Details:

Planning Your Model Railroad is a new book by Tony Koester that tells modelers everything they ll want to consider before starting a layout. This conversational, idea-driven book shows modelers their options when planning a layout. It expansively covers key topics including: Choosing a railroad and scale, finding prototypes that match modeler interest, and narrowing focus to make efficient decisions.

Includes:

• Strengths and weaknesses of various scales
• Choosing an era
• Freelancing vs. modeling specific railroads
• Advantages of various benchwork
• How operations influence layout design
• Adjusting the level of detail to the size of the layout
• 96 pages