48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook, No 39)

48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook, No 39) | Bob Hayden | Great book for inspiration

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	48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook, No 39) Bob Hayden Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1993 - 120 pages average customer review:based on 5 reviews view larger image
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This is a 120 page Book of 48 Top-Notch Track Plans from Kalmbach Books. Choose from four dozen terrific plans that will accommodate any size or scale of layout. Track plans are among the best layout ideas ever published in Model Railroader Magazine. Even if you're an armchair modeler at this point, you'll find hours of reading pleasure and lots of inspiration for the layout you'll build in the future. FEATURES: Glossy softcover 120 page book full of excellent track plans. Includes many color and black and white pictures. This book is full of excellent layouts in all sizes, including: -Buzzard's Cove (N scale layout) -The Lost River District Ry. (N scale layout) -The Bellevue & Cascade RR (HO scale layout) -Peace River Railroad (HO scale layout) -The Laurel Highland RR (HO scale layout) -And many, many more! This book focuses on more difficult layouts but will provide ideas and information to help any modeler. INCLUDES: One 120 page Book of 48 Top-Notch Track Plans SPECS: Pages: 120 Width: 8-1/4"" Height: 10-3/4""

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Good starting point

Book has a lot of 4x8 plans in it, along with a handful of shelf types and large layouts. The plans are not the step-by-step method. If you want to be walked through every step, then don't get this book. However, if you have some experience, most of the plans have track section joints marked so you can figure out what it is you need. I used the book to get ideas for my medium-sized layout, taking things from all sizes of layouts. This book is probably more geared for the intermediate modeler.

Great book for inspiration

As the other reviewers so aptly point out, this book provides more layout-inspiration than actual step-by-step instruction, and is not an "all-in-one" book. However, I found it invaluable as a source of ideas. The "Buzzards Cove" coastline scene was exactly what I was seeking for my small (3X5), novice N-scale layout. None of the other books I'd consulted offered anything like it. It's a simple enough matter to apply the suggested scenery to one of the more detailed, step-by-step books showing an identical track plan. In fact, one of the problems I've had with basic track-plan books is that they just show parts and wiring, and do not incorporate grade-changes or scenery. This book fills the inspiration-void.

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Track plans for model railroaders with some experience.

Each of the 48 layouts is presented (typically 2-4 pages each) with a concept description (why build this layout this way and/or how it is operated), a scale track plan, and a perspective drawing of the layout (or a featured scene from the layout). These are not track plans for sectional track, they do not have step-by-step assembly instructions (Kalmbach Publishing has other very good "track plan" books which take that approach), and the plans do not come with a "parts list" to build them. Almost all of the plans are for modelers with some prior layout construction experience and are intended to give you inspiration for your layout design, or as an intermediate-complexity track plan to build as your layout. For those modelers interested in track design, it presents a wide variety of different layout design approaches by dozens of other modelers.

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