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WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Trains Step By Step (2005)	Build a Model Train Layout From Scratch. We’ll Show You How - Step by Step! With Model Trains Step by Step, you’ll get all the expert, visual guidance you need to build a model train layout from beginning to end. You'll get: --- Simple, time-saving tips for benchwork, wiring, track, and scenery --- 8 layouts including detailed track plans, wiring diagrams, and materials lists --- Coverage on a variety of scales including HO, S, O, G, and N
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Steam Glory (2004)	Union Pacific's famous 4-8-4's; Ride the cab of Sant Fe's Chief; Extreme machines of the Pennsy; and more. Photographs, mostly in color. 116 pages including covers.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Diesel Victory (2005)	Contents : --- How the Diesel changed Railroading --- Steam vs Diesel --- Ahead of their time: CN's early diesels --- Who dieselised first?
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Streamliner Pioneers (2005)	In Streamliner Pioneers you’ll learn about the first streamliners --- the pioneers of the 1930’s that brought speed, color, and style to the rails. You’ll take a closer look at: --- why streamliners were developed and what made them great… --- diesel engines that revolutionized railroading… --- men whose train designs captured the nation’s imagination… --- bold new looks for steam locomotives. You’ll discover page after page of detail about these great trains: The Super Chief, The Rockets, The 20th Century, Broadway, and The Zephyr!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Steam's Lost Empire (2018)	Steam’s Lost Empire takes you back to the classic era of railroading when steam locomotives ruled the rails. This 124-page special issue features classic articles from the archives of Trains magazine including riveting inside accounts from railfans and railroaders who worked the trains as well as dramatic black-and-white and color photographs. Featured Stories Include: --- All-New: Ten Days in March --- A Day in the Life of an Engineer --- 90 Miles an Hour Aboard a 4-6-4 --- Camelback to Dunellen --- And Many More! Experience the world of steam like never before – the grit, the power, and the beauty!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroading The Ultimate Guide 2020 (2020)	Model Railroading: The Ultimate Guide 2020 features all-new content covering 12 of the latest projects created exclusively from Model Railroader Video Plus accompanied with 15+ videos, track plans and layouts to enhance the experience. Discover how-to stories, behind the scenes information and timely modeling techniques all in this 84-page special issue. This 84-page special issue covers: --- A Roadmap to Signature Scenes: Popular Model Railroader author Tony Koester shares some of his tips for planning realistic model railroads. --- Digital Command Control Consisting Guidebook: Dana Kawala provides a step-by-step guide to consisting (running locomotives grouped together) using many of the popular Digital Command Control systems available on the North American market. --- Ten Terrific Track Tips: David Popp provides his 10 favorite track laying tips and techniques for modelers to get great results every time when building a layout. --- MRVP Layout Visit: The HO scale Puffer Bridge Lines: Our cover story of a highly detailed layout built by Model Railroader author, Seth Puffer. --- And more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroading The Ultimate Guide 2019 (2019)	Model Railroading: The Ultimate Guide 2019 is 84 pages and 18 FREE companion videos packed with all the know-how (and fun!) you find at MR Video Plus! This special issue is full of cool projects and tons of tips and techniques that modelers of all skill levels will find useful. Inside you'll find: --- Cody Grivno's best-kept painting secrets. See him paint, weather, and detail a complete 1956 Chicago & North Western commuter train. --- Gerry Leone's great rural scenery building techniques. Learn how to make roads, cornfields, a highway underpass, and more. --- Drew Halverson and MR Video crew's trackside adventures in the Show Me State. Find out about railroad hot spots and must-see locations. --- Copper Basin Railway track plan. Get access to an animated 3D track plan video that shows the layout in detail - and more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Model Railroading The Ultimate Guide 2018 (2018)	In this special issue, our experts show you tons of modeling tips, share track plans for HO, N, and On30 layouts, and take you along on some amazing, and inspiring railfan trips. --- Find out how to model a contemporary scene with the Morristown & Erie short line railroad using older locomotives (this one has an HO track plan). --- Learn how to give a stock model locomotive a hard-working, sun-faded look. --- Try seven tips that will make scratchbuilding easier. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Big Steam Is Back (2017)	Bold, beautiful, and powerful, steam locomotives have captivated children and adults alike for generations. From the editors of Trains magazine, "Big Steam is Back" features 11 well-known locomotives from across the United States and their individual journeys to restoration. This special 100-page edition includes: --- the restored Norfolk & Western Class J No. 611, widely considered to be the best and most powerful locomotive ever built; --- the colorful Southern Pacific 4449; --- and an update on the much-anticipated completion of Big Boy 4014.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine 100 Greatest Railroad Photos (2008)	This collection of 100 of the best railroad photos from Trains magazine is filled with the spectacular work of some the biggest names in the field: Richard Steinheimer, O. Winston Link, Philip R. Hastings, Jim Shaughnessy, John Gruber, and many more. The whole exciting panorama of six decades of railroading comes alive in these color and black-and-white images, presented in a deluxe format. These memorable photos are organized into five sections: --- Environment: Hard-working trains in urban and rural settings, often battling the elements. --- Locomotives: Railroading’s ultimate machines, from super-power steam to the latest high-tech diesels. --- People: Railroaders show their skill and devotion, no matter how tough the job. --- Icons: Classic images that capture some of the profound themes of railroading. --- Action: Dramatic action photos show trains at their dynamic best.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine Steam Today (2008)	Go trackside and in the cab of these amazing machines! This 100-page special issue from Trains magazine will take you trackside and in the cab of these amazing machines! --- Remarkable photos of the great steam engines. --- The debate about rebuilding or reboilering steam engines. --- The men and women who keep steam alive. --- Traveling steam: The fun and frustration of itinerant locomotives & trains and the people who run them.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine 102 Realistic Track Plans (2008)	From the publisher of Model Railroader magazine, 102 Realistic Track Plans organizes many of the magazine’s best layout designs into one spectacular collection. This special issue showcases easy-to-use plans in a variety of scales, shapes, and sizes — from very small and compact, to medium and large layouts that fit in rec rooms and basements. In addition to track plans, the issue features helpful planning articles including: --- Introduction to track planning. --- Curves, turnouts, and track. --- Layout schematics. --- Figuring grades and clearances. --- Structures, scenery, and aisles. --- How to convert track plan scales. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2008)	How To Build Realistic Layouts: Trackside town and city scenery focuses on the towns and cities along railroad lines. This issue brings you how-to stories on modeling telephone and power lines, prototype drawings of storefronts, exciting photography, and much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2007)	This model railroad book is part of a series of magazines to help you design realistic layouts including a freight yard. There is information on building structures, scenery and operation of a freight yard.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2007)	How To Build Realistic Layouts: Industries You Can Model, the special issue from the editors of Model Railroader, shows you how to model lineside industries. It’s packed with articles on: signs for industries, modeling the railroad’s customers, citrus packing houses, grocery warehouses, and much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2008)	How to Build Realistic Reliable Track shows the reader how to raise the reliability and prototype realism of their track and track structure on their model railroad. It does not make any difference which scale in which you work or the type of rail system, the track and its supporting right-of way are the most basic elements of a railroad.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2010)	It’s all here in How to Build Realistic Scenery! This essential guide gives you proven techniques you can trust to make your scenery as realistic as possible. This special issue includes: --- 23 articles that cover virtually every scenery-building challenge. --- Clear photos that show you how to make it happen. --- Several techniques for every skill level. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2010)	It’s the challenge most of us modelers face: how to make the most of limited space for our layout. Model Railroader comes to the rescue with a packed special issue that offers ideas, examples and hands-on help to maximize whatever space you have with which to work. Get this special issue and get what you need to make your layout fit without losing the realism you want!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Model Railroads Of The 1950s (2011)	Get How to Model Railroads of the 1950s, and you’ll have the expert insight you need to recreate an accurate re-creation of a bustling 1950s railroad. • Go back to when steam was departing and diesel arriving. • See an N-scale Rock Island layout in all of its bustling glory. • Get the lowdown on delivery trucks that competed with railroads. • Understand ‘50s rail operations. • Learn to model 1950s trailer-on-flatcar equipment. • Take a close look at architectural details of the era. • And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Model Railroads Of The 1950s (2011)	Issue #9 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2010)	Issue #8 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2010)	Issue #7 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2008)	Issue #6 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2006)	Issue #1 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2007)	Issue #2 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2007)	Issue #3 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts (2008)	Issue #4 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine 102 Realistic Track Plans (2008)	Issue #5 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 10th Aug 2021		Magazine In Search Of Steam Volume III 1955 (2011)	This special issue resumes the epic quest of the 1953-1954 and 1954-1955 editions. Tag along with writer David P. Morgan and photographer Philip R. Hastings as they savor the final, bittersweet years of steam on: ----- the Pennsylvania; ----- New York Central; ----- Baltimore & Ohio; ----- Nickel Plate Road; ----- Canadian National; ----- Canadian Pacific; ----- and other citadels of cinders.
WPLives 10th Aug 2021		Magazine More Trains Of The 1940s (2020)	*More Trains of the 1940s* explores the decade of railroading’s finest hour and its finest trains. See what it took to bring victory during World War II and how the postwar economic boom led the railroads to look ahead with confidence. As a railroad enthusiast, you’ll appreciate the compelling stories and detailed information that this special issue offers about this dynamic era. More Trains of the 1940s features rare color photos of steam and diesel locomotives from one of the most dynamic periods in American history. Inside this 108-page special issue: • Wartime Memories --- A retired Army railroader remembers trains at home and in Europe during World War II; • ACF’s First Postwar Streamliners --- All about Louisville & Nashville’s new Georgian and Humming Bird; • The Locomotive in 1949 --- David P. Morgan reviews final year of a pivotal decade in the steam-vs-diesel battle; • And much more!

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