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Contents: Special Features – What’s Next? (What’s in store for railroads and model railroading during the next 25 years? It seems an appropriate question as RMC celebrates its 75th anniversary this month.), Specific Date Modeling (What equipment is used and how a model is detailed can help set the time period and tell a story on a layout.), Using the National Archives as a Modeling Resource: Part I (The National Archives has thousands of railroad documents. Here is how you can access the material and what you are likely to find.) Modeling – Modeling a C&NW Alco Slug Set (The C&NW’s Alco C-425’s lacked dynamic brakes, had small fuel tanks and snowplows on the front pilots. Join us for a look at how to modify an Atlas model to reflect the North Western’s units.), Scratch builder’s Corner: Road Trip! (Sometimes getting away from your railroad can actually improve your modeling. Trips to conventions and to various locations for field research can often lead to new modeling ideas.), Prototype Weathering on a CR Covered Hopper (Mike Rose shows how he tackled building one of Rail Yard Model’s beautiful new HO scale cast resin kits.), Scratch building a Country Depot (This modeling project was inspired by a photo of the Rutland Railway’s South Shaftsbury, Vermont depot.), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Delivery Trucks (HO scale Mini Metal trucks can be kit bashed in a variety of ways.), A Track plan for the Woodstock Rwy. (This layout design is based on a steam-era Vermont shortlilne.) Prototype – Motive Power’s MP36 and the MPXpress Locomotive Family (These modern diesel electric locomotives are meeting the needs of transit agencies across the country.), The Woodstock Railway (This long-abandoned Vermont shortline ceased operations just after the first issue of The Model Craftsman hit the newsstands, but with its small engine and big dreams it would make a great modeling subject even today, 75 years after its demise.) Departments – Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, Rail books, RMC Timetable, Test Track, Collector Consist, Editor’s Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index
Issue: March 2008
Condition: Very Good