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Written by Paul D. Race for Big Indoor TrainsTM |
This page is a place for odds and ends, especially downloadable graphics, that may be of value to people setting up indoor railroads and communities. Some of the graphics on this page were originally created for people building Garden Railroads, but so many other folks expressed interest that I've added versions that work in almost any "big" scale from Dollhouse scale (1:12) to O scale (1:48 or 1:45). I've also upgraded the graphics, when possible, from low-resolution graphics that could quickly be downloaded and printed on cheap printers to commercial-grade graphic files. I've also added many new textures that hobbyists find useful, including rotten cedar shakes, flagstones, etc., as well as a few signs that look good around the train room or trainyard. At the bottom of this page are some links to other pages you may find useful as well.
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This section replicates old-fashioned signage that you used to see on and around railroads. Today you can use them to remind people where they're allowed to go and where they're not allowed to spit. The Trainroom Signs page includes
instructions for printing and preparing for use out of doors.
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This section includes commercial quality signs and posters that you can resize and print to use on your railroad buildings and accessories.
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This section includes downloadable "brick paper," flagstone patterns, and other commercial quality graphics you can resize and print to use for buildings and backgrounds. Folks with collectible villages can use the brick and stone pages for streets.
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This section includes brick, shingle, siding, door and window patterns inspired by the tinplate buildings that Lionel and other companies made to go with their toy trains a century ago. Many of these have already been used in our Tribute to Tinplate(tm) series, which has been embraced by toy train buffs.
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![]() Since I posted these, lots of folks have used them, including professional sign companies who needed to make a client's full-sized windows look like stained glass. |
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Street Signs (752K) Using the Alps, I printed out a few of these on plastic stock, with the idea of cutting them out and gluing them on sticks.
The graphics below are very high resolution, so they'll look huge on your screen, but if you just save them to your hard drive, open them with any graphics program on your computer, and print them, they should come out fine.
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If there's something else you'd like to see here, I'm open to suggestions. Also if you have something you think your fellow readers would appreciate, please contact us. |
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Note: Big Indoor Trains(tm), Big Train Store(tm)m Family Garden Trains(tm), Big Christmas Trains(tm), and Garden Train Store(tm) are trademarks of Breakthrough Communications(tm) (www.btcomm.com). All information, data, text, and illustrations on this web site are Copyright (c) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 by Paul D. Race.
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