Description
Contents: Special Features – Boomer trail (Photographic vignettes of model railroad scenes and equipment.), 1978 Hobby Show report (Highlights of the Houston Hobby Industry of America trade show.), New York Toy Fair report (A supplement to the HIA Show Report.) Modeling – Rounded-peak ends for hopper cars (Variations on a theme.), Building a wood fence-board by board (Vaneer trim tape makes it easy, even in N scale.), The Yosemite Short Line (A drop-leaf On30″ pike module which stores in only 2’x8′.), The boarding house (The second structure in a series on modeling a logging town.), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Shaymax Feisler? (Converting a boxcar diesel into a backwoods steam engine.), Logs (Wood dowels are wire brushes, then painted.), Ma & Pa 2-8-0 No. 25 (An MOC HO 2-8-0 kit is detailed to Maryland & Pennsylvania standards.), A-frame side-door gondola (Scratch building a different maintenance-way car.) Prototype – C&O’s twin hoppers (Drawings of a standard hopper with many end variations.) Departments – Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, RMC Timetable, Trouble Shooting, Test Track. Observations, Editorial Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Piece, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index
Issue: May 1978
Condition: Very Good