Build a great model railroad in any room no matter how small your space. This book by Iain Rice covers a variety of scales, modeling eras, and room applications. Iain Rice's Shelf Layouts for Model Railroads explores the possibilities, practicalities, and challenges of linear layout design in a variety of layouts with construction details. Learn how to: Set up track-shelf systems for model railroads. Solve sight-line and lighting problems. Plan realistic operations in shelf layout footprint. Build train cassettes to avoid staging and storage problems. Work around doors, windows, and corners. And much more! Contents: Chapter one Possibilities and problems Chapter two Practicalities Chapter three Planning a shelf layout Chapter four Portfolio Chapter five The closet switching district (N Scale) Chapter six The small town on the prairie (HO scale) Chapter seven Elm Point (HO scale) Chapter eight White Mountain logger (HO scale) Chapter nine Ice House Rock (N scale) Chapter ten Downtown approach (N scale) Chapter eleven Blue Hills and yonder (On30 scale) Chapter twelve The EK sub (N scale) Chapter thirteen The Adirondack & Southern (HO scale) About the author Author: Iain Rice Size: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 Pages: 80
