Anyone ever build something they saw in MR?

[claycts]

Yes the A&N we are building is based on a Don Mitchell plan from July 1977. we made some cahnges but other than that it is coming out fine.
TRIED a brass engine in 1966 to young and to dumb to get it correct. You know YOUTH when you now so much about nothing that matters and try to do something that does!
Take Care
George P.

[Don Gibson]

"Anyone ever build something they saw in MR?"

YES. My first layout. a 12' x 16' 'L'

[Anonymous]

Tony koester built the concord & massacuets railroad & saw it in the MR

[marthastrainyard]

Yes, a coaling tower from a 1957 MR.

[CNJ831]

Only one or two from the pages of MR (a small wooden highway bridge and a bucket coaling station, both from 1950's or 60's articles) but quite a few based on material appearing in RMC over the years.

CNJ831

[beegle55]

I haven't actually built anything off of MR, but I have got some GREAT ideas from the magizine. MR is one of the best!

[xdford]

Built a layout based on December 1973 EE Seeley "start with a layout like this? On a website www.xdford.digitalzones.com

Regards

Trevor

[Anonymous]

I *might* build a SD20 when I get my May MR.

[Anonymous]

I used to LOVE the symposium on electronics section, constant lighting, flasher circuits, detectors etc. I still miss those columns![V]

Of course, I also used to wait a month before doing a project, in case they printed a correction the following month.[;)]

[waltersrails]

thought about it.just couldn't get all the supplys

[Budliner]

wow ken nice work

K

[Anonymous]

I made a CN CPA-16-5 Diesel. Of course it was my article, so the model came first!

Bob Boudreau

[Anonymous]

I built a model of a coke pusher like Dean Freytag had in an early 1990's issue of MR (can't remember the exact one though):

[lonewoof]

I've built several of their transistor throttles. Also a high-frequency lighting generator.

[ARTHILL]

I have borrowed parts of several layouts

[jpmorrison]

yes i did the frieght depot using 5 dpm scissors factory kits turned out great but the new layout has no room

jeff

[TomDiehl]

Several.

The most extensive was a 6 car fleet of the Southern Pacific Double Stack 5 unit cars. The only commercial parts were the trucks, couplers, and brake details.

For the club, I built the Memory Walkaround throttles.

[Paul3]

The funniest one I ever heard of is from the Willimantic (CT) RR museum. They built a real 1:1 hand car (a true "gandy dancer") using plans from Model Railroader.

Paul A. Cutler III
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Weather Or No Go New Haven
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[ProtoWeathering]

I built this car load from an article in a mid 70's MR.

[james saunders]

yes the turtle creek central

[tomikawaTT]

Dating myself terribly, half a century or so ago MR used to publish plans and descriptions of "Dollar Cars" (to be scratchbuilt for a dollar, more or less.) I built several (a drop-end mill gon stands out in my memory) but none of them survived their first encounter with military contract movers.

In the early 1960's I decided to model Japanese prototypes. Since then, MR has served me as a source for ideas and inspiration, but not for specific things to model or otherwise build.

Chuck

[CP5415]

This is my current project.

A porter's step stool design from a guy named Pete Harrison. I found it in an old issue of MR



Like Mr Harrison, I made it out of scrap 3/4" plywood & 1x4's I had left over from the benchwork.

I still have some touch-up's with the paint.

I built it with my daughter's safety in mind as well as mine when I'm able to build a higher layout.

Let's hear your MR based projects

Gordon