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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Night (Railroad operations take on a different character after dark); 1986 Calendar (A trio of modern diesels at work on the Seaboard System are the subject of this year’s calendar painting); A First Layout: Utah Copper Railway (Here is everything you’ll need to know to get started on building your first model railroad) Modeling – First Class Track (There is more to modeling railbed than just gluing down ballast); Tie Spacing (Railroads follow standard practices for laying different types of track. A simple jig can help you do the same to your layout); Kit bashing C&NW’s FA2 Demonstrators – Part II (This month we’ll finish detailing and paint the models); Protofile 37: ART Airslide Hopper (A refrigerated car company operated the covered hoppers featured in this prototype); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Big River Forge (Two Vollmer buildings form the basis of this project); Sweet N’ Sour Weathering (Two common household products – vinegar and steel wool – can be combined to form a weathering chemical that gives amazing results on wood and plaster); Bill Gould’s Rio Grande Southern (The glory days of narrow gauge live on Bill’s layout) Prototype – CB&Q Depot (The CB&O’s depot at Whitehall, Illinois, was typical of many of their small town stations); Pulpwood And Rails: Log Landings (Pulpwood shipments are an important part of many railroads business); Pulpwood And Rails: Rolling Stock (Here is a look at some of the cars used to handle plywood and drawings of a pulpwood flat) 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); Observations (Timetables and rulebooks by computer by William Merrill); Collector Consist (State of the Art HO – 1939 by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: January 1986
Condition: Very Good