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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine 1978 December RMC Wood trestle construction
Railroad Model Craftsman December 1978
d e c e m b e r 19 7 8 volume 47/number 7
special features
96 Boomer Trail
Photographic vignettes of model railroad scenes and equipment
98 Quasi Z scale-in 1889!/Eric LaNal
Exquisite 1.192 modeling depicting the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition 139 Cartoon /Michael Morgan
The snows of winter
modeling
56 Staging tracks enhance operation on the John Galt Line/AI Westerfield
Hidden yards simulate unmodeled portions of your-or a connecting-railroad
61 Tractor dump trailer/G. Warren Reed
Kitbashed Lindberg HO trucks provide a highway coal or gravel hauler
66 N scale layout on a door/Joe Pontius
Here's a straight-forward approach to getting started in any scale
71 RMC/Dremel Kitbashing Award: Non-revenue rolling stock/Gerard Dombroski
A lesson in the versatility of plastic kits
74 Using slides as backdrop-painting guides/Sam Powell
Sketch around a prototype scene projected onto the backdrop 79 Potterfield's company houses Jerry Strangarity
Logging town structures which are easy scratchbuilding projects
83 PROTOFILE 1: Monon 1400-series 50-ft. double-door boxcars/Bill Darnaby
Modeling a specific late steam/early diesel-era steel boxcar 85 Radio-control walkaround throttles/Andy Sperandeo
How they eliminated the connecting cables on David Barrow's HO railroad
90 Building the trestle at North Craggs/John Olson
It look complicated, but even a beginning modeler can handle it
prototype
62 Consolidated stencils/Ed Crist and Jim Panza
An explanation of those black boxes painted on modern freight cars
95 Sacramento Northern 50-foot steel boxcar 2401-2500/Julian Cavalier
Drawings and photos of a typical steam era double-door automobile car
departments
5 Notes on an Old Timetable-Editorial/Harold H. Carstens
10 Safety Valve---Letters from our readers
26 Dispatchers Report-Product and industry news
45 RMC Timetable-Scheduled events and organizational notices
51 Trouble Shooting-Questions and answers/William C. Schaumburg 102 Test Track-Product reviews
122 Tips and Techniques-Modeling methods and ideas/William C. Schaumburg 126 Observations-The authority/Hal Kattau
128 Editors Notebook-Commentary/J. Anthony Koester
135 Classified Advertising-Commercial listings
136 Exchange Place-Non-commercial advertising
137 Dealer Directory-Recommended hobby retailers
145 Advertising Index-Where to find it this month in RMC
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