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Title: Excellent in every respect, worth every penny!
Review: This is a really fine book! I wish I'd encountered it when I first started in the hobby. Our first layout is okay, but had we had this guide we would have done so many things differently. There are many books on track layouts, but they generally just present someone's ideas for a layout and tell you how to build it. This book, on the other hand, tells you WHY things are certain way and HOW to make things for this or that track activity. It makes total sense and our next layout will be much better because of this book.The book has two major parts. The first part of the book describes basic railroad operations, such as loading and unloading, assembling cars into trains, moving trains, etc. The second part looks at how to design a practical model, what standards to use, minimal curves, layout shapes, etc. It has a lot of great ideas, with many pictures and schematics to satisfy both advance and novice modelers. Great book!
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