Product Description
Author: Kempinski, Bernard
Brand: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Features:
- condensing real-life towns and scenes into model form
- Researching prototype railroads
- operating small layouts realistically
- designing walkaound-style layouts
- more then 140 photo and plans
Number Of Pages: 112
Details: Product Description Features 26 innovative model railroad track plans in Z, N, HO, O, and G Scales and fit spaces from 8'x10' to a 20'x20' G Scale garage layout. Based on such interesting prototype lines as Western Maryland - Thomas Subdivision, White Pass & Yukon, Norfolk Southern's Shirley Industrial Park, Chesapeake & Ohio's Chicago Divison, Denver & Rio Grande Western's Craig Branch, Erie/LTV Mining Railroad, Utah Railway, and New York City's Bush Terminal. About the Author Bernard Kempinski is a freelance writer who has contributed more than 40 magazine articles and 20 lectures on model railroading, many of them on steel mills. His N scale Alkem Steel mill model won best-in-show award at the Madison, Wis., NMRA show in 1997. He also consults on layout design and has been commissioned to build models on subjects as large as a 1950s steel mill and a paper mill, both featured in the Walthers catalog. He is the proprietor of Alkem Scale Models. Â Bernard, a former Army Captain, is an analyst for the Institute for Defense Analysis in Alexandria, Va.
Release Date: 01-01-2008
