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Develop realistic operating sessions and operate your model railroad like a full-sized one. The book covers how to forward cars, move trains, and use signal systems.
Acquire more space for scenery and longer mainline runs with multiple decks. Tony Koester walks you through design options, lighting and wiring considerations, and the all-important construction process and techniques.
This book provides you with a handy reference as you choose a prototype to model or create a freelanced railroad. Tony Koester demonstrates how to model coal trains, company towns, coal customers, and more.
Learn how to model natural land forms, crops, forests, and lakes. You'll be able to apply what you see in real life to your modeling and recreate these scenic elements. Produce impressive signature scenes for your model railroad.
Design a freelanced or prototype-based model railroad by selecting a time period, modeling geography, creating a roster, using graphics, and following paint schemes.
Building a model railroad ‚"‚€‚" especially a room- or basement-sized layout ‚"‚€‚" takes a lot of time. In his new book, Tony Koester shares many invaluable time-saving tricks he's learned over the decades as an accomplished modeler and author. Using LDEs (Layout Design Elements) with staging. Efficient layout construction tips and techniques. Time-effective methods to get a layout built and operating.
Planning Your Model Railroad is a new book by Tony Koester that tells modelers everything they'll want to consider before starting a layout. This conversational, idea-driven book shows modelers their options when planning a layout.
Tony Koester is back with his newest book featuring multi-deck layouts, including his own layout. Highlights techniques and materials along with photos and examples of two- and three- deck layouts. This will be a go-to book for anyone designing a new layout or looking to rebuild or modify an existing layout. Expand the useable space in a layout room with this highly anticipated book covering: The many types of multi-level layouts. How to design for small areas, large basements, and other spaces. Important design factors such as shelf width, acceptable grades, and trackwork considerations. Construction techniques. Layout lighting and control systems.
This book provides an entry point for any modeler interested in building a narrow gauge layout. Narrow gauge railroads remain popular among railfans and modelers due to the spectacular mountain scenery in which many operated. Although narrow gauge layouts have a passionate niche following, there are very few books on this subject. • The book is an overview of prototype narrow gauge railroading as well as available models. • This is a one-stop book for introducing modelers to the subject of narrow gauge railroading. • It explains why and where narrow gauge railroads were built, how they operated, what their equipment was like, and why they were abandoned.