Model Trains

Features: Required reading for steel modelers, this limited edition is a reprint of Walthers classic how-to book originally published in the mid-90s. It's loaded with information and photos and features a brand new forward by steel modeling authority, Dean Freytag.
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Features: Author Roy Everett uses drawings and detailed instructions to teach novices how to bring animation to life on the layout. 92 full-color pages.
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Features: Bill Keublers carefully researched work on the Northern Pacifics luxurious named train.
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Features: Noted authors Tom Dill and Jack Bowden give a historical look at SPs shortcut from the Overland line to Oregon: the Modoc Line. This tortuous line, with its horseshoe curves, three-percent grades and helper districts made it a favorite with the railfans, but its remote northeast California location made it difficult to visit. This book is a must for SP modelers and fans as it covers an often overlooked, but spectacular area of the railroad. Hardbound, 352 pages.
...more about the Oso Publishing Company Book -- The Modoc- Southern Pacific's Back Door to Oregon by Jack Bowden & Tom Dill

Features: * It's hard to imagine an area better suited for railroad logging than the park-like pine forests of south-central Oregon, a gently rolling country where railroads could be built with a minimum of cost. During the first half of the 20th century more than two dozen rail lines were pushed into the forests of Klamath, Deschutes, Lake and Jackson Counties. For over 90 years, companies like Algoma, Pelican Bay, Lamm, Ewana Box, Shaw-Bertram, Kesterson, Wheeler-Olmstead, Brooks-Scanlon, Shevlin-Hicks, Medco, the OC&E and others brought logs out of the woods on their railroads in an attempt to satisfy the nation's insatiable demand for pine lumber and wooden boxes. * In
...more about the Oso Publishing Company Book -- Railroad Logging in the Klamath Country, 336 Pages, Hardbound

Features: Features more than 100 photographs plus maps and mine locations.
...more about the Oso Publishing Company Book -- Discovering Washington's Historic Mines Volume 3- The North Cascade Mountains

Features: A collection of over 400 photographs taken by various photographers of a variety of different railroad lines.
...more about the Oso Publishing Company Book -- Narrow Gauge Railway Scene by Adolph Hungry Wolf, Softbound, 224 Pages

Features: Railroaders and mechanics use operating manuals for maintenance and troubleshooting. These reproductions feature interesting information and component photos of the locomotives. They make great gifts for railroaders or great reference for railroad museum operations.
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Features: A step-by-step book with color pictures featuring numerous industrial modeling projects by one of the leading scratch model builders, Dean Freytag. Each accurate model is accompanied by a detailed bill of materials and highlights the creative ways to use styrene for structural shapes. 90 pages.
...more about the Plastruct Book -- The Cyclopedia of Industrial Modeling by Dean Freytag

Features: Treat yourself or a friend to the first book ever to tell the story of the TurboTrain through history using anecdotes and photographs, the majority never published before. It's been 40 years since the TurboTrain rocketed to record-breaking speeds and touched the hearts of a new generation of railfans. Part train, part jet aircraft, it was the latest ground transport innovation. But the Turbo's promise of a new era of passenger service went sadly unfulfilled. A gas turbine powered train introduced at a time of unprecedented hostility toward passenger train travel and high fuel prices had little chance of survival. Despite the obstacles, the TurboTrain was a succes
...more about the Rapido Trains Inc. Book -- Turbotrain- A Journey by Jason Shron

Features: * Covers the CNJ, Lackawanna, Erie, Erie Lackawanna, LV and Rdg with complete roster information and detail data. 11 color and 119 B&W photos, 80 pages. * Vol 1 first Generation Geeps.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- The Hard Coal Carriers Volume 1 First Generation Geeps Softcover

Features: * Covers the CNJ, Lackawanna, Erie, Erie Lackawanna, LV and Rdg with complete roster information and detail data. 11 color and 119 B&W photos, 80 pages. * vol 2 camelback twilight.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- The Hard Coal Carriers Volume 2 The Hard Coal Carriers Softcover

Features: Complete roster and mechanical specifications, 66 color photos.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Conrail's SD40 & SD40-2

Features: Looks at the line from the mid 60s to the UP merger. Includes 80 color showcasing a wide range of diesels across the system. Softcover, 48 pages, all-color.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- A Colorful Look at the Chicago & North Western

Features: * Pennsylvania's central coal region during the 1950s. Includes 64 photos from the Reading, CNJ, Pennsy and Lehigh Valley operation in Schuylkill and Carbon County. Lots of steam and early diesels from a by-gone era. * Softcover, 48 pages, all-color.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Anthracite Country Color

Features: Over 80 B&W photos illustrated the evolution of the gas-electrics on the Erie. Also included are diagrams and charts giving a comprehensive look at these cars. Softcover, 64 pages.
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Features: Covers the Reading Co. durig the steam-to-diesel transition era. 48 pages of full color.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Colorful Memories Of Reading's Shamokin Division

Features: Contains photos from the 1950s and 1960s of PRR, LV, CNJ, RDG, EL, Erie and Delaware, Lackawanna & Western. Full color, 64 pages.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Memories of Eastern Pennsylvania Railroading

Features: Covers the Conestoga Traction Company and the Hershey Transit Company. 64 pages.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Dutch Country Trolleys 64 Pages

Features: Written by Frederick A. Kramer.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- Unifying The Subways

Features: A full-color photo essay by an employee of the EL; Rich Pennisi. 64 pages, 8-1/2 x 11".
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- A Colorful Look At.... The Erie Lackawanna

Features: Take a look at the work of Carl Connelly as he traveled across the state in pursuit of his hobby during the 1960s and 70s. 48 pages, 90 color photos.
...more about the Railroad Ave Enterprises Book -- A Colorful Look At- Selected Pennsylvania Shortlines