Garden Railways December 2017

Kitbashing NAR boxcars in 129 scale
By Harvey Bradley
Aristo-Craft cars provided the starting point for some unusual rolling stock

Grades on garden railways
By Earl Martin , Jack Verducci
Part 2: Helper engines, railway design, and more

California narrow gauge in the 1940s
By Don Watters
The Lake Tahoe & Truckee Railroad

Building the Matheson Textiles mill
By Bruce Chandler
This large structure has a surprise inside

Build a spray booth
By Jim Kottkamp
This affordable unit is perfect for painting large-scale trains

Structure ideas for 112 scale
By Jeff Young
Creative adaptive reuse and modeling solve some problems

Extra:Removing paint from a locomotive shell video
By Chris Haon

Extra: High-tech modeling for garden railroaders
By Steve Berneberg

Extra: A Special Wish railroad project
By Kate Pruchnicki