G-Scale Trains -- Starter Set
In this segment, Chris Chianelli, host of DIY's Radio Control Hobbies shows how to get started in the hobby of G-scale model trains with a starter kit. Whether you're building a small starter railroad like the one shown in this demonstration, or ... [... more]
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The Great Transcontinental Model Railroad Race
 More About the Human Race The premise of this book is fairly silly. An elderly industrialist billionaire decides that he wants to build an HO guage model railroad across the country. Its going to cost about 3 billion dollars but he has plenty. There is ... [... more]
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Introduction To Digital (Dcc) Trains
In this episode of DIY Radio Control Hobbies, host Chris Chianelli explores the world of digital-command-control (DCC) trains. Most of the model trains shown in this program are from the category HO trains, the most popular category of model ... [... more]
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G-Scale Trains -- Dedicated Enthusiasts
Part of the fun of garden railroading is getting together with other hobbyists to see the layouts they've created for their miniaturized railroads. Some of the best and most elaborate G-scale layouts can be found in Las Vegas, Nevada -- home to ... [... more]
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Introduction To G-Scale Trains
In this episode of DIY Radio Control Hobbies, host Chris Chianelli explores the world of G-scale trains -- small, electrically powered trains and train sets that can grow from a single set of trestles set to a miniature world in your basement or ... [... more]
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Las Vegas Hobby Show -- Wet And Wild Rc Hobbies
With this system, the operator watches a video monitor (figure J), rather than the model itself, to operate the vehicle based on images sent from a video camera mounted in the front of the model. The images on the monitor simulates the view as it ... [... more]
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G-Scale Trains -- Backyard Train Landscape
Sections of the yard have been built up and landscaped into multi-level areas by using Windsor blocks, then filled in using "reject sand" -- i.e., sand that has impurities that make it unsuitable for building construction, but it's fine for ... [... more]
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Las Vegas Hobby Show -- Model Rockets And Garden Railroads
The size of the G-scale trains, and the way they are constructed, makes them suitable to run outside in backyards and gardens as well as indoor train-rooms. Combining the hobby of model trains with building and arranging miniature structures ... [... more]
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The Brown Book of Brass Locomotives
The best available resource on American HO Scale brass The purpose of this book is to provide a catalog of all HOScale brassmodel locomotives imported into the United States through about 1992. The second purpose is to provide technical and price ... [... more]
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Maintaining and Repairing Your Scale Model Trains (Model ...
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My Life With Model Trains
12.5x12.5" oversize, cloth with dust jacket. from the publisher: '"My Life with Model Trains" is a journey inside the hobby told only as author and master modeler Howard Zane can. It is a feast for the imagination and mesmerizing read for ... [... more]
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World of Model Trains (Illustrated)
The World of Model Trains. I got this from the library. I think it was in the original 1970 version. But it's real neat. It shows trains from the '70s or earlier, some European Trains which are my favorite and also the King of Model Railroading. John ... [... more]
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