Model Trains

Learn creative and do-able options for building your next model railroad. From choosing a theme to selecting a scale to bringing in creative design, it's all covered! Softcover, 96 pages, 150 color and B&W photos, 20 illustrations, 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Realistic Model Railroad Design - Softcover, 96 pages, 150 Color Photos

New How-To Book Offers Advice from the Pros. Kalmbach's latest book, ''The Basics of Scale Modeling,'' is a how-to for modelers who want the best tips and techniques from the pages of Fine Scale Modeler magazine. Covering the basics of painting, decaling and model assembly, it's packed with information that's relevant to model railroading as well as plastic model building and detailing. Softcover, 80 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The Basics of Scale Modeling - Softcover, 80 Pages

Using a step-by-step photographic approach, this book offers proven, easy-to-follow techniques for the installing of sturdy trackwork, including fitting the roadbed, laying sectional or flexible track, and finishing the track with lineside details. Also covers installing turnouts, cleaning and maintaining trackwork, and other special techniques suitable for a layout of any size or .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Basic Track Work For Model Railroaders - Softcover, 88 Pages, 250 Color Photos

Learn how to add great industries like mining, refining and agriculture to your layout. Detailed descriptions and illustrations make expanding these operations easier than ever. Softcover, 80 pages, 180 color and B&W photos, 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks - 80 Pages

Perfect for the beginning plastic modeler who wants to learn more advanced techniques, this photo-driven guide includes an introduction to airbrushing and sections on applying washes and pastel chalk weathering. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 80 pages, 200 color photos, 10 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Modeler's Guide To Realistic Painting & Finishing - 80 Pages, Softcover

Learn the reasons for including structures on your layout, then select and build your own! Photo-driven projects demonstrate the tools, materials, and techniques used when modeling plastic or wood structures. Offers techniques for realistic finishing, including painting, weathering, sign making, interior detailing, and more. Contains 225 color photos, 12 illustrations. Softcover, 88 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Basic Structure Modeling For Model Railroaders - Softcover, 88 Pages

The ideal introduction to scale modeling. Simple tips and techniques, detailed photos, and easy-to-follow diagrams get new scale modelers started on the right track. The editors and writers of Fine Scale Modeler magazine offer basic information onassembling, painting, finishing, and displaying car, plane, and ship .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Scale Modeling Booklet - Softcover, 16 Pages

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Booklet 1 - Tables for Your Trains

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Booklet 2 - Tips on Track

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Booklet 3 - Wiring Basics

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train set. This simple booklet takes the guesswork out of adding scenery to a model railroad, offering new hobbyists various ways to make .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Booklet 4 - Simple Scenery

Model Railroad Planning Made Easy. ''Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks'' by model railroad author Tony Koester shows readers how easy planning a layout can be using ''Layout Design Elements'' (LDEs). Each ''element,'' or building block, is based on a prototype location that you wish to model; several elements can be strung together to create a realistic model railroad. This book from Kalmbach is ideal for intermediate or advanced modelers planning a prototype-based .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks, Softcover, 96 Pages

Use your backyard as the canvas to create your railroad. This book guides you through the planning, designing and installation process. Master garden railroader Jack Verducci shows you how to landscape with natural materials, create water featuresand add drama with structures, bridges and trestles. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 96 pages, 190 color images, 25 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- How To Design and Build Your Garden Railroad - 96 Pages, Softcover

This book takes the reader through a series of DCC projects, including setting up a DCC layout, decoder installation, lighting effects, sound effects, layout wiring projects, advanced decoder programming and tips and ideas for advanced DCC projects. Also includes a list of important considerations for choosing a DCC system. More technical than ''DCC Made Easy'' but still comprehensible to the average .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- DCC Projects & Applications - Softcover, 88 Pages, 150 Color Photos

Provides insights, photos and guidelines for modeling several rail-served industries. Includes overviews of creameries and milk traffic, the paper industry, breweries, iron ore mining and transloading, coal customers, freight houses and less-than-carload traffic. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 88 pages, 120 color photos, 70 b&w photos, 12 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks 2 - Softcover

Learn how to use natural landscapes as the basis to create more realistic scenery for your layout. Projects incorporate natural effects like rock strata, water forms, field crops and space-saving industries. Tony Koester. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 96 pages 175 color & 25 b/w images, 10 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Planning Scenery for Your Model Railroad - 96 Pages, Softcover

Revised, full-color second edition provides simple instructions for beginning hobbyists. Includes instructions for block wiring, turnout wiring, loop track wiring and other principles essential to building a layout. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 80pages, 225 color photos, 25 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Basic Wiring For Model Railroaders, 2nd Edition

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Basic Buildings

New Booklets Help You Build a Firm Foundation of Modeling Skills. Perfect for beginners or advanced modelers, these new how-to booklets from Kalmbach will keep your modeling skills on track. Each 20-Page booklet covers basic topics and answers basic questions in an easy-to-read format. They're also great purchases along with your first train .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Easy Model Railroading Booklets - Get Started In N Scale

Combine two great hobbies; gardening and model railroading. This easy-to-read booklet explains how you can turn your backyard into a beautiful natural setting with a working large-scale model train running through the greenery. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 16 pages, 45 color images, 5 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Get Started In Garden Railroading - 16 Pages, Softcover

A Great DCC Reference Book. Whether you're just getting started or have been using DCC for years, "The DCC Guide" from Kalmbach is packed with information about command control. This book by noted modeler Don Fiehmann offers inforor choosing the correct system to fit your layout. If you already have a DCC system, this book offers tips on how to get the most .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The DCC Guide by Don Fiehmann - 80 Pages, Softcover

Follow the construction of Model Railroader Senior Editor David Popp's N Scale layout. More than 30 projects take you through the complete process from start to finish. Step-by-step photos and illustrations make it easy to apply the techniques to your layout. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 112 pages, 260 color images, 20 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Building a Model Railroad Step by Step - 112 Pages, Softcover

More Realistic Freight Cars Explained. “Detailing Freight Cars” relates the know-how for creating freight cars with a true-to-life appearance. Authored by former Model Railroader staffer Jeff Wilson, this useful how-to book guiders through the assembly, adding details, painting and weathering. If your railroad runs freight traffic, or if you like to build freight car models, this book is a .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Detailing Freight Cars - 88 Pages, Softcover

Detailing Diesel Locomotives by former Model Railroader associate editor Jeff Wilson shows how to enhance the appearance of diesels in an easy-to-understand manner. The 88-page softbound book has informative text, 175 color photos, plus 25 black and white images and two .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Detailing Diesel Locomotives - 88 Pages, Softcover

Build Trackside Businesses on Your Railroad In the third volume of this popular book series author and former Model Railroader associate editor Jeff Wilson offers plenty of information on how to add a variety of industries to your railroad. The third book features photos and insights on modeling the cement industry, intermodal service, ethanol plants, sugar beet mills, seasonal canneries and team tracks. 88 pages, softcover 8 1/4 x 10 3/4" format; 76 color photos; 45 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The Model Railroader's Guide to Industries Along the Tracks 3 - Softcover

Mid-Size Track Plans for Realistic Layouts from Kalmbach features 14 track plans in several scales to fit spaces from 8 x 10' to 20 x 20'. The layouts are based on interesting prototype railroads including the WM, C&O, CP, SP and many more. Tholanning their own layout can use the plans as they are or use them as a basis for their own track plans. The book features 100 color and 50 black-and-white images plus 14 illustrations. 112 pages, .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Mid-Size Track Plans for Realistic Layouts

Mike Danneman. Learn how backdrops add realism to your layout. This book explains how to easily build and paint a backdrop that blends with your scenery. Techniques include adding clouds, using photos and commercial backdrops. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 80 pages, 160 color .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Painting Backdrops for Your Model Railroad

Jeff Wilson. Here's a book for anyone building a layout. Inside is everything you need to know including trackwork, wiring, command control, detailing, scenery, structures and trains. It's filled with effort-saving ideas using off-the-shelf items,ready-to-run trains and more. Softcover, 8-1/4 x 10-3/4'', 96 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Building a Ready-To-Run Model Railroad

Tony Koester. Increase operations and add more towns to your railroad with multiple decks. This book covers design, construction techniques, lighting and wiring considerations. Includes examples from some great multi-deck .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- Designing and Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads

Freight cars are the backbone of any railroad in the real world or on your operating layout. Get a brief history of each type of North American freight car, then learn how car designs have changed from WWI to the present. Includes techniques for modeling realistic rolling stock in any scale. Contains 180 photos, 15 illustrations. Softcover, 96 .....
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing Book -- The Model Railroader's Guide To Freight Cars - Softcover, 96 Pages