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Contents: Performance Test: Multiple-Unit AJIN/Overland Diesels (A cold, hard look at how well TWO diesels run together); Performance Test Report No. 50: AJIN/Overland TE70-45 Diesel (Testing a diesel drive system with sprung trucks); Performance Test Report No. 51: Endo/Key N Scale SD40-T2 Diesel (The basic chassis for dozens of N scale models on-test); Performance Test Report No. 52: Mantua 0-4-OT Steam Locomotive; (This is the best there was 30 years ago); Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD NW2 as a Great Northern (BN) no. 468; Diesel Detail Close-Up: EMD SW1500 as Canadian Pacific 1204; Simple-Detail: Model Power’s Pennsy N6B Caboose (Creating a realistic replica from a plastic ready-built); Build a 4-Wheel Bobber Caboose (Duplicating Pennsy, B&O, NYC and other bobbers); Weathering with Pastel Chalks & Water (This stuff is as close as you can come to “scale dirt”); Layout Tour I: A Mining Module for Ore Train Action (The setting for 0-4-OT, Gould ore cars and a bobber); Layout Tour II: George Tucker’s Santa Fe in HO (A basement-full of desert and mountains and Warbonnets); Freight Cars of the Fifties: 40-ft Merchandise Box Cars (In the days when the railroads had the air freight); Can Motors for Bachmann N Scale Diesels (Upgrading the older Bachmann GP-40, U36B and F9); Kit-Conversion: 28-foot Wood Hopper in HO (Build one with Gould’s 22-foot Ore Car Kit); The Perfect Prototype? Thurmond on the C&O (An action center in the Appalachians worth modeling); Track Plan: Junction Action Part I (Expand the 6’6″ x 14’9″ core to fit any space); Scenery IV: Better Bottle Brush Pine Trees (Use the toy trees to create realistic pines); Scratch building X: Open Platform Combine Sides (The snap-and-break system for styrene car sides); Positive-Action/Live Frog Finger Flickn’ Switch Machines (The simplest at-the-switch control system yet); Finger Flickn’ Switch Machines for N Scale (The system will work even with the code 55 turnouts); Finger Flickn’ Switch Machines for HO Scale (Manual operation made simple); Build a Dummy Ground-Throw Switch Lever (The real railroads’ version of a “Finger Flickn'”); Super-Detailing Mantua’s 0-4-OT (Rick Brendel’s model is a showpiece YOU can duplicate); Kadee Couplers for Mantua Locomotives (Installing the no. 5 Kadees front and rear); Can Motor and Gearbox-Installation in HO Steam Locomotive (The NWSL enclosed gearbox plus a round can in the 0-4-OT); Index of Prototype-To-Model Freight Car Articles (Where to find “Freight Cars of the Fifties” & how-tos)
Issue: May / June 1984
Condition: Very Good