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This issue includes articles on the Ninemile Branch, layouts of a lifetime and the Crystal Lake Carry Railway and much, much more.

New for 2004

Some advanced news of new models

Ninemile Branch

American short line layout by John Flann

Inspirational Layout

Contributors pick out classics from the past

Scale Drawings

More from the files of Arthur North

Try miniature railways

Colin Peake takes up a new interest

Shortest short line

The Marion River Carry Railroad

Crystal Lake Carry Railroad

Simple HO project based on the real thing

Build a hopper loader

Drawings and notes by Giles Barnabe

Harlee Valley

Classic Inglenook layout in N by Jappe

We also have our regular hobby news and comment, product news and reviews, club news, shows and events, book reviews and readers’ letters. American and British locomotives are on this issue’s test track.