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Contents: Letters (Let us hear what you think), Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD SD40-2 on the Santa Fe (A close look at the parts the ATSF adds), Performance Test No. 58: ConCor N Scale SD40-2 (The most-wanted N scale locomotive on-the-rack), Performance Test No. 59: Atlas HO Scale GP40 (The Roco, Australian-made models are back and better), Performance: MDC 3-Truck HO Scale Shay Test (An update on the MDC Shay), Freight Cars of the Fifties, No. 17: 40-foot AAR Box Cars (More markings for the Athearn and MDC 40-footers), A Track Plan You Can Live With – 2 x 8-Plus (Part 1 in our build-a-layout series starts with a plan), Layout Tour 1: Southern Pacific in NTrak (N scale modular version of the California Coast), Layout Tour II: Belmont Shores N Scale Club (Tehachnapi’ loop and 25 scale miles of mainline), Scratch building Ore Wagons for the Narrow Gauge (A simple scratch-building project for any scale), S Scale Animation – Horses & People (A source for pulling power for that Sn3 ore wagon), Air Brush Cleaning – The Easy Way (The basics of self-cleaning air brush scouring), Operations – On the Narrow Gauge Part I – Car Rosters (What was the overall mix of car types on the slim gauge?), Scenery Part VII: Recreating Dead Trees (Letting nature do the dirty work), The Time Machine: New York Central Early & Late Diesel Eras (Doug Nagel’s equipment makes modeling two eras easy), Layout Tour III: Doug Nagel’s New York Central (A basement-sized replica of the ‘Central scene), Performance Report No 60: Athearn SW1500 in HO Scale (Testing the most popular switcher ever made), Performance…How You Can Make Athearn Diesels Run Better (Our performance test procedure, step by step), Performance…Does More Weight Equal More Power? (Trying more lead inside (and outside) an SW1500), Performance…Can Motors For Athearn via Proto Power West (How Proto Power West does it – how you can do it), Performance…Athearn Diesels in Multiple Unit (two of ’em) (Do two of these super-modified models pull twice as much), Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD SW1500 on the Western Pacific (A close-up look at the prototype for George Booth’s model), Making a Modern Athearn Diesel (the true SW1500) (Adapting Cary’s body, plus extra details, to Athearn), Kadee Couplers For N Scale Locomotives (The latest Kadee coupler for the latest in diesels), Body-Munting Kadee N Scale Couplers on Kadee Cars (Kadee intended it that way – here’s how), Baltimore & Ohio Bay Window Caboose Conversion (Recreating the shorty B&O bay windows from Athearn kits), Chesapeake & Ohio (and B&O) 36-foot Bay Window Caboose (A much simpler method of obtaining a B&O or C&O replica)
Issue: November / December 1984
Condition: Very Good