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rail transport modelling

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Also 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
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.