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Model railroading is a hobby shared by many people throughout the world. If you haven't figured it out already, model railroaders try to mimic real life railroads by creating miniature models in their free time. Track is laid on a 'layout' and the trains are run in circles or patterns. Fortunately, it gets much more complicated than that; scenery is created, tracks are run all over the place, and electricity is wired in.
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The Frisco Modelers' Information Group (FMIG), a Special Interest Group (SIG) of the National Model Railroad Association (NMRA), was founded in June 1976. It is an informal organization of model railroaders who model the St. Louis-San Francisco (Frisco) Railway. The communications media are a periodic newsletter, electronic mail, and occasional conventions.
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Plan books for model railroading were published as far back as 1936 with the first edition: The Model Railroader Cyclopedia. The 7th edition was first published in 1960 and is still available today in two volumes (its 16th printing). The purpose of these books is clearly stated by A. C. Kalmbach in the foreword of the 1938 edition:
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This forum is directed at all model railroaders and contains general topics that relate to model railroading. This is ... an open forum for news, model railroad related events, reviews and general information. If you post information about a train show or other event, please check back often to answer any questions that others may have.
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John Whitby Allen (July 2, 1913 – January 6, 1973) was an American model railroader who created the famous HO scale Gorre & Daphetid model railroad in Monterey, California and authored numerous magazine articles on the subject starting in the 1940s. Allen was renowned for his skill at scratch building and creating scenery, and he pioneered the technique of weathering his models to make them look old and more realistic. Besides his superdetailing of rolling stock, structures, and scenery, Allen ... filled his model world with scale people who provided humorous vignettes on life. Other techniques Allen promoted were train operation and forced perspective--the use of smaller-than-scale items to make them look distant, and create the illusion of a larger layout.
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This week Model Railroader associate editor Cody Grivno gives you a sneak peak of the new Bachmann Dynamis Digital Command Control (DCC) system. He'll ... show you the new Kato HO scale SD40-2 and don't miss Cody's modeling tip of the week.
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