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Celebrating
the art of
1:48 modeling
Issue #18
Jan/Feb 2005
Vol. 4, No. 1
Publisher
Joe Giannovario
jag@oscalemag.com
Art Director
Jaini Giannovario
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Editor
Brian Scace
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Advertising Manager
Jeb Kriigel
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Contributors
Ted Byrne
Gene Deimling
Bobber Gibbs
Carey Hinch
Hobo D. Hirailer
Jace Kahn
Neville Rossiter
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Cover:
A Milwaukee Road Hiawatha rolls through
a pass on the O Scale layout of the East Bay Model
Engineers.
Centerspread:
A standard gauge freight rolls by at
ground level while a narrow gauge freight traverses a
grand trestle on the East Bay Model Engineers’ layout.
Both cover photo and centerspread courtesy of the East
Bay Model Engineers.
Features
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East Bay Model Engineers Celebrate Golden Spike
Building Plastic Kits
O Scale modelers put the finishing touches on over 3000 feet of main-
line track. Jeff Heller tells the story
Tools and tips for building plastic kits from William Kendall
Do what the real railroads did. Rebuild that tender. Sam Shumaker
gives you the dope on how he did his.
Not all influences have passed from this veil. John Humphreys is raising
the bar down-under at age 35. Neville Rossiter gives us the scoop.
A seven-part series on building a small O Scale layout to fit an apart-
ment. Watch as Mike Culham rebuilds his Great Central Railway.
He’s at it again! Roland Marx turns brass into gold.
Modernize a USRA Tender
O Scale Influences
Building a Small O Scale Layout – Part 1
Brass Bashing a KTM SD40M-2
Departments
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Easements for the Learning Curve – Brian Scace
The Modern Image - Carey Hinch
Modeler’s Shelf, more on pp 52 & 53
Narrow Minded – Bobber Gibbs
The Workshop – Neville Rossiter
Powering Up – Ted Byrne
Reader Feedback – Letters to the Editor
Fine Scale Modeling – Gene Deimling
Product News & Reviews
The Good Old Days - Jace Kahn
Confessions of a HiRailer – Hobo D. Hirailer
Buy-Sell-Trade Ads
Advertiser Index
Events Listing
Observations – Joe Giannovario
Jan/Feb ’05 - O Scale Trains •
OST is a proud Member of the
Model Railroad Industry Association
On November 1st, 2003, the final spike was driven on the
last stretch of mainline on the O Scale layout at the Golden State
Model Railroad Museum, home of the East Bay Model Engineers
Society. This marked the completion of the Third Division of one
of the largest O Scale layouts in the U.S. The layout measures
175 feet long by an average of 30 feet wide with the three divi-
sions extending from 36” to over 9 feet above the floor. More
than 3000 feet of handlaid mainline provides a pretty respect-
able run allowing even the biggest of the Big Boys and Allegh-
enies a chance to stretch their legs.
History
The East Bay Model Engineers Society was founded in 1933
and is one of the oldest model railroad clubs in the nation. The
club started its first layout, in O Scale, in 1934 in the basement
of Hardy’s bookstore in Oakland. EBMES expanded in 1936 and
moved to the baggage room of the Western Pacific depot. After a
brief move in 1939 to the Key System offices, the club moved in
April, 1940, to what would become its longtime home, a Santa
Fe warehouse at 4075 Halleck Street in Oakland. For the next 40
years the club built layouts in O, HO, and N Scales.
The O Scale layout was roughly 63x100 feet and consisted
of several separate divisions. The Santa Fe Western was the stan-
dard gauge railroad, the Oakland, Antioch and Eastern ran trac-
tion equipment, and there were two narrow gauge railroads, the
On3 Denver and South Park and the On30 Poterville Western.
In 1985 we relocated to our current building, located in
Miller/Knox Regional Shoreline in Point Richmond, California.
The building was very large, but needed substantial renova-
• O Scale Trains - Jan/Feb ’05
tions. We needed to clean
and renovate the interior as
well as put on a new roof.
Construction of the layouts
you see today began in 1989.
We opened our doors to the
public in 1991.
O Scale Today
Today the O Scale lay-
out is about 70% complete.
The completion of the Third
Division marks the last
of the major track-laying
phase, although some siding
and industrial tracks await
completion. The track plan
is basically a point-to-point
schematic, with return loops
at each end. A train covers
more than 27 scale miles of
railroad running from one
end to the other. In typi-
cal operating sessions, with
normal time “waiting in the
hole” for oncoming trains,
it will take a train two hours or more to go from the Depar-
ture Yard through all three divisions and back to the Arrival
Yard, without ever going over the same piece of track. That’s a
respectable size layout, particularly in O Scale! Yard tracks and
sidings are about 55 feet long, allowing us to run some pretty
impressive trains.
In addition to the standard gauge railroad, we also have a
large area devoted to narrow gauge (On3). Currently about 25%
complete, the narrow gauge will eventually have about 250
feet of mainline. Naturally, mining and logging operations will
predominate. This area features a large mine structure salvaged
from the home layout of Charlie Trombly, a former member of
the club, as well as a hydraulic gold mine, something not often
modeled.
Construction is also progressing on an extensive traction layout.
Roadbed and most of the track is down. Temporary wiring allows
limited operation at this time. Eventually the entire traction layout
will be wired for both two-rail and overhead operation.
Construction
The benchwork is built in the traditional open grid style. The
track is built over
1
⁄
4
” x 1” spline sub-roadbed, nine laminations
wide, with Homasote roadbed. Virtually all trackage is hand-
laid on ties we cut ourselves. Rail is about 35% steel and 65%
nickel silver, code 148. Standard radius is ten feet, minimum
radius in a few areas is about eight feet. Yards are on a plywood
base with Homasote sheet. Turnouts are a combination of Old
Pullman kits and scratchbuilt. Some flextrack was used in the
passenger terminal. Apparently, no one had a great desire to
handlay track while lying prone on their stomach. Switchmas-
ter switch machines are used to throw all turnouts.
Scenery
Mountain scenery dominates most of the layout. Some of
the tallest peaks will tower 16 feet above the floor. Traditional
hardshell built over a cardboard lattice forms the foundation. To
this, we add hundreds of rock castings made from commercial
rubber molds. Some are pre-cast and affixed with a “batter” of
Hydrocal, many others are cast in place. You quickly discover
that you don’t want to get an itch while holding rock molds in
place waiting for the plaster to set!
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