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Small Smart & Practical Track Plans Iain Rice SC Model Railroader 2000
Small Smart & Practical Track Plans by Iain Rice Model Railroader
Copyright 2000
80 Pages
Soft Cover
Complete layout designs for HO and N scale Model railroads
CONTENTS
Dedication and Acknowledgments 4
Chapter 1 The Small Layout5
Chapter 2 Designing a Small and Smart Layout 7
Chapter 3 Practical Design Solutions for Small Layouts 11
Chapter 4 Small, Smart, and Practical Track Plans 17
Hollow Run Railroad: Sit in the Middle of the Action 18
Mount Galena Mines Railroad: The 4 x 8 Split 22
Industrial Switching Lines: Three Sectored Industrial Switching Layouts 26
Waterside Yard: A Generic Yard for a Small Layout 34
Coalport, Maryland, 1941: The End of an Era 38
Juniata Iron & Steel: A Simple Railroad from a Simpler Time 42
The Cherry-Picked New England: A Slice-of-Life Layout 46
The Norfolk & Western's Abingdon Branch: Mixed Train Daily 50
Union Terminal: Big City Railroading in Limited Space 53
CC Tower: Heavy Traffic at the Carbon Crystal Crossing 56
East Suffolk Railroad: The Short Line on a Shelf 59
Okehampton: An Eastern Oval 64
Charteris, Nebraska, CB&Q: A Stub-End Branchline Terminal on the High Prairie 68
The Linked-up Logger: A Layout Divided is a Room United73
Last Train to Lake Wobegon: A Larger Single-Location Layout 77
A variety of layout designs that were deveoped from the author's palette of unique, space saving concepts. In addition to te detailed watercolr track plan and perspective drawings, each layout design includes inforamtion about layout specifications, prototype railroad data, and suggestions for appropriate motive power, roolling stock, structures and scenery. Even if yur space doe not correcspond exactly with one of these layouts, this book is full of ideas and advice for designing a layout that will best suit your space and model railroading interests.
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