| Track Planning for Realistic Operation: Prototype Railroad Concepts for Your Model Railroad (Model Railroader)(3rd Edition) |  | Author: John H. Armstrong
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 3
Pages: 144
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Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 8.2 x 0.3
MPN: 12148
ISBN: 0890242275
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.19
EAN: 9780890242278
ASIN: 0890242275
Publication Date: August 1998
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This book provides step-by-step design techniques and track planning tips to save model railroaders time, money, and headaches. This must-have book also covers aspects of prototype freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading.
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Excellent in every respect, worth every penny! June 1, 2010
Jaroslav Melgr (Colorado)
This is a really fine book! I wish I'd encountered it when I first started in the hobby. Our first layout is okay, but had we had this guide we would have done so many things differently. There are many books on track layouts, but they generally just present someone's ideas for a layout and tell you how to build it. This book, on the other hand, tells you WHY things are certain way and HOW to make things for this or that track activity. It makes total sense and our next layout will be much better because of this book.
The book has two major parts. The first part of the book describes basic railroad operations, such as loading and unloading, assembling cars into trains, moving trains, etc. The second part looks at how to design a practical model, what standards to use, minimal curves, layout shapes, etc. It has a lot of great ideas, with many pictures and schematics to satisfy both advance and novice modelers. Great book!
Excellent, but earlier editions even better December 28, 2009
Robert W. Johnson (Phoenix, AZ USA)
This is THE book if you want the details on essential layout planning issues. Period. If you are interested in model railroad layouts, you won't be able to put this down. Grades, track spacing, s-curves, basic layout shapes, siding lengths, planning for smooth operations, etc., etc..
Even if you are just thinking about or planning a layout, this book is loads of fun.
I do feel that this latest version has been dumbed-down a little. Some of the more technical sections have been truncated, but it is still a complete coverage. However, if you can locate an earlier edition, I recommend it.
Excellant July 7, 2009
D. Neuzil (Ohio)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is tired of watching the train go round and round with no purpose. Chock full of information and ideas. I find myself going back time and time again to referance it. Highly recommended.
Outstanding, Simply outstanding! February 21, 2009
T. Skyers (Southern New Jersey)
I don't usually take the time to do this review stuff, but I felt compelled to let others know about this book. I'm not an experienced model railroader and I have even less experience with full scale railroads, so from this beginners perspective the book is perfect. It walks the reader through the basics of very complex ideas in railroading, model or otherwise, without over simplifying or becoming dull. The concepts as John wrote them are very easy to digest, well organized and well illustrated in diagrams. It explains yards, passing tracks, time tables, curves, grades, and a long roster of other building blocks as it relates to planning, constructing and operating your model railroad empire again at a level of detail that I've yet to come across in some other books and publications I've read. Although I'd suggest this book to any railfan simply to learn more about railroading, I'd strongly suggest this book to those like myself just getting into the hobby of model railroading.
Track Planning for Realistic Operation March 12, 2007
Daniel R. Nowicki (Colorado Springs, CO)
2 out of 2 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.
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