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When I inherited my late husband's layout back in 2008, I also inherited his scenery budget crisis. He'd spent freely on locomotives and rolling stock but left behind mountains of bare plywood and exactly $47 in the hobby fund. That's when I learned something every art teacher already knows: the bes …

After forty years of building houses in the St. Croix Valley, I thought I understood materials and costs pretty well. Then I got into model railroading and discovered that a bag of fake grass could cost more than the real sod I'd installed on jobsites. My wife pushed me toward this hobby when I reti …