Description
Contents: Special Features – Boomer trail (Highlights of the August 1978 NMRA national layout tours), Cartoon Modeling – The Twin-Cities Concept (Making one city do the work of two when planning a layout), Rolling Stock Grade Brake (Keeping cuts of cars in place of a hill with a retractable pin), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Shortline Classic (A modernized HO scale 4-4-0 from AHM and MDC components), Assembly Jig For Mass-Producing Wooden-Underframe Flat Cars (Making several identical cars is easier with a jig), Removable Roofs (A roof can be both sturdy and removable (To show interior detailing), Stack ‘Em Units (Sections of layouts in two scales were designed to stack vertically for storage), Americanizing Vollmer’s Through-Truss Bridge (Cutting off the top end projections is a good start), The Hoosac Valley (Dick Elwell’s HO scale New England railroad) Prototype – The Thrall-Door Boxcar (Drawings and photos of a modern easily-loaded/unloaded freight car), Laurel Line loader (How the interurban L&WV dropped into a valley to service a loader) Annual Index – Index To Volume 46 (A contents directory for the June 1977-May 1978 issues) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, RMC Timetable, Trouble Shooting, Test Track, Observations, Editors Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index
Issue: June 1978
Condition: Very Good