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Contents: Prototype Articles (the Source – Time Machine, PSC 50 Ton Hoppers – 1898-1959; Freight Cars of the Fifties, 40 foot AAR Box Cars part VI; Diesel Detail Close-Up, GP9, Phase II on Boston & Maine; Diesel Detail Close-Up, GP20 rebuild on Santa Fe; Freight Cars of the Sixties, Athearn’s 100 Ton Grain Cars Fidelity-To-Prototype (how YOU can do it) Articles – Assembling Westerfield’s Cast Resin Car kits; Scratch building XIX, Selective Compression; Baltimore & Ohio Waggontop Hopper Conversion; Modern Prototype Modeling Convention; Modeling Impack’s Articulated TOFC Cars Performance Articles (coming closer to perfection) – Index of 65 Performance-Improvement Articles; Build an MDC HOn3 Shay (or Sn3 or On2); Performance Test Reports: No. 69 Samhongsa/Key HOn3 BRASS 2-8-0, No. 70 Samhongsa/Key N scale BRASS 4-8-2 Operations (Fidelity-to-Prototype, in Action) – Freight Car Movements at Mines & Mills Track Plans (Combining Prototype Fidelity with Operation) – Four Bookshelf-Size Track Plans: No. 1 – Switchback-on-a-Shelf, No. 2 – A Full-Size “Leadville” Yard, No. 3 – The “Ibex” Branchline Engine Terminal & Mine, No. 4 – The Resurrection Mine & Mill Complex; Adapting Track Plans to Your Scale & Gauge; Stub-Ended Staging, 3 Railroads on 4 Shelves Scenery (another variation on Fidelity-to-Prototpye) – Build-A-Railroad step-by-step: Drainage Ditches, Buried Ties and Roads, Polyfoam Rocks for Lightweight Scenery, Shaping the Scenery to Match Reality, Thin-Shell Plaster & Shaped Embankments Layout Tours – Dick Pettit’s HOn3 Narrow Gauge Module/Shelf Layout; David Newell’s Switchback-on-a-shelf in HO scale
Issue: July / August 1985
Condition: Very Good