Realistic Model Railroad Design: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Operating Layout

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Designing a successful model railroad calls for much more than drafting a trackplan and arranging benchwork. Creating realistic towns, industries, and "work" for your trains to perform will improve any layout, regardless of its size, scale, or gauge. Within the pages of Realistic Model Railroad Design, notable Model Railroader Magazine columnist Tony Koester offers insight into making plausible choices for the concept and construction of your own great model railroad. Photographs of his own layouts, and those of ...
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Overview

Designing a successful model railroad calls for much more than drafting a trackplan and arranging benchwork. Creating realistic towns, industries, and "work" for your trains to perform will improve any layout, regardless of its size, scale, or gauge. Within the pages of Realistic Model Railroad Design, notable Model Railroader Magazine columnist Tony Koester offers insight into making plausible choices for the concept and construction of your own great model railroad. Photographs of his own layouts, and those of other respected modelers, illustrate his concepts throughout. Open up the pages of Realistic Model Railroad Design, and you'll find a wealth of helpful and insightful concepts to get you on the road to designing your own realistic model railroad.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780890245811
  • Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company, Books Division
  • Publication date: 3/28/2004
  • Series: Model Railroader Books
  • Pages: 96
  • Sales rank: 376,120
  • Product dimensions: 8.10 (w) x 10.50 (h) x 0.30 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 4
1 Freelancing-within limits 6
2 Prototype modeling 13
3 Plausibility 21
4 Considerations of time 28
5 Image and graphics 35
6 Creating a roster 48
7 Geography and scenery 57
8 Layout design: the visible parts... 67
9 ...and the invisible parts 79
10 Construction and maintenance 86
11 Crews and jobs 94
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