Features
Typical feature articles in each month's issue include:
- Layout tours - A layout story with a detailed track plan and behind-the-scenes modeling and construction tips.
- How-to projects - Tips and techniques for modeling scenery, structures, rolling stock, and electronics.
- Prototype information - Detailed drawings historical and technical information on how real railroads and lineside industries function.
- Track plans - Sample designs for model railroads the average hobbyist could build.
Regular monthly columns and departments include:
- News and Products - Quick looks at new products available in the hobby.
- Workshop - Helpful modeling and operating tips, plus answers your questions.
- Step-by-Step - Tackles a different project each month to help you build a better layout.
- Information Desk - Learn about the prototype (real railroads) to help you be a better modeler.
- DCC Corner - Get to know model train operation using Digital Command Control.
- Product reviews - A look at new models on the market and how well they perform.
- Trackside Photos - Inspirational photos featuring the work of fellow hobbyists.
- Trains of Thought - Every month model railroad expert Tony Koester looks at the philosophical side of model railroading.
- The Operators - How to reproduce prototype operations on a model railroad.
- N Scale Insight - From March 2011, former editor Jim Kelly will begin a column looking at N scale modelling.
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