Description
Contents: Our Cover Story – Switching Chicago’s North Side (Working Chicago’s Kingsbury branch is one of the most challenging assignments on the Milwaukee Road); An HO Tribute To O. Winston Link’s Classic Photography (Final days of steam on the Norfolk & Western) A Trackside Industry You Can Build – Build Consolidated Concrete (A modern concrete batch plant for your railroad); Trackside Photos (Pictures from our readers) Prototype Drawings – The Linville Depot (A designer depot for a North Carolina mountain resort); Altoona To Pittsburgh Over Horse Shoe Curve (An Armstrong-designed HO layout featuring the heart of the Standard Railroad of the World); Model Of The Month – Peter Messmer’s Canadian Pacific 2-10-4 In HO Scale; Finishing Your Scratch built Ten-Wheeler (Final piping and pilot beam details wrap-up our series on scratch building a brass 4-6-0); A Visit To Palatine Hobby (A modern, service-oriented hobby shop that appeals to modelers of all ages); The Large Scale Gold Creek RR (A sectional club layout set in 1940s Colorado); Paint Shop – Repainting And Lettering A Scratch built Brass 4-6-0 (Shipping damage meant that we had to strip this HO model before painting); Along The Line (Afternoon down train) Departments – Product News; Railway Post Office; Workshop; Product Reviews (Walthers HO F40PH diesel * Atlas HO Alco S-1 and S-3 switchers * Northeastern N coaling tower * Walthers HO rotary dumper * Grand Line HO ore tipple); Railroader’s Library; Club News; Hobby shop Window; At The Throttle (Opportunities in N scale); Trains Of Thought (Planning too far ahead?); Student Fare; Bull Session; Ask Paint Shop (Thinning Polly Scale paint); Schedules; Index Of Advertisers
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Condition: Very Good