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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Along The Waterfront (If you are modeling a rail line that follows the seacoast or serves a small port or harbor, old waterfront structures can be the inspiration for some wonderful layout scenes); Following The O & W (Join us for a look at what a railfan trip along the New York, Ontario & Western during the steam-era must have been like, as the authors recreate just such an adventure for us in HO scale); Plastic Air Cell Layout Construction: Pt 3 (This month we finish up the layout by adding the scenery) Modeling – Constructing Heavy Duty Steel Telegraph Poles (Poles like these were once a common sight near railroad yards); Building The Diljax /A-1 Container Co (This scratch building project uses basswood to make a lineside industry); Essential Freight Cars: 11 Southern Ry. SU Class Boxcars (Almost 15,000 of these 36-foot boxcars were constructed between 1922 and 1926); Scratch builder’s Corner: The Philosophy Of Color (While each of us sees color in our own way, some general principles apply to all modeling); Frugal Gourmet Modeling (Here are a few modeling ideas that have moved from the kitchen to the workbench); Rock Retaining Walls (This is an easy-to-build scenery feature that looks great); Ahh-OOO-gah! Adding Sound To A Railcar (With patience, DCC sound can be added to even the smallest model); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: A Sleeper For The Lark (A variety of parts were used to build this HO scale model) Prototype – Atlantic Coast Line Class M-3 Caboose (These traditional wood cabooses were a common sight on ACL rail from the mid-1920’s into the 1960’s) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); 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 (A Time For Imports: Part 1); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial advertising); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertisers Index
Issue: March 2004
Condition: Very Good