Wiring Your Toy Train Layout

Wiring Your Toy Train Layout
Author: Peter Riddle
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897784771

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.

Wiring Handbook for Toy Trains

Wiring Handbook for Toy Trains
Author: Ray L. Plummer
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Digital control systems
ISBN: 9780897785334

A thorough guide to a solid understanding of traditional, non-electronic wiring for toy train layouts. Learn how to master the basics of electricity and wiring, hook up transformers and other components, connect and solder wire, maintain and troubleshoot a layout, and more.

Wiring Your Model Railroad

Wiring Your Model Railroad
Author: Larry Puckett
Publisher: Essentials
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781627001755

"Whether you're using traditional, direct current (DC) cab control or the latest Digital Command Control (DCC) system [this] will guide you through the steps of planning and wiring a layout. With ... more modelers choosing DCC, this book will help demystify how it works; clarify the advantages of DCC and what makes it different from DC control; and, teach you how to convert an existing DC layout to DCC. Step-by-step instructions and photos are coupled with clear, color-coded diagrams that will guide you through the process of wiring a complete layout or just troubleshooting problem areas"--

Lionel FasTrack Model Railroads

Lionel FasTrack Model Railroads
Author: Robert Schleicher
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616732199

As model railroaders began demanding ever-greater realism, Lionel responded in 2004 with its FasTrack system featuring an integrated roadbed, scale-sized ties, and a less-obvious center rail. Veteran hobby author Bob Schleicher follows up his The Lionel FasTrack Book with a closer, more detailed look at Lionel’s revolutionary O-gauge system. This guide gives enthusiasts a deeper sense of how to take advantage of the FasTrack’s ease of use and unprecedented realism in large-scale model railroading. The book includes 150 color photos and track diagrams for 10 scenicked FasTrack layouts ranging from 6x6-foot tabletop models to an 11x30-foot scale-size empire. Schleicher also provides instructions for building tables to support the layouts, advice for creating both rural and urban scenery, and an appendix of recommended suppliers.

Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains

Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains
Author: Dennis Brennan
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0890247455

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.

Basic DCC Wiring for Your Model Railroad

Basic DCC Wiring for Your Model Railroad
Author: Mike Polsgrove
Publisher: Basic
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780890247938

Get started with Digital Command Control (DCC)! This beginning how-to guide covers the basics, with an overview of DCC, track wiring, cab bus wiring, and converting an existing layout to DCC. Written by Mike Polsgrove, Model Railroader's columnist on DCC.

Build a Better Toy Train Layout

Build a Better Toy Train Layout
Author: John Grams
Publisher: Kalmbach Media
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004
Genre: Railroads
ISBN: 9780897784795

Two experienced authors bring you easy-to-follow advice on creating a more realistic and enjoyable operating layout. His layout planning, electrical, trackwork, scenery and structure, and operating tips and techniques are depicted through all-new model photos captured on his O gauge LL/ATSF layout.

Classic Toy Trains

Classic Toy Trains
Author: Gerry Souter
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780760313671

Text and photographs present a history of toy trains.

The Lionel FasTrack Book

The Lionel FasTrack Book
Author: Robert Schleicher
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2006-05-31
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780760323526

When Lionel introduced its new FasTrack system in 2004, model train enthusiasts quickly warmed to the increased realism—right down to the integrated roadbed and darkened center rail—and the greater ease of use. In this book, the author of The Big Book of Lionel presents the first complete guide to the FasTrack system. Amply illustrated with color photographs and 36 track diagrams, the book instructs readers on every aspect of the system, from assembling and disassembling FasTrack to building a simply oval, planning a layout within various space constraints, building tracks for two trains and reversing trains, and designing unique layouts—even yard layouts.