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This is the Greenberg's Guides Lionel Trains 1901 - 2008 Pocket Price Guide from Kalmbach. Features: Adhesive (Perfect) bound paperback guide Provides you with the data you need before buying, selling or even trading any Lionel toy trains Includes a brief description of each item with production date and significant variations Pricing information is provided for numerically listed items in good, excellent, or new condition Also offers tips about how and where to buy toy trains, and insuring your collection.
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This is a 72 page guide to 101 Model Railroading Track Plans from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 72 page book. * Includes techniques helpful for the beginner as well as the advanced rail modeler. * Includes incredibly detailed scale drawings for each layout. * Each plan is built around a railroad theme with an atmosphere of real, or sometimes imaginary countryside that can be used on. * any model railroad. The plans, which are arranged by size, are. * presented in simple steps to help you. * -Choose the best plan. * -Modify it if desired. * -Build the railroad of your dreams!
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This is an 88 page HO Railroad: From Start To Finish Book from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 88 page book. * Includes techniques suited to any skill level--from beginner to advanced. * Includes many color and black and white photographs. * This book will show you how to. * -Construct benchwork. * -Make realistic scenery. * -Lay track. * -Build detailed structures. * -Weather freight cars and locomotives. * -Install a walkaround control system.
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This is a 95-page, N Scale Model Railroad That Grows book from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 95 page book. * Book details a five-step program for designing and building your own N-scale model railroad. * Includes many color and black and white photographs. * Follow the examples and information in this book to create a complete and detailed N-scale layout.
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This is a 144 page Track Planning for Realistic Operation Book from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 144 page book. * Includes techniques and information beneficial for both the beginner and advanced modeler. * Includes many pictures and detailed diagrams. * This book is full of helpful "how-to" information, such as. * -How to plan a track to yield realistic operation. * -How to design realistic mainlines, spurs, yards, and terminals. * -How you can use of curvature, grades, and clearances. * -How real railroads load and unload freight and assemble trains. * -And much more!
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"Scenery for Your Model Railroad" is a Model Railroader Book, from Kalmbach Publishers, that will Teach You the Techniques in Creating Realistic Model Railroad Scenery (from Backdrop to Tabletop). Features: * Glossy softsided 80 page book. * Instructions, information and color photographs on each page will walk you through to a realistic scenery. * With this book, you will learn how to. * -Construct a backdrop for a layout of any size, shape, or scale. * -Work confidently with acrylic paints, brushes and other art. * supplies. * -Finish and paint a backdrop to suit any model railroad landscape. * -Blend layout scenery with your backdrop to create realistic,. * expansive sce
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This is a 80 page Basic Model Railroading: Getting Started in the Hobby from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 80 page book. * This book is a comprehensive introduction to the vast and exciting world of railroad modeling. * Book is filled to the brim with tasty, and helpful, photographs. * The book is also full of helpful "how-to" information, including. * -Essential tools and supplies. * -Tracklaying. * -Wiring. * -Train control systems, including Digital Command Control. * -Easy-to-build realistic scenery. * -Terminology used in prototype and model railroading. * -And much more!
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This is a 96 page "Building City Scenery for Your Model Railroad", from Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 96 page book. * Includes techniques that will be helpful for any modeler interested in enhancing their layouts with city scenery. * Includes many color pictures and diagrams. * Get started creating realistic city environments by reading how to. * -Plan city scenery from the ground up. * -Build a city scene that fits into almost any space. * -How to bring a layout to life with incredible detail elements. * -And much more!
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Easy Model Railroad Wiring (2nd Edition) is intended for the Individual who has Achieved a Level of Skill and is Ready to Move on. Erom the Publishers of Model Railroader Magazine it is their 2nd in the series. This is a Deeply Detailed Book that teaches much of the Working of the Electronic wiring of your Train Track. Features: * Shows you Basic Electricity, Choosing a Power Pack, Two-Rail Wiring, Turning Trains and Engines Around, Controlling Two Trains at Once. * Cab Control, and Multiple Cabs, Locating Blocks, Commmand Control, Turnout Control, Layout Wiring, Control Panels, and "In Case of. * Trouble". * Many Wiring Diagrams, Track Layouts and Step-by-Step Instructions
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Garden Railroading Is A 144 Page Book from Kalmbach Books That Will Get You Started In the Hobby of Outdoor Model Railroading. Features: * Enjoy following the practices of a full-size railroad while working with the landscape, existing gardens, trees, and other natural. * materials in the comfort of your own backyard! * An increasing number of women, children and families are enjoying garden railroading together. * Many beautiful railway gardens have been created by people who claim not to be gardeners. Inside the pages of this book you'll find. * plenty of suggestions and resources available to help you get. * started. * Glossy softcover 144 page book. * Eight sections pro
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This is the "Model Railroader's Guide To Locomotive Servicing Terminals" Book from Kalmbach Books. Features: * 80 page softcover book. * For most model railroaders, the locomotive is the single most impor- tant element of the layout. Given this overriding interest in. * steam and diesel power, it's no surprise that many model rail-. * roaders want to include a locomotive servicing area somewhere on. * their railroad. * A combination of prototype and modeling reference data, photographs, and illustrations will help you add the visual excitement and. * operational interest of a steam or diesel-era locomotive servicing. * facility to a model railroad of any size or scale. * A
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"Realistic Model Railroad Operation" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmach Books. uthor: Tony Koester. Features: * Paperback book with glossy-type pages. * Learn the basic principles, goals, and benefits of operating a model railroad as if it were a real, full-sized railroad! * The chapters are arranged to guide you thru the steps leading to realistic operation and include. * -A quick-start guide to realistic operating sessions in one evening. * -Various schemes for forwarding cars and moving trains across your layout. * -Explanation of signal systems as they apply to model railroads. * -Appendix of precise railroading terminology. * -Previously unpublished color photos o
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This is the "Trackside Scenes You Can Model" Book from Kalmbach Publishing. Features: * Looking to make that scene on your layout look more "railroady"? Wanting to find a trestle that will look right bridging the gorge on your layout? Searching for yard buildings that make sense? Model Railroader's now-retired managing editor and creative modeler Jim Kelly has answers and ideas for you in this book. * Divided into five chapters, arranged by type of railroad structure or feature. * -Arrivals and departures: railroad yards. * -Care and feeding: enginehouses and terminals. * -Staying above it all: bridges. * -The battle against monotony: tunnels and shelf scenes. * -Along the
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This is an 96 page guide to Trackwork and Lineside Detail for Your Model Railroad by Kalmbach Books. Features: * Glossy softcover 96 page book. * Includes techniques helpful for the beginner as well as the advanced rail modeler. * Many color and black and white photos as well as detailed line drawings. * Tips include. * -Flexible trackwork. * -Handlaying track. * -Working with turnouts. * -Realistic trackwork (weathering, profiles, etc.). * -Lineside detail (signs and signposts, switch stands, bridges,. * and more!).
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This is the "Basic Model Railroad Track Plans, Small Starter Layouts You Can Build" Book from Kalmbach Books. Features: * 64 page softcover book. * A selection of 16 simple and proven layout plans that have been collected from previous issues of Model Railroader Magazine. * Each layout design features. * -Colorfully rendered track plan and illustrations. * -List of materials used in construction. * -Construction tips and techniques. * -Scenery and operating suggestions. * Also includes a number of instructional chapters to help you get acquainted with the fundamentals of benchwork construction,. * tracklaying, wiring and scenery building. * Includes thirteen HO scale and th
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Kalmbach Publishing presents "The New Scenery Tips & Techniques" A Model Railroader Book by Kent Johnson. Features: * Paperback book with glossy-type pages. * Scenery projects and ideas that will bring your layout to life! * A collection of helpful scenery stories from the pages of "Model Railroader" Magazine. * Numerous feature articles, organized by topic, that are compiled to help you develop proven techniques and new ideas for creating realistic scenery on a layout of any size or scale. * Easy-to-follow projects that show you exactly how to. * -Add depth to your layout with background scenery. * -Apply groundcover appropriate for all four seasons. * -Build trees and for
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"The Model Railroader's Guide to Passenger Equipment & Operation" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Andy Sperandeo. Features: * An excellent perfect bound, paperback reference for beginners and and experts alike. * Thru the heavy use of photos and diagrams, this book offers insight and instructions that help modelers integrate realistic passenger trains and operations into any layout. * Learn about passenger train history, types, equipment, and terminals. * Includes tips for modeling equipment, structures, trackage, and details appropriate for any era. * Detailed and easy-to-follow! 20 illustrations, 130 full-color and 70 black-and-white p
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This is "HO Scale Model Railroading, Getting Started in the Hobby", a Book from Kalmback Publishing. Features: * In HO Scale Model Railroading, you'll find the basic information you need to familiarize yourself with the unique aspects of HO scale, including. * -Selecting essential tools and supplies. * -Maintaining locomotives and rolling stock. * -Constructing benchwork for your permanent layout. * -Laying roadbed, track and ballast. * -Wiring and train control for your layout. * -Creating realistic scenery. * -Adding structures to your layout. * And to help you appreciate the extraordinary things you can explore as a model railroader, you'll even find a chapter that highl
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Basic Painting and Weathering" Is a Kalmbach Book by Jeff Wilson. Features: * A step-by-step photographic guide to painting realistic model railroad equipment. * If you've never painted a model before, or if you just want to give a finished model a "well-weathered" look, then this book is for you! It will make it easy for you to create unique, realistically decorated models. * With this book, you will learn how to. * -Select the proper paint and painting equipment. * -Easily mix custom colors. * -Apply a good finish or remove a poor one. * -Work with decals and dry transfers. * -Use various mediums to weather locomotives and freight cars. * Close-up colored photos accompany
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"How to Build & Detail Model Railroad Scenes" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Lou Sassi Perfect for Intermediate & Skilled Beginning Model Railroaders. Features: * A guide that completely covers the principles and techniques needed in designing and constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenery! * Various beginner to intermediate level projects including structure, scenery, and detailing techniques for both urban and rural settings. * Clear, step-by-step instructions accompanied with more than 200 photos will guide you thru the building process--from concept to the finishing touches! * Paperback with gloss coating. * 225 color p
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"Realistic Model Railroad Design", by Tony Koester, is a Model Railroad Product from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Features: * A step-by-step guide to creating a unique operating layout. * Thru the use of photos, illustrations, and a straightforward style this book will show you how to make creative, plausible choices for the concept and construction of your next model railroad. * Key topics are covered in detail including developing an entire model railroad theme, choosing a scale, integrating signature design elements into your track plan, and much more. * Softcover with gloss coating. * 150 color photos, 10 black & white photos and 50 illustrations.
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"The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Track" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Jeff Wilson Perfect for Intermediate & Skilled Beginning Model Railroaders. Features: * Packed with information on the history and operations of 6 key industries that have relied on railroad transportation for their commercial success: grain, petroleum, coal, automobile manufacturing, produce, & livestock. * Easily understand how to incorporate the details into your models to accurately represent the industries. * Historic & contemporary prototype photos. * Softcover with gloss coating. * 150 color photos, 30 black & white photos and 30 illustrat
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The "Basic Structure Modeling for Model Railroaders" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Jeff Wilson Perfect for All Railroad Modelers. Features: * An excellent paperback reference. * Packed with information showing you how to assemble plastic kits, get the most out of wood kits, paint and weather, scratchbuild buildings, give structures realistic roofs and details, and adding color and life to your layout with signs. * Offers techniques for realistic finishing, including painting, weathering, sign making, interior detailing, and more. * Photo-driven projects demonstrate the tools, materials, and techniques used when modeling plastic or wood
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"Tables for Your Trains" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Features: * An excellent paperback reference designed to help you build a simple, semi-permanent tabletop for displaying and running your model train(s). * Detailed and easy-to-follow how-to advice. * Diagrams and full-color photos.
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"Tips On Track" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Features: * An excellent paperback reference designed to be an introduction to the world of model railroad trackwork. * Detailed and easy-to-follow how-to advice. * An overview of the various types of track and how to use them to set up a basic model railroad with semi-permanent trackwork. * Diagrams and full-color photos.
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"Wiring Basics" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Features: * An excellent paperback reference designed to help beginners properly install wiring and maintain their trackwork. * An overview of how model trains works Detailed and easy-to-follow how-to advice. * Diagrams and full-color photos.
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"Simple Scenery" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Features: * An excellent paperback reference designed to take the guesswork out of adding scenery to your model railroad. * Learn a variety of ways to make trees, construct landscape, and build basic structures. * Detailed and easy-to-follow how-to advice. * Diagrams and full-color photos.
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"How to Design and Build Your Garden Railroad" is a Garden Railways Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Jack Verducci. Features: * An excellent perfect bound, paperback reference for those who want to take their model railroad hobby outdoors! Design a track plan that will complement your garden and scenery. * Choose the righ troadbed and ballast materials, as well as choosing the right track that will withstand the elements of nature. * Landscape your outdoor layout with natural materials such as plants and foliage. * And if that's not enough, add working working water features such as ponds, waterfalls, and streams! Create realistic towns by building structures
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"DCC Projects & Applications" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Mike Polsgrove. Features: * An excellent perfect bound, paperback reference beginners and and experts alike. * This book includes tips, techniques, and photographic instructions that lead you thru a series of DCC projects, including setting up a DCC layout, decoder installation, lighting and sound effects, layout wiring projects, advanced decoder programming, and ideas for advanced DCC projects. * A glossary and a list of important considerations for choosing a DCC system is also included. * Detailed and easy-to-follow! 30 illustrations, and 150 full-color photos.
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"The Model Railroader's Guide to Junctions" is a Model Railroader Book from Kalmbach Publishing Company. Author: Jeff Wilson. Features: * An excellent perfect bound, paperback reference beginners and and experts alike. * Thru the heavy use of photos and diagrams, this book offers an in-depth look at prototype crossings, diverging routes, and many other types of junctions to illustrate track layouts and operations. * A step-by-step guide to understanding and building a working model of a mechanical interlocking plant. * Learn how to accurately detail junction scenes, and realistically operate the train traffic. * Add interchange tracks and hide tracks at backdrops. * Detaile
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