Review: A great guide for RR newbies!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 10, 2014
I bought this book to read with my son because we're both new to model railroading. He found several boxes of old trains stored in his grandfather's basement over Christmas vacation, so we let him look through it all. This book did a great job of explaining what all the components are and what we need to focus on when building our benchwork and track layout. It's nice to be able to put a name to each piece instead of calling them all "doohickeys" or "thingamabobs." The author gave some great ideas for possible themes to use when setting up the scenic layout. While I agree with other reviewers that illustrations in the book would be helpful, there were a couple of links to web resources included that had pictures online.