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Track Planning for Realistic Operation: Prototype Railroad Concepts for Your Model Railroad (Model Railroader)(3rd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: John H. Armstrong
Brand: KAL
Category: Book
List Price: $21.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 217912
Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.3
MPN: KAL12148
ISBN: 0890242275
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.19
EAN: 9780890242278
ASIN: 0890242275
Publication Date: August 1998
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Product Description
"This is a 144 page Track Planning for Realistic Operation Book from Kalmbach Books. Whether you're planning your first permanent layout or you've already started building your latest model railroad empire, here's a book as essential as a pencil, saber saw, and electric drill. Inside this indispensable manual is information about how real railroads operate and how to design a realistic model railroad in any scale. FEATURES: Glossy softcover 144 page book. Includes techniques and information beneficial for both the beginner and advanced modeler. Includes many pictures and detailed diagrams. This book is full of helpful ""how-to"" information
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Track Planning for Realistic Operation March 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a great book on how to run and plan your next model railroad. Gives great idea's and samples of yards, train movements and point to point locations. Not just for beginers.
The Master's Masterpiece September 5, 2006
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
John Armstrong is one of the best known names to the model railroad hobby. He has written extensively but this book is his finest work.
A person interested in railroads finds himself caught up in lots of detailed scenes and complex trackwork. Armstrong explains what it all does and why it is arranged in the way it is. He does this by explaining railroad practice in the real world and then by looking at the problems faced by the modeler. He does so in a lucid and interesting manner...for the first half of the book.
While the first half of the book is dedicated to teaching about how railroads operate, the second is intended to teach how to model them effectively. He explains broad general concepts and then refines things and explains them in easy stages. He knows where the pitfalls are and he points out solutions.
This is a useful book for anyone from beginner to advanced but especially the beginner.
Covers the Basics and Some Langaippe, too, July 10, 2006
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I don't think anyone in the model railroad hobby can say enough about the contributions of the late John Armstrong. His layout designs are masterpieces of getting the most out of a given space and working with the tradeoffs we all enevitably face. The book gives an overview of prototype operations and then goes into countless ideas and pointers for design and operation. I found the section on curve planning (p. 76), schematics (Chap. 8), and laying out an "easement" (p. 116) particularly useful. I recommend this to anyone planning a first layout or for anyone building a second layout after messing up their first. It is a good companion to "Classic Layout Designs," also by John Armstrong.
 Track Planning for Realistic Operation April 1, 2006
0 out of 7 found this review helpful
Some concepts are not for the beginner. Let's you use your imagination to create outstanding layouts.
Better than advertised. November 14, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book will teach you exactly what it claims. Numerous prototype examples are used throughout the book to give the reader an insight into how you can design a realistic track plan. This book has helped me to better understand why prototype railroads arranged track in certain ways. Excellent book, highly recommended.
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