Model Railroader Magazine April 2003 - 136 Pages Crowd pleaser - The HO/HOn3 Stony Creek & Western has inspired modelers for 37 years. To view of video clip of Gil Freitag's fabulous layout from Allen Keller Productions' Great Model Railroads, Vol. 13,

Compact Great Lakes coal pier - Foldout drawings of the coal loading facility at Sodus Point, N.Y.

Build a 50-foot 1960s boxcar - A later-vintage freight car from an earlier-era HO scale kit

The Old West outdoors - Visit the G scale Lake Tahoe & Truckee

No kit? No problem! - Styrene makes scratch building L&N's Limestone Springs, Ky., depot easy.

Building the Turtle Creek Central: Conclusion - Adding a 1950 town to our project layout. Article includes free decals with the Turtle Creek Central logo and slogan!

Staging solutions - Tips for adding storage capacity to a small layout

At the Throttle - Editor Terry Thompson looks back at Linn Westcott's classic If I had a million article from the May 1951 issue of MR.

MR News - Need a custom layout? We provide a list of North American custom layout builders.

Plus: Product reviews of Athearn N scale F59PHI, Bachmann On2-1/2 Shay, Athearn HO scale Auto-Max car, and Model Power N scale light Pacific steam locomotive.