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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: The Sperry Car (A rail detector car can add operating interest on your model railroad); 1985 Calendar And Railroad Rule Book (A West Side Shay is the subject of this year’s calendar painting); Boxcar In The Basement (A layout room wall with a railroad theme); Boomer Trail (This month we feature steam-era photos from our readers) Modeling – Miles Hale’s Prize-Winning C&S Roundhouse (The winner of the 1984 RMC Craftsman Trophy Award tells how he constructed his O scale model); Beginning Modeling: Track Basics (Here is what you need to know to build reliable trackwork); Learning From The Oil Creek: Trackwork (This 4′ x 8′ layout serves as an example for our beginners series); Mountain Valley R.R. (Vern and Bev Brock have teamed up to recreate in miniature the drama of railroading in the Pacific Northwest); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Logging Sprinkler Car (Inspired by an article in RMC, Bill kit bashed a tank car into a sprinkler); Oak Oak (Lynn Austin’s diorama won a blue ribbon at the 1980 PCR convention); Logging Sleds For The Lombard Hauler (As a follow up to last month’s article on building a Lombard log hauler, this month we’ll show you how to build the sleds); The Ephraim & Pestigo Gets A 2-8-0 Or Building An On30 Consolidation (An HO MDC Old-timer kit leads us to an inexpensive On30 locomotive); An American Classic: The Sears Home (We’ll finish up our model by building the roof and porches); Modeling Boxes And Crates (Here’s a quick and easy way to add details to an industrial scene); Protofile 34: Clinchfield FC-5 Caboose (An Athearn caboose is the starting point for this HO project) Prototype – The Century Series: C636 (The C636 brings to a close our look at the six-axle centuries) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); The Company Photographer (It’s not what it seems); Collector Consist (Designer tinplate); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: January 1985
Condition: Very Good