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How to use an NMRA gauge

By Angela Cotey | September 20, 2011

| Last updated on December 7, 2020

Jim Hediger next to layout

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Model Railroader senior editor Jim Hediger shows how to use a National Model Railroad Association gauge to check the spacing of different aspects of track and your model trains.

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