Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Scenario For The Eighties (Mergers, changes and modeling possibilities); Boomer Trail Special (A look at some of the featured layouts at the upcoming National Model Railroad Association 1983 National Convention); Index To Volume 51 (A subject and author directory to the June, 1982 through May, 1983 issues) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: S Scale DS4-4-1000 (Rebuilding an American Flyer engine into a scale Milwaukee Road model); The Case Of GP7 Number 412, 2313, 4803 (A look at one engine and the changes its gone through in better than 30 years of service on the L&N, Family Lines and the newly created Seaboard System); Backdrops And Clouds (John and Brad explain how to build and paint the realistic looking double-faced layouts used on the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institutes Club layout); Building The Trevor Depot (Last month we learned of the history of this small Soo Line depot in Wisconsin. This month Dennis will show us how he constructed it with explanations of the building techniques he employed) Prototype – About Tank Cars (A thorough study of tank cars both past and present. Todd and Mac show us how to recognize and classify cars you may see on your favorite railroad); Railroad Tugs: Part III (The Erie was one of the first tug operators to use dieselized tugs in the New York Harbor. Part III takes a look at these vessels which served both the Erie and the predecessors the Erie Lackawanna and Conrail from the early 1940’s unto the late 1970’s) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Trouble Shooting (Questions and answers); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Workshop Safety by Wayne Wesolowski); Collector Consist (Tinplate HO (?)(!) by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: June 1983
Condition: Very Good