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| January |
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Special Features - Boomer trail, "East meets west": San Jose S scale convention Modeling - Creative benchwork, Steam roster variety through kitbashing, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: East Broad Top, The V&O Story: &-Operation, Cast modular walls, Disguised magnets, One Evening Project: Riders of the rods Prototype - The Winnfield Local (Part 1), Canadian National coach-caboose |
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| February |
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Special Features - Boomer trail Modeling - Country depot, Soo Line style, Friend of Frenda Mine, Frenda Mines II, III and IV, BB&K: A period modular railroad, Reliable simplified switch-machine linkage, Car-cards and waybills, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award Prototype - The Winnifield Local (Part 2), CN standard overhead farm road bridge |
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| March |
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Special Features - Boomer trail Modeling - MDC HO locomotive kit assembly and detailing tips, Union Tank Car Line on the 1870's, Clever can-tainers for the SWAT/2, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Union Pacific's varied SD40 fleet, Larger drivers, smaller flanges for AHM steam locomotives, The simulation of Russia iron, A small on- or off-line industry, The V&O story: 8-Perspective on the past and future Prototype - Union Tank Line 10,000 gallon tank car, Canadian National "test load" boxcar |
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| April |
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Special Features - Boomer trail Modeling - 40 years of Maryland modeling, Pritchard's Jct. depot on the C&DR, The Utah Belt, Stone boat, Improved pinhole diaphragm for a 35mm SLR, Developing locomotive numbering systems, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: an ITTX "saddleback" flatcar made from an Athearn kit in HO scale Prototype - CPR Lacombe Subdivision frame trestle, Rocky flat loader |
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| May |
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Special Features - Boomer trail (Photographic vignettes of model railroad scenes and equipment.), 1978 Hobby Show report (Highlights of the Houston Hobby Industry of America trade show.), New York Toy Fair report (A supplement to the HIA Show Report.) Modeling - Rounded-peak ends for hopper cars (Variations on a theme.), Building a wood fence-board by board (Vaneer trim tape makes it easy, even in N scale.), The Yosemite Short Line (A drop-leaf On30" pike module which stores in only 2'x8'.), The boarding house (The second structure in a series on modeling a logging town.), RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A Shaymax Feisler? (Converting a boxcar diesel into a backwoods steam engine.), Logs (Wood dowels are wire brushes, then painted.), Ma & Pa 2-8-0 No. 25 (An MOC HO 2-8-0 kit is detailed to Maryland & Pennsylvania standards.), A-frame side-door gondola (Scratchbuilding a different maintenance-way car.) Prototype - C&O's twin hoppers (Drawings of a standard hopper with many end variations.) Departments - Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, RMC Timetable, Trouble Shooting, Test Track. Observations, Editorial Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Piece, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index |
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| June |
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Special Features - Boomer trail (Highlights of the August 1978 NMRA national layout tours), Cartoon Modeling - The Twin-Cities Concept (Making one city do the work of two when planning a layout), Rolling Stock Grade Brake (Keeping cuts of cars in place of a hill with a retractable pin), RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A Shortline Classic (A modernized HO scale 4-4-0 from AHM and MDC components), Assembly Jig For Mass-Producing Wooden-Underframe Flat Cars (Making several identical cars is easier with a jig), Removable Roofs (A roof can be both sturdy and removable (To show interior detailing), Stack 'Em Units (Sections of layouts in two scales were designed to stack vertically for storage), Americanizing Vollmer's Through-Truss Bridge (Cutting off the top end projections is a good start), The Hoosac Valley (Dick Elwell's HO scale New England railroad) Prototype - The Thrall-Door Boxcar (Drawings and photos of a modern easily-loaded/unloaded freight car), Laurel Line loader (How the interurban L&WV dropped into a valley to service a loader) Annual Index - Index To Volume 46 (A contents directory for the June 1977-May 1978 issues) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, RMC Timetable, Trouble Shooting, Test Track, Observations, Editors Notebook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index |
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| July |
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Special Features - Modeling the '50's Modeling - "Simplified" four-way grade crossing wiring, The "ultimate eyedropper", Jim Monroe's Pacific Coast & Interior, Fun with Fords, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: EMD SD40T-2, Makin' smoke, Casting belt buckles, Coal mine and preparation plant Prototype - Lonetree School, 12" scale-circa 1978, East Broad Top steel boxcars |
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| August |
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Special Features - Boomer trail Modeling - The potential of small computers, Quincy Mining Company machine shop, Supersonic-frequency a.c. to power lights and sound system, The Superior Northern, Corrugated metal cutting jig, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A garage and an industry Prototype - Lehigh & Hudson River wood caboose, Chicago's Rail to Water transfer |
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| September |
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Special Features - Boomer trail Modeling - RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: B-unit mine switcher, Paper-leafed deciduous trees, Griffin & Howe: an example of over-the-tracks space utilization, Idea file, Denver & Rio Chama Western, Signs from photographic prints, Coal loader truck, From Spartan to super-detailed Prototype - Buildings over tracks, Anniversary F |
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| October |
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Special Features - A Christmas tradition, S and O scale national convention reports, Boomer Trail Modeling - The oil tank at Merced, Kitbashed well-hole flat car, A live-steam Consolidation, The development of the PURR Line, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: EMD Phase 1 FP7, "Bugging" a boxcar Prototype - EMD's FP& and FP9 |
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| November |
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Special Features - NMRA's Dearborn convention, 501 cars: the world's longest train Modeling - Building the layout as a "kit", Oil servicing facility, Track-powered warning blinker, Photo-fun with dioramas, Under-the-layout workbench, Enhancing freight car realism through evidence of usage, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Anthracite-region steam power, The stone fence, Mullion-cutting jig Prototype - EMD's FP7-FP9 |
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| December |
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Special Features - Boomer trail, Quasi Z scale-in 1889! Modeling - Staging tracks enhance operation on the John Galt Line, Tractor dump trailer, N scale layout on a door, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Non-revenue rolling stock, Using slides as backdrop-painting guides, Potterfield's company houses, Protofile 1: Monon 1400-series 50-foot double door boxcars, Radio-control walkaround throttles, Building the trestle at North Craggs Prototype - Consolidated stencils, Sacramento Northern 50-foot steel boxcar 2401-2500 |
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