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Make your own photo backdrops

Scratchbuild a ballasted deck trestle • Build around in-place track to match prototype photos

BUILDING A CRAFTSMAN WOOD CAR KIT • A few modern updates help bring this once-in-a-lifetime project to completion

THE MR&T’s EAST TROY INDUSTRIAL PARK RR • This HO scale proto-freelanced project railroad features modern urban switching with a museum twist

Bringing the trains back to southern Ontario • The Sun Parlour Lines features bridge traffic on the Chesapeake & Ohio, New York Central, and Pere Marquette between Detroit and Buffalo

Detail and weather a GONDOLA • Plus learn how to model three loads for this drop-bottom HO scale car

The world of L gauge railroading • There’s a lot of versatility in those little plastic bricks

Build a small stone arch culvert • Learn how to make clay masters, build a mold box, and more with this project

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