May 2012 Volume 34 Number 5

Contents

282 PIEDMONT LINES – RAILWAY OF THE MONTH

John D.Medley describes his American O layout, representing part of the Southern, which has been developed over some years to its present extensive state.

292 PRESSNITZTALBAHN

Eric Gates visited a successful preserved narrow gauge line deep in south-east Germany, close to the Czech border, which is home to some iconic Saxon locomotives.

298 ROCKFORD BAY DEPOT – SCALE DRAWINGS

Garth Ponsonby explains how he designed and scratch-built the substantial depot building for his new US On30 layout, the Coeur d’Alene Railway, featured last month.

304 MAREDVAL

Tom de Decker describes his modular HOm layout, which began as a small diorama, and is based on a Belgian Vicinal prototype in the wooded Ardennes.

310 ENODEN

Gordon Davis offers some vintage 1950s photographs of this electrified interurban route in Japan as a contrast to the present situation as modelled by Doug Coster.

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312 ENOSHIMA

Doug Coster takes a detailed look at some of the scenes on his extensive Japanese N gauge modern image layout, which was first featured in our July 2011 issue.

322 SCHÖNBUCHBAHN – PLAN OF THE MONTH

Andrew Evans explores another interesting branch line in Baden–Württemberg, finds an almost perfect station to model, and offers two suggestions for layouts.

326 BAHNHOF LAUFENMÜHLE

Coincidentally modelling in HO a small station on the line suggested by Andrew Evans last month, Alan Peacock imagines how rural Württemberg looked in spring 1912.

332 BAVARIAN ‘FRANKENSTEIN’

Andrew Naisbitt relates how he made a 2-4-2 tender loco by combining LGB and Bachmann spare parts to augment his existing fleet based on a classic LGB model.

336 AKKUMULATOR-SCHLEPPFAHRZEUGE

ASF – the diminutive battery-powered electric vehicles built for the Deutsche Reichsbahn for use in loco depots and workshops, concisely described by Graham Lightfoot as an introduction to the new Rivarossi HO scale model.

338 LATEST REVIEWS

Including: Rivarossi DR ASF (HO), Roco SNCF CC72000 (HO), and Brawa DB Kds56 silo wagon (O).

346 BOOK REVIEWS

348 VIDEO REVIEWS

350 EXHIBITION DIARY

352 SUBSCRIPTIONS

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