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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: The siding (A modeler shares some observations on a little used siding.), Boomer trail special (Railfest Eighty-four will be held in Cincinnati. Here’s a preview of some of the fine layouts that will be on display.) Modeling – Soils for scenery (Dirt can be an effective scenery tool if it’s used properly.), A visit to Jim Phelps’ Ozark Southern (An S-scale layout based on an ex-Missouri Pacific branch.), Union Pacific’s kit bashed SW10 (Author Metzger tells how he modeled UP’s hybrid switcher.), Lighted locomotive number boards (This small detail can add a lot of realism to your models.), Durocher’s Welding Shop (John Nehrich’s tells how he built this model around a sign.), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Business cars (Inspired by the prototype, the author kit bashed his own business cars for his HO scale railroad using Con-Cor diners.), Timber gang: Modeling a rail lifter (Our series on modeling m.o.w. equipment continues.) Prototype – Santa Fe standard depots (These stations appeared in small towns along the AT&SF.), Buzzards Bay tower (Cape Cod may not be known for its railroading, but that’s where this ex-New Haven interlocking tower is located.), Pacific Coast logging: The diesel era (Our final installment looks at modern logging railroads.), Pacific Coast logging: Gas-powered speeder and a transfer caboose (Here are plans and photographs of two simple, but important pieces of logging railroad equipment
Issue: April 1984
Condition: Very Good