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Find hundreds of photos and articles to help you design a prototype-based model railroad.
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A real-world industry you can model

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Why do railroads use towers?

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Palmetto Brick: A railroad you can model

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Freight locomotives can’t always pull modern passenger trains

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A yard office you can model

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Foam-coated freight cars

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10 snowy places you could model

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Model a pike-size passenger train

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Last days of the last car on the train: the caboose

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Five cabooses you can model

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Short Amtrak consists of the 2000s

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Modeling diesels that didn’t

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All about prototype ballast and how to use it on your layout

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Amtrak eras tour: the 1990s

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Diesel locomotives by generation

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Short Amtrak consists of the 1980s

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Model a merger-era caboose fleet

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Railroad memories on vinyl records

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Early short Amtrak consists

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Seven uses for cabooses