Description
Contents: Special Features: – Prospective: Competition (A hobby thrives in an atmosphere of friendship); Boomer Trail (Photographic vignettes of model railroading scenes and equipment); Tips For Expanding The Pike (April Fool?); Cartoon (Missing in action) Modeling: – Flag Stop At Huntington Valley (A small Reading shelter makes a fine scratch building project); East Broad Top (Black River) Railroad In HOn30″ (Kit bashing is the theme of this narrow-gauge model railroad); Weathering Freight Cars (Realism is enhanced when aging effects are properly applied); 1950’s Style Coke Machine (An old magazine ad provided the basic modeling information); Layout Cosmetics (About those touches that make a model railroad pleasing to the eye); LED Basics (Light-emitting diodes have a place on almost every model railroad); Realistic Semaphore Mechanism (Even if this weren’t the April issue, it would be interesting); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: B&O Wagon-Top Caboose (An imaginative HO bay-window caboose modification project); Kit bashed Logging Prairie (MDC’s vintage 2-8-0 loses a driver and gains a trailing truck) Prototype: – Reading’s Huntington Valley Flag-Stop Shelter (The prototype was located on a commuter line north of Philadelphia, PA) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and organizational notices); Trouble Shooting (Questions and answers); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Preserving your magazine collection); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial advertising); Exchange Place (Non-commercial advertising); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby retailers)
Issue: April 1979
Condition: Very Good