rail transport modelling
Sign in to saveAlso known as model railroading, railroad modelling, railway modelling
modeling trains hobby
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- industry
- Subclass of
- model building
- Image
- Rail transport modelling-Streak.jpg
- Has use
- education
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- Commons category
- Rail transport modelling
- topic's main category
- Category:Rail transport modelling
- different from
- toy train
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Encyclopedic overview
A Japanese H0e scale model railroad One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one of the larger (live steam, 1:8) model locomotives HO scale (1:87) model of a North American center cab switcher shown with a pencil for scale Z scale (1:220) scene of a 2-6-0 steam locomotive being turned. A scratch-built Russell snow plow is parked on a stub (Val Ease Central Railroad).
Railway modelling (British English) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “rail transport modelling” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.