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Build a Model Railroad

Project plans: Build a railroad beam bridge
Jan 26, 2016

Project plans: Build a railroad beam bridge

Download plans for a railroad beam bridge. Learn how modeler Jim Ferenc scratchbuilt this common railroad bridge for his HO…

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Project plans: Build a crossing guard’s shanty
Dec 30, 2015

Project plans: Build a crossing guard’s shanty

Click on the image to download the plans. Before the invention of automatic crossing gates, railroad crossing guards protected grade…

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Lehigh Valley RR Bloomsbury, N.J., depot drawings
Aug 19, 2015

Lehigh Valley RR Bloomsbury, N.J., depot drawings

I learned about the LV’s former Bloomsbury depot when researching the railroad’s other wooden depots in Upstate New York. Information…

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Scale model plans for an 1870s railroad water tower
Jun 30, 2015

Scale model plans for an 1870s railroad water tower

Author Rob Foreman described how he scratchbuilt an 1870s-era railroad water tower from stripwood and styrene in the August 2015…

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Plans for the rail-served Clay Spur bentonite plant
May 19, 2015

Plans for the rail-served Clay Spur bentonite plant

Vic Worthington built an impressive HO scale model of the Clay Spur bentonite plant that’s featured in the July 2015…

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Arch through-truss bridge model assembly diagram
Apr 21, 2015

Arch through-truss bridge model assembly diagram

Download plans to build this impressive arch through-truss bridge for a model railroad. Jim Richards Learn how author Jim Richards…

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Keller Beverage Co. signs for a model railroad
Apr 21, 2015

Keller Beverage Co. signs for a model railroad

Download signs for Keller Bier and Keller Beverage Co. to use on your model train layout. In the June 2015…

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Prototype drawings: Railroad MOW sheds
Mar 9, 2015

Prototype drawings: Railroad MOW sheds

Railroad MOW sheds make easy scratchbuilding projects for a model railroad. In the article “A tale of two sheds” author…

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Follow a model train along the HO scale Maumee Route
Jan 12, 2015

Follow a model train along the HO scale Maumee Route

Originally published in Great Model Railroads 2007, this article by Bill Darnaby follows a way freight as it works its…

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W. Case Benham Elevator drawings
Nov 19, 2014

W. Case Benham Elevator drawings

W. Case Benham Elevator Feed mills, which often included a towering grain elevator, were once a common sight along the…

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Erie milk and express car drawings
Sep 24, 2014

Erie milk and express car drawings

The Rochester and Genesee Valley Railroad Museum near Rochester, N.Y., took delivery of an Erie-Lackawanna RR steel-bodied milk car, no.…

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Model a weather-beaten wood structure
Jul 2, 2014

Model a weather-beaten wood structure

This Northern Pacific class C depot has seen its better days. Cody Grivno explains how to model a weather-beaten wood…

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