Model Railroader – How to Operate Your Model Railroad – Summer 2012 is a collection of articles about how to operate your model railroad. The magazine contains essential information from the pages of Model Railroader to help you better operate your railroad.
In the ‘Switching” section there are practical tips for switching fun by David Popp. There are three other articles by Andy Sperandeo about certain aspects of switching.
The second section is “Car Routing”. There are three articles by various authors.
The next section is about “Freight Yards”. The articles
range from tips for freight yard operation and design to actual tips on how to
move your trains within the yards.
The “Jobs & Rules” section has articles that talk about the train dispatcher, authority for use of the main line, train order signals and many more articles.
The “Timetable” section has articles to assist the model
railroader in putting together and operating trains on a timetable.
If you love to run passenger trains, the “Passenger Train”
section shows passenger station operations, adding mail and express to the
passenger trains and a prototype of a passenger terminal.
What is “Realistic running “. Learn more about sound and
operations with the articles in this section.
The last two sections by Andy Sperandeo and David Popp give examples of what was discussed in the other sections of Model Railroader – How to Operate Your Model Railroad – Summer 2012.
If you want to run your model railroad the real railroads
the articles in Model Railroader – How to Operate Your Model Railroad – Summer
2012 will help you. Make your operating sessions more realistic. For a list of
the articles, look at the photographs of the table of contents.
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