Photos and Blog by Dale Parsons In this post I’m adding some additional details and photos that will be helpful to those who read the original post, “How to Build Strong Model Railroad Benchwork.” This is a close-up of the braces I made for my first shelf-style layout. These are the same braces but I …
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Are you tired of waiting for patience? Model railroading is a great exercise in stretching your ability to wait for something good to happen. My current layout project began, literally, on the floor. The room I am using was a storage place for all the overflow stuff. I had to move, package, stack, sort, discard, …
People who consider themselves model railroaders, or someday hope to be, had to start somewhere. Not very many start with a bunch of locomotives, tons of rolling stock, loads of scenery and a ready-made layout just waiting for an engineer. Usually, they start with a "train set" and a dream. Even a small oval on …
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