Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Details make the difference (Details such as horns, warning lights, antennas, etc. can give a particular railroad’s motive power a distinctive look), The Pittsburgh Model Railroad Historical Society (Although the layout and the building are new, this HO scale model railroad club can trace its history back to the 1938), Indirect lighting for close-ups (A simple light tent can improve model photography) Modeling – Modeling With A New Generation Of Boxcar Kits (With just a few changes it’s possible to turn a real good kit into a great looking model of a specific railroad), RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Brass Kit bash: CPR 3512-The Steamer In The Lake (Parts from two brass models were combined to make this good looking M4 class Consolidation), Modeling The Centennials-Union Pacific’s Famous 6900’s (In 1969, the UP celebrated its 100th anniversary and took delivery of the first of its DD40X’s, No. 6900. To celebrate this 25th anniversary, we’ll look at modeling these famous giants of the rails), Kit bashing Magnuson’s Model U Coal Truck (Extending the dump body can create a more common style truck), Modeling A Bottle Car (These scratch built bottle cars follow the lines of typical steel mill cars), Building Retaining Walls (Here is simple, yet effective scenery technique), Building Bases For Water Tanks And Stations (Interchangeable bases allow buildings to be swapped) Prototype – Early ACF tank cars (Between 1907 and 1912, ACF built a large number of these cars) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial – Harold H. Carstens); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (NYC 5344-a.k.a. the Commodore Vanderbuilt); Editors Notebook (Commentary – William C. Schaumburg); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: November 1994
Condition: Very Good