Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Going, Going…Almost Gone (With very little fanfare the old twin hopper is quietly disappearing); Super Elevators (The traditional grain elevators of the mid-west are gradually being replaced by giant elevators capable of holding a million bushels or more); Boomer Trail Special: The End Of The Line On The C & N (A scrap train makes the final run over the old C & N narrow gauge line as modeler Jim Wild moves to a new home) Modeling – Jim Hertzog’s LNE (An early 1960’s fatality of the declining coal industry comes back to life in HO in a basement in Pennsylvania as the final years of steam and diesel power are played out once again); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: GN-Style Electric (Take one CG1, three MDC track cleaning locomotives and a sharp hobby knife and you’ve got the main ingredients of this creative HO kit bash); Kit bashed Canadian National SW1200 (George Dutka tells why and how he built this HO switcher); Protofile 41: MP And N & W Converted Reefers (These boxcars were built from former refrigerator cars); The Acme Brickyard (Here’s a small lineside industry that you can add to your railroad) Prototype – The Berwind Hopper Cars (The Berwind White Coal Mining Company had it’s own large fleet of hoppers to carry its coal. Here is a history of the cars and plans of a Berwind BWI hopper); Wisconsin & Northern/Soo Line Depot At Crandon, Wisconsin (Drawings and photos of a rural station building) 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); Collector Consist (On Hold by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: October 1986
Condition: Very Good