Product Description
Author: Mat Chibbaro
Brand: Kalmbach Media
Edition: 2
Features:
- Incorporate layouts into furniture
- build a portable desktop workstation
- Design layouts with folding legs
- build basic scenery and trackwork
- store small layouts in compct areas
Number Of Pages: 96
Details: Product Description If you have a limited space for your layout, here s the answer! This completely revised edition of Model Railroading in Small Spaces provides a variety of creative approaches for building compact layouts. It covers how to build seven different layouts encompassing portable, shelf, coffee table, and fold-up styles. Three of the layouts are new, plus the book includes a new chapter on advanced techniques. N and HO scale railroads are modeled, as is one O scale shelf layout. About the Author Mat Chibbaro works as a fire protection engineer with the OSHA National Office and as a part-time fire protection lecturer at the University of Maryland, He is also a member of the College Park, Maryland Volunteer Fire Department. His interest in model railroading began in Milltown, New Jersey, where the shortline Raritan River Railroad ran. Mat believes that the short trains operating on this line cultivated his interest in small railroads. For the last 15 years, most of his model railroad time has been with the Northern Virginia Ntrak club. Mat lives in Maryland with his wife Erna, son Brian, and daughter Stephanie.
Release Date: 01-03-2011
