This website has an excellent range of downloadable plans for mining town buildings if you are planning a coal mine or gold mine for your HO scale railroad, or for N scale or OO scale model railroads too. Simply download the paper models in easy to use PDF format and you are on your way to building an old mining town complete with original looking buildings of the era. The printable plans of mining town buildings assembled using fast drying clear glue or super glue. Materials used are inexpensive and can include: photocopy paper (about 1 cent a sheet), cardstock (or free card from cereal packs works wonderfully well), balsa wood, and/or corflute (can be purchased very cheaply from discount stores and DIY stores). The materials used are in many cases a personal choice for the rail modeler, but cereal box card and balsa is a popular choice of materials for modelers constructing these type of paper models in HO scale, in UK OO scale, or N scale.
If you are constructing a scale model mining town scene then there are plenty of photographs on the internet all featuring coal trains and coal yards. Even a lot of businesses used a coal fired energy source so there is plenty of scope for switching coal cars in your freight yards and taking them to the factories that can be set up with sidings so that coal cars can be left there for them to unload. That what makes model railroading so enjoyable. Every model railroad is different and there are so many different scales, scenery features, and structures to choose from, even this range of scale model mining town buildings to download and print using paper, card and balsa wood.
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