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Contents: Features – Cover Story – Railroading By The Bay (The Golden State Model Railroad Museum at Point Richmond, CA); NorthStar ’99 Model Contest (Contest winners from the NMRA’s national convention in St. Paul, MN); Start Modeling Traction! (We begin a six-part HO project layout based on Boston’s famed trolley lines); A Tale Of Three Creeks (These waterways illustrate both variety and consistency); Prototype Drawings – First Union’s Aluminum Beth Gons (Lightweight cars help coal hauler’s bottom line); Small Space Yard = Big Operation (An HO along-the-wall layout that’s at home in a garage, basement or on a show floor); Autumn Aspects (New twists to make these signature trees of the Rockies in any scale); Sound, Lights, Action (Getting the most from the Sound Traxx DCC Digital Sound Decoder); C&NW Burro Crane In N Scale (Finishing touches for a common maintenance-of-way machine); Harlowtown, Montana In N Scale (Adding operating interest with a removable layout section) Departments – At The Throttle (Traction’s lasting appeal); Railway Post Office; Product Reviews (Atlas O’s O scale insulated boxcar; Fine Scale Miniatures’ HO barge and pile driver; Ed Fulasz’s HO scale mill; Red Caboose’s HO 40-foot boxcar); Workshop; Prototype Info (Rail grinders); MR News (National Train Show new product report; Hobby shop Window); Photo Contest Rules; Milestones In Model Railroading (The evolution of scale models); Workin’ On The Railroad (Detailing tunnels); Trains Of Thought (Completing the run); Back To Basics (Staging yards); One Reader’s Opinion (Theory of the unfinished layout); Ask Paint Shop; Coming Events And Club Memberships; Index Of Advertisers; Along The Line Looks Back (The Bud lines)
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Condition: Very Good