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This issue features a detailing article on the Western Pacific Alco S1 switcher, lineside customers, ideas for beginners starting in narrow gauge, buffer stop types and how to make them as well as Mike Denwood’s “Loose Chippings” OO layout and Carl Arendt’s “Peek’s Pike”.

Peek’s Pike

Summertime Blues project by Carl Arendt

Western Pacific Alco S1

HO model fully detailed to prototype

Old model, new layout

Signal box of 50 years ago by Graham Weller

Starting narrow gauge

Round up of ideas and suggestions

Buffer stop survey

Basic model item by Giles Barnabe

Scale Drawings

From the files of Arthur North

Magic with Magtrix

Uncoupling with very small magnets by Jack Trollope

New lamps for old

Changing freight car ownership by John Flann

Lineside customers

On location in New England with Julian Andrews

Loose Chippings

Mike Denwood’s small OO layout

Model beer distributor

Classic warehouse model by Bruce Petty

Wisconsin Central Yard

Good layout idea by Chris Gilbert

We also have our regular hobby news and comment, product news and reviews, club news, shows and events, book reviews and readers’ letters. The Hornby Class 08 and Bachmann Plymouth are on this issue’s test track.