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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Why Save The EBT? (The East Broad Top Railroad is one of America’s great historic treasures, and while plans are being discussed to save it, time and the elements are taking their toll); The New River & Pocahontas (The NR&P carries coal from deep in the Appalachian Mountains to the seaport town of Deepwater. This large HO scale railroad has a history that is at least as colorful as its scenery) Modeling – Rock Island Mongrel GP18 No. 1351 (Rock Island GP18 No. 1351 spent part of it’s career wearing a combination of two paint schemes, and this is how the author chose to model it using a Life-Like Proto 2000 model); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Kit bashing An SAL 20-Foot Door Boxcar (In the mid-1950s the Seaboard Air Line modified a group of 40-foot boxcars and designed them for easier loading and unloading. These modified cars are a kit basher’s delight. Here’s how you can build one); Bashing A Baldwin 2-4-0 And Tender (A Bachmann 0-4-0 is the starting point for this kit bashing and repowering project, which yields a model of an old-time 2-4-0); Geodesic Foam Scenery (What is geodesic foam scenery? It is a lightweight, economical, easy to work with, durable scenery making technique that produces beautiful results) Prototype – Canada’s Eight-Hatch Iced Refrigerator Cars – Part II (Our look at the use and development of the Canadian eight-hatch, overhead ice bunker refrigerator cars continues, and scale plans for a Grand Trunk Western ice reefer are included); General Electric’s New AC4400CW (High horsepower and A.C. technology put these heavy duty locomotives at the forefront of today’s railroading) 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 (“Other” S tinplate by Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: January 1996
Condition: Very Good