Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Artwork Oil Donkeys (These colorful prototypes might be just the thing to spruce up a vacant area on your layout); Intermodel Cars Of The Eighties (Intermodel traffic – TOFC and COFC – is a rapidly growing source of revenue for the railroad industry. This article examines some of the equipment used and some of the models that are available); Boomer Trail (RMC presents photos from its readers); Visiting The Altburgbahn (Steam, diesel and electric locomotives, passenger trains and beautiful scenery are all incorporated in this 1960’s era HO layout set in Germany) Modeling – Carpak: Modeling CNJ’s 1926 Steel Boxcars (With a few changes, the Walthers Pennsy X-29 boxcar is ideal for modeling a fleet of the CNI’s first series of steel boxcars); Three Dimensional Backdrops (Here’s a way to make backdrops out of photographs); McLaughlin’s Storage: Building And Signs (This straightforward scratch building project also includes a how-to on making signs); McLaughlin’s Storage: Animation (Adding a few moving parts can bring a building to life); N Scale Niche: Building A Decrepit Wood Fence (A few scraps of wood siding are all that’s needed to build this fence); RMC/Dremel Kitbash Award: Kit bashing A C&NW Two-Bay Cement Hopper (Like this prototype, this model was a three-bay hopper that had its center bay removed); Modeling The Union Pacific’s “Bamberger Locomotive” (This unique product from EMD was modeled with an Atlas RSL and a pair of Athearn SW7 shells); A Corner A Mirror And An Illusion (Buildings and a mirror are combined to hide a corner on the author’s N scale layout) Prototype – Alco RS1 + EMD 567 Engine = Bamberger 570/UP 1270 (This one-of-a-kind locomotive was EMD’s first repowering job) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industrial news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); N Scale Niche (Plans for N scalers); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (A line of scale and tinplate); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: November 1988
Condition: Very Good