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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Small Industrial Railroads (Industrial railroads can provide interesting possibilities for modeling); Getting Started In Model Railroading: Building The N Scale Gorre N’ Daphetid (Using a famous HO model railroad from the 1950’s as inspiration, the author build an N scale layout that is great for both beginners and modelers who lack a lot of space) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Modeling A Seaboard Air Line SDP35 (This HO model is a combination of Atlas and Athearn models); Modeling A Winter Wonderland (There is nothing like freshly fallen marble dust to make a model scene look like a snow-covered winter wonderland); The Basics Of Weathering Wood (The author explains how to use stains and paints to give wood an aged appearance); North Dayton Interlocking In O Scale (No matter what scale you model in, this model building article will provide you with plenty of information on the basics of scratch building structures); Protofile 50: CPR Woodchip Gon (These interesting cars are easy to model in HO scale); A Sound Idea (Lots of modelers have sound systems in their locomotives, but how about their freight cars? Here is a way to simulate the sound of a working mechanical reefer); Carpack: Modeling Four Different Western Maryland Covered Hoppers (These HO kit bashes can enlarge your freight car fleet and each can be done in one evening’s time) Prototype – NMX: Cars Of The North Western Refrigerator Line (This private refrigerator car company assigned its fleet of cars to the C&NW); The Ellenville Bridge (his simple I-beam girder bridge served the NYO&W in the small Catskill town of Ellensville); North Dayton Interlocking (Now gone, this tower once served the B&O mainline through Dayton) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatcher’s Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (Ghosts of Christmases Past); Company Photographer (‘Tis The Season by Dwayne Easterling); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: December 1988
Condition: Very Good