6 HO Railroads You Can Build Step by Step Construction By John Armstrong Soft Co

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YOU get a lot more satisfaction out of the sport of archery after you've mastered the technique well enough that your shots all hit the target and you don't spend half your time looking for lost arrows. Likewise, golf begins to be a pleasure when most of your shots are down the fairway and lost balls become the exception rather than the rule. The availability of excellent HO gauge car and locomotive kits and even ready-to-run rolling stock, together with Atlas Custom-Line track components in wide variety, has virtually eliminated the "duffer" stage in scale model railroading - as a rank beginner you can have fantastically detailed trains running with great dependability in a time that would have seemed utterly impossible to the pioneer modeler of a few years ago. It's much as though you could now learn to go around the course in par your second time out.

Model railroading is a vastly more creative hobby, though, in which the goal is to build a railroad, not just a track arrangement with a train going around it. A railroad, real or miniature, is the result of skillfully combining a multitude of 'Components into a system that does what it's supposed to - producing transportation in the case of the real thing, or producing the illusion of transportation if it's a model pike. The best model railroads in existence today do a highly satisfactory job of creating this illusion, considering the limitations of space into which they must be fitted, and many do it without using rolling stock, track or electrical components one whit better than those you can assemble right now from readily available kits and supplies.

Most of these top-notch railroads, however, have been developed by the frustrating process of doing much of the same planning, construction and testing two or three or even more times. Many an old-timer has built several pikes over the years or has at least once reduced his layout almost to the raw-material state and started afresh to rework it into something that would give more satisfaction. For every persevering modeler who eventually comes through with a pleasureful railroad, there are many others who drift away from the hobby after a false start or two and miss out on the deep satisfaction that comes from having built a pike that looks and acts like the dream railroad in mind from the start. These frustrated empire-builders make no other converts to the hobby. So, the purpose of this book is to help you build for yourself a soul-satisfying railroad - not just an "outfit" - on the first attempt, and then to continue on as an ever-increasingly fascinated model railroader.

The first thing we've done for you in the six assorted types of railroads described is to plan Atlas-Track arrangements which will fit accurately into spaces of the size and shape commonly available to the beginning railroader. These railroads have all been constructed and you can rest assured that the track will fit into the space shown and that the items called out in the bill of material are precisely those that are required. If you already have some track that came with your first train-set, of course, you will deduct these items from your shopping list.

Next, we've told you what materials are suitable to use for constructing the table or framework that forms the foundation of your railroad, so that you won't find yourself in Egbert's position of having spent an unnecessary pile of dough making his pike so rugged he can't lift it. Of course, a more typical problem is that of the neophyte who makes his framework too flimsy in spots and ever afterward is plagued with poor operation he can do nothing about without a complete rebuilding job. You can and probably will make minor changes in sizes and types of material to suit what's available, but we have given you a standard that has been proved out in service against which to judge the effects of these variations.

You can take all the proper parts and still put them together in the wrong order, so we've tried to steer you clear of the more important ways in which you can get fouled up. Once you have the track and material on hand, it's a mighty powerful temptation to start right in a-sawing and a-nailing, but please do read the text over a time or two first, so that you can devise your own new way of doing things backward rather than getting off on the wrong foot in the old-fashioned ways which we warn you against.

Many of the construction steps for a larger or more complicated railroad are essentially the same as for a more modest one, and we haven't the space to repeat them in each case. Take a look at the discussion on the construction of Railroad A for example, therefore, before plunging into the assembly of any of the later pikes.

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