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Railway modelling (UK, Australia and Ireland) or model railroading (US and Canada) is a hobby in which rail transport systems are modelled at a reduced scale.

A scale model is most generally a physical representation of an object, which maintains accurate relationships between all important aspects of the model, although absolute values of the original properties need not be preserved.

This enables it to demonstrate some behavior or property of the original object without examining the original object itself.

The most familiar scale models represent the physical appearance of an object in miniature, but there are many other kinds.

A railroad car or railcar (American and Canadian English), railway wagon or railway carriage (UK and UIC), also called a train car or train wagon, is a vehicle used for the carrying of cargo or passengers on a rail transport system (a railroad/railway).

Such cars, when coupled together and hauled by one or more locomotives, form a train.

Alternatively, some passenger cars are self-propelled in which case they may be either single railcars or make up multiple units.

The track on a railway or railroad, also known as the permanent way, is the structure consisting of the rails, fasteners, railroad ties (sleepers, British English) and ballast (or slab track), plus the underlying subgrade.

It enables trains to move by providing a dependable surface for their wheels to roll upon.

For clarity it is often referred to as railway track (British English and UIC terminology) or railroad track (predominantly in the United States).

Tracks where electric trains or electric trams run are equipped with an electrification system such as an overhead electrical power line or an additional electrified rail.

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Walthers, Inc. is a manufacturer and distributor of model railroad supplies and tools.

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