Description
Contents: Prototype Articles (The Source) – USRA Single-Sheathed 40 Foot Box Cars, Freight Cars of the Fifties: Rebuilt USRA Box Cars, Recreating a Real Railroad: UP/GN Camas Prairie, Diesel Detail Close-Up: ALCO S-2 as Pennsy 5927, Diesel Detail Close-Up: ALCO RS-11 as D&H 5002, Consists – “The Whole Train” (CB&Q Circa 1965 In Color, Freight Cars of the Forties: Side-Dump Hoppers Fidelity-to-Prototype (How-YOU-can-do-it) Articles – Modern Modelers 1986 Contest – Report, Product Review: HO, N & O scale USRA Box Cars, Time Machine: LCL Freight Circa 1953 & Intermodal Terminal Circxa 1985, Scale Scenics: HO Scale Chain Link Fence, MDC Kit-Conversion: 33-Foot Side-Dump Hopper, Athearn-Powered GP By Cary Performance Articles (Coming Closer to Perfection) – Performance Test Results, Samhongsa/Key HO Scale Alco RS-32 Diesel, MRC/Lima HO Scale Alco C-420 Diesel, Cannon Can Motor for Atlas’ S-2 Diesel Operations (Fidelity-to-Prototype in Action) – Intermodal Terminal Operations Track Plans (Combining Prototype Fidelity with Operation) – Two-Level HO scale 10’4″ x 11′ Class One Branchline Scenery (Another Variation on Fidelity-to-Prototypes) – Concrete Streets and Parking Lots, Weeds for the Cracks in Concrete Layout Tours – Bill Reid’s NTRAK removable-module Narrow Gauge (And early-era charmers, in general) – 1986 National Narrow Gauge Convention’s New Products
Cover: January 1987
Condition: Very Good