How to build a compact HO layout
By Don Chaney In the previous articles I described my compact and scenic Forest River layout and how I established…
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My friend Steve Miazga and I have been modeling in N scale for 100 years combined – and what a…
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This simple method lets you scale up a track plan from a magazine or sketch onto your model train table…
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Do you know how to switch model railroad freight cars? Operations, once considered a quirky art practiced by few, has…
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Get the plans for this structure featured in the July 2020 Model Railroader
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David Popp Nothing says “impressive” quite like a rugged mountain range full of jagged rock faces. Though mountains appear solid…
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Rubber rock molds and hydrocal plaster make it easy to add exposed rockfaces and other dramatic scenic elements to your…
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When you live in an apartment, as I did when I designed the Southern Ry. Spartanburg Subdivision, you might think…
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When he needed a few deciduous trees for his HO scale layout, Robert Pethoud turned to a tried-and-true method –…
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For nearly 30 years, when we lived in upstate New York, I would occasionally watch my husband, Lou, making trees…
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To apply the car-card-and-waybill freight-car routing system I described in part 1 takes more than just the two basic forms.…
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One of the most widely used model railroad car-routing systems is an identification card for each car with a pocket…
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