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Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Sidetracked (With a little bit of effort, it is still possible to find an occasional old locomotive alongside today’s modern diesels); Remembering The “Louie” (First generation diesels rule this HO scale Minneapolis & St. Louis-inspired layout. With lots of industry, and interchanges with the C&NW and Milwaukee Road, there’s plenty of activity) Modeling – RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Kit bash A Santa Fe Bx-108 Boxcar (This month’s award winning model is an HO scale Bx-108 boxcar built from a pair of Athearn 40-foot high cube cars); Rescuing A Relic: Conrail N6A Transfer Caboose (A secondhand brass caboose body get first class treatment as it’s rebuilt to match a prototype car); Classic EMD Diesels On The Boston & Maine: Electro Motive’s FT (Following some careful research, the author set out to detail a pair of Stewart FT’s for the Boston & Maine); Classic EMD Diesels On The Boston & Maine: Electro Motive’s BL-2 (A Life-Like model is the starting point for this detailing project); Improving Bachmann’s Amfleet Cars (A few minor changes to these N scale passenger cars result in closer coupling and better rolling); Scratch builder’s Corner: Bricks And Masonry (This month’s column looks at some of the materials available for modeling brick and stone, as well as some tips on working with them); Modeling The Piggyback Cars Of The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western (Like their prototypes, these models were built using parts from other cars) Prototype – Modeling A Meat Packing Plant And Its Operations (Relying heavily on rail service, the Jacob Decker & Son’s meat packing plant provides a good example of how this industry can be modeled) Departments – Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatcher’s Report (Product and industry news); Rail books (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Collector Consist (My “godfather” was a boy); Editor’s Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: October 2004
Condition: Very Good