Description
Contents: Features – Our Cover Story – Kevin Shanahan’s HO Union Pacific (A free-lance model railroad with strong family ties); HO Scale Magnetic Knuckle Couplers (A survey of the current crop of couplers); The San Jose Central (An HO layout to be built at the National Train Show); Bob Brown’s Tuolumne Forks Lumber Co. RR (Love of narrow gauge modeling led to founding a magazine); Prototype Drawings – Challenger Chair Cars (Reinventing coach travel on the eve of World War II); Modeling Modern Graffiti (Add realistic detail with a gel pen); The Shops At Marian Eddy (Lengthening and lighting Walthers’ back shop kit); Improving Single-Sheathed Boxcars (Modifying a pair of Walthers N scale 50-foot cars); Magnetic Loads (Making lumber loads easily removable); South Pacific Coast Garden Railroad (A spectacular setting for a garden railway in the California hills) Departments – At The Throttle (The evolving railroad); Railway Post Office; Product Reviews (USA Trains 1:29 F3 A and B; Red Caboose HO GS gondola; Micro-Trains N round-top boxcar; Walthers HO Amtrak Viewliner); Workshop; Prototype Info (New UP fiber glass reefers); MR News (Product News; Hobby shop Window); Trackside Photos; Workin’ On The Railroad (Building with modular walls); Back To Basics (Forced perspective); Trains Of Thought (Acting your age); One Reader’s Opinion (Enthusiasm for the hobby); Ask Paint Shop (Paintbrush storage); Coming Events And Club Memberships; Index Of Advertisers; Along The Line (Done fishin’)
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Condition: Very Good