Features:

New Baltimore & Fair Haven • by GREGORY RICH, MMR — We visit a beautiful 
freelanced HO scale layout set in the late 1920s.

Gunderson SP&S 50’ Boxcars  • by JAMES KINKAID — Built for Spokane, Portland & 
Seattle, these cars served into the BNSF era.

NS&T 17: Build an Electric Loco in Brass  • by TREVOR MARSHALL — Using “old school” methods like resistance soldering to assemble a brass model.

Detail and Weather Single-Sheathed Boxcars • by CLARK PROPST —These mid-century wood-bodied freight cars could be found from coast to coast.

Kitbash from Harriman to Basalt • by ROBERT SCHLEICHER  — This kit can be easily 
modified for many common station prototypes in HO.

Easy-to-Build Harbor Pilings• by JOSEPH KREISS — Make realistic details for your 
harbor scenes in an evening or two.

Departments:

Safety Valve — Letters from our readers

Receiving Yard — New product reports and industry news/compiled by Harry K. Wong

Test Track — In-depth reviews of new hobby products

Rail Books  —  TRRAHTS No. 84: The Gulf Coast Rebel/review by George Riley

Timetable — Listings of railroad-related events contributed by our readers

Perspective  —   Planning for Aging/Paul Schmidt

The Layout Doctor  — Derailments on Turnouts/Paul Hurley

Painting and Weathering  —  Boxcar Roof Weathering/George Dutka

Diverging Points —  Anxiety and Mental Health/Jason Shron

Editor's Notebook  — Commentary from your editor/Otto M. Vondrak

Dealer Directory — Listing of our favorite recommended hobby dealers

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