Designing Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads: How to Get More Out of Your Space

Koester, Tony

ISBN 10: 0890247412 / ISBN 13: 9780890247419

Published by Kalmbach Pub Co, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Designing Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads: How to Get More Out of Your Space
• Publisher: Kalmbach Pub Co
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890247412
• ISBN 13: 9780890247419
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Get twice the layout for the amount of room available with multiple decks. Veteran Kalmbach Books author and Model Railroader columnist Tony Koester walks the reader through design, options, lighting and wiring considerations, the where and when sequence, as well as the all-important construction techniques of multiple layout decks. The book will include layout examples from ten great multi-deck layouts.

About the Author

Tony Koester has written a half-dozen books focusing on his life-long hobby of model railroading. Tony is the editor of Model Railroad Planning, a special annual issue of Model Railroader magazine, as well as a contributing editor to MR. He writes MR’s popular Trains of Thought column and has written numerous feature articles for MR. He also served as the editor of Railroad Model Craftsman magazine until 1981.Tony spent a quarter of a century designing, building, and with his friends, operating a freelanced coal-hauling HO railroad, the Allegheny Midland (the Midland Road). More recently, he has been hard at work on a multi-deck HO layout that accurately depicts the Nickel Plate Road’s St. Louis Division as it appeared in 1954.