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;

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

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

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