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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Upsetting The Time Line (New and old equipment can blur the eras on a railroad); Boomer Trail (RMC presents photos from the readers); Planning From The Prototype: Modeling The D&H’s Upper Second Subdivision (This final installment discusses the actual building of the benchwork) Modeling – The Coal Belt Railroad (Set in the 1920s, Camelbacks and steam engines with wide fireboxes dominate the roster on this HO layout of the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania; Modeling SP’s 40 And 50-Foot “XMUG” Boxcars (These specially marked cars were designed for carrying lumber and were a common sight on trains in the 1960s and 1970s. Using Front Range cars, they can be easily modeled in HO); Modeling A B&LE SD18 (A chassis from an Athearn SD9 was combined with a body built from an Atlas SD24 and a Tyco GP20 to produce this model); Improved Lichen Bushes (With a little care in coloring, shaping and detailing, lichen can be made to yield good looking trees and bushes); Modeling The Mellen Depot (Bill describes how to scratch build a model of the Soo Line’s Mellen, Wisconsin, depot, scale plans of which were features in last month’s RMC); More Steam From Kits: Part III (Our series finishes up with a look at some of the modeling possibilities inherent in the MDC Old Time 2-8-0); RMC/Kit bashing Award: Freelancing A Transfer Caboose (This caboose is based on common prototype styles) Prototype – A Modern Hopper Unloading Facility (Here are scale plans for a small unloading facility); Low Side Gondolas Of The MEC And Other Roads (Over the years these cars have seen a variety of uses) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatcher’s Report (Product and industry news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Company Photographer (Camouflage by Dwayne Easterling); Collector Consist (Vulcan’s 0-4-2T by Keith Wills); Editor’s Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: May 1989
Condition: Very Good