Description
Contents: Special Features – Boomer Trail (Photographic vignettes of model railroad scenes and equipment.) Modeling: Variety and realism through foundations (Real structures don’t all sit on level ground.), The depot for Meade (A New England inspired scratch building project of Strathmore.), Detailing in N scale (Even some HO parts are usable.), Two small bridges (Scratch building a welded I-beam type of deck-girder bridge.), Waytacks for the new Glencoe Skokie Valley (A review of a popular and easy-to-learn car-forwarding system.), How to model self-guarded frogs (This prototype uses them to to eliminate guard rails on slow-speed turnouts.), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: EMD 3D30 (You won’t find one in The Second Diesel Spotter’s Guide.), PROTOFILE 2: Northern Pacific 40-foot wood boxcar (Athearn’s HO scale plastic kit provides a fine starting point.), Hiding switch machines (He’s got top-mounted switch machine camouflaging down to a science.), Quick disconnects (Plug-in switch machine connections for easier installation and maintenance.) Prototype: Short line fever (Why all of those colorful boxcars are so much a part of modern railroading.), GE’s new BQ23-7 (It looks like a U-Boat cross-kitted with an ice breaker.), C&O/B&O/CN/SCL/Amtrak sleeper (It’s 5 roomettes, 3 drawing rooms and 1 bedroom have been around a bit.), Narrow-gauge transfer car (This three-foot gauge car hauled standard gauge cars and locos.) Departments – Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatcher’s Report, RMC Timetable, Trouble Shooting, Test Track, Tips and Techniques, Observations, Editor’s Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index
Issue: February 1979
Condition: Very Good