{"id":217,"date":"2010-10-20T16:10:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T22:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/?p=217"},"modified":"2012-10-20T16:11:10","modified_gmt":"2012-10-20T22:11:10","slug":"outdoor-railroader-vol-6-no-3-july-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/magazines-guide\/outdoor-railroader-vol-6-no-3-july-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"Outdoor Railroader: Vol. 6 No. 3 (July 1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Build an RPO Baggage Car<\/strong>, by John T. Derr, p. 38 (kitbashing, drawings, LGB, 1:22.5)<br \/>\nThis article describes how to kitbash an LGB 3081 combine into a railway post office car.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Americanize PIKO&#8217;s Brick Enginehouse<\/strong>, by Dave Cummins, p. 40 (kitbashing, PIKO, 1:22.5)<br \/>\nThis article describes how to take one of PIKO&#8217;s best kits and make it look like a shoebox. Perhaps there are one or two ideas that you can use without bastardizing your kit.<\/p>\n<p>S<strong>outhern Pacific Flanger-Snowplow 108<\/strong>, by E. H. Cass, p. 57 (scratchbuilding, drawings, 1:48)<br \/>\nThese simple drawings might be enough to get you started on this car, especially if you can find photos of the original on the Internet. I would suggest kitbashing a flatcar, instead of starting from scratch.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Radio Control Sound<\/strong>, by Gary Raymond, p. 60 (sound, electronics, kitbashing)<br \/>\nIn a previous article that I don&#8217;t have, the author described how he put a soundcard into a boxcar. In this article, he describes how he put a radio control system into a second boxcar, so that he could control the bell and whistle functions of the soundcard in the first boxcar. I am working on a similar project, inspired by this author.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Build an RPO Baggage Car, by John T. Derr, p. 38 (kitbashing, drawings, LGB, 1:22.5) This article describes how to kitbash an LGB 3081 combine into a railway post office car. Americanize PIKO&#8217;s Brick Enginehouse, by Dave Cummins, p. 40 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/magazines-guide\/outdoor-railroader-vol-6-no-3-july-1996\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazines-guide","category-outdoor-railroader"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"views":971,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":220,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crimsonstar.com\/garden-railroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}