Description
Contents: Prototype Articles (the Source) – The Society Page; Freight Cars of the Fifties: Union Pacific Prototypes for Athearn Stock Cars, PS-1 50 foot Box Cars Part II, USRA (and Athearn) Hopper Cars, Panekl Side Hopper Cars; recreating Freeburg Illinois; Sherman Hill on the UP; Running a Mountain Railroad…UP’s Coalmont Branch; The Piggypacker TOFC/COFC Unloader; Freight Cars of the Thirties: URT Reefers; Diesel Detail Close-Up[: ICG GP11; Diesel Detail Close-Up: Milwaukee GP38-2 Fidelity-to-Prototype (how-YOU-can-do-it) Articles – Index: Scratch-building and Kit-building articles; Scratchbuilding; Thomasville’s Station, Proper Prototype: Athearn and Life-Like Hoppers; USRA Hopper Kit-conversion; Kit-Conversion: Athearn/Pike Stuff Panel Hoppers; Build the Piggypacker Loader; Simple Scratch building: RR Crossing Signs Performance Articles (Coming Closer to Perfection) – Performance Test Report: Samhongsa/Key N Scale UP 4-8-8-4; Cannon Can Motors for Athearn Diesels; Brass Diesel Performance from Athearn Track Plans (Combining Prototype Fidelity with Operation) – Sherman Hill in HO & N – A Study in Stub-Ended Staging Layout Tours – Jerry Strangarity’s HO Scale Reading; Hal Riegger’s N Scale Heavy Electric Line
Issue: January / February 1986
Condition: Very Good