Product Description

Layout Plans for Toy Trains

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #79932 in Books
• Brand: Kalmbach
• Published on: 2001-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.50 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

Features

• Kalmbach Layout Plans for Toy Trains - 108275
• KAL

Customer Reviews

Limited Material Lists, good background info
Basic background information about trackwork and benchwork contained within the first few chapters of this book are excellent information for the novice model railroader. (Note: The L-girder benchwork diagram is mis-labeled, pieces #7 form the X brace between the legs, while pieces #3 & 5 form the triangle between the legs and the "L" girder support. Dimensions for these pieces are correct)

Layouts at all interesting, however, slightly less than half of the layouts in this book come with track/accessory material lists. If you're using this a inspiration for your own layout, that should be no problem. If you want to actually build the layout and there's no list, you may be able to guess what you need. There is also a good variety of layout sizes, from small to room size.

Back to my youth!
After 50 years I returned to "playing" with my boyhood Lionel trainset. With help from my electrically competent son, it still worked.
But I wanted ideas about layouts and how to set it up. This book gives many plans for many different room sizes. It also is most informative about the different types of tracks available, their merits, and the components that can be purchased. It is well worth the money. I'm young again!