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Improve sound in your steam locomotive

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Build a stronger safety fence

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Build wooden fences

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Add a manual uncoupling section to gauge-1 track

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Three handy tips

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Make building signs from polyester labels

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Roadbed made from plastic carpet chair mats

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Replacing roadbed on my garden railway

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Four more handy tips for garden railroaders

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Kitbash a pulpwood load

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Make inexpensive details from craft store toys

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Five track and roadbed tips

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How to build a retaining wall

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Kitbash a saddle tank engine

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Modify die-cast vehicles for large scale

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Find space in a small railroad for a point-to-point line

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Kid-friendly garden railroading

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Adding water and smoke to an O scale garden railway

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Hypertufa recipe and techniques

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Handmade hardscape using hypertufa

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