Does anybody remember the Duquesne?

[Doug the Trainman]

Hello

I posted a week or so ago about Paul Dolkos old layout from long ago called the Duquesne. (pronounced Du-Kane) Just a simple five foot by ten foot layout that I believe he built many years ago in his dad's house. I did post what information I have, including the Model Railroader March 1983 issue about him tearing down the layout as he moved out of his dad's house.

 

 

Mr Dolkos is a well known model railroad author now, but he started building the Duquesne way back in 1967.

Anyway, I would love to find the original article about the Duquesne. I searched through all my old copies of Model Railroader and cannot find the original article about the Duquesne. This would have been sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s, I think.

Is there a digital library somewhere that I could request a copy of the old original article? I just always liked that layout and would like to revisit it.

Or, is there a way I can contact Mr. Dolkos? He might be able to help me find the old article.

Thanks,

Doug

[SeeYou190]

Doug the Trainman

Is there a digital library somewhere that I could request a copy of the old original article?

If it was printed in Model Railroader it should be available in the all-time online archive.

Does the March, 1983 issue reference a previous article?

-Kevin

[doctorwayne]

Doug the Trainman

Or, is there a way I can contact Mr. Dolkos? He might be able to help me find the old article.

Possibly...if you simply google his name, a fair amount of stuff shows-up.

Wayne

[dknelson]

I just read the article and it makes no mention of a prior article in MR about it; I think it would have if there was such an article.  Nor did I find anything in the circa 1985 Stephenson Index to MR.  And just in case I also checked the Stephenson Index to RMC and found nothing.  Unfortunately Stephenson did not index author names.  

Dave Nelson

[Doug the Trainman]

Hello and thanks for the replies

I don't think I am imagining this, I am pretty sure there was a prior article, but I am pretty old and my memory could be playing tricks on me.

I already googled Paul Dolkos. The only hits I found were much more recent. He has done extensive photography of layouts for Model Railroader, and he had a layout based on the Boston and Maine for many years. For the last ten years or so he has had a layout based on the Baltimore Harbor District. At the very end of this video there is a portrait of the guys running his current layout and Paul is all the way on the right.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt1c1hpVv6o

As stated, there is no reference in the 1983 article about when the first article about the Duquesne was published. He mentions he began building it in 1967 in his parent's house, so the original article must have been around then.

I took the liberty of scanning the 1983 article into my computer. Here is the layout plan as published in 1983. As I said, not a huge layout, there was just something about it that appealed to me all those years ago.

 

So. I am fairly new here. I do have a subscription to Model Railroader, have had one off and on for many years. Any advice about how to access their digital archives to find the article I am looking for?

Many thanks,

Doug

 

[ndbprr]

I thought you meant the PRR train that ran from Pittsburgh to New York.  It usually had at least 15 cars of Mail and express.it was always at least 2 hours late when I rode it from Lancaster to Philly in the mid 60s

[Graham Line]

I remember Paul Dolkos' Duquesne article being kind of an eye-opener when it appeared.  I don't recall a story before that, but it was a good example of the quality that could be achieved working in a relatively confined space.

Another "wake up" story was Iota: The Story of a Very Short Line, that appeared in Railroad Model Craftsman in the 1970s.  Richard Frankaviglia created a whole  world around a 1x6 plank with a runaround and a couple of spurs. For someone who had limited space and finances at the time, it was a reminder I could do more than read magazines.

[BigDaddy]

Doug I sent you a pm.  If you use Firefox you may not see it at all.

I don't know if you access the archives or not anymore.  It wasn't ever part of the regular MR subscription, but at times one could.   There has been dozens of posts about difficulties with the new Trains.com and I've stopped reading those.