{"product_id":"model-railroader-magazine-1938-february-help-for-beginners","title":"Model Railroader Magazine 1938 February Help for beginners","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:121312 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable align=\"CENTER\" width=\"98%\" border=\"5\" bordercolor=\"#FF8080\" bgcolor=\"#E80000\"\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"10\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" color=\"#FFBBBB\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003e\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"6\" color=\"#FFBBBB\"\u003erailroadtreasures \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"6\" color=\"#FFBBBB\"\u003eoffers the following:\u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003cfont face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\" color=\"#FFBBBB\"\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd valign=\"TOP\"\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\n\n\u003c\/center\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd valign=\"TOP\"\u003e\n\u003cfont size=\"3\" color=\"#000000\"\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eModel Railroader 1938 February \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eSTARTING A LAYOUT\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003ePEORIA \u0026amp; WESTERN RELOCATION\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHE LAYOUT GREW AND GREW\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHE ERIE \u0026amp; EASTERN RR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eMODERN SMALL LOCO\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eALUMINUM CAR SIDES\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHE CALIFORNIA CENTRAL\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTHREE NARROWLY EXCAPE DEATH IN FREIGHT WRECK\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eLay Out Your Track to Fit Your Requirements.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eTRACK layout is one of the major problems\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e1 confronting the model railroader, and yet it is a problem which is incapable of any general solution and which must be solved by each individual to suit himself, his equipment, his gauge, and his space.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eOne, two, or all of three fundamental purposes must be served by any layout: First, the mechanical necessity of running locomotives or trains smoothly and efficiently; second, the operating purpose of making such train and switching movements as will most nearly approximate real practice; and third, the scenic purpose of making t h e layout seem part of a real life but small scale picture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eBest layout for most of us will probably be one combining all these ideals, but for you in particular one purpose may be enough. You may like to build loco-motives and test them out. A plain oval of track, well laid, and with few or no switches, will allow you to run your locomotives smoothly and efficiently and as continuously as you may wish.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eI may want to simulate actual operating practice and at the same time have a layout that will allow mechanically perfect running, so I'll have to add to your ideal layout more switches and a rearrangement of line such that I can not only have smooth and consistent operation but also making up and breaking up of trains, meets between trains running in opposite directions, setting off of cars, and so on. A layout of this type may not be possible in the average space without sacrifice of some of the purely mechan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eical points of perfection. For instance, every addition of a switch carries the idea farther from the ideal of the man who merely wants to test equipment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe classification where scenic perfection is the goal is hard enough to plan by itself, but if it must be combined with mechanical simplicity and operating realism it is a talking point much aimed at and seldom achieved.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eUnless you have the municipal auditorium for right of way, you must make big concessions if you hope for any degree of success in building a layout which is a real small scale picture of railroad operations and scenery. Try to imagine yourself on a hill looking down over a stretch of railroad, getting an over all view of the scene, the trains, the right of wav and accessories. That's what you want your model railroad to look like.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:bold;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWe think the best way to tackle the problem is to reduce the extent of what you try to model. Instead of trying to reproduce an entire railroad, concentrate on one portion. Model a terminal, for instance, and do a good job of it. Have only enough main line to get trains out of the terminal and into it again. Make a scenic excuse which indicates that the main line goes on farther, for instance a tunnel in which the trains can stop for a time and apparently come out from a different direction. Or model main line with a small division point station and yard, thus providing only sufficient terminal facilities for necessity and not obstructing the main theme of reproducing a main line.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003chr align=\"CENTER\" size=\"3\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003cfont face=\"Arial\" size=\"3\" color=\"#FFBBBB\"\u003eAll pictures are of the actual item.  If this is a railroad item, this material is obsolete and no longer in use by the railroad.  Please email with questions. Publishers of Train Shed Cyclopedias and Stephans Railroad Directories. Large inventory of railroad books and magazines. 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