If you have decided to build a mining town on your model railway, you will need to buy model mining town buildings to place on it. What are model mining town buildings, and which should you choose for your new model railway? What are model mining town buildings? -- These are models of buildings that would have been in a typical traditional mining town in the United States back in the 1800s. These buildings tend to be structures like mine chutes, mine office, workers' cabins, houses, schools, lumber yards, banks, shops and saloons. In other words, any building that could possibly have been part of a mining town in the 1800s. Which buildings should you choose? -- First, you will need to decide how big the mining town on your model railroad will be, and then how many buildings you wish to put in it. Once you know that, you can then decide which of the many model old wild west railroad scale modes available are the ones you think will look the best in your new town. Just remember, things were not too uniform back in the 1800s, so there would often be a mish-mash of styles of buildings in a typical mining town. In other words, it does not matter if your model mining town buildings do not match each other design-wise. Where to buy mining town buildings? -- The best option is to buy printable buildings that are able to be downloaded, printed on cardboard and then assembled. Especially as they are inexpensive, and assembly only takes a few minutes to do. You will find several online stores that sell them and, if you want to be able to find affordable buildings that still look very nice, these are the types of mining town buildings you should look at first.
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