OpSIG has assembled the OpsBibliography containing about a dozen books and over 300 magazine articles and websites relevant to model railroad operations. We have drawn liberally from lists prepared by Gary Gelzer, Bruce Wilson, David Doiron, the NMRA library, Eric Lundberg and no doubt many others.
The list is arranged in order by Keyword and Title and also includes the citation's author, year and month of publication, page, magazine or publisher, and some comments. The list may be downloaded to spreadsheet programs such as Excel. This may be helpful in reading the file which has become un-aligned in uploading. Copies of most magazine articles may be obtained by members from the NMRA Library for a nominal charge. MR back issues or photocopies are available from Kalmbach's Consumer Sales Dept. by calling 800-446-5489, or through the MODEL RAILROADER Home page. Other publications also offer back issues and copies.
Additions and corrections are most welcome. Please send to webmaster@opsig.org.
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Keyword | Title | Author | Yr/Mo | Page | Source | Comments |
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Book | A Compendium of Model Railroad Operations - from Design to Implementation | OPSIG | 2017 | Entire book | OPSIG | A complete guide to all things operations, covers every aspect of prototype operations and how to apply them to your model railroad - from design and staffing to yards and paperwork, from communications and signals to dispatching and car forwarding. See ordering information. |
Book | 19 EAST, COPY THREE | Dave Sprau & Steve King | 2012 | Entire book | OPSIG | A complete explanation and instruction manual on Timetable & Train Order operations, compiled from the seminal series of articles published in the DO, as well as an entire new section on how to teach, implement and enjoy this from of train dispatching. Written by two respected professional experts in the field, 160 pages in full color. Sold out at OPSIG. |
Book | Creative Model Railroad Design | Armstrong, John | 1978 | Kalmbach | For intermediate or advanced modeler. Continues to develop themes presented in Track Planning for Realistic Operation by looking at layout design as influenced by various factors such as pike location, scenery, prototypes or theme. | |
Book | Design Handbook for Model Railroads | Mallery, Paul | 1979 | Carstens Publishing | Includes a chapter on design of small layouts and useful diagrams showing segments of track plans throughout the book. | |
Book | Freight Terminals & Trains
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Droege, John A. | 1998 | NMRA | Reprint of McGraw Hill 2nd ed. 1925. The definitive work on operation of freight trains, terminals, railroads and the people who operated them. | |
Book | How to Operate your Model Railroad
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Chubb, Bruce | 1977 | Kalmbach (out of prt) | Broad overview of model railroad operations, starting with the prototype and covering most important topics, including timetables, switching, dispatching and freight car forwarding. Unfortunately out of print, but it is still found at some hobby shops and bookstores. | |
Book | Let's Operate a Railroad
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Roxbury, L. E. | 1957 | High-Iron Publishers | Describes the prototypical operations of a railroad. Everything from what a Yard Clerk does to what a Car Distributor does in his/her job along with various operations in a yard and on the road. | |
Book | Model Railroading with John Allen
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Westcott, Linn H. | 1989 | Kalmbach (3rd ed) | ||
Book | Operation Handbook for Model Railroads | Mallery, Paul | 1991 | Carstens Pub, 2nd ed | Reviews concepts, operating positions, timetables, rights of trains, signals, car forwarding, etc., A useful study of issues in operations. | |
Book | Passenger Terminals and Trains | Droege, John A. | 1969 | Kalmbach (out of prt) | Reprint of McGraw Hill original edition 1917. The definitive work on operation of passenger trains, terminals, stations and railroads. | |
Book | Realistic Revenue Operations for Model Railroads
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Villaret, Eugene | 1985 | Greenberg Publications | ||
Book | The railroad--what it is, what it does | Armstrong, John | 1982 | Simmons-Boardman | Billed as "the introduction to railroading," written for the railroader, this is an explanation of today's railroad technology, the railroad network and railroad operations. A comprehensive overview of the way the today's railroad system works. Also contains a fine bibliography of suggested readings. | |
Book | Track Planning for Realistic Operation
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Armstrong, John | 1998 | Kalmbach (3rd ed) | First published in 1962, third edition explains whys and wherefores of layout planning, from prototype to table top. Every model railroader planning a layout should read this book. | |
Book
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V&O Story, The
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McClelland, Allen | 1984 | Carstens Publishing | Chapters on Train Procedures Directories, Car cards & waybills | |
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CarFwd | Administration Planning For Ops - Pt 1 Freight Consignment | Mansfield, Jim | 9212 | 16 | Model Railroading | |
CarFwd | Administration Planning For Ops - Pt 2 Freight Consignment | Mansfield, Jim | 9301 | 60 | Model Railroading | |
CarFwd | All in the Cards
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Ellison, Frank | 6501 | 52 | MR | originally in MR 5408 |
CarFwd | Bridge Traffic Can Be Fun
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Armstrong, John | 7705 | 84 | MR | |
CarFwd | Car Card Operations for Mountain Railroads
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Hansen, Don W. | 8605 | 35 | Model Railroading | Card, Mountain |
CarFwd | Car Cards | Carangi Charles | 9105 | 11 | Railmodel Journal | |
CarFwd | Car Cards and Waybills
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King, Steve | 7802 | 68 | RModel Craftsman | see also RMC 2/57 (reprint?) |
CarFwd | Car Cards, from the East Coast Action Operators | 9105 | 11 | Railmodel Journal | Card | |
CarFwd | Car Distribution - A Realistic Way to Generate Traffic | Adams, Francis P. | 6002 | MR | ||
CarFwd | Car distribution with 3x5 cards
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Warren | 8401 | 34 | NMRA Bulletin | |
CarFwd | Card Order Operation
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Dyer, T. Gerald | 5212 | 48 | MR | |
CarFwd | Card Order Operation on the Victoria Northern
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Dohn, Roy | 5805 | 50 | MR | |
CarFwd | Card order operation system
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Clark | 6803 | 18 | NMRA Bulletin | |
CarFwd | Cargo Operation
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Bull Session | 7403 | 66 | MR | |
CarFwd | Cargo operation, planning industry shipments
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Poindexter, Ray | 7403 | 66 | MR | Freight, Industry |
CarFwd | Colorful operation - using colored tags
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Mallery, Paul | 6502 | 28 | RModel Craftsman | Tag |
CarFwd | Commodity based card operating system | Vail, Jim | 9104 | 76 | RModel Craftsman | |
CarFwd | DiGiT System of Operation | Dohn, Roy | 6405 | 32 | MR | |
CarFwd | Enhanced Car Forwarding on the Midland Road
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Koester, Tony | 9303 | 75 | MR | |
CarFwd | Freight Car Routing via Assigned Service Placards
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Schleicher, Robert | 8504 | Model Railroading | ||
CarFwd | G&D Card operation
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Johns, D.F. Jr. | 6903 | 26 | RModel Craftsman | Card |
CarFwd | Generating Freight Traffic with Summaries
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Schleicher, Bob | 8702 | 27 | Model Railroading | |
CarFwd | Go with the (Traffic) Flow - Pt I Easy Car-card System
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Swanson, John | 8711 | 36 | Prototype Modeler | |
CarFwd | Improved Handling for Empty Freight Cars
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Koester, Tony | 9403 | 76 | MR | |
CarFwd | Industry car orders & how rrs fill them
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Harber | 8907 | 30 | Railmodel Journal | |
CarFwd | Latest Word on Card Operations | Smith, Doug | 6112 | 52 | MR | THE seminal article on car card forwarding |
CarFwd | Locomotive and caboose cards
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Holbrook, Dan | 9202 | 122 | MR | Card |
CarFwd | Magnetic waybills - tiny colored magnetic waybills
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Doran, William | 6505 | 32 | RModel Craftsman | Tag, Waybill |
CarFwd | Midland Moves Coal, The | Koester, Tony | 9702 | 70 | MR | |
CarFwd | New Card Order System
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Ravenscroft, Ed | 5809 | 22 | MR | |
CarFwd | Operation -- Key to Authentic Railroading | Smith, Doug | 5710 | 24 | MR | |
CarFwd | Operation for the fun of it, basic card systems, part 1 | Wright, Bill | 82 Fall | 76 | Model Railroading | Card |
CarFwd | Operation Unlimited
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6206 | 44 | MR | hand-written switch lists | |
CarFwd | Operation with CCT
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Ravenscroft, Ed | 6507 | 20 | MR | |
CarFwd | Organize your car cards
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Boelter, Bob | 9612 | 139 | MR | |
CarFwd | Pre-Printed Car Card Operations
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Kelly, Jim | 8704 | 14 | Model Railroading | Card |
CarFwd | Refinements for CCT Car Forwarding
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Hediger, Jim | 7207 | 41 | MR | |
CarFwd | Simplified card orders
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Branson, Sidney R. | 7702 | 86 | MR | Card Order |
CarFwd | Tab System that John Allen Used
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Sperandeo, Andy | 7802 | 67 | MR | |
CarFwd | Tab-on-Car Operations
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Sperandeo, Andy | 8112 | 84 | MR | |
CarFwd | TIBS, Train & Industry Blocking System
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Holbrook, Dan | 8707 | 91 | MR | |
CarFwd | Traffic Generation - A Method of Simulating Traffic | Fink, Bob | 7711 | 108 | MR | |
CarFwd | Waybill Operation | Walsh, Terry | 6008 | 26 | MR | |
CarFwd | Waybill operation on the West Agony & Inchoate | Walsh, Terry | 6008 | 26 | MR | Waybill |
CarFwd | Waybills on the Car
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Ravenscroft, Ed | 7511 | 86 | MR | |
CarFwd | Waytacks for the New Glencoe Skokie Valley
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Ravenscroft, Ed | 7902 | 78 | MR | |
CarFwd | What to Do with the Empties | Adams, Francis | 6308 | 27 | MR | |
CarFwd | Wheel Reports for Easy Operation
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Hediger, Jim | 8405 | 102 | MR | |
CarFwd | Yard & Industrial Switching Paperwork | Mansfield, Jim | 7908 | 78 | RModel Craftsman | |
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Computer | Computer Applications: Planned Railroad Routing
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Puckett, Larry | 9110 | 49 | Model Railroading | Computer, Software |
Computer | Computer Applications: Ship It! - the best in operations | Puckett, Larry | 9610 | 16 | Model Railroading | Computer, Review, Software |
Computer | Computer Freight Car Routing System
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Hanslip, Mark | 8511 | 33 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Computer | Computer Waybill Operation | Schuchmann, Walt | 8911 | 114 | MR | |
Computer | Computer-generated timetables using fast time | Mollard | 9003 | 124 | MR | with Zucor Ltd software review |
Computer | Computerized Traffic Generator
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Fink, Bob | 7402 | 72 | MR | |
Computer | Computerized Traffic Generator, A | Fink, Bob | 8402 | 72 | MR | |
Computer | Computers and the Modeler - Interlok Software - CarTracker | Bonham, Harry | 9307 | 75 | RModel Craftsman | |
Computer | Computers in model railroading: An operation trainer
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Fink, Bob | 9112 | 148 | MR | For training new operators |
Computer | Computers in model railroading: an operations model
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Fink, Bob | 9103 | 108 | MR | |
Computer | Computers in model railroading: Computer yard hopping
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Fink, Bob | 9209 | 110 | MR | BASIC program generates car orders |
Computer | Computers in model railroading: Switch lists by spreadsheet | Sciutto, John | 8903 | 90 | MR | Computer, Spreadsheet, Switching |
Computer | Computers in model railroading: traffic generation
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Fink, Bob | 9106 | 115 | MR | Just some ideas |
Computer | First simple model railroad computer program
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Fobes, Lawrence | 8501 | 48 | Model Railroading | Computer, Software |
Computer | Metrecon Traffic Generator program
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Fiehmann, Don | 8506 | 92 | RModel Craftsman | Algorithm, Computer, Review, Software |
Computer | Random Way Freight/Industry Car Program
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Thompson, Kurt | 9304 | 35 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Computer | Running trains with computers
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Thompson, Keith | 9710 | 108 | MR | |
Computer | Stringline Scheduling (Computers in MR)
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9506 | MR | |||
Computer | Switcher: a second generation traffic generator | Puckett, Larry | 9010 | 26 | Model Railroading | Computer, Software, Traffic |
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Disp | Centralized traffic control for the Sunset Valley
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Chubb, Bruce | 8401 | 186 | MR | Ctc, Electronics, Signal, Svrr |
Disp | Creating an employee timetable
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9710 | 116 | MR | ||
Disp | CTC on the Cat Mountain Line
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Thompson, Ken | 8405 | 74 | MR | |
Disp | Designing a Timetable for the Maumee
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Darnaby, Bill | 9301 | MR | ||
Disp | Dispatcher on the Sunset Valley | Chubb, Bruce | 7511 | 72 | MR | Dispatcher, Svrr |
Disp | Dispatcher panel with class
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Geiger, Doug | 9211 | 80 | RModel Craftsman | CTC; pt 1; pt 2 in 1992 Dec |
Disp | Dispatching and Scheduling | Towers, Whit | 6207 | 48 | MR | |
Disp | Dispatching Techniques
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McCurdy, Belding | 9106 | 13 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Disp | How to design a timetable | Ravenscroft, Ed | 5807 | 28 | MR | Timetable |
Disp | It's Your Railroad
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Abbey, Wally | 5301 | 20 | Trains & Travel | B&O CTC dispatcher shift |
Disp | Operating with Train Orders | Prehoda, Robert | 9906 | 69 | RModel Craftsman | |
Disp | Phones on the Huntington Northern | Birsa, Joe | 9904 | 78 | RModel Craftsman | |
Disp | Pre-Planned Dispatching
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Bates, Alan L. | 7408 | 42 | RModel Craftsman | |
Disp | Real Railroad Operations, part III: Dispatching
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Bonham, Harry | 9306 | 40 | Railmodel Journal | Dispatcher |
Disp | Rights of Trains (reprint)
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Josserand, Peter | 1999 | Simmons-Boardman | classic explanation of rulebook and TT&TO dispatching | |
Disp | Scale distance & speed (art of MR pt 4)
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Ellison, Frank | 6411 | 24 | MR | |
Disp | Scale time & fast clock
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Koester, Tony | 9405 | 120 | MR | |
Disp | Scale time (Art of mr pt 3) | Ellison, Frank | 6410 | 34 | MR | |
Disp | Scheduling from scratch
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Ellison, Frank | 6412 | MR | How to prepare a mr timetable | |
Disp | Scheduling with a spreadsheet
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Schuchmann, Walt | 9506 | 112 | MR | String-line train scheduling - Computers in Model Railroading |
Disp | Scratchpad dispatching | Queyrel | 8102 | 14 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Disp | South End Desk | Frailey, Fred | 8609 | 24 | Trains | MKT dispatcher |
Disp | Telephone system used on the Cat Mountain & Santa Fe | Thompson, Ken | 8208 | 64 | MR | |
Disp | Telephones for Your Model Railroad
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Westerfield, Al | 9403 | 75 | RModel Craftsman | |
Disp | Timetable and Train Order Operation | Tajibnapis, Will | 9908 | 80 | MR | |
Disp | Timetable and Train Order Operation, a Primer
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Amsler, Bob | 9907 | www.gatewaynmra.org/tto.htm | ||
Disp | Timetable for the Sierra, Cajon & Pacific, A
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7311 | 40 | NMRA Bulletin | ||
Disp | Timetable Operations on the Alturas & Lone Pine RR
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Towers, Whitney K. | 8806 | 54 | Model Railroading | Alp,Timetable |
Disp | Timetable Work Sheets | NMRA | 7309 | 55 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Disp | Timetables for smoother operation, BASIC program
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Pyfer, Jerry | 8704 | 70 | MR | Computer, Software, Timetable |
Disp | Timing and Use of Clock in Operation | Allen, John | 6603 | 26 | MR | |
Disp | Track Warrant Control on the CATS
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Williams, Ron | 9208 | 68 | MR | |
Disp | Track Warrants
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St. Davids, Wayne | 9308 | Model Railroading | ||
Disp | TT&TO
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9704 | 120 | MR | ||
Disp | Why use scale time?
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Allen, John | 6606 | 22 | MR | Time |
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Genl | 80 Minutes of Operation in 80 Square Feet | Moore, Bob | 8001 | 83 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | ABC's of model railroading - operating your model railroad | Allen, John | 7511 | 46 | MR | Beginner, Layout |
Genl | Allegheny Midland: 2 | Koester, Tony | 8801 | 116 | MR | A discussion of the factors that enhance operation |
Genl | Art of Model Railroading, The
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Ellison, Frank | 7607 | MR | also Mar-Aug 1944 reprinted by Kalmbach as a book | |
Genl | Beginning operation
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Lucas, Carl F. | 6206 | 44 | MR | |
Genl | Beyond the "oval" layout Part 1 | Bowers, Peter | 9502 | 19 | Trackside Modeler | |
Genl | Beyond the "oval" layout Part 2 | Bowers, Peter | 9504 | 26 | Trackside Modeler | |
Genl | Bookshelf HO Layout with Staging
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Taylor, Joe | 9410 | 82 | MR | |
Genl | Bridge Line Operations on the Johnstown & Gerryville
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Puckett, Larry | 9804 | 46 | Model Railroading | Bridgeline |
Genl | Cardinal System - 4 rr's coordinate traffic
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Brown, Jack | 8904 | 73 | RModel Craftsman | Freytag, Dean,Kattau, Hal, Layout, Roberts, John |
Genl | Case Against Operation, The
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Kuykendall, Ronald | 7703 | 32 | NMRA Bulletin | slow down and enjoy |
Genl | Check list for good operation | Schopp, Bill | 6312 | 58 | RModel Craftsman | Troubleshoot |
Genl | Class I for One Man: a Track Plan
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7004 | 30 | MR | ||
Genl | Clinchfield Simulator
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Bull Session | 7904 | 130 | MR | Carangi Charles |
Genl | Control And Power Planning For Operation
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Mansfield, Jim | 9403 | 19 | Model Railroading | Basics Of Control Panels And Power Distribution - On Track Pt 2 |
Genl | Crew communications
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Mansfield, Jim | 9611 | 27 | Model Railroading | |
Genl | Delta Lines Operating Night
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Ellison, Frank | 5511 | 26 | MR | |
Genl | Design & Operate Model Rr Based on Prototype Pts I&II
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Durrenberger, Cyril | 8112, 8202 | Prototype Modeler | ||
Genl | Designing Model Railroad Operations (with bibliography)
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Schumaker, Richard | 9805 | www.gatewaynmra.org/designops.htm | ||
Genl | Direct Traffic Management for Model Rr Dispatching
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8810 | 114 | MR | magnetic dispatcher's panel | |
Genl | Downgrade with empties, upgrade with loads
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Hegge, Bob | 5704 | 22 | MR | Interurban, Layout |
Genl | Enhance your operating sessions - unusual consists
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Pyfer, Jerry | 8709 | 35 | Prototype Modeler | |
Genl | Enhancing Operations with Procedures Manuals | Gruber, Bill | 9201 | 72 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Evolving Operations on the N Scale Three Sisters RR
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Lewis, Dan | 9602 | 112 | MR | |
Genl | Fast freight on LPA-1 on the Alturas and Lone Pine
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Towers, Whitney K. | 6609 | 22 | MR | ALP, Trackplan, HO |
Genl | Follow those short lines, for operating and motive power ideas | Dockham, Ralph | 7810 | 16 | RRModeler | Industrial, Shortline |
Genl | Forming an Operating Group | Lundberg, Eric | 9507 | 56 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | G&D, Operation on the Delaware
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Taylor, Richard W. | 6212 | 38 | MR | dispatching and destinations |
Genl | Give Operation a Try
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Sperandeo, Andy | 9509 | 86 | MR | Very basic overview |
Genl | Go with the (Traffic) Flow - Pt II Designing Operations
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Swanson, John | 8801 | 32 | Prototype Modeler | |
Genl | Hazardous cargo - add operational interest | Obregon, Conrad | 8005 | 57 | RModel Craftsman | Hazardous |
Genl | Helix tracks for Holding/Layover Operations | Hansen, Don W. | 8607 | 38 | Model Railroading | Helix, Holding, Layover, Track |
Genl | How to operate a small layout realistically | Kelly, Jim | 9211 | MR | ||
Genl | How to Operate Your Layout
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Barrow, David | 9510 | 104 | MR
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also June, Aug 95 |
Genl | How to use signals
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Small, Charles | 5011 | 44 | MR | Signal |
Genl | Index of Operations articles
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Burroughs, Albin | 8611 | 4 | Model Railroading | Article, Index |
Genl | Index of Prototype and Model Operations Articles
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Morgan, Brian | 8804 | 4 | Model Railroading | Article, Index |
Genl | Intermodal Terminal Operations | Kelly, Jim | 8701 | 28 | Model Railroading | Intermodal, Terminal |
Genl | Keeping Track (operations forms)
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Lundberg, Eric | 7803 | MR | ||
Genl | Layover/Holding Track Operations
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Hansen, Don W. | 8603 | 44 | Model Railroading | Holding, Layover, Track |
Genl | Leadville Operator
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Lundberg, Eric | 9103 | 24 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Genl | Lessons from a session
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Schaumburg, Bill | 9409 | 110 | RModel Craftsman | operating tips |
Genl | Mainline Train Movements (Operating a Local)
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Towers, Whit | 6110 | 54 | MR | |
Genl | Maumee Turns a Mike, The | Darnaby, Bill | 9607 | 94 | MR | |
Genl | Measuring Scale Speed
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Bull Session | 8601 | 170 | MR | |
Genl | Model Railroad Operations
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Healy, Ken | 9002 | 9 | OVAR Interchange | Ottawa Valley Area Railroaders (club) |
Genl | Multi-Operational Concept, The
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Mansfield, Jim | 9503 | 30 | Model Railroading | Ontrack |
Genl | My two railroads - thoughts on operation and planning
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Vail, Jim | 9707 | 44 | Narrow Gauge &SL | Trackplanning, yard capacity |
Genl | New Age of Operations, part I: Evolution
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Brown, Jack | 8911 | 40 | Railmodel Journal | |
Genl | New Age of Operations, part II: Model or prototype?
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9003 | 54 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Genl | New age operation, part 3: the human element
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Lemke, J.H. | 9106 | 44 | Railmodel Journal | |
Genl | N-scale railroad built for realistic operation | Hall, George | 9310 | 108 | MR | |
Genl | Operating night on the narrow gauge
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Christopherson/Ellerby | 9411 | 40 | Narrow Gauge &SL | relaxed tt ops |
Genl | Operating Night on the Santa Cruz Northern
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Providenza, Jim | 9605 | 72 | MR | |
Genl | Operating Schemes
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Mansfield, Jim | 9309 | 50 | Model Railroading | Ontrack |
Genl | Operating the Allegheny & Lake Erie - 4x14 dogbone
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Armstrong, John | 5209 | 16 | MR | Trackplan, Ho |
Genl | Operating the Alturas & Lone Pine RR
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Towers, Whitney K. | 8302 | 72 | MR | Alp, Layout |
Genl | Operating the Midwest Modeler's layout
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Neale, Bill | 8707 | 86 | MR | Club, Layout |
Genl | Operating the new Sandric & Lake Superior
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Lundberg, Eric | 9702 | 82 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Operating the South Plains District | Barrow, David | 9612 | 100 | MR | also Sept, Oct, Nov 96 |
Genl | Operating Your Model Railroad
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MR Staff | 5711 | 46 | MR | illustrated overview of operations |
Genl | Operation at the Fillmore engine facility
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Chubb, Bruce | 7711 | 90 | MR | Roundhouse, Service, Svrr |
Genl | Operation Comes after the Surgery | At The Throttle | 7511 | 45 | MR | |
Genl | Operation For The '90s: Operation 2000
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Mansfield, Jim | 9405 | 62 | Model Railroading | Ontrack |
Genl | Operation is key on the Colrain Valley RR, small room
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Hayden, Bob | 7711 | 58 | MR | Layout, Trackplan, Ho |
Genl | Operation on the Crystal River Southern
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Hiatt, John T. | 6808 | 36 | MR | |
Genl | Operation on the Sandric & Lake Superior
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Lundberg, Eric | 8008 | 62 | MR | card order system |
Genl | Operation on the Texas & Rio Grande Western - Part 1 | McClanahan, Bill | 5812 | 32 | MR | Part 2 in MR 5912 p86 |
Genl | Operation Shorthand | Mansfield, Jim | 9507 | 24 | Model Railroading | Ontrack |
Genl | Operation unlimited, 9x10 G | Dohn, Roy | 6012 | 55 | MR | Trackplan, HO |
Genl | Operation: the Pros and the Cons
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Tipton, Rick | 8001 | MR | ||
Genl | Operation-An Indusrty Run Railroad
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Sand, Linda | 9111 | 43 | NScale | Sand, Linda |
Genl | Operations ?Granite Mountain Style - Parts 1,2,3 | Geiger, Doug | '0007 | 25 | Model Railroading | also Aug, Sept 2000 |
Genl | Operations at Rockford | Denton, Bill | 9501 | 42 | NScale | Layout, N |
Genl | Operations intimidation?
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Providenza, Jim | 9102 | 90 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Operations on East Bay's Santa Fe Central
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Powis, E.W. | 6803 | 35 | MR | California, Club, Layout |
Genl | Operations on Stony Creek & Western | Freitag, Gil | 9508 | 68 | MR | Kelly, Jim, Layout, Trackplan, Ho |
Genl | Operations on the HE&WT
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Durrenberger, Cyril | 8205 | 30 | Prototype Modeler | |
Genl | Operations on the HO Scale Shawmut | Andrews, Dick | 82 Summer | 4 | Model Railroading | Layout |
Genl | Operations on the Sunset Valley RR
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Chubb, Bruce | 7006 | 36 | MR | Svrr Trackplan, HO |
Genl | Operations Seen From Both Sides
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Pyfer, Jerry | 8609 | 36 | Prototype Modeler | |
Genl | Operations the thing at the Culver City Model Railroad Club | Tarjany, Fran | 7807 | 38 | RRModeler | Club, Layout |
Genl | Operators, The
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Towers, Whit | 1963-64-65 | RModel Craftsman | monthly columns covering all aspects of ops from prototype to mr and all systems | |
Genl | Pitfalls of operation | Bates, Alan L. | 7712 | 66 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Prototype Operation on the Sunset Valley
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Chubb, Bruce | 7911 | 118 | MR | |
Genl | Radio usage suggestions
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Tetzlaff | 9012 | 216 | MR | |
Genl | Radio verbiage | Mansfield, Jim | 9306 | 65 | Model Railroading | |
Genl | Railroader's Story - Metropolitan Corridor Parts 1 - 6 | Carangi, Charles | 9012 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Genl | Railroading without Derailments
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Hediger, Jim | 9605 | 80 | MR | |
Genl | Realistic and Simple Train Operations | Wengenroth, Fred | 8707 | 10 | Prototype Modeler | |
Genl | Realistic locomotive assignment | Gruber, Bill | 9610 | 112 | MR | Assignment, Locomotive |
Genl | Realistic Operations, part 10 | Kang/Providenza | 9605 | 55 | Railmodel Journal | Distributing cars in 'blocks' to & from major yards |
Genl | Realistic Performance
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Douds, Charles | 6305 | 38 | MR | |
Genl | Redesigning for better operation
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Boelter, Bob | 9707 | 98 | MR | Improving the O scale Great Western |
Genl | Running the Rockland
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Robb, Arthur T. | 4711 | 910 | MR | Layout |
Genl | Secrets of better operation | Schopp, Bill | 6203 | 28 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Self-adjusting system of operation
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Vondrak, Ed | 8707 | 32 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Genl | Setting up an operating system for a mr
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Webb, Craig and Pete Moffett | 9907 | 79 | RModel Craftsman | |
Genl | Shift Time
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Cole, R. Thomas | 9304 | 88 | MR | |
Genl | Short Line, Mixed Train Railroading
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Small, Charles S. | 5502 | 52 | MR | |
Genl | Signaling & Operation on Canandaigua Southern
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Armstrong, John | 9609 | 98 | MR | |
Genl | Signals that help you operate
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Garrison, Paul | 7504 | 60 | RRModeler | Signal, Wiring |
Genl | Sizing up the fleet (Official Register)
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Schleicher, Robert | 8801 | 8 | Model Railroading | |
Genl | Sneak-off tracks
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Ellison, Frank | 4604 | 240 | MR | |
Genl | Stretching the Too-Short Main Line
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Houghton, Phillips | 6105 | 33 | MR | |
Genl | Symbol Freight Operations on Rick Kang's Layout
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Kang, Rick | 8808 | 11 | Model Railroading | Layout |
Genl | Testing procedures used by the Pasadena Model RR Club
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Bates, Alan L. | 7407 | 58 | RRModeler | Towards better operation |
Genl | Time-Out for Brake Tests, New Age Operations, Part VI | Christopherson, Bob | 9403 | 12 | Railmodel Journal | Brake Test |
Genl | Tonnage Ratings for Model Steam Locomotives
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Reschenberg & Odegard | 6003 | MR | ||
Genl | Towards reliable operation - stamping out gremlins
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Armstrong, John | 7909 | 72 | MR | Useful table of maintenance/checklist items |
Genl | Tower Operations, a Railroad's Story, Part IV
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9308 | 50 | Railmodel Journal | Tower, Prototype | |
Genl | Traffic and freight cars on the Cardinal System | Brown, Jack | 9111 | 85 | RModel Craftsman | Freight, Layout |
Genl | Traffic Density
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Mansfield, Jim | 9207 | 44 | Model Railroading | Planning For Operation Part 4 |
Genl | Train Blocking | Mansfield, Jim | 9205 | 44 | Model Railroading | Planning For Operation Part 2 |
Genl | Train Classification
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Mansfield, Jim | 9204 | 66 | Model Railroading | Planning For Operation Part 1 |
Genl | Train Scheduling
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Mansfield, Jim | 9206 | 28 | Model Railroading | Planning For Operation Part 3 |
Genl | Trains of Thought: Realistic operation
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Koester, Tony | 9208 | 112 | MR | Trainsofthought |
Genl | Yard Hopping on the Glencoe Skokie Valley
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Ravenscroft, Ed | 5907 | 22 | MR | |
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Helper | Action On The Nation's Busiest Helper District
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Six, Jim | 9204 | 16 | Model Railroading | Locomotives of the PRR Cresson Helper pool |
Helper | Helper - with a name like that, what else could it be?
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Sims, Donald | 8005 | 54 | RRModeler | Helper, D&RGW |
Helper | Helper Operations
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Hansen, Don W. | 8607 | 30 | Model Railroading | Helper |
Helper | Helper service
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Morgan, David P. | 4904 | 42 | MR | Helper |
Helper | Helpers: for those steep grades
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Hutchinson | 5112 | 28 | RModel Craftsman | |
Helper | Improving helper operations | Henderson, Bill | 9205 | 60 | RModel Craftsman | Helper |
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Ind | Car Movements at the Lone Star Portland Cement Plant
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9505 | 16 | Railmodel Journal | Cement, Industry | |
Ind | From timber to tidewater - lumber operation | Sabol, James W. | 6608 | 20 | MR | |
Ind | Haulin' steel on the Ohio Southern | Hediger, Jim | 9604 | 82 | MR | |
Ind | Interrelated industries | Knotts, Stan | 9404 | 14 | MR | |
Ind | Loads-in/Empties-out Operations
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Saunders, Lee | 8511 | 28 | Model Railroading | Empty, Load |
Ind | Making better use of industries
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Dohn, Roy | 6310 | 38 | MR | Industry, Technique |
Ind | Midwest Pulpwood carloading practices and capacities
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Holbrook, Dan | 8910 | 16 | Railmodel Journal | |
Ind | Mill You Can Model: The Action at a Paper Plant
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Kang, Rick | 9709 | 11 | Railmodel Journal | Mill, Paper |
Ind | New England Paper Mills
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Lancaster, J. E. | 9705 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Ind | Pulpwood in the South, Part II: Operations on the SAL | 9310 | 4 | Railmodel Journal | Industry, Pulpwood, Sal | |
Ind | Pulpwood industry pts 2 & 3 | Holbrook, Dan | 9001 | 54 | Railmodel Journal | |
Ind | Railroads and the automotive age
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Hediger, Jim | 9705 | 70 | MR | contemporary era in June issue |
Ind | Team Tracks and LCL Freight Yards
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Burroughs, Albin | 8609 | 64 | Model Railroading | Lcl, Team, Track |
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Perish | Operations At Produce Terminals/Freight Houses in Pittsburgh | 9008 | 22 | Railmodel Journal | Freighthouse, Terminal | |
Perish | Refrigerator Car Icing
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Clinic | 7511 | 113 | MR | |
Perish | Roll those Reefers
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Novit, Edward | 9909 | 90 | MR | |
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Proto | ABC's of diesel dates
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Kelly, Jim | 8707 | 58 | MR | Models by years |
Proto | ABC's of prototype signaling | Odegard, Gordon | 7609 | 54 | MR | Signal, Prototype |
Proto | Air Brakes for Model Railroaders
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Carlson, Fred | 9411 | 100 | MR | |
Proto | Airbrake Valve Action | Westcott, Linn H. | 6808 | 40 | MR | |
Proto | Applying prototype knowledge to model ops
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Sperandeo, Andy | 9411 | 69 | MR | |
Proto | B&O Baltimore street ops '40-'55
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Schlerf & Sagle | 9212 | 30 | Railmodel Journal | |
Proto | B&O Fells Point Street ops
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Schlerf | 9210 | 30 | Railmodel Journal | |
Proto | BN Selkirk Part III: Operation Procedures
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Morgan, Brian | 9205 | 45 | NScale | Layout, Bn, N |
Proto | C&NW Operations | Sage, Harry | 9303 | 53 | Mainline Modeler | also Aprp63, Mayp53 |
Proto | City Street Operations at Baltimore's Fells Point | Sage, Harry | 9211 | 46 | Railmodel Journal | City, Street, Trackplanning |
Proto | Company Mail - Q&A on prototype operations
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Swanson, John | 1988 | monthly | columns | Prototype Modeler |
Proto | Denver O.S. Train registers, train orders, other paper work
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Steele, Rick | 8501 | 68 | Narrow Gauge &SL | Trainorder |
Proto | Employee Timetables
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7511 | MR | |||
Proto | Extra 6138 East: prototype railroad modeling
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Hendrickson | 9001 | 10 | Railmodel Journal | |
Proto | Fast freight
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Ellison, Frank | 4912 | 16 | MR | |
Proto | Finescale Operation I - State of the Art
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Lemke, Jeff | 8911 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Finescale Operation II - Operating Principles
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Lemke, Jeff | 9003 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Finescale Operation III - Interchange
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Lemke, Jeff | 9106 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Finescale Operation IV - Interlockings
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Lemke, Jeff | 9201 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Finescale Operation V - Slowing down the pace
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Lemke, Jeff | 9401 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Flag & Whistle - operations in the D&RGW and RGS
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Coker, Jim | 9207 | 82 | Narrow Gauge &SL | Flag, Narrowgauge, Whistle |
Proto | Freight Car Pooling
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Davis & deYoung | 8304 | RModel Craftsman | ||
Proto | Freight Houses and Railroad LCL Service
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Yungkurth, Chuck | 8411 | 95 | RModel Craftsman | |
Proto | Freight Houses, Part I The Freight Houses
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Lemke, Jeff | 8907 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Freight Houses, Part II Freight Handling
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Lemke, Jeff | 8909 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Freight Houses, Part III Produce Terminals
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Lemke, Jeff | 9008 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Yard Operations
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9504 | 16 | Railmodel Journal | Yard, Prototype | |
Proto | It's More Than Horsepower | Tipton, Rick | 7811 | MR | ||
Proto | Lafayette, Indiana: NKP & NYC operation | Harvey, Bill | 8811 | 68 | Mainline Modeler | NYC, NKP |
Proto | Name That Track
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Geletzke, Charles | 9406 | MR | ||
Proto | Operation Night: BN Selkirk - Part IV
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Morgan, Brian | 9207 | 38 | NScale | Layout, Bn, N |
Proto | Palmerston, l.c.l. and the CNR
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Wilson, Ian | 9707 | 87 | RModel Craftsman | Cnr, Lcl |
Proto | Pend Oreille Railroad: Operational insights
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Ingbretsen, Roger | 8804 | 52 | Mainline Modeler | Operation, Railroad, Prototype |
Proto | Real Railroading, Made Easy, Part I, Terms
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Kang & Providenza | 9205 | 8 | Railmodel Journal | |
Proto | Real Railroading, Made Easy, Part II: Through Freights
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Kang & Providenza | 9207 | 48 | Railmodel Journal | crew calls, rules, moving traffic |
Proto | Rules Class, Parts 1 through 5 | Thorne, Dan | 9011, 9012, 9103, 9107, 9109 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Through Freight - Realistic Operations Parts 1 - 10 | Kang & Providenza | 94 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | Tips 'n tales from the cab - branchline operations
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Hart, Vernon | 9203 | 120 | MR | Branchline |
Proto | Tips 'n tales from the cab - prototype switching
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Hart, Vernon | 9204 | 142 | MR | Switching, Prototype |
Proto | Train Dynamics
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Davis, John | 9601 | 49 | Mainline Modeler | Slack, Prototype |
Proto | Train Procedures Directories
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Gurin & McClelland | 7901 | 75 | RModel Craftsman | |
Proto | Train symbols | Gruber, Bill | 9201 | 39 | NMRA Bulletin | |
Proto | Unit train, real rr trains with solid consists | Kang & Providenza | 9402 | Railmodel Journal | ||
Proto | When LCL Meant Fast Freight | Bohi, Charles W | 9308 | 58 | Trains | LCL ops |
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Psgr | Baggage Car Operations on the Reading
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9212 | 6 | Railmodel Journal | Baggage, Passenger, Rdg | |
Psgr | Card Order Operations for Passenger Trains
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Darnaby, Bill | 9310 | 74 | MR | |
Psgr | Drop That Sleeper | Houghton & Bowen | 4804 | 25 | MR | |
Psgr | Express Box Car Operations
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Saunders, Lee | 8509 | 63 | Model Railroading | Expresscar, Passenger |
Psgr | Freight Cars of the 50s: Express Boxcars for Psgr Svc | 8509 | 58 | Model Railroading | ||
Psgr | Gems of Passenger Operation | Larson | 5804 | 50 | MR | |
Psgr | Gems of Passenger Train Operation
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Larson, Paul | 5804 | 50 | MR | |
Psgr | Handling Mail
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Bull Session | 9108 | 146 | MR | |
Psgr | Local passenger train over the Gorre & Daphetid
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Allen, John | 6901 | 46 | MR | Layout |
Psgr | Make mine passenger operation - terminal trackplan & ops
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Orgibet, Jorges | 7411 | 66 | MR | Passenger, Terminal, Trackplan, Yard, Ho |
Psgr | Milk car off-loading
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Blardone, Chuck | 9010 | 28 | Railmodel Journal | |
Psgr | Milk Part 1 of 2: HP Hood Creamery
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Lancaster, J. E. | 9003 | 28 | Railmodel Journal | |
Psgr | Milk Train Operations: 1957 | Ozanich, John | 9210 | 16 | Railmodel Journal | last days of milk trains |
Psgr | Milk Trains, Part 1: History, power and passenger cars
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9111 | 44 | Railmodel Journal | History, Locomotive, Milk, Passenger, Train | |
Psgr | Milk Trains, Part II - Creamery Operations | Lancaster, J. E. | 8905 | 30 | Model Railroading | Milk Train |
Psgr | Milk Trains... Boston & Maine Milk Cars and Combines | 9112 | 34 | Railmodel Journal | Combine, Milk, Milkcar, Train | |
Psgr | Modern Passenger Service - Via Flag Stops
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Watson, Russ | 9307 | 24 | Model Railroading | Flagstop, Passenger |
Psgr | MR rides a doodlebug
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Larson, Paul | 5904 | 24 | MR | Gas-Electric, Odegard, Gordon, Passenger, Prototype |
Psgr | Passenger Cars: Getting Passengers Aboard
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Fitzgerald, Jim | 9201 | 21 | NScale | Hay, Es, Skip, Passenger |
Psgr | Passenger Train Operation | Clark, R | 7208 | 38 | NMRA Bulletin | Prototype example from 1967 |
Psgr | Passenger train operation
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Ellison, Frank | 5106 | 8 | MR | Passenger |
Psgr | Passenger Train operations on the Chesapeake System
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Alcock , Bruce & Michael Raskob | 9608 | 58 | MR | |
Psgr | Passenger train operations, a neglected opportunity | Bisgeier, Craig | 2000 | Website see comments | http://www.HousatonicRR.com/passops.html | |
Psgr | Passenger Train Oriented Layout - Parts 1-4 | Clark, Robert A | '0201 | Model Railroading | 4 parts Jan-Apr 2002 | |
Psgr | Passenger Trains on the CM&SF
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Sperandeo, Andy | 8003 | 62 | MR | |
Psgr | Passenger-train Challenge | Broad | 6412 | 67 | MR | |
Psgr | Prototype Portfolio: Milwaukee Road's Fast Mail | Stauss | 8508 | 37 | Prototype Modeler | |
Psgr | Pullman Prolificacy | Shaffer | 6710 | 24 | Trains | |
Psgr | RR operation at stub terminals | Robinson, Cliff | 5602 | 42 | RModel Craftsman | Passenger, Switching, Terminal - cont Mar 56 p 25 |
Psgr | Santa Fe passenger trains on the Argentine Div
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Hitchcock, Chuck | 1991 | 28 | Great MRs | Hitchcock, Chuck:, ision, 1991, p.21-28 |
Psgr | Sunshine on the Southland | Clark | 4710 | 27 | Trains | extensive route switching |
Psgr | Switching action with passenger equipment
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Nehrich, John | 8409 | 21 | Model Railroading | Passenger, Switching |
Psgr | To Market by Rail: Milk Cars Part I - RR Owned | Yungkurth | 8602 | 89 | RMC | Also Pt II - Private 8603 p 85 |
Psgr | Twelve Hours at Argentine
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Hitchcock, Chuck | 1997 | 10 | MR Planning | Hitchcock, Chuck |
Psgr | Twist on Tuscan Red | Dubin | 6709 | 38 | Trains | |
Psgr | When Two Trains Equal One | Shaffer | 6402 | 44 | Trains | |
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Swtg | ABC's of switching Cars
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Kelly, Jim | 8710 | 108 | Model Railroading | Kelly, Jim |
Swtg | Box Car Clean-Up Switching Moves
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9101 | 31 | Railmodel Journal | Boxcar, Switching, Freightcar | |
Swtg | Flying switch operations
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Bull, Howard W. | 7401 | 42 | MR | Flyingswitch, Switching |
Swtg | Switching on a branchline
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Stauss, Ed | 7712 | 58 | RRModeler | Caboose talk - you have to plan ahead |
Swtg | Switching Prototype Style
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Bates, Alan L. | 7912 | 126 | MR | |
Swtg | Switching Shippensburg
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Lemke, J.H. | 9211 | 40 | NScale | Reid, Bill, Switching |
Swtg | Switching the Interchange
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Christopherson, Bob | 9401 | 27 | Railmodel Journal | Interchange, Switching |
Swtg | Track Scale Switching Movements | Kelly, Jim | 8706 | 4 | Model Railroading | Scale, Switching |
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WayFrt | Apple North out of Sunrise
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Koester, Tony | 9303 | 69 | MR | |
WayFrt | Brakeman on the Yellow Extra, on the Sunset Valley
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Chubb, Bruce | 7301 | 56 | MR | Svrr |
WayFrt | Consider the Lowly Peddler | Boomer Pete | 5406 | 6 | MR | Very basic info |
WayFrt | Consider the way freight
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Hiatt, John T. | 6811 | 60 | MR | Freight, Wayfreight |
WayFrt | Day with a Jersey Eastern switching crew, 11x16 ctr op
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Mansfield, Jim | 8411 | 104 | MR | Layout, Trackplan, Ho |
WayFrt | Day with extra 487
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Dunning, Denis | 7408 | 30 | RRModeler | Freight, Wayfreight, UP, Prototype |
WayFrt | Mixed Train (Daily) Operations
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Kelly, Jim | 8707 | 38 | Model Railroading | |
WayFrt | Mixed train: bull session
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Hediger, Jim | 8806 | 132 | MR | |
WayFrt | Modern mixed train operation
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Heinen, Ken | 6601 | 38 | MR | Railroad, Wab, Prototype |
WayFrt | Railroad operation: Way Freight No. 2A
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Robinson, Cliff | 5604 | 40 | RModel Craftsman | Wayfreight |
WayFrt | Realistic Operations, part 9; Wayfreight | Kang, Rick | 9704 | 11 | Railmodel Journal | Operation designed by former railroaders |
WayFrt | Riding the Cookie Box extra
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Steer, David G. | 9604 | 73 | RModel Craftsman | |
WayFrt | Route switching - model railroading at its best
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Ellison, Frank | 5003 | 24 | MR | Switching |
WayFrt | Useful little peddler, the
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Robb, Arthur T. | 4812 | 929 | MR | Wayfreight |
WayFrt | Way freight
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Ellison, Frank | 5002 | 28 | MR | Wayfreight |
WayFrt | Way Freight Operations on the Yampa Valley RR
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Rothe, Robert | 7710 | 114 | MR | |
WayFrt | Winfield Local - ride along on a prototype freight, part 1
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Karsten, Robert | 7801 | 53 | RModel Craftsman | Freight, Ri, Wayfreight - cont Feb 78 p 59 |
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Yards | Around the clock at Frankfort Yard | Daily | 1996 | p16 | MRPlanning | NKP yd |
Yards | Freight yards
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Ellison, Frank | 5001 | 31 | MR | |
Yards | Give the Yardmanster a break
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Tipton, Rick | 7809 | 126 | Model Railroading | |
Yards | Go with the (Traffic) Flow - Pt III Yard Operations
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Swanson, John | 8803 | 34 | Prototype Modeler | |
Yards | Large Terminal Operations in Small Spaces
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9112 | 56 | Railmodel Journal | Washington Terminal | |
Yards | Model the Action, NOT the Yard: A Railroad's Story, part I | Puckett, Larry | 9012 | 16 | Railmodel Journal | Trackplanning, Yard |
Yards | Yard at Manchester - adding a small yard to the Ma&Pa
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Ellison, Frank | 6502 | 48 | MR | Switching, Yard |
Yards | Yard at Westport - operators have to cooperate here
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Decker, John R. | 8309 | 116 | MR | Layout, Switching, Yard |
Yards | Yard Operations Planning on the Allegheny Midland
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Koester, Tony | 1996 | 10 | MR Planning | Koester, Tony |
Yards | Yard Switching, Prototype Style
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Towers, Whit | 6107 | 38 | MR | |
Yards | Yard throats for operations | Barrow, David | 1997 | 84 | MR Planning |