Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Old Boxcars Never Die (On almost every railroad you can find old boxcars being used in a variety of fashions); Another Railroad In The Family (This HO scale layout is the work of a father and son team and is one of three layouts in the family); Toy Trains For The Holidays (Toy trains and other railroad related items make great gifts for small children’ Here’s a list that covers a wide variety of items that should please just about any child, even if they don’t happen to be a future modeler) Modeling – Detailing Erie Lackawanna’s Train Masters (The EL Train Masters were painted in two different paint schemes, and with an Athearn model, some paint and a few details, they can be easily modeled); RMC/Dremel Kit bash Award: Kit bashing A Burlington Northern Fuel Tender (In an efforts to keep their fuel costs down, the BN uses fuel tenders between the locomotives on some of their long distance trains. These converted tank cars can be easily modeled in HO); Modeling D&H’s 1907 Boxcars (The new Detail Associates drop bottom gondola kit can be built into a number of different UP cars. Don Smith describes how); Fish Lake Sand And Gravel: Part I (The author describes how he built his award winning loading and crushing facility for his HO layout); The Great Western: Modeling A Flavor (Last month we took a look at the prototype Great Western, this month we’ll look at how it can be modeled); Carpark: UP Drop Bottom Gons Prototype – A Car Named Otis, Argent Lumber’s No. 3 And Log Car (This classy little wood burner quietly steamed into the 1950s hauling logs out of the South Carolina swamps) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial – Harold H Carstens); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry review); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Company Photographer (An Eaton’s Dominion Flyer Christmas by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary – William C. Schaumburg); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Advertising Index
Issue: December 1987
Condition: Very Good