Description
Contents: Athearn E4, E6, E7, E8 and E9 Diesels (Not kits but a simple-enough conversion to Athearn power); Diesel Detail Close-Up (EMD E8 on the Pennsylvania RR); Diesel Detail Close-Up (EMD E8 on the Erie-Lackawanna RR); Layout Tour I: Tom Knapp’s Pacific Coast Rwy in Nn3 (The smallest practical narrow gauge is now even more practical); Freight Cars From the Fifties: AAR 40-Foot Box Cars Part II (More examples of the Athearn and MDC kit prototypes); Derail-Proofing / Perfect Coupling For Athearn Cars (Follow these techniques to make your rolling stock roll); Super-Detailing Athearn & MDC Box Cars (Making simple kits look like scratch built brass); Color-Matching Box Car Red (Matching both the prototype and Athearn & MDC model colors); Operation: Switching Action With Passenger Equipment (How the NEB&W (on the covers) experts pick their passenger cars); The Time Machine: Passenger Action on the NEB&W (One scene, two distinct eras recreated in HO scale); Narrow Gauge Standards, Part I: Scenic Wonders (Selecting a prototype based on the overall scene’s appeal); Modeling The Cripple Creek Mining District (One place, in time, with both narrow & standard gauge); Two-Level Track Plan For HO, HOn3 or Sn3 (Recreating Cripple Creek, on two shelves, around one room); Weathering Techniques For Corrugated Metal (Simulating age and rust on exposed metal surfaces); The Time Machine: Era-Modeling With Grain Elevators (Using dioramas to get more modeling on any layout); Diorama-Building Basics (Applying ground level scenery to create a scene); Scratch building XIII: A Modern Grain Silo (Building something you cannot buy); Scratch building XIV: Industrial Platforms (An intricate detail, common to many scenes, not sold in kits); How-To: Simulate the Fixture & Color of Concrete (A basic modeling technique for more realism); Performance Test Report No. 56 Model Power N Scale RSD15 (Testing one of the most popular N scale diesel chassis); Performance: Can Motors for Model Power N Scale Diesels (How YOU can do it and how it should run when you’re done); Performance: Traction Tires and Two-Diesels in N Scale (We try one, then two, Model Power diesels on “the track”); Performance Test Report No. 57: PFM 2-8-0 Steam in Sn3)
Issue: September / October 1984
Condition: Very Good