Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Rails to San Francisco Bay (For many years the Santa Fe and Western Pacific used car floats to serve their customers around San Francisco Bay.), A Visit to Tom Piccirillo’s O scale Somerset Traction System (This nicely scenicked O scale electric line features scratch built equipment and serves rural northwestern New Jersey in the 1950s.), Clark Stuempges’ “Inland Empire” (Set in the Pacific Northwest, this layout features steam and diesel.), Boomer Trail Special: Niagara Frontier Region preview (Here is a look at some of the layouts that will be on view when the Niagara Frontier Region of the NMRA holds its convention in April.), A Layout Design Seminar: The New Mexico Division (Research is an important part of designing a model railroad.( Modeling – Modeling a Southern Iron & Equipment Boxcar (Scratch built sides, Details West ends and a kit bashed Athearn roof all went into the making of this distinctive, contemporary freight car.), Easy Station Platforms (Here is a quick way to model concrete station platforms.), Scenic Sounds: An Update on the ISD Sound Chip (This month we wrap up our two-part update with a look at playback circuits.), Building the South Park Valley – Pt. 1 Planning Ahead (To build a successful layout, you need to consider the space available and the shape of the room before designing the track plan.), RMC/Kit bashing Award: Kit bashing an Insulated Tank (An Athearn chemical tank car is the starting point for this project.) Prototype – C&C One-Stall Engine house (Built by the Carson & Columbia in 1883, this simple wood building served the narrow gauge C&C and later the SP for over 60 years.), An 1884 Porter 0-4-2 (This little industrial engine labored away in the sugar cane fields of Cuba into the mid-1970’s.)
Issue: February 2001
Condition: Very Good