Description
Contents: Special Features – Perspective: What’s In A Name? (It’s been a long tradition that sleeping cars are given names. Cars of the same configuration on the same railroad were usually part of a series, so railroaders would immediately know a car’s interior arrangement just by its name); Operations On The NYW&B (What if the electrified New York, Westchester & Boston had survived and prospered? That’s the scenario between this well-detailed S scale layout, which features a mix of steam, early diesel and electric operations); Train Dispatching On The Western Midland (Working with a former railroad dispatcher added extra realism and enjoyment to layout operating sessions) Modeling – Making Switch Locks From Phono Plugs And Jacks (For modelers whose layouts are often on public display, here is a simple way to prevent unwanted tampering with switches); New Life For An Old Model (An early Life-Like Proto 2000 E-unit gets a makeover and emerges wearing the chocolate and orange of the Illinois Central); Modeling Municipal Waste Trains Part III: ULTRA Spine Cars (We wrap up our series on moving municipal waste with a look at how to model the articulated spine cars and containers that have been developed for this industry); RMC/Dremel Kit bashing Award: Kit bashed Motor Cars (Two models, built using Bachmann chassis and Roundhouse 50-foot combine bodies, are the winners of this month’s award); Scratch builder’s Corner: Thirty Minutes (In many cases, it doesn’t take long to add those little extra details that can turn a standard model into a real eye catcher) Prototype – Front Of The Layout Vignettes: No. 25, American Railway Accidents Part 1 – Bad Days At Steamboat Rock (A collection of postcards documents a wreck on the M&StL) 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 (Rosebud Kit master); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index
Issue: July 2012
Condition: Very Good