NEB&W Guide to Scenery, Structures & Details - Table of Contents

Last Update: 2008-10-30

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• Introduction
  
• Planning
  
• Scenery
  
• Track
  
• Structures
  
• Details
  
• Misc.
  

Introduction

• Preface
  • The Scientific Method
  • Technology And Culture
  • For The Modeler
  • Your Web-Site

• Center for Steam-Era Studies
• The Railroad Century
• The "Downtown" Century
• The Geography of Nowhere
  
• End of the Steam Era?

Planning

• Basic Planning
  
• Planning & Decision Making
• General Layout Planning
• RPI Layout Scene Planning
  
• Period Modeling
• Town Name Derivations
• Overall Layout Construction
  
• Industry
  
• Food
• Entertainment & Communications
• Photography
• The Downtown Grid
  
• Canals
• Warfare

Basic Planning

• Club Planning
  
• Modules

Planning & Decision Making

• The Layout
• The NEB&W
• Summary

General Layout Planning

• Introduction
• Education & The Acquired Taste
• Period Modeling vs Contemporary
• More To Steam Era
• Highly Defined
• Past Layouts
• Research
• Planning a Scene
• Concave/Convex Backdrops
• Depth Vs. Access
• Compromises
• Viewpoint
• Proportions
• Background Elements
• Consistency
• Will Gill's Specific Example
• Summary

Layout Scene Planning

• South Troy
• Troy
• Green Island
• Cohoes
• State Line, Reynolds
• Saratoga
• Johnsonville
• Gassetts
• Summit
• Chester
• Proctor
• North Bennington
• Whitehall
• Winooski River
• Grand Isle & South Hero
• Causeway
• Lake George
• Willsboro
• Vergennes
• Port Henry
• Chateaugay
• Tahawnus
• North Creek

Period Modeling

• Mind Set
  
• The Past In Our Own Image
  
• The Depressing Depression?
  
• Historical Modeling Cliches
  

Overall Layout Construction

Industries Table of Contents

• Titanium
• Garnet
• North Creek
• Marble
• Proctor
• Talc
• Gassetts
• Sand
• Saratoga Springs

Iron

• Iron Ore
• Blast Furnaces
• Tahawus
• Port Henry
• Troy

Iron Making & Iron Goods

• Stoves
• Bells
• Cable and Chain

Lumber

Paper-Making

Textiles

Industry Photo Gallery

Food

• Meals
• New Foods
• Prepared Foods
• Refrigeration & Freezing
• Retail Operations
• Diners
• Fast Food
• Milk
• Tomatoes

Entertainment & Communications

• Vaudeville
• Movies
• Radio
• Television
• Music
• Photography

The Downtown Grid

• The Railroad & The Grid
• Right-Angle Turns
• The Mantelpiece City
• Grade Crossing Eliminations

Canals

• Locks
• Power Canals
• On the NEB&W

Warfare

• Forts
• War
• Post-Pearl Harbor Urban Planning

Misc.

Tools

References

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