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Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Passenger Train Operations On The Chesapeake System (Planning meets and connections that will add to the sessions’ fun); Basic Model Railroading – Hide Those Switch Motors (Concealed mounting techniques for two types of switch machines to improve your layout’s appearance); Trackside Photos (Shots from our readers include a New York Central E8 rounding a curve and a pair of Housatonic MP15s skirting a riverbank); Build A 35mm SLR View Camera (This tilt-and-shift lens adapter produces exceptional model photos); Design And Build A Brick Roundhouse (Dummy stalls make this roundhouse look imposing without taking up too much real estate on your layout); Paint Shop – Katy’s Colorful EMD Cab Units (Color renderings of freight and passenger diesels in the red, gray and yellow paint scheme); Fake Fur Grass (An easy method for adding acres of tall, wild grass along the right-of-way on your layout); Bob Carasitti’s Massive Stoney Creek Steel Arch Bridge In HO Scale; Modeling Denver & Rio Grande Western Cabooses In N Scale (Modifying an Atlas car and three different paint schemes); John Allen’s First Model Railroad (At the heart of the legendary HO Gorre & Daphetid lay a tiny tabletop layout); Setting The Scene On The Canandaigua Southern (Buildings, night lighting and passenger trains in O scale); Electronics Symposium – Three-Position Semaphore Control Circuit (Plus low-voltage wiring and Web sites); Along The Line (Nighthawks revisited) Departments – Product News; Railway Post Office; Workshop (Basic Ntrack standards); Product Reviews (Walthers HO mill gondola * Atlas N scale Evans boxcar * Accurail HO timber overpass * Hobby Innovations Vinylbed * and more); Railroader’s Library (Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR CD Painting Backdrops video); Hobby shop Window; At The Throttle (Let neglected actors take center stage); Trains Of Thought (A model historical society?); Student Fare; Club News; Bull Session (Celebrity autographed boxcars); Ask Paint Shop; Schedules; Index Of Advertisers
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Condition: Very Good