Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Marking Time (Three sets of bridge piers tell the tale); Boomer Trail (Photographic vignettes of model railroad scenes and equipment) Modeling – Three Kit bashed Cabooses (Plastic HO models of typical road, rebuilt boxcar and rider cabooses); How I Scratch built My First Steam Locomotive – Part 1 (Beginning a series on building an On3 Ten-Wheeler from brass); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Crew-Quarters Cab Alco “M625CQ” (An interesting freelanced diesel for branch line service in HO); Ceiling-Mounted Control Panels (Putting a panel high above the benchwork worked out just fine); Protofile 13: Reading 45-Foot PS-2 Covered Hopper (An HO model based on the former AHM ready-to-run model); Burlington’s Aurora Foundry – Part 2 (Finishing the structure around the cast-plaster wall sections); The Poco Valley Lines (An HO pike built by a part-time railroader for operation) Prototype – Rebuilt Lackawanna Boxcar (Kits were often used to add steel sides to wood-sheathed boxcars); Maine Central Ball Signals (The one in Whitefield, N.H., is remarkably still in service) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book and recording news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and organizational notices); Trouble Shooting (Questions and answers); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (On smokin’ weatherin’ and operatin’); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial ads); Exchange Place (Non-commercial ads); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby retailers); Advertising Index (Where to find it in this month in RMC)
Issue: October 1980
Condition: Very Good