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Railroad Model Craftsman Magazine 1988 February SIgns for that big city look BCR
Railroad Model Craftsman 1988 February
Departments
6 Notes on an Old Timetable
Editorial-Harold H. Carstens
8 Safety Valve
Letters from our readers
16 Dispatchers report
Product and industry news
35 Railbooks
Book news and reviews
38 RMC Timetable
Scheduled events and notices
97 N scale niche
Plans for N scalers
99 Test Track
Product reviews
118 Collector Consist
-The Pioneers: Ed Packard, Pt. I by Keith Wills
122 Company Photographer
-Scripting your pictures by Dwayne Easterling
124 Editors Notebook
Commentary-William C. Schaumburg
125 Classified Advertising
Commercial listings
127 Exchange Place
Non-commercial listings
128 Dealer Directory
Recommended hobby dealers
136 Advertising Index
Special features
56 Perspective: The 70-tonner - A natural for the big guys, too by David Lustig
Class 1 railroads also had uses for small diesels.
58 The Pandora & San Miguel by Ken Ehlers
The fabled San Juan mountains of Colorado are home to this HOn3 railroad.
74 An LGB prototype: a visit to the Erste Museums-Eisenbahn Deutschlands by Dave Buffington
Here is a look at some of the prototypes upon which LGB models are based and some thoughts on modeling with them.
Modeling
63 Carpak: Boxcars of the BCR by David Steer
BCR boxcars can be seen all across North America carrying lumber and other goods from western Canada. The author describes how he modeled seven different cars of the BCR and its predecessor, the PGE, using a variety of HO kits.
70 Fish Lake Sand and Gravel: Pt.11l by Gordon Johnson
The series wraps up with drawings of the auxiliary buildings at the gravel crushing plant.
80 Photo visualization by Frank Baker
Here is a technique that lets you see scenery on your layout before you build it.
82 Modeling big city signs by Robert Smaus
Adding signs to city buildings is just another step in making a model town look more realistic.
90 Mass production modeling: building with acrylic cores by Bob Love
Clear acrylic plastic is rigid, can be easily sawed or drilled, and is readily available, which is why the author chose to use it.
94 RMCIDremel Kitbashing Award: A Praire for the Delta by Edgar Dayries, Jr.
The mechanism from a Mantua 2-6-2, the boiler off a 4-6-0, and a variety of detail parts went into making this HO locomotive.
95 Big Red - a heavy duty coal truck by Jim Slaughter
This HO scale truck was kitbashed from a Cox Peterbuilt model and an Athearn piggyback van.
Prototype
87 Pullman Standard/Trinity Industries 5,820 cubic foot covered hopper by Eric Neubauer
Over 5,000 of these large, modern cars are in service.
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