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Big Trains in 1989 vs. 1947

How to install a stall-type switch motor

Planning a realistic freight car fleet • How to balance car types, road names, weathering, and detail

From the Sierras to the Valley • The Roseville Roundhouse Model Railroad Club has been running trains for more than 40 years

Freelancing an APPALACHIAN short line • Coal country scenes highlight the HO scale Greenville & Ohio RR

A business for Main Street • Windows salvaged from a Walthers/Life-Like kit proved to be the key to completing the Mankin-Cox Building in Thurmond, W.Va.

Build a small rail-served dairy • This S scale structure was built with old-school techniques

STRETCHING STRUCTURE PROPORTIONS • Doubling the length and/or width produces a more realistic footprint

Case study: The Maple Hotel

The Milk and Butter Route

Mixing DC and DCC

Broadway Limited Imports N scale Mikado

Atlas HO scale Electro-Motive Division GP7

Fleischmann/Roco Z21 WLANmaus throttle

WalthersMainline HO 60-foot P-S flatcar

Doubling the hill

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