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Make your own photo backdrops
Scratchbuild a ballasted deck trestle • Build around in-place track to match prototype photos
BUILDING A CRAFTSMAN WOOD CAR KIT • A few modern updates help bring this once-in-a-lifetime project to completion
THE MR&T’s EAST TROY INDUSTRIAL PARK RR • This HO scale proto-freelanced project railroad features modern urban switching with a museum twist
Bringing the trains back to southern Ontario • The Sun Parlour Lines features bridge traffic on the Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central, and Pere Marquette between Detroit and Buffalo
Detail and weather a GONDOLA • Plus learn how to model three loads for this drop-bottom HO scale car
The world of L gauge railroading • There’s a lot of versatility in those little plastic bricks
Build a small stone arch culvert • Learn how to make clay masters, build a mold box, and more with this project
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