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Enjoy a fantastic variety of exciting track plans and layout design ideas for HO, N, and O scales. Don't miss this popular annual edition.

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Fourth in a series, Industries Along the Tracks 4 features specific industries that were served by rail.

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Find creative solutions to your challenges by seeing how accomplished modelers have worked around their own space limitations-and how their ideas can work for you.

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Using Tony Koester’s expert advice before and during construction of a layout, modelers can sharpen their focus, saving time, money, and even space.

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