Are you planning your basement railroad empire? Curious on how an expert compresses entire railroad locations and operations into a small space? Dan Bourque has designed hundreds of train layouts over the past 20 years, and these can be seen on his Appalachian Railroad Modeling website. He shares his step-by-step approach to finding the ideal method of compressing real railroad mainlines and branches into true model railroading.

“Homework” layout links and excellent examples of Dan’s work:

Clinchfield Fremont Branch

Pittsburgh & Shawmut South End

Southern St. Charles Branch

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