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| January |
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Special Features - RMC reader survey, Perspective: The wall, Toy replicas of the Union Pacific M-10000, 1984 calendar and rail dictionary, Pacific Coast logging: A general history Modeling - St Johnsbury & Lake Champlain RR, Southern Pacific SW1500, Blended backdrops, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: MacPherson's Mill, Halliburton Oil's trucks Prototype - Pacific Coast logging: Comox log unloader, Protofile 29: N&W C-18 caboose |
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| February |
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Special Features - Perspective: Route Of The Electroliners (Remembering the North Shore Line after twenty-one years); Boomer Trail (RMC presents photographs from its readers); Pacific Coast Logging: Steam Locomotives (This month we examine steam power on the western logging railroads) Modeling - In HARM's Way (HARM stands for the Hartford Associates for Railroad Modeling and this month we'll visit with this special group of modelers); Four-By-Eight Plus One-Half (Here are plans for five small, but interesting, layouts); Easy Bridge Mounting (This is a simple way to avoid track alignment problems when installing bridges); The Milwaukee Road's New Look (A Milwaukee Road enthusiast models the line's latest paint scheme); Coal Cars For The Colorado Midland (An AHM flat car is the basis for this inexpensive conversion); Signs And Philosophy (Signs can be used to identify both a time and a setting on a layout); Beginning From Scratch (The basics of scratchbuilding a model are covered in this article); RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: CPR Kootenay Division Short Van (A uniquely-styled caboose that was kitbashed from a Juneco kit) Prototype - Pacific Coast Logging: Catheld & Sorenson's Prairie In The Mountains (A history of C&S No. 1 and scale drawings are featured in this article); Pacific Coast Logging: The Water Tank At Chemainus (This is a typical backwoods water tank) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatchers Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Growing up with a hobby); Collector Consist (Our Scale Heritage: The 700E); Editor's Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index |
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| March |
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Special Features - Perspective: Working on the railroad, Boomer Trail special: RMC forced Perspective photo contest, Pacific Coast logging: Steam era equipment and rolling stock Modeling - Lee Brown's Rio Blanco Southern, Layout-edge shelves, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: BN6158, Lightweight module construction, Telephones for your railroad, Installing Kadee couplers, Wrinkle-free backdrops, Modeling tall grass, Super-quick lighting, Protofile 30: Conrail 167000-series boxcar Prototype - Pacific Coast logging: Skeleton flat car, Pacific Coast logging: Track sprinkler car |
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| April |
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Special Features - Perspective: The siding (A modeler shares some observations on a little used siding.), Boomer trail special (Railfest Eighty-four will be held in Cincinnati. Here's a preview of some of the fine layouts that will be on display.) Modeling - Soils for scenery (Dirt can be an effective scenery tool if it's used properly.), A visit to Jim Phelps' Ozark Southern (An S-scale layout based on an ex-Missouri Pacific branch.), Union Pacific's kitbashed SW10 (Author Metzger tells how he modeled UP's hybrid switcher.), Lighted locomotive number boards (This small detail can add a lot of realism to your models.), Durocher's Welding Shop (John Nehrich's tells how he built this model around a sign.), RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Business cars (Inspired by the prototype, the author kitbashed his own business cars for his HO scale railroad using Con-Cor diners.), Timber gang: Modeling a rail lifter (Our series on modeling m.o.w. equipment continues.) Prototype - Santa Fe standard depots (These stations appeared in small towns along the AT&SF.), Buzzards Bay tower (Cape Cod may not be known for its railroading, but thats where this ex-New Haven interlocking tower is located.), Pacific Coast logging: The diesel era (Our final installment looks at modern logging railroads.), Pacific Coast logging: Gas-powered speeder and a transfer caboose (Here are plans and photographs of two simple, but important pieces of logging railroad equipment |
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| May |
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Special Features - Perspective: Recycled railroad cars (Old cars never die, they just go into m.o.w. service.), A modern shortline: Modeling TTI's U28B and 50-foot boxcars (In the first of a two-part series author Dave Snyder tells how he modeled his Kentucky shortline's equipment.), Cairo & Kanawha Railway (Here's a look at turn-of-the-century, backwoods, narrow gauge railroading, West Virginia style.), Trackplanning from History: The C&K in HOn3 (This medium-sized trackplan incorporates many of the features found along the prototype Cairo & Kanawha.), The HIA show: What's new in modeling in 1984 (The Hobby Industry of America held it's annual show in Anneheim this year. Editor Bill Schaumburg has just returned with a look at what's new.) Modeling - Choke cable turnout control (How to build an old, but reliable method of throwing switches.), Larry Keeler's Rome Lake Lines (The Wisconsin countryside is the setting for this former Milwaukee Road engineer's HO scale layout.), From stock kit to stock car (Staffen Ehnborn shows how to improve the appearance of Athearn's standard Great Northern stock car kit.), RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A six story factory (Three different AHM kits served as the basis for this factory.), Magnetic loads (Here is an easy way to change loads on open-top cars.), Building rock and timber retaining walls (A retaining wall is an easy to build scenic detail that can add interest to any layout. Here's how to build one.) Prototype - Buzzards Bay station (We wrap up our coverage of the rail structure in this small Massechusetts community with plans for the old New Haven station.) Departments - Notes on an Old Timetable, Safety Valve, Dispatchers Report, Railbooks, RMC Timtable, Test Track, Tips and Techniques, The Company Photographer, Collector Consist, Editor's Handbook, Classified Advertising, Exchange Place, Dealer Directory, Advertising Index |
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| June |
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Special Features - Perspective: High and wide, Index to volume 52, TTI Systems: Modeling a modern shortline Modeling - The tenth anniversary of the Utah Belt, Railfaning on the Utah Belt, Stumpwood gondolas, Spout without a tank, Willits's Store, Hot coals, Pack-mon, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: The Middlesex Theater Prototype - Railroad telephone shanties, The Century series: C628 |
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| July |
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Special Features - Perspective: A moment at Leavenworth, Boomer trail, Modeling Amtrak: Part 1-The prototype Modeling - Freddy's Produce shed, Diabelero & Rio Grande Western, Scratchbuilding a Katy caboose, Photo backdrops, Bridge signs and billboards, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Milwaukee Road's Fairbanks Morse Erie-built units, Casting with cardstock molds, "Instant" iron fronts, Protofile 31: CNJ 51' cylindrical hopper, Blended scenery Prototype - CNR Blackwater trestle, Burlington's first diesels, The 4-runner |
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| August |
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Special Features - Perspective: Narrow gauge excursion, NCNGRR memories, Layout buggy, Pickering Lumber Co., Modeling Amtrak: Part II-available models Modeling - Jim Wild's Colorado & Northern, Hawley Supply Co.: Building a small space industry, Detailing a Pennsy shark, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Utah Belt per diem boxcars Prototype - The Century series: low hood C630, NCNGRR Nevada City yard, Cairo & Kanawha boxcar No. 5, Bellevue & Cascade stock cars |
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| September |
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Special Features - Perspective: Big uglies, Modeling Amtrak: Part III-setting the scene, NCNGRR Nevada City Memories Modeling - 30th Anniversary-Montauk Valley Line, Last week it was a boxcar, SP paint for an RS11, Protofile 32: ACF Railbox-classes XAF10 and XAF11, Gold King Mill-a study of a model, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Train order board Prototype - Interstate Public Service line car 217, NCNGRR Nevada City station |
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| October |
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Special Features - Perspective: Backstreets (A look at railroads in our urban areas); Boomer Trail (This month in Boomer Trail we feature photos of models built from articles that have appeared in the pages of RMC) Modeling - Appalachian Railroading: The Kanawha & Western Allegheny (A West Virginia steam powered coal hauler is the theme of this HO scale railroad set in the 1940s); Time Out For The Control Panel (Here is how to custom build your own control panels for operating your layout); Modeling Santa Fe's Fe-24 Express Boxcars (An Athearn 50-foot double door boxcar can easily be detailed and painted to represent one of these cars); RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Kitbashing A Chessie SD20-2 (Just like the prototype railroad he's modeling, author Manzke started his kitbashing project with an SD35); Washington School (This scratchbuilding project centers around a typical early twentieth century city school building); Bitten By The Bug (A confirmed Pennsy modeler tries his hand at narrow gauge modeling); Fremont Freight House (This 90 year old Ohio freight house is the subject of the author's O scale modeling efforts); Prototype - The Century Series: High Hood C628s and C630s (Our Alco Century series continues with a look at these unique engines and plans for them in HO scale); Two Colorado & Southern Passenger Cars (These plans represent two different types of narrow gauge cars) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable (Editorial); Safety Valve (Letters from our readers); Dispatcher's Report (Product and industry news); Railbooks (Book news and reviews); RMC Timetable (Scheduled events and notices); Test Track (Product reviews); Tips And Techniques (Modeling methods and ideas); Observations (Layout design by Jim Findley); Collector Consist (Zephyrs by Bob Thon); Editors Notebook (Commentary); Classified Advertising (Commercial listings); Exchange Place (Non-commercial listings); Dealer Directory (Recommended hobby dealers); Advertising Index |
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| November |
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Special Features - Perspective: Oversized Loads (Large shipments require special rolling stock); Rails To The Heartland: 1984 NMRA Convention Report (This year's convention featured a number of excellent models) Modeling - Road Of The Streamliners (Terry Metcalfe's fine modeling and photographs recreate the daily battles of both steam and diesel over Sherman Hill in the 1950s); Build A Steel Water Tank (This simple to build water tank is made from a pantyhose container, sheet styrene and Plastruct beams); Painting People (Two veteran modelers share some hints on painting model figures); Railroad Graffiti (Here is an easy way to add a touch of realism to your railroad); Soo Line One Stall Enginehouse (Originally built by the Wisconsin & Northern, the prototype for this model stands at Crandon, Wisconsin); Bristol Metal Company (This insdustry makes use of all those damaged and surplus carbodies that modelers just seem to accumulate); RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: A Two Bay Hopper For The Hoosier Line (Well-known Monon modeler Montford Switzer earned a Dremel tool for his fine conversion of an Athearn car into a detailed Monon model); A Fleet Of L&N Geeps (Working from prototype photos, the authors describe how they detailed four different L&N Geep models); The Timber Gang: Modeling A Spiker (Our series on track maintance vehicles concludes with plans and instructions for modeling a Norberg Hydraspiker) Prototype - Freight Houses And Railroad L.C.L. Service (Now a thing of the past, less-than-carload shipments were once an important business roailroads) Departments - Notes On An Old Timetable; Safety Valve; Dispatchers Report; Railbooks; RMC Timetable; Test Track; Tips And Techniques; The Company Photographer; Collector Consist; Editors Notebook; Classified Advertising; Exchange Place; Dealer Directory; Advertising Index |
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| December |
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Special Features - Perspective: A look at a railroad town Modeling - Kitbashing a UP SD40, A freight house for Vanderheyden Island, The Catoosa Southern Railroad, RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Watertower lighthouse, Building a traverser, An American classic: The Sears home, Protofile 33: Reading class XMLG boxcar, Freight car fencing, Lombard log hauler Prototype - New York, Ontario & western passenger cars |
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