.
Caboose Conversion
Gary Woodard makes an 8 wheeler out of two fours.
Carmer “Push Type” Uncoupling Levers
Ed Bommer is back with how to model a unique detail
Chicago O National Contest Photos
Our editors snapped the pix and got the best of the best.
Detailing A Weaver GP 38-2
Richard Madonna shows us how it’s done. And it’s easy, too!
Departments
Narrow Minded – Bobber Gibbs
Product News & Reviews
Reader Feedback – Letters to the Editor
O Scale Hall of Fame – Frank Ellison
Buy, Sell, Trade Ads
Crapola From The Cupola – John C. Smith
Proto48 Modeling – Gene Deimling
Events Listing
Advertiser Index
Observations – Joe Giannovario
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COVER:
Big motive power is common on the
West Tennessee Central. Center stage is an
N&W Y6b flanked by a C&O H7 and a PRR Q2.
CENTERSPREAD - Pg 28:
Another scene from
the West Tennessee Central. Multiple lashups
are called for on the 1.5% upgrade coming out
of Deadwood.
Louis Ertz's
West
Tennessee
Central
Railroad
A. LOUIS ERTZ, JR.
History of the West Tennessee Central
Railroad, An O Scale Model Railroad
The addition to the house (24' x 57')
was built in 1980 after many track plans
were drawn. The idea was to have a lay-
out that I could be inside the railroad
with a walkway along the main and
have no “duck-unders.”
One main line is a “folded dog bone”
and the second main is a simple loop.
The two “mains” can be interchanged at
the Dead Wood grade up from the
lower loop main to the longer folded
dog bone loop. There are several lift out
panels for service to the layout area
where it is impossible to reach from the
outside of the bench work.
The bench work is L-girder con-
struction with 2"x4" joists, screwed up
from the L portion of the box grid, into
the 2"x4". Risers then were screwed
and glued to the 2"x4"s up to the proper
level of the subroadbed and fastened to
the plywood (3/4" birch) subroadbed
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with screws, using a 1
1
⁄
2
" x 1
1
⁄
2
" x 3"
long aluminum angle at each joint. The
roadbed I used was a milled spruce
piece with beveled edges 6' long. To
make all the curved roadbed, I sawed
slots in the road bed and screwed and
glued this to the subroadbed.
Next, all the ties were hand laid by
spreading thinned Elmer’s Yellow Glue
over a 10'-15' long section of roadbed
and then placing the ties. I used wax
paper over the ties and a piece of ply-
wood cut to match the curve and placed
a weight on the top of the plywood at
several locations. This was done to
insure that the ties were seated in the
glue and the top of the ties would be
ready to receive the rail. All the rail is
hand spiked, using 4 spikes per tie.
Nickel silver code 148 rail was used
with steel rail on the grades.
Turnouts were then located (most
were built by Earl R. Eshleman) and
lined up with the track and then spiked
down on roadbed cut to match the
turnout. Turnout switch point links were
then installed. I used KTM, twin coil
switch machines (82) and to this date,
after 22 years, have had no failures.
Scenery
The scenery was the most enjoyable
part of building the layout. As an archi-
tect, it was easy for me to envision the
topography, the mountains, rivers,
ponds, roads, building locations,
bridges, and tunnels. So I set to work. I
used 1"x2" wood for strength on the
cardboard vertical contours of the hills
and cuts. These cardboard contours
were spaced about a foot apart, forming
an outline of what the mountain, cut or
hill would look like. Then pieces of
cardboard cut into 1
1
⁄
2
" wide strips were
glued to the cardboard contours, using
staples to hold the joints until the glue
dried. Over this a cardboard strip was
placed 90° to the horizontal strips, form-
ing an apple pie crust design. The card-
board strips are placed about 4" apart.
Over the horizontal and vertical card-
board strips brown craft paper was
glued to the maze of strips. Most pieces
of craft paper were cut to fit one or two
openings, then glued into place. (Note:
Butcher’s brown paper, not the wax
coated type, makes the best material)
After the craft paper was glued in
place, I then gave it a coat of varnish.
After the varnish dried, I then applied a
coat of Elmer’s White Glue (thinned).
The hydrocal plaster will stick to the
glue finish, but not the varnish which
was used to waterproof the paper.
Now for the fun part... plaster work! I
used hydrocal plaster giving you a 6 or
7 minute work time before it starts to
harden. White hydrocal gypsum cement
provides exceptional strength for pro-
ducing ornamentation with durable fine
detail. It is recommended for thin cast-
ings and those made from intricate latex
molds. The rock face was made by
making a latex rubber mold from a large
piece of coal about 2' long x 1' high
thereby giving a natural structure to the
rock face. The molds were curved or
bent to give a different shape to the rock
face as needed. Then the coal face was
broken off and another mold made to
develop a new rock face and so on. Care
was given in joining castings so as not
to look like pieces of plaster molds were
just stuck together. Plaster fill was
inserted as needed when rock moldings
were set and strata lines were carved
into the joint plaster and into the two
adjoining castings. Rock castings were
placed by pressing the rubber mold
(with wet plaster inside) into place and
holding until you could feel the warm
set-up reaction. All plaster was dry
mixed with color in the plaster (you can
get many choices of colors at the local
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