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Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Airbrushing For Model Railroaders (Selecting and using this remarkable tool); Operation Brings A Coal Branch To Life (Part 6) (The Allegheny Midland’s Coal Fork Extension: Part 6 – A look at how the Coal Fork earns its keep concludes our series); Four Familiar Fences (Variety in rural fences reflects frugal use of materials); An Industry You Can Build – Papermaking And The Railroads Today (Part 2) (An industry with great kit bashing potential); Prototype Drawings – Fully Enclosed Low-Deck Tri-Level Auto Racks (Enclosing skeleton racks secured the auto trade for U.S. railroads); Nickel Plate Road PA-1s (Upgrading factory-painted Life-Like Proto 2000 HO models); Ruins That Improve A Model City (Remnants of the past add a sense of history); Improving HO Scale Height And Passenger Trucks (Replace wheels and add weathering for more realism); Patching Up X29 Boxcars (Rub-on metal foil easily represents side repair panels); Proto: Scale (Standards based on the prototype lead to greater realism) Departments – At The Throttle (Hobby market snapshot); Railway Post Office; Product Reviews (Kato HO RSC-2 diesel * Life-Like Proto 2000 HO GP7 * Inter Mountain HO TTX flatcar * Blair Line N scale church * Midwest Products Ho bridge); Workshop (Laying out curved turnouts); Prototype Info; Railroader’s Library; MR News (Teen modelers convention); Trackside Photos; Workin’ On The Railroad (Build a car cradle); Trains Of Thought (Communication is basic); One Reader’s Opinion (Model a prototype railroad); Paint Shop (N scale diesels for the “Louie”); Ask Paint Shop; Coming Events And Club Memberships; Photo Contest Rules; Index Of Advertisers; Along The Line (You could see them work)
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Condition: Very Good