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How To :

TIPS & TRICKS:

How to Make Backdrops for Model Trains

Take A Train To Work

Locomotive Body Shell Removal

Paint my tweezers?

Work on a Light Box

Small Parts? How about a Jewelers Bib

Rod Drilling Jig

Track :

How to make Kato Turnout Controls

How to make your own lengths of Kato Unitrack

How to make an Atlas Code 55 Double Crossover

How to make your own Kato Unitrack Feeder Joiners

Ballast Your Track

Making Kato Unitrack Curves Using Multiple Sizes

Structures :

How To Build Downtown Deco's Patterson's Hardware

Build BranchLine Company Houses

Build a DPM Hayes Hardware

Build a DPM Corner Apothecary

Build the N Scale Architects’ Long Valley Lumber

Build a DPM Char's Soda Shoppe

Build a Blair Line PizzaLand

Build a DPM Crikets Saloon

Build a DPM Bruce’s Bakery

Build a DPM Roadkill Cafe

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Box Factory Kit

Build a DPM Corner Turret Building

Build a Northeastern Scale Models First National Bank & Trust Co

Build A Northeastern Scale Models House Under Construction Kit

Build A Downtown Deco Addams Ave. Part 1 Kit

Build A Downtown Deco Addams Ave. Part 2 Kit

Build a Downtown Deco Randy’s Burgers

Build a Bar Mills Saulena’s Tavern

Build a Bar Mills Whistlestop Junction

Build a Blair Line Fred and Red’s Cafe

Build a Walthers Al’s Victory Service

Build a Walthers Windmill

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Angelo’s Place

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Freight Depot

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Passenger Shelter

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Motor Car Shed

Build a Monroe Models Jurgens Junkyard

Build a American Model Builders Company Houses

Build a Bar Mills Swanson’s Lunch Stand

Build a Blair Line Gerald Depot

Build a Bar Mills Shack Pack

Build a Cornerstone Clarkesville Depot

Build a Northeastern Scale Models Watch Tower

Scenery:

Adding "EYE APPEAL" to Mass Produced Evergreen Trees.

Build Rivers and Lakes

Build Racks for Classic Metal Works Trucks

Build Coal Loads

Modify Woodland Scenics Tunnel Liner to N Scale

Locomotives:

How to Detail Kato F7s

How to install a Digitrax Decoder into an Athearn F45 or FP45

How to install a decoder in a Kato F unit

How to install a TCS Z2 decoder in the new Lifelike N Scale GP 20

DCC Installation for the Intermountain N Scale SD40-2W

How to make a Canvas Curtain for a Steam Locomotive

Install a Mars Light in a Kato F7

Install TCS CN Decoder in Atlas RS1 Classic

Rolling Stock:

How to install Micro-Trains Trucks on Kato Hoppers and other Cars

How To Install an Easy-Peasy Light board in a Micro-Trains Heavyweight

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