Modeling the Santa Fe in the 1950s

This package is a must-have for Atchison. Topeka Santa Fe Ry. aficionados as well as fans of the steam/diesel transition era. Keith Jordan provides an overview of postwar “Surf Line” passenger train consists. Take a tour of Gary Hoover’s spectacular Santa Fe. 1951 layout. In a separate article he gives a detailed look at his prototypically modeled Dearborn Station. Harold and Martha Dill show how they freelanced their own Midwestern division point. Heading southwest. Bill Van der Meer chose a Texas and Oklahoma branch line for his prototype. Along with track plans the package includes a signature Santa Fe modeling project – how-to build a Southwestern-style stucco depot. (45 pages. 5 MB)Here are the track plans included in this set:

• A perfect year by Keith Jordan
• Modeling Chicago’s Dearborn Station by Gary Hoover
• Santa Fe’s best by Gary Hoover
• Santa Fe: All The Way by Gary Hoover
• Santa Fe in the Southern Great Plains by Bill Van der Meer
• How to model a stucco depot by Bob Foltz