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<i>[[The Model Craftsman]]</i>, May 1944 ...and the answers to them through an article in our good friend, [[The Model Craftsman]], seems timely.

Victor Shattock is featured on the cover of the April edition of "Model Railroader" magazine, along with [[Golden Gate Live Steamers]] member Al Fo [[File:VictorShattock Model Railroader April 1951.jpg|thumb|center|300px]]

...nch scale, 2-1/2 inch gauge Pennsylvania Railroad "K4" Pacific 4-6-2. This model was featured in 1924 in the [[The Modelmaker]] magazine, from which bluepri ...[[Modeltec]] Magazine. Mr. Coventry wrote an article on how to build this model step-by-step with very basic tools (files, drill and small lathe).

* Al Kalmbach, Publisher, Model Railroader * Linn Westcott, Editor, Model Railroader

...I model the Russian 4-14-2). But after all, I want to be able to get the model in the family car when I take her visiting other "queer" people and not hav A compact model is one of the reasons also for the adoption of a tank engine. Although Mot

...its early days, [[Tiny Power]] offered a handful of highly-detailed steam model engines and a couple of marine steam engines in either kit form or as finis ...man Aug1946.PNG|Advertisement for Charles Arnold's Tiny Power in The Model Craftsman, August 1946.

Upstairs in the Adams attic a model HO scale railroad of the era of woodburning locomotives is being built. Another attic project taking Adams skill as craftsman is the rebuilding of two live steam locomotives owned by Dr. L.L. Stanley o

...ny" by [[Charles A. Purinton]] of Marblehead, Mass. From [[Railroad Model Craftsman]], October 1949. ...n he and his son, Charlie, when to a show in Boston. At the show he saw a model of the 4-6-2 Pacific that pulled Boston & Maine’s “Flying Yankee” pas

...he tomcat is an interested onlooker as Frank Godwin works on the four-foot model locomotive of his "New Hope and Solebury Railroad." Many of the parts were ...takes his many hobbies seriously and believes perfection is the sign of a craftsman.

...England Live Steamers]] Danvers Track. The meet was written up in <i>The Model Engineer</i>. <i>The Model Engineer</i>

...back of the furnace is the roundhouse graced by an electrically operated model of a 110-foot turntable which is used to turn the engines to and from their ...as been heard all over the country. Only recently, during a convention of model railroads from all over the country and Canada, nearly 200 of these rail en

...3/4 inch Hudson that was sold by [[Friends Models|Friends]] was actually a model designed and originally sold by [[L. D. Langworthy]] of Westerly, Rhode Isl File:Langworthy advert TheModelCraftsman March 1937.jpg|The Model Craftsman, March 1937

From "The Model Railroader", page 422, date unknown. My first trial in model railroading was, I believe, a tremendous jump, as I started in by building

by G. A. Olmstead, <i>[[The Model Craftsman]]</i>, August 1936 ...his necessarily limits their membership, in fact, they are the elect among model-makers, along with the men who build three foot boats which travel twenty t

...s very adept with mechanical things, both in his vocation and his hobby of model railroading. He was a self-taught machinist. He worked for many years as a ...2018, the live steam hobby fraternity lost a true gentleman and consummate model builder. [[Gail Gish]], owner of the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad located nea

A “perfectionist”, “genius”, “master craftsman”, “hobby pioneer”, “inspiration”, and “friend” are just a few ...1/2” safety valve. ‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘just what this future Berkshire model needed.’“

...as early as 1919. An optometrist by profession, Bolton is renowned amongst model engineers as a pioneer in the hobby in Australia and abroad. ...le, 1.5 inch gauge L35 Hudson by O. Burnaby Bolton as shown in the 1970 <i>Craftsman Catalog</i> of Caldwell Industries.

<i>[[The Model Craftsman]]</i>, September 1943 ...in the cylinders, and the piston valves have never had rings. (Some of my model friends said this "can't be down"--but it has!) This reminds me, in 1932 o

YOU COULD HARDLY call it a "model" train. The engine is one eighth full size, weighs 1,440 pounds, and runs o ...long interest in steam locomotives, Johnston has built two operating scale model engines. he uses one of them to power a miniature railroad which he operat

[[The Model Craftsman]], June 1944 The model railroad builder often finds that he will have to make his own domes for th