Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: Roundhouse Rhapsody (Although the chores being performed are different, a century old roundhouse still echoes to the sounds of railroaders at work); Jamestown Yard: A Holdover From The Steam Era (The Sierra Railroad’s historic roundhouse and shops, now a California state park, provide a living history lesson from the steam era) Modeling – Modeling A New Haven C-Liner (With a few minor changes, the True Line Trains HO scale C-Liner can be made into a good looking New Haven model); Keep Something Running (A simple, bare-bones switching layout can offer an entertaining break while constructing a larger layout and also serve as a test bed for new locomotives and rolling stock); A Portal For Tunnel 40 (Using photos and Google Earth as references, the author sets about modeling the Northwestern Pacific’s Tunnel 40 in HO scale); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award; Tank Car Kit Swap (The tanks and underframes from an Athearn tank car kit and an InterMountain kit are combined to produce two different HO cars); Scratch builder’s Corner: Lighting And Interiors (Adding interiors to structures and lighting them calls for some thought); Port Of Erin Industries: Cargill Terminal Grain Elevator (We finish construction of a large, port grain elevator with some detailing work) Prototype – Sierra Railroad’s Speeder Shed (Every railroad yard needs a place to house its speeders and maintenance-of-way equipment); Front Of The Layout Vignettes: No. 23, American Railroad Depots: Pt. 1 – The CB&Q Stations (While the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy didn’t have a standard depot design, it did have different sized depots that served different circumstances) Departments – 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 brief survey of early toy trains: 1879 to 1917 – Keith Wills); Editors Notebook (Commentary – William C. Schaumburg); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: July 2011
Condition: Very Good