Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Last Of The Breed (When they were no longer needed by their original owners, older model locomotives can find a home at on-line industries); Bernard Iowa; 1933 (The flavor of small-town America in the depression era is captured in this 1/4″ scale diorama, which is based on the Bellevue & Cascade) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Cris Hollinshead’s Southern Pacific Relief Train (A Tichy crane, an MDC passenger car, an Athearn flat car and a Tichy tank car were all kit bashed to make up this HO scale, SP-inspired relief train); Tree Roots: A Quick Detail (Here is a little detail that can improve the appearance of the trees on your layout); The Cincinnati Union Terminal R.R. (Set in the heart of Cincinnati, this N scale model railroad is surrounded by tall buildings and urban scenery); Carpak: CN 40-Foot Woodchip Cars (These cars are converted boxcars that have had their roofs removed and their doors welded shut); Modeling Chicago Great Western’s TR2’s (Nine of these interesting cow/calf switcher sets worked on the CGW); Simple Turnout Control (Here is an inexpensive way to operate hand thrown turnout controls from the edge of the layout) Prototype – Pennsy’s Truc-Train F39A (Built in 1955 for the Pennsy, these 75-foot cars later became part of the Trailer Train fleet); Thirty Five Years Of Trailer Train (The first part of this series highlights some of the important developments in Trailer Train’s history up until 1970) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (Classic Mantua – The Master Model Builder’s Loco Series by John E. Bortle); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: July 1990
Condition: Very Good