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Do You Want To Replicate A Real Or Historical Layout?

You may not be as easy to please regarding your track layout as many other modelers are. Most benchwork is done based on available space and personal preference, but some discriminating model train...

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Digital Control Vs. Analog Control

Electric model trains had been running along just fine for the better part of a century. Really, your only choice (electrically speaking) was whether your layout would use Direct Current (DC) or...

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Having Problems With Elevating Train Tracks?

Nothing is worse than designing a track layout that doesn’t work when you add rolling stock to your train. If the track is level, an engine can take those additions without much problem, but if you...

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The Heart Of All Model Train Layouts

The heart of your model train system is the transformer. If you want to have a train that operates, you have to run the power through a transformer. Electric motors and appliances of all types must...

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How To Read Train Track Code

Well into my model railroading “career,” I didn’t know that there were different sizes of track available. Sure, I understood various scales and gauges existed, but I was unaware that the height of the...

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No Need for Dangerous Curves Ahead

The most inconvenient element about a small model railroading track layout is achieving tight curves to work in an allocated space without creating derailment problems. If you don’t take the logistics...

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Beginner Ideas For Designing Your Layout

After you’ve decided the dimensions of space you have available to build your model railroad layout, you’re basically left with a blank canvas to fill. This can be one of the most intimidating aspects...

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How To Make a Tarped Load for Your Gondolas and Flatcars

Have you ever watched a train passing by and notice on some flat cars or gondolas that the load has a big tarp tied down over it, and thought, “That’s a good idea”? Well, making tarped loads for your...

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What’s the Difference Between O Scale & O27 Scale?

So, you’ve decided you want to do your railroad modeling in O scale, but now you are running into some terminology and sizing differences between O scale locomotives and rolling stock from different...

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Where’s the Best Place to Build Your Model Railroad?

When deciding to start model railroading, one of the major decisions you will have to make is where you are going to put your layout. We’ll go over some of the obvious, and not so obvious, choices you...

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