Kalmbach Books: Build 3 Model Railroader Project Layouts

This book brings together three of Model Railroader’s popular annual project layouts in one volume. Projects offer a variety of layout types using different construction methods to build model railroads in popular scales, N and HO.

Covered subjects include:

• Projects: N Scale Red Oak, the Beer Line, and Bay Junction.
• Prototype and historical information.
• Construction techniques: Benchwork, wiring, scenery, structures, and more.

Author: From Model Railroader Magazine
Size: 8.25 x 10.75
Pages: 112
Color photos: 200

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Section One, Red Oak
Introduction
Benchwork, terrain, and track
Terrain and scenery
Scenery, structures, and rolling stock

Section Two, The Beer Line
Introduction
Benchwork
Roadbed, track, wiring and DCC
Ballast, streets, rivers and bridges
Signature structures for the Beer Line
Scratchbuild a lumberyard
How to model a big industry
Making a multimedia highway overpass
Build a cement plant

Section Three, Bay Junction
Introduction
Model a grain elevator and fertilizer plant
Kitbash industries against a backdrop
A commuter station and downtown scene
Final details and operations