Description
Contents: Prototype Articles (The Source) – Klamath Falls: SP, CN and OC&E Interchange, Lime Kiln Operations, Narrow Gauge Standards; Timber Houses, Freight Cars of the Fifties: PS-1 50 Foot Box Cars, Freight Cars of the Sixties: Waffle-Side Box Cars, Making-It-Modern: Pullman Standard Railbox Cars, Diesel Detail Close-Up: Union Pacific GP9B Fidelity-To-Prototype (How YOU can do it) Articles – The Whole Scene – Index of Models at Thomasville, Time Machine in Action: Circa 1907, 1925, 1953 & 1959, Scene Site & Structure Library (in three dimensions), Corrections, mistakes and blunders at Thomasville, Scratch building: Timber Section Houses, Kit-Conversion: PS Waffle-Side Box Car, Upgrading: Athearn, MDC & Robin’s Rails Modern Box Cars, Upgrading: MDX, Pullman Standard Railbox Cars, Modern Modelers Convention Performance Articles (coming closer to perfection) – Performance Test Reports: Model Die Casting RS3 Diesel, Con Cor/Kato N Scale SW 1500 Diesel, Bachmann NYC and N&W 4-8-4s in HO Scale Operations (Fidelity-to-Prototype, in action) – Three-Train Action in 8 Feet at Thomasville, Loads-in/Empties-Out Operations Track Plans (Combining Prototype Fidelity with Operation) – HO Mainline in 8’9″ x 9′ (and in 10’9″ x 11’9″) Scenery (Another variation on Fidelity-to-Prototype) – Creating Geographically-Correct Scenes, Photo Mural Backdrops, Modelers (tree) Tricks with Ground Foam Layout Tours – Dudley Wilcox’ Canadian Pacific in HO Scale, Kent Lannert’s Freeburg, Illinois Circa 1863 Part 1
Issue: November / December 1985
Condition: Very Good