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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Recycled railroad cars (Old cars never die, they just go into m.o.w. service.), A modern shortline: Modeling TTI’s U28B and 50-foot boxcars (In the first of a two-part series author Dave Snyder tells how he modeled his Kentucky shortline’s equipment.), Cairo & Kanawha Railway (Here’s a look at turn-of-the-century, backwoods, narrow gauge railroading, West Virginia style.), Track planning from History: The C&K in HOn3 (This medium-sized track plan incorporates many of the features found along the prototype Cairo & Kanawha.), The HIA show: What’s new in modeling in 1984 (The Hobby Industry of America held it’s annual show in Anaheim this year. Editor Bill Schaumburg has just returned with a look at what’s new.) Modeling – Choke cable turnout control (How to build an old, but reliable method of throwing switches.), Larry Keeler’s Rome Lake Lines (The Wisconsin countryside is the setting for this former Milwaukee Road engineer’s HO scale layout.), From stock kit to stock car (Staffen Ehnborn shows how to improve the appearance of Athearn’s standard Great Northern stock car kit.), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A six story factory (Three different AHM kits served as the basis for this factory.), Magnetic loads (Here is an easy way to change loads on open-top cars.), Building rock and timber retaining walls (A retaining wall is an easy to build scenic detail that can add interest to any layout. Here’s how to build one.) Prototype – Buzzards Bay station (We wrap up our coverage of the rail structure in this small Massachusetts community with plans for the old New Haven station.) Departments – Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, Rail books, RMC Time table, Test Track, Tips and Techniques, The Company Photographer, Collector Consist, Editor’s Handbook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index
Issue: May 1984
Condition: Very Good