Old 97
Hogger
I was able to purchase 11 months of Model Railroader Magazine from 1951.
A fellow at work was selling them for a dollar a piece.
June 1951 originally sold for 35 cents in the U.S.A. and 40 cents elsewhere.
Looking through the pages is like a time machine.
Varney has an ad showing their 1,001 genuine HO loco & car parts catalog for 35 cents, Irvin R. Athearn has a photo ad showing his 24 page catalog for the hefty price of 10 cents!
Bob Peare was selling three foot sections of HO brass prefab track for 98 cents.
John A. English and company had a new HO Mikado locomotive and tender
kit for $24.95.
Topics covered in the magazine that month were as follows:
1) Passenger train operation By Frank Ellison
2) How I built the T&E Railroad By Jeff Richardson
3) Construction Project Railroad By Boyce F. Martin
4) Rivet forming machine on page 25.
5) Port Able Railroad (Track plan of the month) By Charles F. Small
6) Flywheels By P.J. Elsey
7) Roll your own B&O HO Loco boiler By Tom Beresford
8) Building an O Gauge 0-4-0 Switcher (Part 3) By Mel Thornburgh
9) Water Column By K.N. Lowry
10) The Silver Plate Road (Cartoon) on page 59.
On page 34, there is a scale drawing of the new Westinghouse 4000 h.p.
gas turbine passenger locomotive.
The drawings were done by Berne E. Danielson.
Permission is given for the user to have these drawings photostated to
different scales for any gauge.
These magazines provide a priceless glimpse of our hobby in the post war years and I'm looking forward to many more hours of enjoyment reading them.
A fellow at work was selling them for a dollar a piece.
June 1951 originally sold for 35 cents in the U.S.A. and 40 cents elsewhere.
Looking through the pages is like a time machine.
Varney has an ad showing their 1,001 genuine HO loco & car parts catalog for 35 cents, Irvin R. Athearn has a photo ad showing his 24 page catalog for the hefty price of 10 cents!
Bob Peare was selling three foot sections of HO brass prefab track for 98 cents.
John A. English and company had a new HO Mikado locomotive and tender
kit for $24.95.
Topics covered in the magazine that month were as follows:
1) Passenger train operation By Frank Ellison
2) How I built the T&E Railroad By Jeff Richardson
3) Construction Project Railroad By Boyce F. Martin
4) Rivet forming machine on page 25.
5) Port Able Railroad (Track plan of the month) By Charles F. Small
6) Flywheels By P.J. Elsey
7) Roll your own B&O HO Loco boiler By Tom Beresford
8) Building an O Gauge 0-4-0 Switcher (Part 3) By Mel Thornburgh
9) Water Column By K.N. Lowry
10) The Silver Plate Road (Cartoon) on page 59.
On page 34, there is a scale drawing of the new Westinghouse 4000 h.p.
gas turbine passenger locomotive.
The drawings were done by Berne E. Danielson.
Permission is given for the user to have these drawings photostated to
different scales for any gauge.
These magazines provide a priceless glimpse of our hobby in the post war years and I'm looking forward to many more hours of enjoyment reading them.