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And The Winner is...Layout Contest Results
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O Scale CB&Q M-4a 2-10-4s
Prototype photo courtesy of W. Raia Collection. Similar to PSC #17403-1
#17403
CB&Q M-4a 2-10-4 as rebuilt with square cab, Elesco FWH, Mars light, disc main drivers and roller
bearings. No paint. (Separate standard smoke box without Mars light supplied.)
#17403-1
Same, painted black and graphite #6310 and #6315.
#17405
CB&Q M-4a 2-10-4 as rebuilt with sport cab, Worthington FWH, Mars light, disc main drivers and
roller bearings. No paint. (Separate standard smoke box without Mars light supplied.)
#17405-1
Same, painted black and graphite #6323 and #6327.
#17407
CB&Q M-4a 2-10-4 as rebuilt with square cab, Worthington FWH, disc main driver and roller
bearings. No paint.
#17407-1
Same, painted black and graphite #6318.
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O Scale CB&Q BE-1 Express Boxcars
Prototype photo courtesy of Colorado Historical Society. Similar to PSC #17373-1.
#17373
CB&Q BE-1 Express car, (ex-troop kitchen car) with Allied trucks, open windows, diaphragms,
late 1940s. No paint.
#17373-1
Same, painted Pullman green with bronze gold lettering (railroad roman).
#17375
CB&Q BE-1 Express car, (ex-troop kitchen car) with A-3 ride control trucks, plated over side
windows, no diaphragms. No paint.
#17375-1
Same, painted Pullman green, modern lettering in Dulux gold.
#17377
CB&Q BE-1 Express car, converted for freight service, with roof walk and end ladders. No paint.
#17377-1
Same, painted Pullman green, modern lettering in Dulux gold.
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Design-A-Layout Contest Winners
Ron Griblers and Steve Sansomes winning entries.
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Scratch Build A Pickle Car
Tom Houle resurrects an oldie, but a goodie. You gotta have one.
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The Secrets of Lost Wax Castings
Roland Marx covers the process in broad strokes but with enough
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Scale Command Part 2
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Casting Your Own Parts
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Converting An MTH Schnabel Car
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Modelers Tricks
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The Workshop Neville Rossiter
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Design-A-Layout Contest
And The Winner Is...
The Dayton & Union Branch
of the Baltimore & Ohio
as submitted by
Ron Gribler of Lebanon, Ohio
Union City-North Staging-(56")
Union City
Body
Works
Drop-Down
(Duck-under)
Coletown
Depot
Wayne Feeds
Buchy Meat Packing
Greenville Creek
West Side
Grain Elevator
Sunoco Bulk
Oil Depot
D and U
Depot
Martin
Street Plum
Street
Greenville
Lumber
Yard
3rd
Street
Treaty City
Coal Company
Downtown Bldgs.
on View Block
The Dayton and Union Branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio RR
Greenville, Ohio
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The Dayton and Union Branch
of the Baltimore and Ohio RR
Greenville, Ohio
Lower Level
12" grid
Workbench
(30")
Dodson Depot
Storage
Cabinets
Storage
Cabinets
Storage
Cabinets
Bookshelves
Bookshelves
Rolling Stock Storage
Cubicles
East Dayton - South Staging
-Fiddle Yard-
(36")
Union City
Workbench
Drop-Down
Section
Storage Area 6 O Scale Trains
And the winner is...
Well, it wasn't easy picking the win-
ner of our first layout contest. We
received many fine layout designs.
Every person who sent a design is
receiving an OST tee-shirt as a thank
you for participating. But, I digress.
Let's talk about the winners.
The Category 1 Winner
Each Category 1 entry was submitted
to three judges. We looked at each entry
and took into account practicality of
construction, operation (i.e., play value)
and best use of space. We had nailed
down a winner when we realized the
design had a major problem, a custom
turnout. The rules state all switches must
be AtlasO #5 or #7
1 2
. So, our first
choice was disqualified and the Grand
Prize was awarded to Ron Gribler of
Lebanon, Ohio, for his Dayton & Union
Branch of the Baltimore & Ohio, loose-
ly based on the Dayton & Union branch
of the B&O between Dayton, Ohio, and
Union City, Indiana. The D & Us
largest source of traffic, Greenville,
Ohio, is the area being modeled.
In the early 1950s, the prototype had
weed-covered light rail, some street run-
ning, and enough business to keep its
only daily train busy all day setting out
loads and picking up empties. The
Dayton
Rolling Stock
Cubicles
Bookshelves
Bookshelves
assigned 2-8-0 would leave Dayton in
the morning and eventually arrive in
Union City. It would usually return by
running tender-first back to Dayton in
late afternoon.
The layout is a point-to-point design.
East Dayton yard is a hidden staging
yard/fiddle yard built over a set of
shelves with cubicles to store rolling
stock. The line runs around the room
behind a built-in 30" high workbench
and emerges from the lower level across
a drop-down/duck-under. There are six
customers on the line at Greenville that
require boxcars, covered and open hop-
per cars, tank cars, reefers and stock
cars. The facing siding and switch-backs
offer a lot of operating interest. The line
winds northward to the visual staging
yard at Union City. The Union City
Body Works (a truck body manufactur-
er) generates both inbound and out-
bound loads for flats and boxcars. The
yard has a crossover that allows the loco
to run around the train for its return trip.
The lowest layout height is 36" at
Dayton and continually climbs to 56" at
Union City.
The