Model Trains

Features: Mike Schafer. This book features the histories, locomotives, rolling stock, and memorabilia of railroads like the Delaware & Hudson; Erie Lackawanna; Gulf, Mobile & Ohio; Lehigh Valley; New York, Chicago & St. Louis; Missouri Pacific; Southern Railway; Wabash; and others. Hardcover, 160 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10 x 10".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- More Classic American Railroads, 156 pages, Hardcover

Features: Engaging history explains how New Haven managed to order streamline passenger fleets in the midst of both the Great Depression and WWII.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- New Haven Streamline Passenger Fleet 1934-1953, 160 pages, Hardcover

Features: The story of the 113-mile railroad that linked Northeast railways to Southern operations via the nations capital.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Passenger Service 1935-75, 128 pg, Hardcovr

Features: Southern/Norfolk Southern excursions in color. Color photos of bygone behemoths and a fascinating text detail nostalgic PR steam operations.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Steam's Camelot, 128 pages, Hardcover

Features: Outstanding color history documents C&O passenger cars and trains from 1945 to the emergence of Amtrak in 1970.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- C&O Passenger Cars In Color, 100 pages, Hardcover

Features: Interesting photographic collections culled from archives throughout the U.S. Rare images include often-overlooked details that are ideal for modelers. Each is softcover, 10-1/4 x 8-1/2", 128 pages, 120 B&W.
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Show Trains Of The 20th Century

Features: Interesting photographic collections culled from archives throughout the U.S. Rare images include often-overlooked details that are ideal for modelers. Each is softcover, 10-1/4 x 8-1/2", 128 pages, 120 B&W.
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Milwaukee Road Depots 1856-1954

Features: Mike Schafer and Joe Welsh. This sprawling photographic history rambles through two centuries of passenger trains, presenting a wealth of archival imagery and modern and period color photographs. The variety of railroads and regions featured is staggering. Hardcover, 168 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10 x 10".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- The American Passenger Train

Features: Patrick C. Dorin. This illustrated volume provides photographs and complete data about the cars used for their passenger service operations from 1945 to 1995. Softcover, 64 pages, 100 B&W photos, 8-1/2 x 11".
...more about the Motorbooks International TLC Book -- Chicago & North Western Passenger Cars

Features: Interesting photographic collections culled from archives throughout the U.S. Rare images include often-overlooked details that are ideal for modelers. Each is softcover, 10-1/4 x 8-1/2", 128 pages, 120 B&W.
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Illinois Central Railroad 1854-1960

Features: Dorin, TLC. Covers the Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range; BN, Soo Line, Canadian National, North Shore Mining, and LTV operations. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 112 pages, 175 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Minnesota-Ontario Iron Ore Railroads

Features: Patrick C. Dorin, TLC. Covers the Lake Superior & Ishpeming, Chicago & Northwestern/Union Pacific, Milwaukee Road, Soo Line, DSS&A, Canadian Pacific, Canadian National, Escanaba & Lake Superior, Wisconsin Central and Algoma Central. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 112 pages, 175 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Michigan-Ontario Iron Ore Railroads

Features: Dorin, TLC. This volume overviews Missouri Pacific passenger trains in the years beginning with the first streamlined trains and ending with the arrival of Amtrak in May, 1971. It looks at operations and equipment of these trains and includes over 100 black-and-white and color photos, plus car diagrams, drawings, maps, reproduced timetables and advertising materials. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 128 pages, 175 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Missouri Pacific Passenger Trains- The Postwar Years

Features: Passenger trains are chronicled in this examination of their role in the vanguard of streamlining in the mid-1930s through the 1960s. Over 200 black-and-white and color photos. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 144 pages.
...more about the Motorbooks International TLC Book -- Passenger Trains of Northern New England In The Streamline Era

Features: Dain Schult, TLC. This book is a complete history of the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railroad from its beginnings in the 1840s through the Civil War, to its end. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 280 pages, 200 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis- A History of ''The Dixie Line''

Features: A beautiful tribute to all the great trains of yesteryear. Streamliners centers on various aspects of the trains such as their development, rolling stock, moitve power, interior design and operations. Photographs zero in on the lounges, dining-car china, sleeping-car cabins, and so forth. A softcover reprint of Classic American Streamliners. 10 x 10", 160 pages, 150 color and 80 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Streamliners,History of a Railroad Icon

Features: Interesting photographic collections culled from archives throughout the U.S. Rare images include often-overlooked details that are ideal for modelers. Each is softcover, 10-1/4 x 8-1/2", 128 pages, 120 B&W.
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Great Northern Railway Ore Docks of Lake Superior

Features: Thomas W. Dixon, TLC. Ideal for modelers interested in late steam and early diesel era locomotive engine terminals. This book reproduces material originally contained in articles appearing in Railway Age and other trade magazines of the era, and combines it with many photos of various types of coaling stations and fueling facilities. Softcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 80 pages.
...more about the Motorbooks International TLC Publications Book -- Steam Locomotive Coaling Stations and Diesel Locomotive Fueling Facilities

Features: Griffin. This book treats the reader to a wealth of information on the Rio Grande. Also included is Rio Grande motive power including: steam, 44-tonners, FTs and later F units, PAs, H-15-44s, H-10-44s, Kraus-Maffei and all the later EMD units. Also covers famous passenger trains such as the Vista-domed California Zephyr and the Royal Gorge. Hardcover, 8-1/4 x 10-5/8", 144 pages, 100 color and 50 B&W images.
...more about the Motorbooks International Railroad Color History Series -- Rio Grande Railroad

Features: Detailed book features 81 model track plan options. Each project description includes technical advice and prototype photos that will inspire any model railroad enthusiast. Projects feature likely obstacles that might be encountered during construction and helpful tips for getting it right the first time. Line art diagrams, layout routes, dimensions, and even photographs of the finished layout are included. Paperback, 256 pages, 75 color and 75 B&W photos, 8-1/4 x 11-5/8".
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- The Big Book of Model Railroad Track Plans

Features: Corns, TLC. This 500-mile Ohio coal hauler had lumbering 2-6-6-2's, fast 2-8-4s, home built 0-6-0s and 0-8-0s. Cars, locomotives, stations, terminals, shops, facilities, iron ore piers on Lake Erie. From 1870s through merger with Nickle Plate in 1949. Hardcover, 128 pages, 11 x 8-1/2", 360 B&W illustrations.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Volume 2

Features: Vol.1 East-West Trains, Stegmaier, TLC. The author uses a PRR official consist book for 1952 and traces the background of the service, the type of cars used, their regular and special assignments, and shows the exact makeup of all Pennsys important East-West passenger trains in this transition year. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 112 pages, 150 color and 30 B&W photos.
...more about the Motorbooks International TLC Book -- Pennsylvania Railroad Passenger Train Consists & Cars Vol 1 East-West Trains

Features: Bagdon, TLC. The complete story from 1912 to its end in 1971, when the last log train arrived in Rainelle, West Virginia, just before the mill was closed. In 1958 the first diesels came to supplant the Shays, Heisler, and Climax that had powered the trains up until that time. Some of Meadow Rivers equipment went to the Cass Scenic Railroad. Softcover, 80 pages, 8-1/2 x 11", 130 B&W illustrations.
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- The Meadow River Lumber Company- West Virginia's Last Logging Railroad

Features: Tillotson, TLC. The author looks at each and every class from beginning to end and fully illustrates them both with roster photos and with action pictures. About 90% of the book consists of excellent photos of trains at various locations across the system with extended, detailed captions. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11", 112 pages, 30 color and 162 B&W images.
...more about the Motorbooks International TLC Book -- Southern Railway Diesel Locomotives & Trains 1950-1980 (Hardcover)