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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Caboose Servicing (Despite all the talk of their demise, cabooses are still a common fixture on railroads both big and small, and their servicing facilities can be incorporated into a modeling scene); Visiting MIT’s Club Layout (Mainline, shortline and traction are all included on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s HO scale club layout. The layout will be included on the NMRA Minuteman Convention tour in Boston); Bad Order Tags (This is a simple way to keep track of maintenance chores on a layout) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Low Nose For An Atlas RS11 (The Lehigh Valley had four low nose RS11s; here is how the author modeled one of them); Making Mud (One scenery feature that is often overlooked by modelers, but is as common as a springtime rain, is mud); A Yard Office From A Coach (N scale modeler Roger Baker explains how he modeled a yard office out of card stock for his railroad); Solvent Displacement Casting (Here’s an easy way to improve your castings); Modeling Two N&W Cabooses (Both the C-31P and the C-6P N&W cabooses can be kit bashed from Athearn cars) Prototype – The AAR “Alternate Standard” Twelve-Panel Hopper (The Pennsy H39 hopper featured in these plans was jointly developed by the PRR, N&W and C&O); The Bank Of Cairo (Along the tracks of the B&O in Cairo, West Virginia, stands a little brick bank that would fit nicely on most any model railroad); All About Containers (As more and more freight traffic gets turned over to containers, there are certain differences in containers that modelers should be aware of) 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); N Scale Niche (Plans for N scalers); Company Photographer (Pictures In A Flash by Steve Sint); Editor’s Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: July 1986
Condition: Very Good