Model Trains

Features: The glory years of the passenger train come alive in this book. Author and illustrator Mark Wegman has researched original railroad drawings and in some cases even paint chips to render more than 160 profiles, front and top views, and interior layouts depicting the steam, diesel, and electric locomotives, along with passenger cars, of three dozen of the nation's most celebrated trains of the golden age. Each illustrated train is accompanied by photos and historical text. Hardbound, 160 pages.
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Features: Here's the complete history of the railroad built to transport cotton from the farms of Southside Virginia to the port of Norfolk. Out of print since 1987, this updated version features a new layout, new photos and expanded coverage of this colorful Virginia shortline. It includes the history of the railroad since the creation of the Norfolk Southern Corporation and provides a new color section that will interest modelers and historians. A great gift for fans of the A&D, SOU, N&W, Norfolk Southern Corp, shortlines and narrow gauge railroads. William E. Griffin, Jr. Hardcover, 8-3/4 x 11-1/4", 108 pages, 32 color & 193 b/w images.
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Features: Follows Samuel Insull's Great Chicago Systems into downtown Chicago. Powered by electric traction, the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, Chicago South Shore and South Bend Railroad and the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad carried passengers from outlying towns into the big city. Includes the Skokie Valley Route, South Shore Lines and Sunset Lines. Vintage photographs, timetables and poster advertising are featured. John Kelly. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 10-1/4", 128 pages.
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Features: A comprehensive look at all the ore docks constructed on the Great Lakes, this book includes their operational life span up to the present. All the iron ore in the Lake Superior Iron Ore District was transported by rail to one of these great docks. Features numerous photos of ore docks and ore cars, ore car schematics and other data. Patrick C. Dorin. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 128 pages.
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Features: "Santa Fe Passenger Trains in California" tells the story of Chico's trains in the Golden State beginning in the 40s as well as those of successor lines including Amtrak and commuter agencies. It covers services, routes, equipment and more in its 100 pages. Hardbound.
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Features: Chesapeake & Ohio Railway in the Coal Fields of West Virginia and Kentucky is a historical look at the C&O's numerous mainlines and branches in a scenic region of the country.
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Features: A collection of the best photographs from the bestselling railway magazine, Steam Railway. Hardcover, 9-7/8 x 9-7/8", 164 pages, color.
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Features: An album of 135 color photos of the B&O, C&O and WM during the Chessie era. Most of the images are from 1972 through the late 1980s making this book a valuable reference for Chessie System modelers. Thomas W. Dixon, Jr. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 11", 64 pages, 135 color images.
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Features: Ron Adams uses his vast knowledge of the trucking company to provide readers with a concise history of the pioneers in trucking and how they grew their empires. Most started out as small regional companies and grew their fleets with mergers and acquisitions. For each company, there's a history, maps and one or more photos.
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Features: Showcases Chicago's six major railroad stations and the trains that served them with historic photos featuring name trains and architectural details. Includes maps, timetables and promotional advertising.
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Features: Authoritative, complete guide to Lionel's operating cars, book lists price and rarity. Includes all known and authenticated operating car variations, original boxes, insert & liners, packed envelopes, instruction sheets and any other peripherals that came with the operating car. Introduction by Roger Carp of Classic Toy Trains details the history of Lionel's operating cars. Based on authentic Lionel documents and expert observations of authors Joseph P. Algozzini and Emanuel F. Piazza. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 11, 160 pages, color.
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Features: Lists and values vintage Lionel uncataloged train sets (known as promotional outfits) using original company documents. Provides complete information on special sets made for retail and promotional firms like Sears, Montgomery Ward, JC Penney, Spiegel, Western Auto, A&P, Quaker Oats, S&H Green Stamps and more. John W. Schmid. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 11, 848 pages, 1500 color images.
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Features: Covers all of the new routes in operation or in the planning stage from San Diego, California to Anchorage, Alaska. Take a ride on the Coaster, MetroLink, Amtrak's Surfliner, the West Coast Express and more. This is a great book for travel, transit planning and modeling.
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Features: Overview of facilities on America's railroads concentrating in the late-steam early-diesel era. Includes roundhouses, coaling and sanding towers, water stations and more.
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Features: During World War II the B&O purchased its last class of steam locomotives, the EM-1 2-8-8-4 simple articulated. Though the railroad desired to purchase diesels, wartime restrictions dictated this final order for big steam. EM-1s moved plenty of war traffic and then served for ten more years hauling fast freights, coal trains and, occasionally, passenger runs over the B&O's heaviest grades. Softbound, 71 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11" Format.
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Features: Historic review provides information about the types of train services and operations in various corridors and reviews the types of equipment and services available.
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Features: Ideal for any UP passenger train modeler or fan, the 128-page book is loaded with black-and-white images of UP passenger cars and locomotives.
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Features: This book features photographs of the industrial side of North America rarely seen by the general public. Contemporary and historic images take you to the primary loading and unloading ports from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. Included are images of loading and unloading at grain, ore, coal and more.
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Features: The Royal Train: The Inside Story is the official story of how British royalty travels by train. The author covers the locomotives, rolling stock, operations and more in this thorough look at trains in royal service. Hardbound, 176 pages.
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Features: All about how this all-coach train of only five cars powered by a Pacific 4-6-2 served as an emblem of hope that railroads could retain passenger service despite highway and airline competition.
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