Old Tracks, New Tricks

Old Tracks, New Tricks

Author: Jessica Petersen

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781943147243

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Trixie and Tracky are disappointed when the wooden train set they join is full of bossy trains and snoring train tracks.


Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts

Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts

Author: Neil Besougloff

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780897784818

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Add classic accessories to your toy train layout. Lionel's operating accessories from the 1940s and '50s remain popular with toy train enthusiasts. This book provides a variety of ways to incorporate them - both originals and modern reproductions - into toy train layouts. The book features track plans that incorporate the accessories, repair information, and in-depth profiles of the most popular accessories.


Modern Toy Train Repair & Maintenance

Modern Toy Train Repair & Maintenance

Author: R. D. Teal

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13: 9780897785297

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Toy train mechanic Dick Teal demonstrates techniques for keeping toy trains from contemporary manufacturers in excellent condition. Includes steps for proper lubrication, TMCC/DCS troubleshooting, and the right way to replace traction tires, batteries, and light bulbs. It's the essential workbench guide for toy train operators. Edited by Classic Toy Trains editor Neil Besougloff.


Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains

Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains

Author: Dennis Brennan

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 0890247455

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The author shows you how to build a hi-rail toy train layout such as his Sandy Harbor Terminal Railway. He provides modeling concepts as well as practical techniques for incorporating toy trains and accessories into realistic settings.


Trackwork for Toy Trains

Trackwork for Toy Trains

Author: Peter Riddle

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780890247075

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This essential guide addresses O gauge trackwork from today's major manufacturers. Learn about the various lines of sectional and flexible track, with step-by-step photography of the basic techniques for cutting, bending, wiring, and layout installation.


Track Planning for Realistic Operation

Track Planning for Realistic Operation

Author: John H. Armstrong

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780890242278

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Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.


Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit

Track Design Handbook for Light Rail Transit

Author:

Publisher: Transportation Research Board

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 695

ISBN-13: 0309258243

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TCRP report 155 provides guidelines and descriptions for the design of various common types of light rail transit (LRT) track. The track structure types include ballasted track, direct fixation ("ballastless") track, and embedded track. The report considers the characteristics and interfaces of vehicle wheels and rail, tracks and wheel gauges, rail sections, alignments, speeds, and track moduli. The report includes chapters on vehicles, alignment, track structures, track components, special track work, aerial structures/bridges, corrosion control, noise and vibration, signals, traction power, and the integration of LRT track into urban streets.


Young House Love

Young House Love

Author: Sherry Petersik

Publisher: Artisan

Published: 2015-07-14

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1579656765

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This New York Times bestselling book is filled with hundreds of fun, deceptively simple, budget-friendly ideas for sprucing up your home. With two home renovations under their (tool) belts and millions of hits per month on their blog YoungHouseLove.com, Sherry and John Petersik are home-improvement enthusiasts primed to pass on a slew of projects, tricks, and techniques to do-it-yourselfers of all levels. Packed with 243 tips and ideas—both classic and unexpected—and more than 400 photographs and illustrations, this is a book that readers will return to again and again for the creative projects and easy-to-follow instructions in the relatable voice the Petersiks are known for. Learn to trick out a thrift-store mirror, spice up plain old roller shades, "hack" your Ikea table to create three distinct looks, and so much more.


Wiring Your Toy Train Layout

Wiring Your Toy Train Layout

Author: Peter Riddle

Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780897784771

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Covers the essential techniques needed to make electrical connections for a three-rail toy train layout of any size or complexity. Addresses fundamental electrical concepts, wiring and expanding a layout, accessory wiring, automatic train control, and troubleshooting. By Peter Riddle.