| 48 Top Notch Track Plans: From Model Railroader Magazine (Model Railroad Handbook) |  | Author: Bob Hayden
Brand: Kalmbach
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 540,207
Media: Paperback
Pages: 120
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 8.2 x 0.3
MPN: KAL12132
ISBN: 0890241902
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.19
EAN: 9780890241905
ASIN: 0890241902
Publication Date: November 1993
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Product Description
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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| Customer Reviews:
 Book of Reprints January 24, 2006
Jon D. Lamkins
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
Be forwarned, this book merely reprint articles from past (and some may say ancient) issues of Model Railroader magazine. An expert model-railroader could probably create some of them, however, for a novice this provides little more than ideas for layouts. Also, many of the plans are for HO and N scale, with very few O scale layouts.
Overall, I'd say there are better layout books out there for you to spend your money on.
 Great book for inspiration January 24, 2001
Shorebird (USA)
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
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.
Good starting point February 21, 2000
Todd Shryock (Ohio)
26 out of 27 found this review helpful
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.
Track plans for model railroaders with some experience. December 23, 1998
39 out of 40 found this review helpful
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.
 Bad, bad, don't let the name fool you November 27, 1998
Peter Payne (Isesaki, Japan)
22 out of 37 found this review helpful
This was NOT a good book, unless you are of a highly advanced level in model railroading. All the "layouts" were poor paintings, which you couldn't envision easily at all. This was not a good book.
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