M&StL Modeling

M&StL Models by Clark Propst

M&StL Models by Joe Binish - GV Locomotive

M&StL Decals

My first kitbash attempt. M&StL Mogul #304

Future plans for my next HO layout I plan to model Eldora Iowa and nearby towns.

List of M&StL products in all scales provided by John Bandstra - Click Here
John's email address is johnb@iowatelecom.net

Please help fill in this table of new M&StL scale model products as they become available

Fifth Avenue Car Shops
P.O. Box 423MR
La Grange IL 60525

Do you have any ideas for building an HO scale GE Gas Electric or RDC-4 ?
Please let me know if you have ever tackled this project and what kits/parts you used.
Pictures are welcome too.
Cash mstl@eldora.net

New Division Point FT

Here is a list of detail parts I use on a M&StL RS-1.

• Cal Scale BE-328 bell
• MA-280 marker lights
• Custom Finishing 147 brake chain guide
• Details West 172 step lights.
• Also change the cab vent to a square from a circle.
• GV Locomotive (me) has the all weather window.
• The walkway over the rear vents needs to be moved off center.

--- Joe Binish --- joebinish@earthlink.net

Cash, as promised here are my thoughts on modeling the M&StL F-units.

FT (445 and 545) use the Stewart single headlamp, no side # board unit, and shorten the B-unit by 6 scale feet

F2 (147) The F2 was an FT in a F3 body, so use the F3 Pase 1 from Stewart (As and Bs)

F3 (248, 348, 448) These were Phase 2s, with modifications, so they look like Phase 3s. To explain, the Phase 2 had chicken wire between the portholes, the M&StL removed it. So, use the Stewart Phase 3, just as.

F7 (150, 250, 151) Phase 1 F7s, use the Stewart Phase 1 F7.

The only parts to add are grabs, ladder grabs and a speed recorder on the left front truck journal. An alternative to the non-FTs is the Highliners F unit, which can make any of the As or Bs. I use Floquil reefer yellow and Southern green, then any black. I prefer the stripes on Kurt Stobbe's F unit decal, but the hereld and wings from the Micro Scale set. Any other questions, please call, or email. Joe Binish joebinish@earthlink.net

Highliners shells will fit on the Proto1000 drive, but you need to keep the window/latch casting from the Life Like shell (good luck getting it out in 1 piece! try acc debonder, not the screwdriver I used!) It probably will need trimming to fit the HL window spacings.

A possible model for M&StL 500 class Pacifics One might look at the NYC K-11 Pacific from Bowser (catalog #100200) as a possible starting point for the M&StL's 500 class Pacifics. The diameters of the leading truck wheels, drivers and trailing truck are 33", 69" and 43" respectively on the prototype. On the Bowser K-ll those numbers are 33", 69" and 42" respectively. The driver wheel base on the M&StL locos was 12'-6", on the K-ll model 12'-8". The USRA light Pacific has 73" drivers and a 13'-0" wheelbase. Gene Green - Post #541 Yahoo! Groups List

EXPRESS CARS CONVERTED FROM WWII TROOP SLEEPERS - M&StL #400-402 (1950) Inside Door 5'6" more ambitious remake of Cannonball Car Shops #9707 fabricating added sill. Cannonball 9707 conversions may be made with 9701 using the window plugs supplied with it. Kits sell for $28-$30.

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Subject: New Prague flour mill
Dec 2002 Railmodel Journal has an article on the Robin Hood flour mill at New Prague. There are 6 prototype photos and a map. All photos are taken after the great unmentionable took over the M&StL.; Gene Green

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