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Build a Better Toy Train Layout. Grams and Christianson. Written for beginner and
intermediate level toy train operators, this book offers tips and techniques
on planning, electrical work, track work, scenery and operation that will
help you build a more realistic and enjoyable toy train layout. It's
easy-to-follow advice from real pros! 80 pages, 156 color photos, 6
illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04128
Price: $18.95
Building a Model Railroad Step by Step. Popp. Follow the construction of a model
railroad layout from start to finish and learn techniques that any model
railroader can use! Step-by-step photos and illustrations guide you through
more than 30 projects including benchwork, trackwork, wiring, scenery
construction, structures, detailing, operations and more. 112 pages, 250
color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04172
Price: $21.95
Building City Scenery for your Model Railroad. Pryke. Learn to model realistic city structures and
scenes of any size in any scale. This book gives you step-by-step photos,
technical illustrations, and a variety of approaches to assembling a model city.
An ideal resource for intermediate modelers who want to enhance the realism of
their layouts. 96 pages, 160 color and B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04131
Price: $19.95
HO Railroad from Set to
Scenery. Selby. Discover how simple it is to turn your
basic HO scale train set into a 4'x 8' layout in only 8 easy steps! This
book provides how-to instructions, detailed photographs and plenty of
helpful hints to get you started, including information on selecting the
right train set, benchwork, laying track and ballast, modeling mountains,
hills and water; building a control panel, and much more. 96 pgs., 120 B&W
and color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd.
#0R04107
Price: $17.95
HO Railroad from Start to Finish. This book provides the construction steps for
building a walkaround 4'x 8' layout. Photos, diagrams, and helpful
instructions show how to construct benchwork and scenery, lay track, build
detailed structures, weather freight cars, and more. 88 pgs., 100+ color
photos, 55 illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd.
#0R04090
Price: $16.95
HO Scale Model Railroading. Getting Started in the Hobby. Wilson. From
benchwork to realistic scenery, this no-nonsense guide provides insight into
the fundamentals of HO model railroading, the hobby's most popular scale. It
features up-to-date techniques and references to significant new products,
and includes the author's professional tips on the hobby. Ideal for novice
or experienced modelers starting in a new scale. 96 pgs., 200 color photos,
25 B&W illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd.
#0R04116
Price: $19.95
Getting Started with Lionel Trains. Your Introduction to Model Railroading Fun.
Miller. Selecting, purchasing, setting up, operating, and maintaining Lionel
trains is easier than ever with this essential resource. Easy-to-follow
instructions explain benchwork construction, layout design, wiring and
control, scenery and maintenance procedures. You'll also learn how to
incorporate Lionel's innovative TrainMaster Command Control System. 128
pgs., 100+ color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd.
#0R01641
Price: $21.95
How to Build and Detail Model Railroad Scenes. Sassi. This practical, heavily illustrated guide
shows you the essential principles and techniques for designing and
constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenes that will make your
good layout great. Pojects include structure, scenery, and detailing
techniques for both urban and rural settings. 88 pages, 245 color and B&W
photos and illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04127
Frary. Dave Frary, one of model railroading's
best-known modelers, offers new techniques for adding realism to a layout of
any size or scale. Using today's newest products and equipment, Dave shares
his trademark "recipes" for adding scenery to city and urban settings,
deserts, prairies, and more. An ideal resource for beginning, intermediate,
and advanced modelers. 144 pages, 450 color and B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾",
softcover.
#0R04161
Price: $24.95
Lionel Showroom Layouts - DVD. Enjoy this look at two of the grandest Lionel
layouts ever built and get modeling tips from the pros who built them.
First, you'll travel to Jackson, Mississippi where a train club recreated
the famous 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout in meticulous, stunning detail. Then,
you'll follow the story of Lionel's new, multi-level Showroom Layout from
table construction, scenery, and wiring to the layout's public debut. Color,
1 hr. 35 min.
#0RV5807
Price: $24.95
Model Railroad Mania Vol. 1 - DVD-R. Norfolk Southern N Scale
Layout.
Get a big dose of model railroad action on this amazing 32"x 18" N scale
layout that features the Norfolk Southern's busy mountain main line between
Bluefield, Virginia and Williamson, West Virginia. True to the prototype,
this layout features plenty of grueling mountain grades, lush scenery, long
bridges, a wonderful mix of motive power and non-stop "modern" railroad
action. You'll watch this one again and again! Color, 30 minutes.
#0RV6817
Price: $29.95
Model Railroad Techniques - DVD-R. Volume 1. This program shows you many of the
techniques used to create scenery and "weather" the incredible 32"x 18" N
scale layout featured above. You'll learn how to model trees and other
foliage out of real weeds, "carve" rock formations, detail and weather
locomotives and rolling stock, and more. Though shown in N scale, these
techniques can be applied to layouts of any size or scale. Color, 1 hour.
#0RV6819
Price: $29.95
Modeling and Beyond Volume 1 -5 Combo - DVD. These five DVDs bring you in-depth, how-to
modeling instruction plus footage of prototypes on which to base your
designs. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, 4 hrs. 36 min. total runtime.
Volume 1: Installing and Blending Photo Mural Backdrops
Learn how to install a backdrop to a model railroad. You'll see a heavily
wooded backdrop and Bas-Relief buildings blended into a backdrop, watch
rocks being sculpted, learn how "half" trees and shrubs can be blended into
a flat scenery mural, and more. Includes high-resolution pictures that can
be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 8 min.
Volume 2: Scratch Building Structures
In this volume, the scratch building of four unique structures will teach
you a wide variety of techniques. Structures include a small boiler house;
offices attached to a roundhouse; a repair facility with complete interior
detail including lighting, an interesting removable roof, and a small
lean-to; and a passenger and freight station that is built as if it were
sliced down the middle. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be
printed from your computer. 1 hr. 3 min.
Volume 3: The Rio Grande Southern, Modeling the Prototype
You'll see why the Rio Grande Southern makes such a fine railroad to model
as this video brings you great coverage of both the prototype and On3
layouts. Learn how to build some of the best looking evergreen trees you've
ever seen and experience today's RGS firsthand. 1 hour.
Volume 4: The Last Steam Operated Sawmill
This video brings you one of the last steam operated sawmills in the United
States. You will see this huge complex and experience every aspect of its
operation from log delivery, to the mill pond, to debarking, sawing, edging,
sorting and the finished goods. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound. 30
minutes.
Volume 5: Four Narrow Gauge Layouts
See finished layouts from four well known modelers, filmed as if they were
real life, with authentic sounds, sights and professional narration. This
video includes an Sn3 layout of the Rio Grande Southern as it appeared in
the late 1930s, an HOn3 as it appeared in the 1940s, and more. 55 minutes.
#0RV7305
Price: $129.75
N Scale Model Railroading. Getting Started in the Hobby
McGuirk. Learn what N scale requires in everything from benchwork to
realistic scenery. A wonderful guide for beginners as well as experienced
modelers making the transition from a different scale. 104 pages, 100 color
and 50 B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04089
Price: $18.95
Norfolk Southern: N-Scale Layout - DVD. Come along and railfan along the tracks of this
42'x 18' N-scale Norfolk Southern layout which was featured in Great Model
Railroads magazine in 2004! You'll see heavy freight and coal trains running
on steep grades through fall scenery, heavy power from ex-Conrail SD80MACs
to old SD40s, and much more. Color, 30 minutes.
#0RV2109
Price: $29.95
Painting Backdrops for Your Model Railroad. Danneman. Authored by noted rail artist
Mike Danneman, this heavily illustrated book shows you how easy it can be to
add a scenic backdrop to your layout! You'll learn why you need one, how to
build and paint one, how to add clouds, how to blend the backdrop with
layout scenery, and more. Includes techniques on using photographs and
commercial backdrops. 80 pages, 160 color photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04187
Price: $18.95
Great Toy Train Layouts of America Parts 1-6 - DVD. This DVD set takes you to 14 spectacular toy train
layouts, many of which incorporate several scales alongside rare trains,
structures and accessories. Interviews give you the inside track on
construction, rolling stock and operation, while dozens of close-ups capture
the flavor of each layout. Includes a huge collection of rare 1930s Lionel
passenger train sets, 32-train operation, operating coal dumps, "Horseshoe
Curve," and more. Color, 5+ hours.
#0RV6261
Price: $39.95
Maintaining & Repairing Your Scale Model Trains. You can save money on shop repairs and avoid
frustration by mastering some fundamental repair skills. Here, step-by-step
instructions with accompanying photos and illustrations teach you the basic
techniques needed to maintain and repair DC-powered model locomotives,
rolling stock and layouts. These are skills all railroad modelers should
have. 80 pages, 165 B&W photographs and illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover.
#0R04060
