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Smithsonian 1988 December Vol 19 #9 Model Railroading Goes Full Speed Ahead
Smithsonian 1988 December Vol 19 #9 Model Railroading Goes Full Speed Ahead SMALL tear on the upper edge of the front cover, cover wrinkled
224 Pages
Table of Contents
Cover: A six-inch-high diesel passenger locomotive, 1950s-style, wears Santa Fe's Warbonnet paint scheme (p. 84) Photograph by Henry Groskinsky
12 Smithsonian horizons by Secretary Adams
16 Letters to the Editor
24 Picture credits
28 Around the Mall and beyond by Edwards Park
36 Phenomena, comment and notes by John P. Wiley jr.
42 On the Khyber Pass, combat is a way of life For hundreds of years this strategic defile has been a battleground of empires large and small By Rob Schultheis, photographs by Ed Grazda
60 Man Ray, impatient innovator
He would have loved the new show that celebrates his seminal paintings, photographs and objects-at last! By Helen Dudar
70 Getting the big picture
From counting penguins to monitoring irrigation, people are finding down-to-earth uses for satellites By Doug Stewart
84 Clickety-clack, toy trains are back
Adult hobbyists are spending time and money building railroad fantasies like no kid ever had By Jim Doherty
Photographs by Henry Groskinsky and Michael Melford
100, Baby, it's cold inside!
Human volunteers in shiver chambers and water tanks help scientists study hypothermia and its prevention By Donald Dale Jackson, photographs by Peter Menzel
117 The sculptor who's bugging us
At Smithsonian's Insect Zoo, visitors find Patrick Bremer's giant dragonfly et al. totally awesome
120 Wanna make sumpn' of Brooklyn?
So did 46 photographers who spent a week capturing its many faces in 90,000 pictures; herewith a sampling Photographs by Document:Brooklyn
130 Deciphering the way we were
Sumerian, the first written language, is getting its first dictionary as scholars probe life in 3000 B.C. By Marion Steinmann, photographs by John McGrail
144 Lake Malawi's fascinating fishes
Collectors prize their colors, but for biologists it's the hundreds of species that make these cichlids special By Thomas A. Bass, photographs by Anthony Bannister
160 `I'm good at a lot of things'
And so he is. Lawrence Halprin has spent 40 years planning and designing the spaces we move around in By Benjamin Forgey, photographs by Kim Steele
174 Fighting the Battle of America
Air raid warden, plane spotter, junior commando-after Pearl Harbor, everyone "defended" the home front By James R. Chiles
208 Book reviews
216 Additional reading
218 December events at the Smithsonian 222 Smithsonian tours and seminars
224 `One who yawns invites another to follow suit'
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