Customer Review: This is an excellent book for someone just starting (or restarting) into the world of railroads (like myself). It provides not only information about diesel locomotives built before 1972, but background about each manufacturer, details of special modifications, locomotive repowerings, and even... more info
Customer Review: I just received this book and was really looking forward to a lot of different projects. I was disappointed that some of the projects in this book were slight variations of each other, and in fact there was one project for HO and larger scale immediately followed by the exact same project in N... more info
Customer Review: This book appears to be a compendium of earlier articles from Model Railroader. It starts with "Understanding Bridge Construction" and discusses various types of bridges including trestle design, plate girder bridges, and a look at some prototype bridges with measurements. There are some chapters on... more info
Customer Review: This is the 4th revised edition of the popular railroad collectibles volume. It features 200 pages with thousands of listings and hundreds of black and white photos. 1999 values are shown. There's plenty of informative text and item descriptions are very comprehensive. Topics range from art,... more info
Customer Review: I have done a considerable amount of research into the correct two-toned grays and blue - so called Opex blue -striping used on the 1938 20th Century Limited. I am, in fact, building a very accurate "O" scale model of this famous train. After a year's worth of research, Dupont custom mixed the... more info
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