Description
If you have a limited space for your layout, heres the answer! This completely
revised edition of Model Railroading in Small Spaces provides a variety of
creative approaches for building compact layouts. It covers how to build seven
different layouts encompassing portable, shelf, coffee table, and fold-up
styles. Three of the layouts are new, plus the book includes a new chapter on
advanced techniques. N and HO scale railroads are modeled, as is one O scale
shelf layout.
Mat Chibbaro works as a fire protection engineer with the OSHA National Office
and as a part-time fire protection lecturer at the University of Maryland, He is
also a member of the College Park, Maryland Volunteer Fire Department. His
interest in model railroading began in Milltown, New Jersey, where the shortline
Raritan River Railroad ran. Mat believes that the short trains operating on this
line cultivated his interest in small railroads. For the last 15 years, most of
his model railroad time has been with the Northern Virginia Ntrak club. Mat
lives in Maryland with his wife Erna, son Brian, and daughter Stephanie.
Introduction
The space problem-Fitting scenery and operation into tight areas
1. The Raritan River Railroad
An around-the-tree HO layout
2. The Norwest Terminal
An HO scale cabinet-top switching layout
3. The Pacific Union Railroad
An Ntrak module that doubles as a home layout
4. The Pacific Union Extension
A coffee-table N scale layout
5. The Brookeville Division
An N scale layout in an end table
6. The Freedonia Transportation Authority
An N scale trolley layout on a rolling cart
7. Coal River & Southern
An ultra-lightweight sectional O scale layout
8. Compact Work Area
A portable work station for tools & supplies
9. Additional space-saving ideas
Building folding legs and rolling carts
