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How to design a model railroad / by Lance Mindheim.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Waukesha, WI : Kalmbach Media, [2021]Description: 143 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781627008310
  • 1627008314
Subject(s):
Contents:
Defining a "good" layout design -- How the prototype does track planning -- Basic design tools -- Combining track elements -- Benchwork footprints and route types -- Finalizing your footprint and route -- Putting it all together: Part 1 -- the science -- Putting it all together: Part 2 -- the art -- Case study: Frederick MD, 1952.
Summary: "This new hands-on book will show how to use tools and elements such as track, turnouts, crossings and scenic elements to paint the "canvas". The reader will learn how to blend the track plan itself with structures and scenery in a realistic manner along with a basic understanding of how real railroads work to help them narrow the layout-design focus, leading to a workable plan for the space a modeler has available." -- Amazon.com
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Dr. James Carlson Library NonFiction 625.19 M663 Available 33111010660971
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 625.19 M663 Available 33111010538284
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This new hands-on book will show how to use tools and elements such as track, turnouts, crossings and scenic elements to paint the "canvas". The reader will learn how to blend the track plan itself with structures and scenery in a realistic manner along with a basic understanding of how real railroads work to help them narrow the layout-design focus, leading to a workable plan for the space a modeler has available.

Defining a "good" layout design -- How the prototype does track planning -- Basic design tools -- Combining track elements -- Benchwork footprints and route types -- Finalizing your footprint and route -- Putting it all together: Part 1 -- the science -- Putting it all together: Part 2 -- the art -- Case study: Frederick MD, 1952.

"This new hands-on book will show how to use tools and elements such as track, turnouts, crossings and scenic elements to paint the "canvas". The reader will learn how to blend the track plan itself with structures and scenery in a realistic manner along with a basic understanding of how real railroads work to help them narrow the layout-design focus, leading to a workable plan for the space a modeler has available." -- Amazon.com

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