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Contents: Performance Section – Testing a Two-Unit Diesel (Believe-it-or-not, two pull like there were three.), Performance Test Report No. 43: Oriental LTD. HO EMD ESA (This may be the best running diesel so far.), Performance Test Report No. 44: Atlas N RS-3 Diesel (The most asked-for engine arrives.), Performance Teat Report No. 45: Front Range HO GP30 (A fine-running, totally new, HO scale diesel chassis.), PDT Power Truck Test Report (A self-powered truck for HO scale diesels.), Finding More Tractive Effort (What weight does to improve pulling power.), Pine Trees From Weeds (The natural approach to more realistic scenery.) Making It Modern – It’s a Kit: The Yorke Modern-Era Structure Kits (“Modelers Tricks” for concrete and for tar.), HO Scale Roadrailers & 45-Foot Trailers (Durango Press’ new modern-era rolling stock kits.), Painting Profiles No. 12…70-Ton Airslide Hoppers (Alternative paint and decals for E&B’s new bits.), Scratch building VII: Real Glass Windows (Capturing a look of glass with glass.), Baltimore & Ohio Bobber Cabooses (Prototype photos of unique, but once-common, cars.), Open-Platform Coach & Combine Prototypes (Standard guage that looks like narrow gauge, Part V.), Docks, Wharves & Ferryboat Slips…As Industry (Tips on making your layout seem to go beyond the room.), Special 4×8-Foot Layout Section – Specific Scenery for 4×8 Layouts (How the professionals build a basic layout.), Trackplan: An Easy-Build, Last-A-Lifetime, 4×8 (A lesson in making the most of the space you have.), Layout Tour: A Museum-Quality Layout (Lionel trains, but scenery to shame a scratch builder.), Making It Modern: The DASH-2 GEEPS – Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD GP40-2 as D&RG no. 3117, Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD GP39-2 as ATSF no. 3615, GP40-2: An Easy Kit-Conversion of Athearn’s SD40-2 (Building what you cannot buy for a modern line.), Scale-Size Handrails for any Athearn Diesel (Super details for the GP40-2.), Kadee Couplers for Athearn DASH-2 GEEPS (Body-mounting couplers-works on the GP38-2, too.), PDT Self-Powered Trucks for the GP40-2 (How to mount two motors in the GP40-2 or GP38-2.), How to Update Athearn GP-Style Diesel Trucks (Modernizing the Athearn dummy truck side frames.), GP40-2 Power – Part II: Front Range Chassis-Fit (Installing the newest chassis for HO Geeps.), GP40-2 Power – Parts III & IV: Atlas & Life-Like (Two more alternatives for modern diesel power.), Dealer Directory, New Brass Products, New Locomotives, Rolling Stock & Accessories
Issue: January / February 1984
Condition: Very Good