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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Hoods On Passenger Trains (By the mid-1960s, streamlined diesels were being replaced by work-a-day geeps on passenger trains); Riding The Clinch River Railroad (All aboard for a ride through the backwoods of Virginia on this little HOn3 railroad) Modeling – Building A Helix (With photos and step-by-step instructions, the authors explain how you can use, design and build a helix for your railroad); Solvent Forming Styrene (Here is a method for bending styrene); Two Uses For Old Ties (Based on Southern Pacific prototypes, these models of a loading ramp and a maintenance shed were built with ties); Detailing An LNE FA1 (A Model Power FA, paint and a variety of detail parts are among the items needed to capture the feel of the Lehigh & New England’s road power); N Scale Niche: Working Caboose Marker (With the installation of a small, battery operated rear light you can add an extra bit of realism to your trains); A Touch Of Gingerbread: The Kennebec Central’s Randolph Depot (Built in the 1890s for one of Maine’s two-foot gauge railroads, this quaint looking depot featured a tower. Peter Barney provides both scale plans and instructions on how to model this beauty); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: WM Hoppers In O Scale (Continuing our Carpark series, modeler Jack Brown uses Weaver Models two-bay hoppers to kit bash four different Western Maryland cars) Prototype – The Incline At Incline (This month we’ll look at the incline railway used by the Yosemite Valley to move logs down to their tracks) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial – Harold H. Carstens); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (The Pioneers: Louis Hertz – Part II 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: October 1987
Condition: Very Good