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Volume 1 Number 1

  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Turning driver centers
  • Building Brick Price's HOn30 Dunkirk
  • An Introduction to On30 Modeling
  • Critter Corner -- Plymouth Locomotive Works
  • Back Shop II -- Operating Narrow Gauge Museums
  • Steam Age Shortline Lore -- In the Shadow of the Big Horns
  • Vermont Narrow Gauge Photos
  • Wiscasset & Quebec Excursion Car Plans
  • Gilpin Tram "What Could Have Been" Boxcar Plans

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Volume 1 Number 2

  • Building a 1:20.3 D&RGW Boxcar
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist -- Driver Tires, Centers and Crank Pin Screws
  • Critter Corner -- W.W. I Army Critters
  • "Winky" the Littlest Brookville
  • Steam Age Shortline Lore -- Rendezvous with a Wreck -- Tweetsie in 1950
  • How to Take Publication Quality photos
  • Converting Athearn HO cars to On30
  • 1 1-2 Ton Brookville Drawings

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Volume 1 Number 3

  • Alpine Tunnel Engine House in On3
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist -- Setting up and Machining a Locomotive Frame
  • Critter Corner -- Where the Term Critter Came From and The Bucksgahuda & Western
  • 7/8n2 Garden Railways -- Steam in the Garden
  • Swayne Lumber Company Logging Camp Cabin Kit Review
  • Converting an Athearn HO gon to On30
  • Steam Age Shortline Lore -- Winsome Woodstock -- Classic Vermont Shortline and 4-4-0s
  • Colorado & Southern Gondola #4296 Plans
  • Book Review -- Mann's Creek Railway

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Volume 1 Number 4

  • The Gilpin Tram
  • Steam Age Shortline Lore -- Bone Yard Treasures of the 1930s -- B&M Branchline
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist -- Gear Box Construction
  • Modeling a Pennsylvania Tannery in HO Scale
  • Critter Corner -- Mystery Critters
  • W.P. Morris Company -- Last of the Swamp Loggers?
  • Converting an Athearn HO Flatcar to On30
  • The Mystery of Loco # 34, #39, #31 or #3
  • C.M. & St. PRR Dumfries Depot Plans
  • Book Review -- J.E. Henrie's Logging Railroads

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Volume 1 Number 5

  • The Greenwood Gold Mining & Milling Co. and its Railroad
  • Steam Age Shortline Lore -- Treasures of Orient Heights
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist -- Gear Box Construction
  • Critters on a Budget -- Inexpensive On30 Critter Conversion Project
  • Critter Corner -- The Vulcan Iron Works Erie Peat and its Railroad -- Goings on in the Bog -- 2-foot Gauge Peat Hauler
  • “On” the 30” Gauge (On30)
  • Greenwood Gold Mining and Milling Co. 120 Stamp Mill Plans
  • Lima Machine Works Shay #125 Plans
  • On3 Westside Lumber Co. Photo Gallery

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Volume 1 Number 6

  • 100 Years of Narrow Gauge Railroading -- Klondike Style
  • So, You Would Like to Try Weathering?
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist --Domes and Cylinders
  • On The 30" Gauge -- Converting an Athearn Switcher
  • "A Mid-Century Anachronism at Twilight" The RGS
  • Bashing an HOn30 Critter
  • Critter Corner -- Kiwi Kritters
  • Chris Coyle's New England Shortline Photo Album Part I
  • UPD&G/C&S #053 Kitchen Car Plans
  • White Pass and Yukon

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Volume 2 Number 1

  • The Deep Run Railroad, an On30 Empire
  • Steam Sunset at St. Johnsbury
  • Large Scale Plantation Locomotive
  • Building a 12 Ton Vulcan in 7/8n2
  • Silver City, Pino Altos & Mogollon Town Lattice Truss Bridge drawings
  • Goings on in the Bog -- Erie Peat and It's Railroad
  • Converting an Mantua 4-6-0 Part I
  • Large Scale Truck Review
  • Where Rails Meet the Sea -- book review

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Volume 2 Number 2

  • Evergreen Hill Carter Brothers Flatcar Review (HOn3)
  • The Tionesta Valley Railroad Part I by Robert Richardson
  • Adding Sound to Your Layout
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Making Counterweights
  • 7/8n2 Simplex Industrial Locomotive
  • Belfast and the Ten-Wheelers (B&ML)
  • Edaville's New Diesels
  • Bachmann's On30 C&S Caboose
  • Sn3 Section House Plans
  • Shays East - A Photo Gallery

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Volume 2 Number 3

  • Tionesta Valley Caboose #111 Update
  • Smoky Mountain Model Works Argent Lumber Company Log Car Review.
  • The Tionesta Valley Railroad, Part II
  • Adding Sound to Your Layout, Part II
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Motor Bracket and Rods
  • An Easy HOn30 Diesel
  • Critter Corner: Critter Makes a Move -- Laona & Northern "Vulcan" Gets a New Home
  • The WW&F's Old Yellow Shop
  • Converting a Mantua 4-6-0/4-8-0 Part II
  • Scenes From the Mid-Atlantic Narrow Gauge Module Meet

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Volume 2 Number 4

  • Tramping Old R-O-Ws.
  • The WP&Y Celebrates its 100th year.
  • Book Review: D&RGW Narrow Gauge Freight Cars.
  • ET&WNC HS Holds Annual Convention.
  • Waynesburg & Washington, Pennsylvania 3-Footer.
  • Converting Bachmann Tip Cars to 7/8n18.
  • Critter Corner: Whitcombs.
  • C&D Model Engineering SR&RL Stockcar Review.
  • D&RG Business Car K Plans.
  • Ride to Robertsdale on the EBT.
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Making Turnout Frog Assembly Fixtures.
  • On30, Converting a Mantua 4-6-0 Part III.
  • Stock Trouble at Deep Run.

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Volume 2 Number 5

  • Building and Adding DCC to an HOn30 Class A Climax
  • Steam Locomotive Painting
  • Connecticut's Shepaug Railroad
  • 20th National Narrow Gauge Convention Report
  • Remnants of Virginia Narrow Gauge
  • Large Scale Railbuses
  • Turnout Assembly
  • Huntington & Broad Top Mountain
  • Ohio Plymouth
  • Standard gauge Short Line -- Southern Style

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Volume 2 Number 6

  • What Could Have Been: Narrow Gauge Exports
  • Steam Locomotive Painting, Part II
  • Hunstville & Lake of Bays Railroad
  • Adding Sound to Your Layout, Part III
  • 1st Annual Meeting of the Gilpin Historical Society
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Parts and Suppliers
  • Classic Miniature's "Lucky Mine"
  • The Hoosac Tunnel & Wilmington
  • Critter Corner: A Gallery of Swedish Critters
  • On30 Part V: Building the Tender

    Reviews:
  • Gilpin Ghosts
  • Smokey Bottom Lumber Company On30 Diesel and Flatcar
  • Boulder Valley Models: Porter House

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Volume 3 Number 1

  • Converting the Backwoods Sn3 Climax to Sn2
  • Discovering the Newfoundland Railway
  • An Accurate ET&WNC No. 3 in G Scale
  • Alamosa Then and Now
  • International Small Scale Steamup: A Report
  • Critter Corner: Rare New Yorker (Plymouth)
  • On30 Part 6: The Tender Body

    Reviews:
  • The Newfie Bullet
  • Vallejo Paint
  • Sergent's Couplers

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Volume 3 Number 2

  • Vermont's West River Railroad.
  • Getting Started in On20 - Part I.
  • The Sandy River & Rangeley Lake's Marbles Station.
  • Foothill Model Work's West Side Flatcar Review.
  • Critter Corner - A New 2-Foot Railroad.
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist - Make Your Own Flywheels.
  • On30- Finishing the Tender.
  • AMB's Strong Station Review.
  • High Strength Repair and Filler Kit.
  • ET&WNC Book Review.

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Volume 3 Number 3

  • Building an On20 Railroad
  • Build a Large Scale Critter in Brass
  • HOn3 D&RGW Water Car
  • Midwest Narrow Gauge Meet Report
  • Ruston & Hornsby 0-4-0 Gasser Drawings
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Is HOn18 Possible?
  • On30 Flat Car Review
  • Narrow Gauge News
  • And Much More!

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Volume 3 Number 5

  • Mid-Atlantic Narrow Gauge Module Meet Report
  • Banta Replacement Cab Review
  • Boulder Valley On30 Class A Climax Review
  • Water Tanks of the Gilpin Tram -- plus plans
  • Narrow Gauge Travels in the West -- 30" Gauge in Montana
  • Installing Switch Machines
  • The East Branch & Lincoln -- Logging in New Hampshire
  • Passenger Operations of the White Pass & Yukon
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist -- Selection and use of a Vernier Caliper
  • Critter Corner -- Moseley Railroad Trust
  • On30 -- Part X Conclusion Conversion of a Mantua 4-6-0

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Volume 3 Number 6

  • A Day on the Tionesta Valley
  • Converting the Taurus 20 Foot Ore Car to On30
  • Southern Forest and Heritage Museum, Machine Shop and Parts Building, and drawings
  • A Swedish Critter in Brass
  • Derby on the Bar -- Bangor & Aroostook Shops
  • Narrow Gauge Machinist: Mandrel and Cutoff Disk Fix
  • Rio Grande Southern Stock Car Details: Drawings and Photos
  • Building the Thomas Yorke Railway Storehouse
  • Critter Corner: Visiting a Close to Home Plymouth
  • On30: Bachmann Bash C&S Stock Car Part I

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