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Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Investigating The Mushroom: 1 (A double-deck layout concept with a special twist to make the most efficient use of space); Basic Model Railroading – Build The N scale Carolina Central: 2 (Adding ballast, scenery, details and structures to complete our project layout); Trackside Photos (Shots from our readers offer a little something for everyone, including steam locomotives on the Illinois Central and Rio Grande Southern as well as a Central Vermont snowplow extra marching out for the season’s first encounter); Quick Milk Cars (Using easy kit bashing techniques to create a variety of milk cars); Prototype Drawings – Amtrak View liners (A thoroughly modern sleeper for eastern clearances); Building Benton Station (An introduction to scratch building especially for young modelers); Containers (The basics of those steel boxes that started a revolution in transportation); Model Of The Month – Rick Penny’s 1890 Jull “snow excavator” Rotary Plow In On3; Modeling Bare Trees With The Brass Hat (Scratch building fall and winter trees using natural materials such as witch’s broom, dried gyp and yarrow); The N Scale Kingsbury Branch (An inner city branch line inspired by a 1975 Model Railroader article); Paint Shop – Build An HO Scale Lehigh & New England Alco RS-2 (Backdating details turns an Atlas RS-3 into an earlier prototype locomotive); Along The Line (Coming full circle) Departments – Product News (New products introduced at the National Model and Hobby Show); Railway Post Office; Workshop; Product Reviews (Bachmann N scale Dash 8-40 CW * DPM O scale storefront building * Lutz Systems infrared throttle * Marland Mold West cutting table * and more); Railroader’s Library (In Search Of Steam Donkeys Great Model Railroads Vol. 24, a new video on George Sellios’ F&SM); Club News; Hobby shop Window; At The Throttle (Good news in Chicago); Trains Of Thought (Learning the language); Student Fare; Ask Paint Shop; Bull Session; Schedules; Index Of Advertisers
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