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A few suggestions: <br /> <br />1: Partner with a local model railroad club. That way you can form partnerships with experienced modelers who will save you a whole lot of time and help you avoid common mistakes. They might even be willing to do some things for you like build the benchwork. This way you won't have high school kids handling power tools. Model railroaders, especially the ones who join clubs, tend to be a friendly bunch who love to have the opportunity to share their know-how and help promote the hobby. <br /> <br />2: If a railroad runs through your town a good idea might be to model a portion of that railroad or branch line as it was 50 years ago. The late 1940's and early 1950's is a great era to model. There was still a lot of trackage and most of the available HO and N Scale equipment produced is from that era. For California one idea might be a branchline that transported produce. There may be other ideas. The basic idea, however, is that a model railroad moves passengers, raw materiels and products from one point to another. <br /> <br />3: You will be surprised that with a little bit of kit bashing you can make a finished building look remarkably close to some of the buildings and industries that were located along an existing mainline or branchline.
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