Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Demonstrators – Carrying The Company Colors (New locomotives, painted in the builder’s colors, often visit the rails of prospective buyers. Adding models of these engines to a layout can bring a little variety to the usual operations); The Willis Hobbies Layout (Built to showcase the hobby, this HO layout, which is located in the basement of a Long Island hobby store, has been an inspiration to many area modelers); PMP-112 Diesel Sound Module (This month the author describes how to make a diesel sound module for the PMD-112 system); Boomer Trail Special (A visit to one of the oldest model railroad clubs in North America finds steam engines that really steam) Modeling – Fun With 50-Footers (These three different kit bashed and detailed HO scale models will add interest and variety to any freight car roster); The North Bend Station (This good looking brick station started out as a Kibri house kit); Building A Coaling Tower – Part IV (Our series concludes with the construction of the accompanying sand house); Building Lumber Loads (This simple project can show you how to add a revenue producing load to an idle model flat car); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Awards: Modeling The Ortner Aggregate Car (With a little cutting, splicing and rebuilding, the MDC Ortner hopper can be used to model this different looking ore car); A Branchline Geep (An interest in Southern Railway locomotives led the author to kit bash one of their GP7’s equipped with a small fuel tank) Prototype – Three Southern Pacific “Harriman” Cars (Here are plans and prototype information on three different Harriman-style cars); Southern Railway Subsidiary Sub-Lettering (If you’ve ever wondered what all those different initials on the sides of Southern Railway equipment stand for, then you’ll want to read Mike Small’s explanation of them) 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); N Scale Niche (Plans for N scalers); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (Growing Up In Calgary by Perc Browning); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: August 1988
Condition: Very Good