In Building Realistic Model Railroad Scenery from Kalmbach you'll learn how to bring your layout to the next level with a complete overview of modeling railroad scenery in this scenery makers bible from modeler and Model Railroader Video Plus host Kathy Millatt. You'll get a good look at how to use the latest techniques and materials, as well as time-tested classic methods for modeling mountains, rivers, forests, railroad rights-of-way, towns, and cities that occupy any modeler's layout. Perfect for everyone from a beginner to an expert modeler, this book includes step-by-step photo sections to show different methods used to build scenery; details about techniques and materials to advance your modeling; unique insights, tips, and tricks about layout detailing and more! Take your layout from bare plywood or foam board to a detailed scene that will surround your model trains! 192 pages.

Multideck Design for Model Railroads from Kalmbach features all-new content covering the many methods for designing and building a multideck layout along with all the tried-and-true tips Tony Koester has gathered along the way. This go-to book includes many examples on lighting, construction, operation, and other facets of two- and three-deck layouts. You'll learn about new technology and materials; updated benchwork information, and proven methods for construction, design, and lighting. Multideck Design for Model Railroads is one of many Kalmbach model railroading how-to books. Softcover, 112 pages.

Model Realistic Freight Car Loads from Kalmbach gives many prototype examples of freight car loads from common to unique, and from small to large. Follow along with tons of pictures and drawings showing how to realistically secure loads and operate them. There are hundreds of types of loads, including machinery, heavy equipment, pipe, beams, lumber, boilers, generators, transformers, and many others. The challenge in modeling is making freight car loads for your model railroad more realistic! This book by noted railroad historian and author Keith Kohlmann will guide you in making your models more realistic by following prototype practice in securing loads and operating them. Included are a lot of photos of real loads, drawings showing how real railroads secure them to cars, and several modeled examples with tips on making model loads as realistic as possible. Inside, you'll see a variety of types of loads, including: Farm machinery and heavy equipment. Steel and metal products. Buses, trucks, cars, and other vehicle loads. Forest products and building materials. Softcover, 112 Pages

The Modeler's Guide to the Right of Way from Kalmbach and Model Railroader Magazine takes you trackside for a deep dive into the equipment and practices that get railroads across the landscape. It provides the details that keep railroads running, and how to incorporate them into your modeling for a more realistic layout. From the track itself, through the roadbed, and out into the weeds at the edge of the right of way, noted author and modeler Jeff Wilson shares the details that keep railroads running, and how to incorporate them into your modeling for a more realistic layout. Modeler's Guide to the Right of Way includes: Prototype photos and information, as well as modeling tips Track and roadbed, including rail, ties, spikes, turnouts, switch stands, and ballast Grade-crossing details including flashers, gates, towers, and crossing materials Trackside details such as defect detectors, communication lines, and equipment scanners Signs, such as mileposts, whistle posts, warning signs, speed-limit signs, and flanger posts

by Tony Koester

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Softcover, 288 Pages The Model Railroader's Handbook is a 288-page comprehensive guide featuring easy to follow facts accompanied by charts, photographs, and illustrations. Perfect for new and seasoned model railroaders, this book includes common terms, general model railroading information, general model train details, and measurements along with chapters covering track and tracklaying, electricity and wiring, painting and weathering, scenery, prototype info, and so much more. is one of many Kalmbach Media railroading books. Softcover:

Softcover, 112 Pages llen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio from Kalmbach is a look at how one modeler made a profound impact on model railroading, and his Virginian & Ohio became one of the hobby's best-known layouts of all time. Allen pioneered many concepts that later became standards in layout design. The late Allen McClelland encouraged modelers to look at their layouts not as stand-alone entities, but as links in the North American rail system - looking beyond the basement. Take a look at Allen's HO scale Virginian & Ohio layout, one of the best-known layouts of all time. This inspirational layout pioneered many concepts that later became standards in layout design. Allen became well-known not just for his V&O's realistic scenery, setting, and theme, but for showing us how to: Use walkaround command control to take advantage of linear track plans Choose a railroad name and theme that reflect prototype regions and railroads Adopt operating procedures based on prototype practices Find inspiration in how the Virginian & Ohio was conceived and developed, and get ideas for applying the same concepts to your own layout! Get this historical book on the late Allen McClelland and how his influence helped bring model railroading to where it is today.

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Softcover, 112 Pages In Commodities by Freight Car from Kalmbach Publishing, noted Model Railroader author and editor Jeff Wilson discusses freight cars and the cargo they carry. As the production and consumption of commodities like grain, coal, lumber, coil steel, cement, and more have evolved over the years, so have the railroad cars that haul them. Commodities by Freight Car shows you which cars carried which cargoes in the era you model. You'll learn how all-purpose boxcars, gondolas, and flats gave way to a dizzying variety of specialized freight cars for coil steel, lumber, flour, sugar, auto parts, and frozen foods; how freight handling has changed over the years; how railroads handle hazardous cargoes such as chlorine and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG); which experimental car designs worked to make transporting goods more efficient - and which failed, and much more. If you are interested in how to operate freight cars on your layout in a realistic manner, this book is for you! Commodities by Freight Car is one of many Kalmbach model railroading how-to books. Softcover, 112 pages.

Innovation! Delivery December 2024

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Modeling the Oil Industry from Kalmbach and Model Railroader Magazine explains how to model this dynamic and fascinating industry, from its facilities to operations. Packed with over 160 prototype photos, this book will build your knowledge and inspire You'll get historical and up-to-date facts about: The history of the oil industry and its relationship with the railroads How local petroleum dealers ("jobbers") operate How oil is extracted, refined, and moved to market The evolution of tank cars used to move oil, gasoline, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and other products This book is a key source for those who want to model the oil industry as well as railfans and rail historians. Modeling the Oil Industry is one of many Kalmbach model railroading how-to books. Softcover, 112 pages.

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A must-have book for the modeler and historian, the popular Guide to North American Steam Locomotives is back in a revised second edition. Covering every steam loco built in the US, Canada and Mexico since 1900, the softcover book includes information unavailable elsewhere, along with comprehensive rosters and newly revised roster tables by railroad, plus 420 photos.

Jeff Wilson's new book, Guide to North American Diesel Locomotives, offers more than 300 pages of detailed information on diesel locomotives produced in North America from the 1930s to today. An essential guide for model railroaders and train enthusiasts, this comprehensive reference book includes: all-time rosters for more than 100 major railroads in the U.S. and Canada through the 1970s, spotting features on all major locomotive types produced, characteristics and operation of diesel locomotives plus new and updated material (text, charts and, photos) with 400 color/black&white photos and more. It's an important reference for railfans and model railroaders alike. 350 Seiten.

Softcover Über 100 verschiedene Lokomotiven von den frühen 1800 Jahren bis Heute, viele Hintergrundinfos

Hardcover Über 100 verschiedene Lokomotiven von den frühen 1800 Jahren bis Heute, viele Hintergrundinfos

Classic Railroad Scenes from Kalmbach is a colorful look back at railroading from the 1940s to the 1970s through over 100 historic and rare color images. This stunning collection of color photos focuses on train subjects in everyday settings - offering a unique and detailed view of railroading during the classic and transition eras, including: •Steam and diesel trains •Santa Fe, Baltimore and Ohio, SP, UP, WP, BN, CN and CP •A variety of settings from large cities to small towns and rural scenes •Trains and railroading throughout the U.S. and Canada This version of Classic Railroad Scenes has a soft cover and has 224 pages.

Conrail and Its Predecessors, from Kalmbach Publishing, is a photographic and textual history of Conrail. Authored by noted rail publishing veteran and photographer Brian Solomon, you'll learn how Conrail's predecessor railroads became mired in financial troubles and how Conrail was formed, subsidized by the government, and became profitable within five years. Conrail and Its Predecessors is one of a selection of Kalmbach books about prototype railroads. 208 Pages Topics include: Brief histories of the Pennsylvania Railroad, New York Central and other Conrail forerunners. The changing markets of the 1960s and 1970s The formation of Conrail in 1976 Conrail's success in the 1980s Conrail and predecessor routes and maps