Clever solutions give modelers new options for small, flexible layouts. Shows how interchangeable modules, linked dioramas, and even shelving and stacking layout concepts can build a prototype-oriented model railroad into just about any situation. Perfect for modelers wanting a second project layout or a portable railroad that travels well. 
--Features prototype railroad operations 
--Includes original, custom-designed HO and N scale layout designs for spaces no larger than 10x12 feet 
--Each layout design features full-color plans and layout perspectives

Small, Smart & Practical Track Plans (Model Railroading)

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

RICE, Iain

Crafts & Hobbies

Kalmbach Pub. Co

Inside the pages of Mid-sized &amp; Manageable Track Plans, Iain Rice, a frequent contributor to Model Railroader and Model Railroad Planning magazines, provides a number of practical HO and N scale layout designs aimed to help you develop a model railroad that's just as engaging as any super-sized layout. Each layout design includes: Detailed, full-color track plan rendered in refreshing watercolors; Layout dimensions; Prototype railroad background, including historical photographs; Modeling suggestions for appropriate motive power, rolling stock, structures, and scenery.

Mid-Sized & Manageable Track Plans (Model Railroader Books)

Learn how to build a shelf layout by exploring the possibilities, practicalities, and challenges of linear layout design in a variety of layouts with construction details.

Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads

Compact Layout Design helps modelers integrate all aspects of layout design for compact spaces into one process from benchwork to budgeting. Author Iain Rice presents the material in a practical, conversational tone and aids understanding with his beautiful hand-drawn track plans. The book provides ideas and inspiration to efficiently plan for people, trains, and space.

Compact Layout Design

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. 62pp. Condition almost as new.

Whitemetal Locos: A Kitbuilder's Guide

Engineering & Transportation

Transportation

Wild Swan Publications Ltd

Collection of about a dozen layouts of light railways, presented in a delightful manner by the ever eloquent Mr. Rice. Illustrated throughout with black and white photos of prototypes and models as well as scale diagrams. 72 pages.

Light Railway Layout Designs

Railway modeling is as popular as ever today. Its diversity and richness of interest – often with a degree of nostalgia – make the hobby the ideal antidote to the stresses of modern life. This book, a completely new version of Norman Simmons’ long-lived Railway Modelling, first published in 1972 and updated through eight editions, is the ideal companion for today’s railway modeler, as it combines traditional modeling techniques and advice with full details of all the new technology that has transformed the hobby in recent years. There can be no better handbook for any model railway enthusiast, novice or expert.

Railway Modelling: The Realistic Way

Haynes Publishing, UK

This book is the first title in a new series, Realistic Railway Modeling, written by a highly regarded expert. Aimed at really keen modelers who want to learn how to achieve the highest standards, this all-color book, packed with photos and diagrams, provides the very last word in detail in seven themed chapters, and concludes with easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions for a worked example. Layout planning, of course, is where the hobby essentially starts, and no stone is left unturned in the author's comprehensive coverage.

Layout Design (Realistic Railway Modelling)

This book is the second title in a new series, Realistic Railway Modelling, written by a highly regarded expert. Aimed at really keen modelers who want to learn how to achieve the highest standards, this all-color book, packed with photos and diagrams, provides the very last word in detail in seven themed chapters.

Locomotives (Realistic Railway Modelling)

Detailing and improving ready to run wagons

Irwell Press

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