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    Designing and Building Fiddle Yards: A Complete Guide for Railway Modellers
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    Designing and Building Fiddle Yards: A Complete Guide for Railway Modellers

    By Richard Bardsley

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    This invaluable, well-illustrated book is essential reading for all those railway modellers who are considering building a fiddle yard. The fiddle yard is a train storage area for locomotives and rolling stock that often remains out of view. For the modeller, it represents the 'rest of the railway network' and it is essential for layouts as it is somewhere for trains to 'come from' and somewhere for trains to 'go to'. This fascinating book defines what a fiddle yard is in terms of operational variety, storage and swapping trains. It demonstrates how a fiddle yard can be integrated into a model railway layout. It covers track-only fiddle yards using a single track, ladders of multiple tracks and reversing loops and considers design issues for oval and terminus layouts as well as combination fiddle yards and the importance of train length and baseboards. There are four detailed projects for the reader to build, each one providing a different fiddle yard solution. If you have ever wondered what fiddle yards are all about and whether your layout needs one, then this is the book for you. Well illustrated with 141 colour photographs and 59 diagrams.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrowood
    Release dateAug 31, 2014
    ISBN9781847978172
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    Designing and Building Fiddle Yards: A Complete Guide for Railway Modellers
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    Richard Bardsley

    Richard Bardsley is an experienced layout builder and show exhibitor in N gauge and 00 gauge. He has written over fifty railway-modelling articles and for over thirteen years was the editor of the bi-monthly N Gauge Society Journal, as well as being a member of the Society's management committee. This is Richard's fourth book for Crowood, his other books being the highly acclaimed Planning, Designing and Making Railway Layouts in Small Spaces (2013), Making a Start in N Gauge Railway Modelling (2013) and Designing and Building Fiddle Yards (2014).

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