March, 2008 Update: Trains-N-Towns<sup><small>TM</small></sup>


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Written by Paul D. Race for Big Indoor Trains^TM and Big Christmas Trains^TM

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Trains-N-Towns^TM, the Official Newsletter of BIGIndoorTrains.com and BIGChristmasTrains.com

This newsletter is for people who like O scale trains and Christmas trains, especially people who combine On30 or O gauge trains with collectible villages. It is produced in conjunction with the Big Indoor Trains^TM and Big Christmas Trains web sites.

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Topics discussed in this update include:

Call for Help: Need Photos and Story Ideas
New Article: Add Spring Color to Your Village or Indoor Railroad
Indoor Trains Project Idea: "Building a Vintage-Style Stone Cottage"
New Downloadable Brick Patterns
On a Seasonal Note: Saint Patrick: His People, His Work, and His Day

Note: We have several new articles in the works, but we had to stop somewhere and issue a newsletter. Stay tuned, or check our site often.

Call for Help: Need Photos and Story Ideas

Do you like to see new photographs of other people's trains and towns? So do we. Unfortunately, we can't come into your houses and take photos, so we need you to send photos to us. At this point we are especially in need of:

Photos that show your trains along with your towns, and
Photos of trains and towns that a season other than Christmas.

Also, if you've come up with a technique or idea you'd like to share with our readers, let us know. Don't worry about the writing part. If we have photographs and a good idea of how you accomplished something, we can put the article together and get you to take a look at it before we go "live." And don't worry about credit, we ALWAYS give credit where it is due, for photos or ideas, or articles.

All of this will help us help you and the hobby at large. Please contact us if you have any photographs you'd be willing to share, story ideas, questions, or anything else worth putting in an e-mail.

New Article: Add Spring Color to Your Village or Indoor Railroad

Use dried flower or weed heads and a bit of paint to add a springlike splash of color to your display village of railroad. For more information, click the following link: http://bigindoortrains.com/primer/spring_trees/springtrees.htm

Indoor Trains Project Idea: "Building a Vintage-Style Stone Cottage"

On our sister site Big Indoor Trains, Glitterhouse builder Howard Lamey has created another a project to show how printouts from our Resources section can add three-dimensional interest to an indoor railroad. Though this small structure uses the "small" scale graphics, you can increase the plan by 300% and use the large scale graphics to get a similar effect for a large scale 3-D stone cottage that can be used in a holiday village or adapted for use on an indoor railroad. To see Howard's article, click the following link:

http://bigindoortrains.com/primer/buildings/stonecottage/stone_cottage.htm

New Downloadable Brick Patterns

To see the large scale graphics you would use for a project like the one above - including several that are new this month - click the following link:

http://bigindoortrains.com/indoor_resources/brick_n_stone/brick_n_stone.htm

On a Seasonal Note: Saint Patrick: His People, His Work, and His Day"

Another sister site Family Christmas Online^TM has a brand-new article about the ancient Celts and why Saint Patrick is important even if you're not Irish. Click the following link to see the article:

http://familychristmasonline.com/other_holidays/st_patricks_day/st_patricks_day.htm

Keep in Touch

We always try to answer reader questions quickly. Also many reader questions (and their answers) apply to other readers as well. That's why we keep adding entries to our "Letters to the Editor" pages. You may find some interesting and helpful reading there.

In the meantime, Happy Saint Patrick's Day, Happy Easter, and have a great spring!

Paul Race

BigIndoorTrains.com
BigChristmasTrains.com
FamilyGardenTrains.com

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http://bigindoortrains.com/trains_n_towns/08_02_newsletter_indoor.htm

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