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Kalmbach Publishing

Building a Ready-To-Run Model Railroad

- a quick and easy layout from off the shelf components

by Jeff Wilson

Using only off-the-shelf trackwork, buildings, bridges and scenery and ready-to-run trains, you can construct a layout from the ground up with effort-saving ideas like office-furniture pedestals doubling as benchwork support and storage. This book brings it all together – trackwork, scenery, wiring, command control, structures, detailing and trains on a model railroad readers will actually build.

Jeff Wilson has written more than 20 books on railroads and model railroading. He spent 10 years as an associate editor at Model Railroader magazine, and he currently works as a freelance writer, editor, and photographer, contributing articles to MR and other magazines. He also writes a model railroading column for Model Retailer magazine and is a correspondent for Trains magazine. He enjoys many facets of the hobby, especially building structures and detailing locomotives, as well as photographing both real and model railroads.

Softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 96 pages