Books

Features: Journal spotlight • Rebirth of a Dining Car Society • Alaska Railroad resumes full summer schedule • Restoration plans for Chessie 29 • Rare mileage in Florida: AAPRCO’s Sugarland Limited. VIA’s New Corridor...

Stephen M. Timko The massive fleet of over 560 GP7s and ‘9s, to the modest purchases of Baldwin and Alco models, including the late first-generation SD18s are featured! Includes the Pere Marquette-ordered EMD BL2s.

Model Realistic Freight Car Loads will guide you in making your models more realistic by following prototype practice in securing loads and operating them. Included are a lot of photos of real loads, drawings showing how real railroads secure them...

Have an extra spare room in your house? Downsizing your layout? Building The Right-Sized Layout is the perfect book to help with planning a room-sized layout for your home. This new book features 5 track plans covering details on how to create...

Woodland Scenics Complete Guild to Model Scenery

Stephen M. Timko Continued coverage of Canadian National’s motive power fleet with a focus on switchers! General Electric industrial-size units are featured along with the standard fare of Alco/MLW, EMD/GMD, and CLC end-cab units. A handful of...

James Kinkaid and Ken Donnelly The 1950s are arguably the classic era for freight cars, pre-dating the mergers that would erase many venerable roads and leave us with new names such as Penn Central, Seaboard Coast Lines, and Erie-Lackawanna. In the...

Jeremy F. Plant Travel the entire Guilford Rail System - from its western end in New York State to lines in eastern New England - via striking photography featuring all major engine types and operations from the formation of the system in the early 1980s...

Join author Chip Syme as he hires on with the Penn Central in 1969 as a fireman through the end of Conrail during his days as an engineer! A lot of good miles and smiles and they're recounted here in terrific photographs and entertaining stories! Morning...

A book about cabooses Kalmbach Guide to North American Cabooses

Applying Lessons From the Prototype from Kalmbach is perfect for modelers looking to design and build a new layout, or those who just want to take their existing layout to the next level by incorporating features of a specific prototype railroad. Noted...

Build Your First Layout from Kalmbach is perfect for anyone getting started in model railroading or looking to build a simple, compact layout. This informative book features the small, easy to build Northspur & Tiburon Railroad from experienced...

In Realistic Layouts: Use the Art of Illusion to Model Like a Pro from Kalmbach Publishing, you'll learn how to blend various elements so they all work together to create a feeling that your models are part of - and connected to - the real world. This...

How much aisle space is needed? How deep can benchwork be? What's a good minimum radius for curves? How do I best use yards and staging tracks? How to Design a Model Railroad by Lance Mindheim will get you from the daydreaming stage to designing and...

Filled with tons of information and inspiration that you can use today, Modeling Cities and Towns from Kalmbach is a great guide to making your layout more realistic! Noted author Jeff Wilson covers a wide variety of topics including modifying and...

Covered subjects include: Projects: N Scale Red Oak, the Beer Line, and Bay Junction. Prototype and historical information. Construction techniques: Benchwork, wiring, scenery, structures, and more. A variety of layout types using different construction...

This book features 17 projects in all dating back to the steam era to present day - ranging from simple to complex and large to small.  Beginners will learn how to build a kit and integrate it to a scene, while more experienced modelers will learn how...

Topics include: Using LDEs (Layout Design Elements) with staging. Efficient layout construction tips and techniques. Time-effective methods to get a layout built and operating. Author: Tony Koester Size: 8.25" x 10.75" Pages: 112 Illustrations: 175 ...

Digital Command Control is a great way to run your model railroad, but setting it up and keeping it current can be overwhelming. DCC Projects & Applications, Volume 4 by DCC expert Larry Puckett simplifies the process with the most up-to-date and...

Modern Freight Cars, a new book by Jeff Wilson, provides an overview of freight cars from the 1960s through today. This is an essential guide for model railroaders who model the 1960s through today, as well as railfans and freight train enthusiasts. The...