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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Louisiana Logger (Take an abandoned IC branch, add a pulpwood unit train and set the whole thing in the swamplands of Louisiana somewhere between 1941 and 1970, and you’ve got the making of an interesting railroad); Index To Volume 54 (A subject and author directory to the June, 1985 through May, 1986, issues of Railroad Model Craftsman); PMP-112: Steam Sound (This final installment of our series explains how to build the sound modules for this 112 channel command control system) Modeling – Requiem For A Road Name: The MoPac’s Short-Lived Merger Scheme (The UP-MP merger spelled doom for the screaming eagle of the Missouri Pacific as Union Pacific’s grey and yellow covered over the MoPac blue); Peter Watson’s Sandy River (A dozen years ago, after 18 years in HO, the author decided to try his hand at something different. His 17′ x 12′ On2 Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes Railroad is the result of that decision); $3 Turntable (This turntable is built from a simple kitchen accessory); RMC/Dremel Kit bash Award: Heavy Duty Hauler (Inexpensive trucks from the toy department of a local store provided the parts for this kit bash); New Horizons (Mountains, cityscapes and thunderstorms can all be added to a backdrop with the use of stencils); Protofile 40: Fort Dodge Line 40-Foot Boxcar (The Fort Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, once a mighty traction line and later merged into the C&NW, is all but a memory today save for the few freight cars that still carry it’s name); N Scale Niche (This month we start a new plan feature for N scale builders) Prototype – L & N Water Car (This distinctive maintenance car carried tools and water for work crews); Fairbanks-Morse H16-66 Baby Train Master (There was nothing pretty about these engines. They were built to haul freight and spent most of their lives in heavy drag service. Win Cuisinier provides us with plans and a history of these units) 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); Test Track (Product reviews); Observations (The camera by John Swanson); Collector Consist (Wither OO by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: June 1986
Condition: Very Good