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Tony Koester

Author of Realistic Model Railroad Design: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Operating Layout (Model Railroader)

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Multideck Design for Model Railroads is Tony Koester's 19th all-new or substantially updated book about scale model railroading. He has been the editor of Model Railroad Planning, a special annual issue of Model Railroader, since its inception in 1995. He is a contributing editor to MR and writes show more the magazine's popular Trains of Thought column. He took many of the photographs for this book on his former Allegheny Midland and current Nickel Plate Road HO scale layouts. show less

Works by Tony Koester

Realistic Model Railroad Design: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Operating Layout (Model Railroader) (2004) 35 copies
Designing & Building Multi-Deck Model Railroads (Model Railroader) (2008) 31 copies
Realistic Model Railroad Operation: How to Run Your Trains Like the Real Thing (Model Railroader Books) (2006) 30 copies
Model Railroader's Guide to Coal Railroading (2006) 24 copies
Realistic Model Railroad Building Blocks: An Introduction To Layout Design Elements (Model Railroader) (2005) 21 copies
Realistic Model Railroad Operation (Layout Design and Planning) (2013) 17 copies
Planning Scenery for Your Model Railroad: How to Use Nature for Modeling Realism (Model Railroader) (2007) 15 copies
Model Railroader's Guide to Mountain Railroading (Model Railroader Books) (2011) 15 copies
Model Railroading from Prototype to Layout (Model Railroader) (2010) 14 copies
Modeling the Transition Era (Layout Design and Planning) (2017) 13 copies
Space-Saving Industries for Your Layout (Model Railroader Books Layout Design and Planning) (2016) 12 copies, 1 review
Planning Your Model Railroad (2015) 11 copies
Multideck Design for Model Railroadsd: Proven Methods for Doubling Your Layout Space (2021) 9 copies
How to Kitbash Structures (Modeling & Painting) (2012) 9 copies
Guide to Narrow Gauge Modeling (Layout Design and Planning) (2014) 8 copies
The Allegheny Midland: Lessons Learned (Model Railroader Books) (2010) 8 copies
Applying Lessons from the Prototype (Layout Design and Planning) (2020) 7 copies, 1 review
Time-Saving Techniques for Building Model Railroads (2019) 7 copies
Allen McClelland and His Virginian & Ohio (2022) 6 copies
Modeling Shortline Railroads 5 copies
Guide to Prairie Railroading (2023) 5 copies
Steam & Diesel Locomotive Servicing Terminals (Kalmbach Publishing) (2018) 5 copies
Model Railroad Planning 1998 (1998) 5 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2018 (2018) 3 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2002 (2002) 3 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2014 (2013) 3 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2004 (2004) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 1997 (1997) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2003 (2003) 2 copies
Guide To Modeling Branch Lines 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2006 (2006) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2009 (2009) 2 copies
Model railroad planning 2001 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2011 (2011) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2010 (2010) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2013 (2013) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2015 (2015) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 2017 (2017) 2 copies
Model Railroad Planning 1995 1 copy
Guide To Modeling Branch Lines 1 copy
Great American Layouts DVD Series: Tony Koester's Allegheny Midland Railroad 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2005 (2005) 1 copy
The Allegheny Midland 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2020 1 copy
Model Railroading Planning 2000 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2021 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2007 (2007) 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2016 (2016) 1 copy
Applying lessons from the prototype : 25 ways of enhancing your layout 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 1999 (1999) 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2000 (2000) 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2001 (2001) 1 copy
Model Railroad Planning 2012 (2012) 1 copy
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Associated Works

Model Railroader 72.8 (2005) — Editor — 2 copies, 1 review
Model Railroader 72.10 (2005) — Contributor — 2 copies
Model Railroader 72.6 (2005) — Contributor — 2 copies
Model Railroader 72.9 (2005) — Contributor — 2 copies
Model Railroader 2015 October (2015) — Contributor — 2 copies
Model Railroader 80.2 (2013) — Editor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 80.1 (2013) — Editor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 73.9 (2006) — Contributor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 74.9 (2007) — Contributor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 81.8 (2014) — Contributor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 82.1 (2015) — Contributor — 1 copy
Model Railroader 81.5 (2014) — Contributor — 1 copy

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Space-Saving Industries for Your Layout: Layout Design and Planning (Model Railroader Books Layout Design and Planning) by Tony Koester
On my first read I really liked the content. I did a second read a few months later, and my opinion changed. With a title like 'Space-savings Industries', I was looking for ideas of small industries that could plausibly generate traffic. There is some of this, but quite a bit of the book is devoted to how to depict large industries in small spaces through the use of building flats, suggestion or implication (e.g., interchanges), and other means of playing with track. While technically within show more the scope of the title, I found these to leave a bit to be desired. show less
Jun 18, 2018
WPLives15 reviews
Applying Lessons from the Prototype by Tony Koester
Layout Design and Planning
Oct 11, 2025

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