Description
Contents: Features – The Mossmain Division Of The Northern Pacific (A point-to-point layout set in the 1930’s, from a custom painter’s vantage point); Basic Freightcarology (A new perspective regarding freight car terminology, and how to understand it); The Gray And Red Victorians (A “rags-to-riches” kit bash using four International Hobby Corporation #100-1 kits. This step-by-step article, complete with diagrams, will show you how); Discoveries, Details And Jade (The saga of a New York Central fifty-foot plug door box car using a Details West kit. The how-to’s are included); Maine Central Modified Freight Cars: The Conclusion (Modified flat cars and box cars for the 1960’s, ’70’s and ’80’s); Atlas Bashing In N Scale: Part Two (How to improve engine performance, so that the kit bashed Atlas RS3 will run better than the original); The Laramie, Hahn’s Peak & Pacific Railway Depot (A state-of-the-art scratch build complete with plans and how-to’s); Southern Pacific And Cotton Belt Sixty-Foot Box Cars (Modeling tips on using the Con-Cor Sixty-Foot Greenville Auto Parts Box Car); Detailing The Thrall 55-Foot All Door Box Car (Detailing a Life-Like 55-foot car to match the prototype); Modeling A Railroad Track Scale (How to model this rarely seen, but necessarily small track accessory structure); From Toy To Scale (How to successfully convert vehicles from your local drug store to HO scale); Glass Brick (A modeler’s trick for achieving prototypical glass bricks for those structures on your layout); Lightning Stripes Again (Modeling with the new Stewart-Kato F3 Covered Wagon. Complete with diagrams and photos) Departments – Index (Steam and Diesel performance reviews in HO, HOn3, N, O, G and Sn3 scales); Editorial; New Products; The Sand house (Product news column); New Products Close-Up (Cannon & Company’s TC-1503 and TC-1504 Cab); Letters To The Editor; Society Page Listing; Historical Society Close-Up (The Great Northern Railway Historical Society); Out Of The Litter Box (Modeler’s tips and techniques); Rail Project Research (ATSF Yard Structures, Depots and Stations); Rolling Stock Review (Con-Cor International, Limited – The PS-1); Diesel Detail Close-Up (Electro-Motive Division (EMD) SD45 as D&RGW Rio Grande #5328)
Issue: October 1989
Condition: Very Good