Tony Koester 112 pages softcover
Prairie
railroads have a different feel and character compared to railroads in
the mountains. The nature of prairie railroading allows modeling these
lines on narrow shelves, which maximizes your layout space whether
you’re dealing with a large basement or two walls of a spare bedroom.
This book is filled with both modeling tips and prototype information:
- How to model many types of farm fields: corn, soybeans, wheat, and more.
- How to model various businesses common to the region: such as grain elevators, oil dealers, coal dealers, and lumber yards.
- How railroads operated and dispatched trains on prairie railroads.
- How they assigned locomotives.
- And so much more!
Author Tony Koester includes many inspirational photos showing how he
and several other veteran modelers captured the essence of these
railroads in miniature.
