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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: The Camper (If you model today’s railroads you can still add special, scheduled passenger trains to your operations); Boomer Trail (This month RMC features photos from layouts that will be on display at the upcoming NMRA National Convention in Eugene, Oregon) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: PFE R-70-2 Reefer (Working from photos and drawings, the author built his model from Athearn wood sided reefer kits); Protofile 45: SP&S SW9 (Here’s how you can detail an Athearn SW1500 model into a Spokane, Portland & Seattle SW9); Gary Wright’s N Scale Layout: The Central Plains & Midland (Set in the pre-Amtrak era, this freelanced N scale layout runs between Iowa and Nebraska); Building A Company Stores Dock (The loading dock in Rapid City, S.D. is the prototype for this easy scratch building project); South Pittsburgh: Tracklaying (Tracklaying is covered this month in the third part of our series); N Scale Niche: Simple Structure Surgery (This bit of N scale kit bashing turned Chooch’s Maple Valley Coal Company building into a motorcycle shop) Prototype – Between The Lehigh And New England (New Jersey was the middle state in the LNE’s route from the Pennsylvania coal mines to the railroad’s important Maybrook, N.Y. interchange with the NYNH&H. Here is a look at the LNE’s operations in New Jersey, accompanied by drawings of the operator’s cabin and section house at Hainesburg Jct., Track diagrams and a track plan); The Saga Of SP Boxcar No. 5 (Built approximately 100 years ago, this boxcar was first used on the Oregonian Railway, then sold to the South Pacific Coast and finally to the Nevada & California (later to become SP). The car has outlasted the railroad and is now on display at the museum in Laws, California); The General Electric U25B (The U25B marked GE’s highly successful entry into the locomotive marker) 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); Collector Consist (The Train Collectors Association); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: July 1987
Condition: Very Good