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Books : Home & Garden : Crafts & Hobbies : Model Trains
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A cookbook approach to creating scenery like an expert that delivers predictable results every time. Teaches how to design, build, model, and finish backgrounds, mountains, hills, trees, bushes, water, dirt, and much more. Features detailed photos, techniques, and product information.
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Here is a Kalmbach 12012 "101 Track Plans For Model Railroaders" Soft Cover Book by Linn H. Westcott. The copyright date is 1993. Features 72 pages with track plans for N, TT, HO, S, and O scale model railroads.
The Trainz SKU for this item is S11448222.
Manufacturer: Kalmbach
Product Number: 12012
The Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (M.S.R.P) for this item is $7.95.
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Offers over a thousand repair and maintenance tips for Lionel locomotives, operating cars, accessories, transformers, light bulbs, and switches. Provides original Lionel technical advice and handy techniques submitted by toy train collectors and operators over the past ten years.
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"The DCC Guide" is a Kalmbach Model Railroader Book by Don Fiehmann. / / FEATURES: Plain & simple explanations where the instruction manuals left off / Inside this book, you will better understand DCC (Digital Command / Control) by addressing: / *DCC history and standards / *The DCC system / *Decoders / *Programming decoders / *Selecting a system / *Layout wiring / *Installing decoders / *Lighting and sound / *Operating with DCC / *Glossary of of DCC terms / / INCLUDES: 80 Pages / / SPECS: Size: 8.25" x 10.75" (210mm x 274mm) / Copyright: 2007 / / tlw 9/20/07
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A must-have reference for every level modeler, with easy and reliable layout wiring techniques. Everything a modeler needs to know about wiring a permanent layout is covered in this how-to guide. Includes the essential techniques needed to wire a two-rail, DC-powered layout of any size or complexity. Each chapter includes photos, illustrations, and detailed schematices. Modelers have been asking for it! Features a chaper on Command Control and introduces the basics of Digital Command control (DCC). The only comprehensive book offering fundamental wiring skills and techniques. Written by well-known hobby author, Andy Sperandeo, editor of MODEL RAILROADER Magazine.
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Provides step-by-step design techniques and track planning tips to save model railroaders time, money, and headaches. This must-have book also covers aspects of prototype freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading.
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Acquire more space and longer towns and runs with multiple decks. Tony Koester walks you through design, options, lighting and wiring considerations, the where and when sequence, as well as the all-important construction techniques.
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A step by step guide to designing the most versatile of all model railroad types. Learn how to: set priorities, pick the best bench work shape, design secondary track, set scenery zones, choose the best industries, and more! Two bonus track plans included. Concepts can be applied to layouts of all sizes.
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Do You Live for Lionel?There may be other things to live for, but collecting Lionel Trains takes living to a whole new level! The world of postwar Lionel Trains brought countless innovations to the legendary line that helped define the electric toy train, and this book breaks it all down into easy-to-find sections.
Divided into locomotives, freight and maintenance of way, passenger cars, accessories, catalogs, and cataloged sets, each section is then broken down further into subcategories such as steam locomotives and flatcars. Once you've found your model and style, you'll discover detailed descriptions unmatched by anything you've seen in other train guides!
Identifying and assessing your Lionel collection is made easy by the 1,450 detailed color photos, rarity ratings and up-to-date values that fill the pages of this must-have collectible train resource.
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Prolific Kalmbach author Jeff Wilson shows modelers how to re-create numerous types of railroad and highway bridges based on prototype designs. Divided into chapters by bridge type, each chapter shows several prototype examples and demonstrates techniques for modeling, painting, weathering, and installing the models on a layout. Covers the history of railroad bridges, trestles, and tunnels. Includes specific details for modeling iron and steel truss bridges, plate girder bridges, concrete bridges, lift bridges, tunnels, and more. Lists currently available models. Ideal for intermediate and advanced hobbyists.
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Expert guide to creating fine books by hand. Thorough, detailed instructions, with over 270 helpful illustrations, cover materials, tools and equipment, making a slipcase, rebinding an old book, more. Also, 8 specific projects: dust jacket; blank book, single signature; folio; manuscript binding, music binding, three more. Introduction.
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Kalmbach Publishing presents "Basic Model Railroad Benchwork" / A Model Railroader Book by Jeff Wilson. / / FEATURES: Paperback book with glossy-type pages. / A step-by-step photo guide to building framework for a model railroad / Complete introduction to the basic tools, materials, and techniques / you'll need to construct a foundation for a layout of any size or / scale. / Clear, concise instructions and over 250 step-by-step color photo- / graphs and diagrams demonstrate quick and easy, yet effective, / techniques for assembling one of the most important components of / your model railroad. / You will learn how to: / -Choose the proper tools and use them safely / -Evaluate various construction materials and determine where they / are best used / -Build free-standing, wall-mounted, or modular benchwork / -Work confidently with risers, roadbed, backdrops, fascia boards, / and scenic supports / -Construct benchwork for special situations, including belixes and / multiple-deck layouts--even integrated into beautifully crafted / furniture / Includes tools and material lists. / / INCLUDES: 96 Pages / / SPECS: Size: 8-1/4" x 10-3/4" (210mm x 273mm) / kr10/30/02 / ir/jxs
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This is a Kalmbach 12418 Building a Model Railroad Book by Jeff Wilson. Follow the construction of a model railroad layout from start to finish! Over the course of three years, Model Railroader Senior Editor David Popp offered readers a monthly "Step by Step? glimpse into his N scale Naugatuck River Valley layout as he built the layout from the ground up. Now he tells the complete construction story using techniques any model railroader can use! More than 30 short projects take modelers through the process, from building benchwork to operating realistically. Step-by-step photos and illustrations let modelers see every phase of construction and apply the techniques to their own projects. Project topics include getting the layout started, building benchwork, completing trackwork and wiring, constructing scenery, adding structures, detailing, and running the railroad. Includes new material on choosing a scale, working in the available space, and installing DCC decoders. It measures 8 1/4 inches x 10 3/4 inches, it has 112 pages, 250 color photos and 20 illustrations.
The Trainz SKU for this item is S11438138.
Manufacturer: Kalmbach
Product Number: 12418
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An introduction to the basics of tracklaying and lineside detailing.After the trackplan and benchwork are completed, modelers turn their attention to the finer details of trackwork and lineside activities. Here, they'll find tips, techniques, and ideas for working with track and the details immediately alongside it.
--Features clear photographic instructions, including illustrated references to prototype trackwork and details
--From leading model railroading authors, including the late Gordon Odegard, former associate editor of Model Railroader magazine
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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.
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8 Realistic Track Plans For Small Switching Layouts provides easy to follow track plans for building small but fun model railroads that will fit in a typical spare room. Each plan is designed to be visually inspiring, easy to build, and fun to operate. Included are port railroads, modern era themes, and themes for the 1950's.
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A comprehensive how-to guide for constructing the most common forms of scenery: mountains, deserts, lakes and streams, and rural and town scenes.
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As model railroaders began demanding ever-greater realism, Lionel responded in 2004 with its FasTrack system featuring an integrated roadbed, scale-sized ties, and a less-obvious center rail. Veteran hobby author Bob Schleicher follows up his The Lionel FasTrack Book with a closer, more detailed look at Lionel’s revolutionary O-gauge system. This guide gives enthusiasts a deeper sense of how to take advantage of the FasTrack’s ease of use and unprecedented realism in large-scale model railroading. The book includes 150 color photos and track diagrams for 10 scenicked FasTrack layouts ranging from 6x6-foot tabletop models to an 11x30-foot scale-size empire. Schleicher also provides instructions for building tables to support the layouts, advice for creating both rural and urban scenery, and an appendix of recommended suppliers.
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The "Basic Structure Modeling for Model Railroaders" / is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. / Author: Jeff Wilson / Perfect for All Railroad Modelers / / FEATURES: An excellent paperback reference. / Packed with information showing you how to assemble plastic / kits, get the most out of wood kits, paint and weather, / scratchbuild buildings, give structures realistic roofs and / details, and adding color and life to your layout with signs. / Offers techniques for realistic finishing, including painting, / weathering, sign making, interior detailing, and more. / Photo-driven projects demonstrate the tools, materials, and / techniques used when modeling plastic or wood structures. / 225 color photos and 12 illustrations. / / INCLUDES: 88 Pages / / SPECS: Size: 8.25" x 10.75" / (210mm x 274mm) / kr4/28/05 / ir/kh
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There have been numerous advances in N scale railroading since the first edition of this book, and the author addresses them all, from track to train control. He takes beginners through step-by-step chapters that show them how to build and operate a complete N scale 4 x 8-foot railroad based on his Androscoggin Central, an interesting and challenging New England railroad.