TrackPlans & Layout

By Iain Rice

Learn how to build a shelf layout by exploring the possibilities, practicalities, and challenges of linear layout design in a variety of layouts with construction details.

Softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 80 pages;

By Jeff Wilson

Using only off-the-shelf trackwork, buildings, bridges and scenery and ready-to-run trains, you can construct a layout from the ground up with effort-saving ideas like office-furniture pedestals doubling as benchwork support and storage. This book brings it all together - trackwork, scenery, wiring, command control, structures, detailing and trains on a model railroad readers will actually build.

Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 96 pages;

0890247402 £ 13.95 (FREE

Features 26 innovative model railroad track plans in Z, N, HO, O, and G Scales and fit spaces from 8'x10' to a 20'x20' G Scale garage layout. Based on such interesting prototype lines as Western Maryland - Thomas Subdivision, White Pass & Yukon, Norfolk Southern's Shirley Industiral Park, Chesapeake & Ohio's Chicago Diviso, Denver & Rio Grande Western's Craig Branch, Erie/LTV Mining Railroad, Utah Railway, and New York City's Bush Terminal.

Softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 112 pages; 100 color photos; 50 b&w photos; 14 illustrations;

Matt Coleman explains the business of logging railroads and shows prototype operations by region. Photos of locomotives and other logging-line equipment and structures set the stage for modeling logging scenes and designing a logging layout.

Railroads and the logging industry have been tied together since the mid-1 800s. For more than 100 years, railroads dedicated strictly to logging snaked into forests from the Pacific Northwest to New England and the Deep South, hauling logs from temporary camps to sawmills along rivers and coastlines.

The Model Railroaders Guide to Logging Railroads traces the history of the timber industry and its railroads, following advances in logging methods and equipment, specialized rolling stock, and the development of geared steam locomotives, including the Shay, Climax, and Heisler designs.

This book includes information and tips about:

* Logging camps and structures * Sawmills and log ponds

* Skeleton cars, log bunks, and other rolling stock * Loading and unloading log trains

* Track planning for logging lines * Geared steam locomotives

Softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 80 pages; 75 color photos; 75 b&w photos; 5 illustrations;

Take in historical information and photos covering locomotives, passenger equipment, freight cars, and trackside details. Featured layouts in a variety of scales show you how to model Chicago's Dearborn Station, move coal in the Appalachians, carry produce, and recreate Los Angeles of the 1950s.

Softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 88 pages; 116 color photos; 23 b&w photos; 16 illustrations;

by Jeff Wilson

Add interest to your layout!

Continuing the Model Railroaders Guide to ... series, this book gives the reader the scoop on railroad junctions - where tracks meet and cross. Photos of full-scale junctions from the past and present show how junctions work and the details that surround them. Drawings provide ideas for track planning and explain train operations. Sidebars illustrate techniques for modeling functional junctions in any scale. This new book contains detailed text, photos, and examples specifically aimed to assist modelers.

* Recognized author with track record of providing the kind of detailed prototype information and photo-driven how-to guidance modelers love

8.25 x 10.75; 88 pgs.; 150 b&w photos; 30 color photos, 20 illus.; softcover.

Tony Koester offers techniques for incorporating Layout Design Elements into a larger layout, a sectional or modular approach to model railroading that he invented. Various LDEs based on actual railroad scenes - towns, yards, terminals, industries, and more - are offered as track plains suitable for N to large scale layouts. * Applies the "kit building" concept to track planning * Features new material compatible with Koester's previous books, Realistic Model Railroad Operations and Realistic Model Railroad Design.

Softcover 81/4 x 103/4; 96 pgs.; 125 color and 10 b&w photos; 75 illus.

The Complete Photo Guide

Jeff Wilson

Teaches the basics of building model railroad benchwork.

A concise, illustrated teaching method takes the mystery out of model railroad benchwork. Covers the materials, tools, and basic skills required to make sturdy benchwork for any size or scale layout.

* All projects include step-by-step photos and/or

illustrations

* Covers innovations in materials and techniques

that have made building benchwork easier

* Numerous photos and a basic approach make

it easy for a novice to get started

8.25 x 10.75; 96 pgs.; 300 b&w photos; 25 illustrations; softcover.

Includes over 101 unique, traditional-style track plans that apply to nearly every scale. Includes data and instruction for converting plans to different scales, tips on how to build a layout from plan, and how to choose the plan best suited to a particular space. 81/4 x 103/4; 72 pages; 118 illus.; softcover.

Provides step-by-step design techniques and track planning tips to save model railroaders time, money, and headaches. This must-have book also covers aspect of prototype freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading.

By John Armstrong. 8.25 x 10.75; 144 pages; 45 b&w photos; 120 illus.; softcover.

120 pages

Includes photos, diagrams, and material lists for plans ranging from small modules to room-size layouts. From the pages of Model Railroader. 81/4 x 103/4; 120 pgs.; 320 photos; softcover

Straight from the pages of Model Railroader, these simple layout designs are ideal for beginners who are buildinng there first layout. Features full color plans for HO and N-Scale starter layouts, additional watercolor sketches, and general construction techniques

8.25 x 10.75; 64 pgs.; 15 color and b&w photos; 60 illustrations; softcover.

Demonstrates how to plan and build the basic framework to support layouts of any size, shape, or gauge.

By Linn H. Westcott. 8.25 x 10.75; 80 pgs.; 115 b&w photos; 120 illus.; softcover.

Make your railroad more true-to-life - and interesting - by adopting realistic operation principles. Covers the history, practice, terminology, and benefits of operating realistically. Guides you through the steps leading to realistic operation, and includes pictorial examples of working model railroads and realistic operating sessions.

Perfect-bound softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 96 pages; 125 color photos; 25 b&w photos; 40 illustrations;