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Complete layout designs for
HO and N scale model railroads
 So you think you don't have enough space to build a truly interesting realistic model railroad? Well, you need only open the pages of this book to find a number of innovative layout designs that require a relatively small amount of space, time, and money.
Inside Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans, you'll find a variety of layout designs that were developed from the author's palette of unique, space-saving concepts. In addition to the detailed, watercolor track plan and perspective drawings, each layout design includes information about layout specifications, prototype railroad data, and suggestions for appropriate motive power, rolling stock, structures, and scenery.
Even if your particular space or taste doesn't correspond exactly with one of these layout design, Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans is full of ideas and advice for designing a layout that will best suit your space and model railroading interests. |
| Contents |
| Chapter 1 |
The Small Layout |
| Chapter 2 |
Designing a Small and Smart Layout |
| Chapter 3 |
Practical Design Solutions for Small Layouts |
| Chapter 4 |
Small, Smart, and Practical Track Plans |
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Hollow Run Railroad: Sit in the Middle of the Action |
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Mount Galena Mines Railroad: The 4X8 Split |
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Industrial Switching Lines: Three Sectored Industrial Switching Layouts |
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Waterside Yard: A Generic Yard for a Small Layout |
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Coalport, Maryland, 1941: The End of an Era |
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Juniata Iron & Steel: A Simple Railroad from a Simpler Time |
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The Cherry-Picked New England: A Slice-of-Life Layout |
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The Norfolk & Western's Abington Branch: Mixed Train Daily |
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Union Terminal: Big City Railroading in Limited Space |
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CC Tower: Heavy Traffic at the Carbon Crystal Crossing |
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East Suffolk Railroad: The Short Line on a Shelf |
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Okehampton: An Eastern Oval |
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Charteris, Nebraska, CB&Q: A Stub-End Branchline Terminal on the High Prairie |
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The Linked-up Logger: A Layout Divided is a Room United
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Last Train to Lake Wobegon: A Larger Single-Location Layout |
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