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Contents: Bill of Lading – A model bicentennial salute (Seventeen diesels by five modelers make a colorful display.), The dawn of America’s love affair with miniature trains (Trains were available in many forms by the end of the 19th century.), Yesterday’s department store toy train displays (They were the greatest show of mechanical movement on earth.), The venerable J. Harold Geissel (MR has published over 300 of his prototype drawings.), Old-time recruiting posters for your layout (Reproductions of 11 posters in convenient sizes.), Modeling EMD’s most popular six-axle locomotive (A kit bashing job based on Athearn parts.), A brief look at railroading’s tomorrow (Look who’s running trains in circles.), America’s first common-carrier railroad-the Baltimore & Ohio (A vintage railroad you can model.), Bicentennial Model Contest winners (The top 3 of more than 100 entries.), Frank Ellison’s legacy (Model railroading operation was his forte.), The art of model railroading (Effective operation of a model railroad is akin to good showmanship), Prototype Drawings and Data – EMD’s SD40-2 (Data and drawings), Railroading tomorrow (Data), America’s first common-carrier railroad (Data), Chesapeake & Ohio canal boat (Drawings), Locomotives of the early B&O (Drawings), Cars of the early B&O (Drawings)
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Condition: Very Good