Just to be clear, Mel Thornburgh's articles were on building an O scale locomotive, but there really isn't any difference except the specific dimensions between the construction of a model in O or S scale.
There have been a couple of later series in MR and other publications, Thornbrugh's articles date to the 1930's. I do not recall any series in similar depth in S. Pieter Roos raisinone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try the model railroad index, link attached, for specfic issues. A company called "Railpub" advertises on this index web site and supplies older, out-of-print magazines. I have always had very good luck with them. Jim K. http://index.mrmag.com/tm.exe?tmpl=tm_ksrch --- In [email protected], "Trains" wrote: > > Hi Darrell, There was a whole series of articles on just such an engine, in MR in the fifties and early sixties...They were called something like "...Build a Kitchen table top engine..." there were 4- 4-0's, and other steam engine skratch building articles, including everything necessary to build frames, cylinders, running gear etc.. The basic idea was a low tech (no lathes or machine shop stuff) home hand tools, the hand drill was very necessary in a lot of the techiniques, and of course a lot of hand work cutting brass stock with a jewlers saw, good set of a variety of files....etc. The author was, I believe, Mel Thornburo (sp?). I learned a lot from these type of articles and still utilize many of the techniques etc. Most of these articles were written for O or HO but are easily transposed to S. > > I wish I could be of more specific help, my RR modeling mags are all packed up...pending my move... or I would have been able to give you specific issues to look for. > > S gaugingly yours, > > Peter Loeb > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
