How To Improve Your Model Railroad by Raymond Yates w/ damaged dust jacket

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How to Improve Your Model Railroad by Raymond Yates

How to Improve Your Model Railroad

Raymond F. Yates

Hard Cover W/ Dust Jacket (damaged dust jacket)

98 + Pages

Contents

List of Illustrationsxi

1All Aboard for Model Town1

2 The Construction Gang Goes to Work7

3 Models for Almost Nothing!21

4 A Coal Pocket for Model Town29

5 Tanks for a Tank Town33

6 Sussex Station on the Milwaukee38

7 A Factory for Model Town41

8A Water Tower for the Deep Valley R.R.45

9A Bridge for Roaring Creek49

10 A Quonset for Model Town52

11"Dry" and "Wet" Water Lakes55

12 Every Railroad Has a Sand Tower59

13 Model Culverts62

14Telegraph and Power Lines for the Deep Valley R.R.65

15 Telegraph Your Train Dispatches!68

16 A Bridge Across Snake Gulch77

17 Don't Say "Whoa" to a Locomotive!82

18 Instructions to All Division Superintendents88

19 Selecting the Right Layout98

Illustrations

Fig. 1 Typical small-town railroad station; Model

Town, U.S.A.3

Fig. 2 Close-up of buildings in Model Town5

Fig. 3 Constructing model railroad benches8

Fig. 4 Using a level to make sure bench will not slant9

Fig. 5 Framework of a model railroad bench10

Fig. 6 Concealed illumination of model railroad layout11

Fig. 7 Cross-section of a track on a hillside12

Fig. 8 Getting around chimneys, etc.13

Fig. 9 Overcoming sharp angles13

Fig. 10 False fronts for buildings14

Fig. 11 Another layout trick15

Fig. 12 Hiding disappearance of train in a return tunnel17

Fig. 13 Materials used in production of scenery19

Fig. 14 Building made of cardboard22

Fig. 15 Installing a roof24

Fig. 16 Doors and windows for buildings25

Fig. 17 More standard building details27

Fig. 18 Construction and layout of a coal pocket30

Fig. 19 Plan and dimensions for the coal pocket31

Fig. 20 Various types of tanks34

Fig. 21 Construction of a railroad station39

Fig. 22 Construction details of a modern factory42

Fig. 23 A water tower made of wood and cardboard46

Inside dust jacket

Here is a new book full of fresh, fascinating material on the home construction of model railroad accessories by the author of the popular THE BOYS' BOOK OF MODEL RAILROADING.

From such readily available materials as bits of cardboard and wood, paper, spools, hairpins, paper clips, sand, pebbles, tacks, and similar items, Mr. Yates tells how to make a coal pocket for a model town; how to set up "dry" and "wet" water lakes; how to construct storage tanks, stations, a factory, towers, bridges, culverts, telegraph lines, and other accessories that no model town is complete without. There are suggestions for additional items that the enterprising, imaginative boy can design and make for himself, starting from scratch. And there are chapters on how to telegraph your train dispatches, on whistle and hand signals and train markers, on how to go about setting up a timetable for a model railroad, and on selecting the right track layout.

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