| How to Build Model Railroad Benchwork |  | Author: Linn Hanson, Westcott
Publisher: Kalmbach Pub Co
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1398733
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 55
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 11.3 x 8.3 x 0.3
ISBN: 0890245428
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.19
EAN: 9780890245422
ASIN: 0890245428
Publication Date: October 1979
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Condition: VERY NICE, CLEAN BOOK - SMALL CREASE ON FRONT COVER - BINDING AND PAGES CLEAN AND TIGHT
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Product Description
Demonstrates how to plan and build the basic framework to support layouts of any size, shape or gauge.
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 Back to basics June 11, 2008
Great book to build layouts of all sorts. If just starting to build a layout, start with the 1st edition or something similar first. This book is an advanced version. Still, the plans or ideas will definitly give you insight for any upcoming or future product.
 I wish I'd bought this book long ago June 2, 2008
An excellent book, if not the best, on support structures for permanent model railroad layouts.
Although this book doesn't feature all varieties of model railroad bases, and concentrates on permanent bases, the two that it focuses on, butt-end and l-girder, are the most common and most versatile, and can easily be used for portable layouts as well.
Both styles are handled extremely well and the text thoroughly covers not only construction techniques and choice of materials but also points out things to consider and pitfalls to watch out for that will often catch out even experienced model railroaders in various situations. There are loads of handy tips and step-by-step guides for specific details and the diagrams are nice and clear.
I have built so many layout benches (more than 20, some portable but most permanent), and always used butt-end frames for them and always encountered some issues that forced me to make compromises in my permanent layouts, and even my latest one has already thrown enough problems at me to make me take it down because in this case an l-girder structure is far more suitable. Thanks to the author, I now know when to use l-girder and when to use butt-end and also how to build much better butt-end frames than I ever have done before.
The Best Foundational Book March 16, 2007
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
For building benchwork, this is the best book out there. Benchwork is not fun or glamorous but it is the foundation of all that will follow. It does not pay to skimp on it. This book shows how to build it effectively and cheaply.
Several different approaches are examined. These include primarily the L-girder style and the butt joint style but others are touched upon as well. What this book has that similar ones lack is in depth information on sub roadbeds, splines and helices.
It's the best out there.
Great Book January 10, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A must for any serious model railroader who wants to learn skills from those who have "been there" and "done that".
The benchwork bible November 10, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Dont be put off if like myself, your from the UK and this is an American book about railroad benchwork. All applys no matter where or what you model. It has all you ever wanted to know about building a very good base for a model railway. Ive seen some books on the subject over the years but this is the best ive seen and has proven to be a very valuable tool in my 'new build'. It will show a few tricks to even the more experianced builders. Good step by step instructions and many pictures and diagrams.
Get it, you'l wonder how you got by without it.
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