Description
Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Making History On The New England, Berkshire & Western (Modeling the 1950s has given this club direction for 50 years); Initial Scenery For The Wisconsin Central (Hills, roads and bridges on our N scale project layout); Basic Model Railroading – DCC: What It Is And What It Does (A control system that runs your trains, rather than your tracks); Finishing The Tender (In scratch building a steam locomotive Part 2, we drill and tap, make the rivet overlay and assemble the tender); The California Fleet – GM’s F59PHI and Amerail’s California Cars (The state of California and Amtrak produced some of the most exciting new passenger service in the United States); Model Of The Month – Roger P. Crooks’ Ruff & Nauk Manufacturing Co. In HO Scale; Trackside Photos (A preview of Great Model Railroads 1998 outstanding layouts in a variety of scales); Creating Realistic Track (Track’s a model too…); Modeling With Proportional Dividers (Transfer measurements directly from a photo to your own scale); The Port Caribou RR & Western Navigation Co. (A finely detailed HOn3 layout with animation); Electronic Symposium – Surface-Mount Components (Make a simple circuit smaller); Paint Shop – EMD blue and white in N scale); Along The Line (Work of art) Departments – Product News; Railway Post Office; Workshop; Product Reviews (Life-Like HO Phase III GP9 diesel * Bachmann large scale Shay * and more); Railroader’s Library; Club News; Hobby shop Window; Photo Contest Rules; At The Throttle (Today’s coupler challenge); Trains Of Thought (Keeping the nest empty); Student Race (Boy Scout National Jamboree); Bull Session; Ask Paint Shop; Schedules; Index Of Advertisers
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Condition: Very Good