Model Railroad Layout, Books and DVDs.

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	Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders. The Complete Photo Guide. Sassi. This book covers simple techniques needed to make realistic scenery - including ground covering, trees, water, rocks, roads and trackside details - for a layout of any size or scale. Written in a clear, conversational style, each chapter includes step-by-step color photos and diagrams that demonstrate the basic steps discussed. Book even includes many "one evening projects." 96 pgs., 200 color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R04055 Price: $19.95
	Build a Better Toy Train Layout. Grams and Christianson. Written for beginner and intermediate level toy train operators, this book offers tips and techniques on planning, electrical work, track work, scenery and operation that will help you build a more realistic and enjoyable toy train layout. It's easy-to-follow advice from real pros! 80 pages, 156 color photos, 6 illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04128 Price: $18.95
	Building a Model Railroad Step by Step. Popp. Follow the construction of a model railroad layout from start to finish and learn techniques that any model railroader can use! Step-by-step photos and illustrations guide you through more than 30 projects including benchwork, trackwork, wiring, scenery construction, structures, detailing, operations and more. 112 pages, 250 color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04172 Price: $21.95
	Building City Scenery for your Model Railroad. Pryke. Learn to model realistic city structures and scenes of any size in any scale. This book gives you step-by-step photos, technical illustrations, and a variety of approaches to assembling a model city. An ideal resource for intermediate modelers who want to enhance the realism of their layouts. 96 pages, 160 color and B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04131 Price: $19.95
	HO Railroad from Set to Scenery. Selby. Discover how simple it is to turn your basic HO scale train set into a 4'x 8' layout in only 8 easy steps! This book provides how-to instructions, detailed photographs and plenty of helpful hints to get you started, including information on selecting the right train set, benchwork, laying track and ballast, modeling mountains, hills and water; building a control panel, and much more. 96 pgs., 120 B&W and color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R04107 Price: $17.95
	HO Railroad from Start to Finish. This book provides the construction steps for building a walkaround 4'x 8' layout. Photos, diagrams, and helpful instructions show how to construct benchwork and scenery, lay track, build detailed structures, weather freight cars, and more. 88 pgs., 100+ color photos, 55 illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R04090 Price: $16.95
	HO Scale Model Railroading. Getting Started in the Hobby. Wilson. From benchwork to realistic scenery, this no-nonsense guide provides insight into the fundamentals of HO model railroading, the hobby's most popular scale. It features up-to-date techniques and references to significant new products, and includes the author's professional tips on the hobby. Ideal for novice or experienced modelers starting in a new scale. 96 pgs., 200 color photos, 25 B&W illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R04116 Price: $19.95
	Getting Started with Lionel Trains. Your Introduction to Model Railroading Fun. Miller. Selecting, purchasing, setting up, operating, and maintaining Lionel trains is easier than ever with this essential resource. Easy-to-follow instructions explain benchwork construction, layout design, wiring and control, scenery and maintenance procedures. You'll also learn how to incorporate Lionel's innovative TrainMaster Command Control System. 128 pgs., 100+ color photos, 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R01641 Price: $21.95
	How to Build and Detail Model Railroad Scenes. Sassi. This practical, heavily illustrated guide shows you the essential principles and techniques for designing and constructing detailed, realistic model railroad scenes that will make your good layout great. Pojects include structure, scenery, and detailing techniques for both urban and rural settings. 88 pages, 245 color and B&W photos and illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04127 Price: $21.95
	How to Build Realistic Scenery. 3rd Edition. Frary. Dave Frary, one of model railroading's best-known modelers, offers new techniques for adding realism to a layout of any size or scale. Using today's newest products and equipment, Dave shares his trademark "recipes" for adding scenery to city and urban settings, deserts, prairies, and more. An ideal resource for beginning, intermediate, and advanced modelers. 144 pages, 450 color and B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04161 Price: $24.95
	Lionel Showroom Layouts - DVD. Enjoy this look at two of the grandest Lionel layouts ever built and get modeling tips from the pros who built them. First, you'll travel to Jackson, Mississippi where a train club recreated the famous 1949 Lionel Showroom Layout in meticulous, stunning detail. Then, you'll follow the story of Lionel's new, multi-level Showroom Layout from table construction, scenery, and wiring to the layout's public debut. Color, 1 hr. 35 min. #0RV5807 Price: $19.95
	Model Railroad Mania Vol. 1 - DVD-R. Norfolk Southern N Scale Layout. Get a big dose of model railroad action on this amazing 32"x 18" N scale layout that features the Norfolk Southern's busy mountain main line between Bluefield, Virginia and Williamson, West Virginia. True to the prototype, this layout features plenty of grueling mountain grades, lush scenery, long bridges, a wonderful mix of motive power and non-stop "modern" railroad action. You'll watch this one again and again! Color, 30 minutes. #0RV6817 Price: $29.95
	Model Railroad Techniques - DVD-R. Volume 1. This program shows you many of the techniques used to create scenery and "weather" the incredible 32"x 18" N scale layout featured above. You'll learn how to model trees and other foliage out of real weeds, "carve" rock formations, detail and weather locomotives and rolling stock, and more. Though shown in N scale, these techniques can be applied to layouts of any size or scale. Color, 1 hour. #0RV6819 Price: $29.95
	Modeling and Beyond Volume 1 -5 Combo - DVD. These five DVDs bring you in-depth, how-to modeling instruction plus footage of prototypes on which to base your designs. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo, 4 hrs. 36 min. total runtime. Volume 1: Installing and Blending Photo Mural Backdrops Learn how to install a backdrop to a model railroad. You'll see a heavily wooded backdrop and Bas-Relief buildings blended into a backdrop, watch rocks being sculpted, learn how "half" trees and shrubs can be blended into a flat scenery mural, and more. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 8 min. Volume 2: Scratch Building Structures In this volume, the scratch building of four unique structures will teach you a wide variety of techniques. Structures include a small boiler house; offices attached to a roundhouse; a repair facility with complete interior detail including lighting, an interesting removable roof, and a small lean-to; and a passenger and freight station that is built as if it were sliced down the middle. Includes high-resolution pictures that can be printed from your computer. 1 hr. 3 min. Volume 3: The Rio Grande Southern, Modeling the Prototype You'll see why the Rio Grande Southern makes such a fine railroad to model as this video brings you great coverage of both the prototype and On3 layouts. Learn how to build some of the best looking evergreen trees you've ever seen and experience today's RGS firsthand. 1 hour. Volume 4: The Last Steam Operated Sawmill This video brings you one of the last steam operated sawmills in the United States. You will see this huge complex and experience every aspect of its operation from log delivery, to the mill pond, to debarking, sawing, edging, sorting and the finished goods. Color, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo sound. 30 minutes. Volume 5: Four Narrow Gauge Layouts See finished layouts from four well known modelers, filmed as if they were real life, with authentic sounds, sights and professional narration. This video includes an Sn3 layout of the Rio Grande Southern as it appeared in the late 1930s, an HOn3 as it appeared in the 1940s, and more. 55 minutes. #0RV7305 Price: $129.75
	N Scale Model Railroading. Getting Started in the Hobby McGuirk. Learn what N scale requires in everything from benchwork to realistic scenery. A wonderful guide for beginners as well as experienced modelers making the transition from a different scale. 104 pages, 100 color and 50 B&W photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04089 Price: $18.95
	Norfolk Southern: N-Scale Layout - DVD. Come along and railfan along the tracks of this 42'x 18' N-scale Norfolk Southern layout which was featured in Great Model Railroads magazine in 2004! You'll see heavy freight and coal trains running on steep grades through fall scenery, heavy power from ex-Conrail SD80MACs to old SD40s, and much more. Color, 30 minutes. #0RV2109 Price: $29.95
	Painting Backdrops for Your Model Railroad. Danneman. Authored by noted rail artist Mike Danneman, this heavily illustrated book shows you how easy it can be to add a scenic backdrop to your layout! You'll learn why you need one, how to build and paint one, how to add clouds, how to blend the backdrop with layout scenery, and more. Includes techniques on using photographs and commercial backdrops. 80 pages, 160 color photographs, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04187 Price: $18.95
	Great Toy Train Layouts of America Parts 1-6 - DVD. This DVD set takes you to 14 spectacular toy train layouts, many of which incorporate several scales alongside rare trains, structures and accessories. Interviews give you the inside track on construction, rolling stock and operation, while dozens of close-ups capture the flavor of each layout. Includes a huge collection of rare 1930s Lionel passenger train sets, 32-train operation, operating coal dumps, "Horseshoe Curve," and more. Color, 5+ hours. #0RV6261 Price: $39.95
	101 Model Railroad Projects. Schleicher. This new title will give you a treasury of weekend projects spanning everything from bench framing to wiring, including assembling buildings, creating realistic ground covers, super-detailing locomotives, and running the railroad. Each project includes a handy table detailing the time (from one to eight hours), tools, materials, money, skill level, and space required for successful completion. 256 pgs., 250 color and 150 B&W photos, 8¼"x 10½", sfbd. #0R03141 Price: $29.95
	Complete Book of Model Railway Electronics. Amos. This detailed primer on electronics for the model railway hobbyist emphasizes and demonstrates how the operation and realism of a model railway can be enhanced through the efficient and correct use of electronics. It takes you through several sample projects of increasing complexity, teaching you how to implement this next stage in realistic model railroading. 256 pgs., 155 color photos, 6"x 9", sfbd. #0R03104 Price: $37.95
	The World's Greatest Toy Train Maker. Author Roger Carp. Here is the inside story of the Lionel Corporation as told by nine former employees. You'll trace five decades of Lionel train history as these people who were behind the scenes describe Lionel's leaders, products, achievements, and legacy from the 1920s through the 1960s. A fascinating and surprisingly rare viewpoint on the company that we've all heard so much about. 112 pgs., 70 B&W and 30 color photos, 7"x 10", hdbd. #0R04029 Price: $24.95
	Maintaining & Repairing Your Scale Model Trains. You can save money on shop repairs and avoid frustration by mastering some fundamental repair skills. Here, step-by-step instructions with accompanying photos and illustrations teach you the basic techniques needed to maintain and repair DC-powered model locomotives, rolling stock and layouts. These are skills all railroad modelers should have. 80 pages, 165 B&W photographs and illustrations, 8¼"x 10¾", softcover. #0R04060 Price: $17.95
	Model Railroad Bridges and Trestles. This book teaches you how to build sturdy model bridges and trestles of stunning realism. Includes construction plans, prototype photos, and more than twenty sets of scale drawings for scratchbuilding, kitbashing, or modifying commercial bridge kits. From the pages of Model Railroader magazine. 152 pgs., 100 B&W photos, 100 illus., 8¼"x 11¼", sfbd. #0R04054 Price: $21.95
	Trackwork & Lineside Detail for Your Model Railroad. After you complete your trackplan and benchwork, turn your attention to the finer details of trackwork and lineside activities. In this book, you'll find tips, techniques and ideas for working with track and the details immediately alongside it. Features clear photographic instructions, including illustrated references to prototype trackwork and details. From the pages of Model Railroader magazine. 96 pgs., 150 color and 25 B&W photos, 50 illus., 8¼"x 10¾", sfbd. #0R04053 Price: $17.95