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Building your Next Model Railroad Simple techniques Any size prototype era
Building your Next Model Railroad
TABLE OF CONTENTS
GOALS (Its more fun to get there when you know where you're going):
PLANNING:
6 A Track Plan You Can Live With, "Thomasville" 14 HO Mainline Track Plan in 8'9" x 9'
SCENE SITE & TIME MACHINE CONCEPTS: 4 The Whole Scene
12 The Time Machine
88 The Scene Site Library
OPERATIONS:
18 Operating a Visible Interchange at Thomasville 20 Operations on the Thomasville Layout
22 Three-train Operation at Thomasville
24 Loads-in/Empties-out Operations
26 Modeling the Action of Mountain Railroading
BUILD IT:
BENCHWORK:
27 Building Portable or Modular Benchwork
30 Translating a Track Plan into Reality
31 Building & Supporting Elevated Roadbed 33 Setting the Sites for Structures
35 Building the Gaps to be Bridged
36 Installing Hidden Kadee Uncoupling Ramps
TRACKWORK:
37 Laying Scale-Size "ready-to-lay" Track
43 Installing Kadee Permanent Magnet Ramps
44 Derail-Proofing the Trackwork
56 Super-Detailed Track and Roadbed
WIRING:
46 Operation-Oriented Wiring
47 Carrier/Command-Control Wiring 48 Control Panel Construction
50 Wiring Switch Machines
51 "Finger-Flickn' " Manual Switch Machines
SCENERY:
59 Fidelity-to-Prototype: Drainage Ditches
61 Road/Rail Crossings
62 Lightweight Scenery begins with Foam Rocks 64 Shaping the Hills and Valleys
67 Ground Cover & Grass Textures
72 Weeds
73 Creating Streambeds & Riverbottoms
76 Odorless Water
77 Photo Mural Backdrops
80 Creating Foliage with Ground Foam
81 Scratchbuilding Timber Trestles
86 Setting the (Geographic) Scene
CORRECTIONS, Mistakes... and Ways to do it better NEXT time:
90 Corrections...
91 Alternative Layout - Building Ideas
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