5 Golden Rules For Creating A Wonderful Model Railroad Theme

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Model Railroading
5 Golden Rules For Creating A Wonderful Model
Railroad Theme
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Presenter Notes
Regardless of the many different kinds of themes
that you can use to create wonderful model
railroad layout plans here are the five golden
rules that you need to take into consideration
when creating any theme.

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Choose a Season

• The season helps with the colors of nature
• The season helps you to decide the activates of
  the people
• Winter wonderland with snow everywhere
• Summer scene with summer activates

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The season you decide to depict will decide the
colors of the landscape. A winter wonderland will
have lots of white show over the ground, hanging
off tree branches and sliding off buildings. A
summer theme will have greens as the main color
of vegetation while fall will have the browns and
oranges associated with fall colors.



It is possible to combine snow with another
season theme by having towering mountains in the
background that are snow capped.



Choosing the season also helps to decide the
activities of people in your theme. In a winter
theme the activities can include skiing, building
snowmen, ice skating, shovelling snow and all of
the other things that you do in winter.



A summer theme will have different activities
depending on the next part for choosing a theme.

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Choose a Location

• The location helps decide the activates
• Farming with stock or crop movements
• City and commuters
• Beaches and swimming and sunbathing
• Forests with logging, camping and hunting

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Where do you want your theme to be located? If
you want a beach theme, then your people would be
doing activities relating to the beach, such as
surfing, swimming and sun bathing.



A nature theme would have people out maybe
camping or shooting as well as hiking the woods.
However that could all change when you decide the
next part of your theme!

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Choose a Time Of Day

• This helps sets the colors
• Night time will have dark colors
• Sunset pale colors
• Midday bright colors

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If you wanted a night time theme then sun bathing
at the beach would be out!



Also the time of day will affect the colors of
the items in your theme - a sunset theme would
have more pale colors than a midday sunny theme.

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Trains Need a Time Frame

• Wild West
• Stream Trains
• 1800s
• 1950s
• 2000s

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If you wanted a night time theme then sun bathing
at the beach would be out!



Also the time of day will affect the colors of
the items in your theme - a sunset theme would
have more pale colors than a midday sunny theme.

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Choose a Purpose

• Real railroads operate for a purpose
• Transporting goods
• Transporting people
• What do you want to transport?

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As you can see from the above ideas, there is a
set purpose for each theme. Your trains should
have places to go otherwise you could get bored
just watching them go round and round!

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Trains Need a Reason and Job

• Transport lumber from the forest to the mill
• Transport people from home to work
• Transport freight to the docks
• Transport people on holiday

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Another way to think of themes is what you would
like your model railroad to do.



- Long coal trains going through mountains from
the mines to places that use coal

- Logging trains, moving logs from where they are
milled in the forests to the mills for cutting to
the factories that use wood to make products

- Passenger trains taking people to and from
towns and cites, to work and recreation areas

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