Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Peterboro Potpourri (A case of a prototype that looks a lot like a model); Boomer Trail (Don Cassler’s Clinchfield-inspired coal loader); O Scale At San Mateo (A report on the June 1979 Scale O National Convention in California); Cartoon Modeling – The Monitor Lines (An HO traction pike featuring lots of everything in a 36″x66″ space); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing: Two-For-One Store (When you can’t see the front of a kit, put it on another structure); Rail Code Transitions (How to follow the prototype’s example by using several rail sizes); Cudweed Deciduous Trees (By grouping various sizes of stems, reasonable trees result); Trees Of Autumn (Tips on duplicating the varied colors of fall foliage); Train Eater: A Vertical Staging Yard (Cars are stored in motorized vertical shelves to simulate interchange); Radio-Controlled D.C. Throttle (Adapting model airplane R/C equipment for use with a solid-state D.C. system); Equipment Numbering-With Heritage (A freelanced HOn3 railroad utilizes road numbers from prototype cars and locos) Prototype – Marlinton Mystique (A portfolio of “typical American depots”); From Auto Transporter To Experimental Stock Car (Canadian National 179000 (820000) couldn’t be mistaken for anything else) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book and recording news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and organizational notices); Trouble Shooting (Questions and answers); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (So you’d like to run a hobby shop); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial ads); Exchange Place (Non-commercial ads); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby retailers); Advertising Index (Where to find it this month in RMC)
Issue: October 1979
Condition: Very Good