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Model Trains → Books and Misc. → Books - Historical
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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