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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: The 70-Tonner – A Natural For The Big Guys Too (Class 1 railroads also had uses for small diesels); The Pandora & San Miguel (The fabled San Juan mountains of Colorado are home to this HOn3 railroad); An LGB Prototype: A Visit To The Erste Museims-Eisenbahn Deutschlands (Here is a look at some of the prototypes upon which LGB models are based and some thoughts on modeling with them) Modeling – Carpark: Boxcars Of The BCR (BCR boxcars can be seen all across North America carrying lumber and other goods from western Canada. The author describes how he modeled seven different cars of the BCR and its predecessor, the PGE, using a variety of HO kits); Fish Lake Sand And Gravel: Part III (The series wraps up with drawings of the auxiliary buildings at the gravel crushing plant); Photo Visualization (Here is a technique that lets you see scenery on your layout before you build it); Modeling Big City Signs (Adding signs to city buildings is just another step in making a model town look more realistic); Mass Production Modeling: Building With Acrylic Cores (Clear acrylic plastic is rigid, can be easily sawed or drilled, and is readily available, which is why the author chose to use it); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Prairie For The Delta (The mechanism from a Mantua 2-6-2, the boiler off a 4-6-0, and a variety of detail parts went into making this HO locomotive); Big Red – A Heavy Duty Coal Truck (This HO scale truck was kit bashed from a Cox Peterbuilt model and an Athearn piggyback van) Prototype – Pullman Standard/Trinity Industries 5820 Cubic Foot Covered Hopper (Over 5,000 of these large, modern cars are in service) 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 (The Pioneers: Ed Packard Part I); Company Photographer (Scripting your pictures); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: February 1988
Condition: Very Good