The March/April 1998 issue featured the following:
Walter Robinson's "Ultimate" Z Scale Table Layout
NEW FOR 1998!
In This Issue
Miller Engineering's 'Eastlake'...pg. 4
Creating the 'Memling'............pg. 6
Product Review
FR's Commuter Train.............pg. 8
Purchasing Direct
from Overseas Made Easy.........pg. 9
New Items for 1998...............pg. 10
NEWZLINE.........................pg. 17
Z Open House.....................pg. 18
Millimeter Conversion............pg. 19
Central Ohio N-Track.............pg. 12
HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS
Beauty and Grace in a Victorian - Micro Structures Queen Anne "Eastlake", kit #V202.
Rob Albriton writes about his remarkable technique for full color, non-smear, decal printing and how he used it to model a Belgian SNCB "Memling" Eurofima car.
The GP38-2's are Here! - Ye Ed. Rob Kluz reviews the Rogue GP38-2.
New U.S. Commuter Train Sets - Kevin Walker reviews the new Freudenreich-Feinwerktechnik MT SP FT (what fun!) with double-decker cars.
Purchasing Products from Overseas - Kevin Walker suggests a few tricks to protect yourself.
1998 NEW RELEASES - profusely illustrated 7-page review of Nürnberg Toy Fair, including listings from Artitec, Busch, Laguna/Collecta, MZZ, Preiser, Railex, Schmidt Modell, Train Safe, Westmodel*, and Märklin.
[Webmaster's Comment - Looks like Z is starting to take off at long last! (* - and see below!)]
NEWZLINE -
Micro-Trains 12008 GN F7 #268B dummy A unit.
Micro-Trains 14715 GN #X52 1962 caboose.
Micro-Trains 14504 PRR #470168 1946 F30 flat car.
Z Scale Layout to be Included on Home Tour - All Invited to Attend!
[Ye Ed's layout on NMRA MCR Spring Convention schedule]
Millimeters - A Joy to Use... - Dutch Nelson on metrication and with a conversion chart.
Running Z at Central Ohio N-Track - Jim Thomas' 12' long layout and Rich Petruska's 5'x7' layout with 360º turntable trackage and a 9-stall roundhouse, plus a 4'x5' club layout.
Z-TIPS Custom Z Track - PLIP (one assumes that's Paul Lipiarski) on Larry Jones' custom Nn3 track components (soldered to PC board stock), with turnouts up to #8.
{Webmaster's Comment - Kluz - you rascal, you slipped one by us, here! Westmodel has operating ZnM (metre-gauge) at 4.5mm and you don't even highlight the fact!}
The January/February 1998 issue featured the following:
Larry Hoff's PORTLAND RAILCAR RELEASES Z OVERTON COACHES and a BOBBER CABOOSE!
Vintage U.S. and European Coaches Now Available!
In This Issue
Great Methods for Laying Track.pg. 4
New 1998 Märklin Z Items.......pg. 7
Sharp Study Models' Trees......pg. 8
Micro-Trains Unveils Great Northern
Paint Scheme For Their F7....pg. 9
Portland Railcar's New Line....pg. 10
MidAtlantic Zedhead News.......pg. 12
NEWZLINE.......................pg. 15
New Z Figures Offered..........pg. 16
The HEG Railroad...............pg. 17
Märklin To Change Pricing......pg. 18
HEADLINES and HIGHLIGHTS
PORTLAND RAILCAR RELEASES Z OVERTON COACHES
Vintage U.S. and European Coaches Now Available!
And yet again, what more needs to be said? Portland railcar now has four (4) new Overton Z-scale passenger cars in photo-etched brass, including a baggage car, a combine, a "business" car, and a coach (he calls all of them coaches), plus a delicious miniscule 4-wheel bobber caboose.
Joe Malinchak wrote and illustrated Two Great Methods For Laying Z Scale Roadbe, Track, and Ballast - AMI Instant Roadbed and Masking Tape!
Micro-Trains Line has a new green Reading tank car and a re-released red ATSF flat car.
Noch and Preiser Released new Z Figures.
The Hersfeld County Railroad, A Short Line You Can Model in Z.
Märklin Changing to "Dealer Net Pricing".
Derek Au wrote on Improving Märklin's #8800 Performance.
{This was the first issue reviewed by your Webmaster.}
[For any of you who may have had a bad experience with earlier editions,
the new editor and publisher, Rob Kluz, is doing a bang-up job
and the magazine well merits your reconsideration.]
This is a wee bit hard to believe, but doing a search on HotBot for "Ztrack" yielded exactly 220 hits!
Someone else signs off, "Be Z'ing you!"
Your Webmaster signs off - "Best RegardZ"
SB,III's Z-SCALE INDEX
The internal links, which work fine on my home page and others, don't seem to work here! I'm working on it, but haven't a clue; I even just copied the working links over and they don't work here. So, scroll away!
On this page:
Ztrack Magazine
Z-Scale
Scale and Gauge
Scale Conversion Table
Z-Scale Miscellany
Z-Scale Wiring Conventions
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal RR in Z
Overton Coaches, Bobber, Crane in Z!
Half-Z Scale - 1:440 Tiny Trains!
(moved from the preceding page)
1:900 Scale - Tiniest Trains!
Wish List - some goodieZ I'd like and some I have!
Z-Scale Hell Gate Bridge
On the first Model Railroad page:
Sunrise Trail Division (STD) of the
Northeastern Region (NER) of the
National Model Railroad Association (NMRA)
Long Island - Sunrise Trail Chapter (LIST) of the
National Railway Historical Society (NRHS)
On the second Model Railroad page:
Vest Pocket Railroads You Can Model:
Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal Railroad (but see below)
Degnon Terminal Railroad
Marion River Carry Railroad
On separate pages:
Berlinerwerke-Z Saga
Berlinerwerke-Z Saga Continuation Page
Berlinerwerke Saga (HO, included with Horseshoe Curve info.)
Berlinerwerke Apocrypha (tall tales of the BW and its equipment and such).
Schnable and other Giant RR Cars.
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to hold reviews of back issues.
Current issues are on the Ztrack page and recent issues are on the Ztrack Continuation Page 2.}
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