Model Railroad Planning 2021
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Looking to the prototype for inspiration and information
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A veteran modeler rethinks his retirement plans
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Jim Dufour’s HO tribute to a spectacular rural railroad
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Ideas that may make staging work better for you
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The Fonda, Johnstown & Gloversville is set in the 1950s
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Urban railroad in Oakland, California – in S scale
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Images of the big payoff after all that hard work
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Access from both sides can ease aisle-congestion and reach-in concerns
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Modeling the famous loop – but in Canada, eh?
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Design tips for improved backdrops
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Truro, Nova Scotia, in the late 1990s fills the bill
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Clever use of structures made
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Sharing comments and questions
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