Description
Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Western Pennsylvania HO Museum Layout (This group is building a prototypical layout in 4,000 square feet); From Coach To Caboose (Teaching an old passenger car new tricks); John Plant’s Sewell, West Virginia (Twelve feet of Ntrak modules re-create a bustling 1950s mining town); An HO Scale Union Pacific USRA Light Mikado (Railroad-specific details for Athearn’s Light Mike); Prototype Drawings – Rowlesburg Tower (This former B&O, now CSX, interlocking tower is one of the survivors); Presenting The Winners Of The 1999 Readers’ Choice Awards (Steam is king – again); Making Structures Unique (Simple modifications that turn easy structure kits into showpieces); Build A Working Track Scale (Weighing loads and empties adds interest to operations); My Late But Not Lamented HO Western Pacific (Buying another man’s layout turned out to be a mistake, but it yielded valuable experience) Departments – At The Throttle (Model railroad frontiers); Railway Post Office; Product Reviews (Proto 2000 HO FA-1 and FB-1; Alan Curtis N spine car; Roundhouse HO Shay; Life-Like N E6A and E6B); Workshop; Prototype Info (Kansas City Southern “snoots”); MR News (Product News; Hobby shop Window); Trackside Photos; Workin’ On The Railroad (Free-lancing); Back To Basics (Basic switching); Trains Of Thought (Selective compression); One Reader’s Opinion (Computerized car routing); Ask Paint Shop (Soo Line RS-3s); Coming Events And Club Memberships; Index Of Advertisers; Along The Line (Dressed for the road)
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Condition: Very Good