HO Railroad From Start to Finish

Provides the construction steps for building a walkaround 4 x 8 layout. Photos, diagrams, and helpful instructions show how to construct benchwork and scenery, lay track, build detailed structures, weather freight cars, and more.

Author: Jim Kelly
Perfect-bound softcover; 8 1/4 x 10 3/4; 88 pages; 100 color photos; 55 illustrations; ISBN: 9780890241554

Written by Jim Kelly

5 Introduction
7 Building a foam core layout
11 Building plastic structure kits
14 Car kits and Kadee couplers
18 Adding an operating gravel dumper
22 A road for your layout
26 Clyde's Cycle Center
30 Adding a backdrop
33 A stream and a lake for the Cripple Creek
35 Weathering freight cars
39 Building a building that isn't there
42 Popcorn scenery
46 Walkaround control for a small layout
50 The house on the hill
55 A gas station for our HO layout
58 Add a gravel pit to your layout
61 Making rocks at the workbench
64 A tar paper shack for your layout
68 Add a factory to your layout
70 Move over, Sherwood
73 Add a tunnel to your layout
76 Grade-crossing action for your layout in a flash
78 Remodel those brick storefronts
82 How to operate a small layout realistically
86 Useful addresses
87 Index