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Contents: 60th Anniversary Issue – Special Features – Perspective: Split Image (While container cars and safety cab diesels of the modern era continue to be popular, traditional era modeling (i.e. the railroads of our youth) is once again gaining strength); The Gateway Model Railroad Club’s Jersey Coast Lines RR (This HO scale railroad will be on view during the 1993 NMRA Convention, which will be held in Valley Forge, PA); A Modern Tie Treatment Facility (This railroad related industry would make a great modeling subject) Modeling – Modeling Southern Pacific’s 40-foot AAR Boxcars (Last month we examined the prototype cars, this month we’ll discuss how they can be accurately modeled); Build A Santa Fe GP60B (Kit bashing Santa Fe’s new cable-less B-units in HO scale takes a little ingenuity, a lot of cutting and a number of details, but the results can be spectacular); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Kit bashing The GP60B: Another Approach (There’s more than one way to kit bash a Geep, and Robert Seale won this month’s award for his fine modeling of a Santa Fe GP60B); Forest Lumber And Building Supplies Inc. (When the author decided to replace the old lumber yard on his layout, he chose to update it as a more typical building supply center of today); Aging Cars With Rust (Rust is a common sight on freight cars and can be easily modeled) Prototype – EMD’s GP60’s and GP59 (The GP60 is the most recent and highest horsepower four-axle offering from GM’s Electro-Motive Division. It’s development, along with that of the GP59, is an interesting story); Santa Fe’s Super Fleet (When Santa Fe went looking to improve its image, it found that a return to the classic “warbonnet” paint scheme was just what was needed to catch the public’s eye); Third-Hand Boxcars: The Ex-F&CC Boxcars Of The NCNG (Built by ACF in 1899 for hauling gold ore concentrates, these narrow gauge cars were considered modern and heavy-duty for their time) 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 (Fifty plus ten by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Advertising Index
Issue: March 1993
Condition: Very Good