This book is filled with both modeling tips and prototype information:

• How to model many types of farm fields: corn, soybeans, wheat, and more.
• How to model various businesses common to the region: such as grain elevators, oil dealers, coal dealers, and lumber yards.
• How railroads operated and dispatched trains on prairie railroads.
• How they assigned locomotives.
• And so much more!

Author Tony Koester includes many inspirational photos showing how he and several other veteran modelers captured the essence of these railroads in miniature.