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Detail a grain elevator
Every figure TELLS A STORY • Don’t just place figures on your layout – tell stories with them
HOW TO SCRATCHBUILD A SEMAPHORE • Use new and old methods to construct this HO scale lineside detail
A tale of two railroads • A bit of modeler’s license lets the Santa Fe cross rails with Colorado narrow gauge
Model half empty coal hoppers • An old photograph gives a clue to operations during the 1950s
Resuscitating a lifeless locomotive
Is superiority complex?
WalthersProto HO scale EMD FP7 and F7B
Micro-Trains N scale NSC 60-foot high-cube double-door boxcar
Tangent HO scale Greenville 86-foot high-cube boxcars
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