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DETAILING the FOREGROUND • Don’t neglect the area between your track and the fascia

Blending roads into backdrops • Continue the photo onto the foreground and the scenery onto the backdrop to blur the dividing line

Build an adjustable TRACK CLEANING CAR • A styrene box with a tempered hardboard pad can be adapted to virtually any freight car

MODELING A snowy mountain SCENE • In the Colorado Rockies, snow isn’t just for winter

A fresh start • Contributing editor Pelle Søeborg switches to modules for his latest HO scale project

Make your own STATION KIT • Commercially available siding, roofing, and details make the Wingate, Ind., depot an ideal first scratchbuilding project

How to set up REMOTE-CONTROL OPERATIONS • Not everyone has to be in the basement to run your trains

DCC, DC, or both

ScaleTrains.com HO scale EMD SD45

Rapido Trains N scale General Electric Dash 8-40CM diesel locomotive

Jacksonville Terminal Co. N scale 53-foot well car

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