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Contents: Prototype Articles (The Source) – Diesel Detail Close-Up: B&O H-16-44, Diesel Details: Santa Fe and Pennsy H-16-44, The Pacific Electric; Interurban Modeling, Burlington Reefers-in COLOR, Freight Cars of the Fifties: 40 foot AAR Box Cars Pert V Fidelity-To-Prototype (How YOU can do it) Articles – Air Brush Painting: Russian Iron, Scratch building XVIII: Santa Fe Standard Scale House, Upgrading the MDC 40 foot HO Gondolas, Upgrading the Mantua 44 foot HO Gondolas, Kadee Couplers for Namtua Freight Cars, Time Machine: Gondolas, Build a Railroad Step-by-Step: Modeler’s Tricks for Track-Laying, Where (and how) to install Kadee uncoupling ramps, Derail-proofing the trackwork, Wiring-all you need to know, Control Panel construction, Simple Switch Machine installation, Finger Flickn’ Manual Turnout Control, Athearn Index-Where to find an article Performance Articles (coming closer to perfection) – Athearn-Powered Alco RS-3: The new Stewart kit, Can Motor Conversion for Atlas HO Alcos, Athearn-Powered Fairbanks-Morse H-16-44: The Bowser kit, Atlas-Powered H-16-44: an easy conversion, Multiple Unit Performance (TWO can-motored Atlas RS-3s), Performance Test Results: No. 69 Atlas HO Scale Alco RSD-4/5, No. 67 Minitrix N Scale U28C, No. 68 PBL Sn3 2-8-0 Brass Locomotive Track Plans (Combining Prototype Fidelity with Operation) – P.R. Plan: heavy interurbans freights & trolleys Scenery (another variation on Fidelity-to-Prototype) – Basic Tree-building Tricks (with aluminum wool) Layout Tours – Union Pacific in HO Scale by Ralph Gochnour, Jim Woodward’s Michigan Central in HO Scale
Issue: May – June 1985
Condition: Very Good