Motorbooks Model Trains

Jim Boyd. This extensive history examines the development and use of freight trains in America from the early 19th century to the present. A large selection of archival photography depicts an array of rolling stock as well as the steam and diesel engines that have pulled them across two centuries and countless of miles. A variety of railroads are depicted in scenic locations across the nation. Hardcover, 156 pages, 150 and 50 B&W photos, 10 x .....
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The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x .....
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Schafer. Americas famous railroads- Santa Fe; the Milwaukee; NYC; Pennsylvania; UP; GN; and more. Hardcover, 10 x 10'', 160 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W .....
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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 .....
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A wonderfully nostalgic tribute to the lovable kitten. Softcover 8-1/2 x 11'', 64 pages, 12 color and 70 B&W .....
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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 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Soo Line 1975-1992

The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Enthusiast Color Series(R) -- Caboose

This volume spans the period from the inauguration of the Mercury in 1936 to the end of the NYC with the merger into the Penn Central in 1967. Hardcover, 8-1/2 x 11'', 160 pages, 200+ color and B&W .....
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Railroad Color Histories are authoritative texts with dozens of images depicting engines, rolling stock, memorabilia, and promotional materials. Each is softcover with 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Railroad Color Histories -- Santa Fe Railway

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 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Great Northern Railway 1945-1970, Volume 2

The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Enthusiast Color Series(R) -- Vintage Diesel Locomotives

Each class of caboose features a dimensioned drawing and photographs showing the car in actual service. Hardcover, 11 x 8-1/2'', 124 pages, 110 B&W .....
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The complete story of Nickel Plate Roads dieselization and traces the history of all its diesel locomotives down to and after the N&W .....
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Railroad Color Histories are authoritative texts with dozens of images depicting engines, rolling stock, memorabilia, and promotional materials. Each is softcover with 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Railroad Color Histories -- Southern Pacific Railroad

The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Enthusiast Color Series(R) -- Freight Train Cars

Railroad Color Histories are authoritative texts with dozens of images depicting engines, rolling stock, memorabilia, and promotional materials. Each is softcover with 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, and measures 8-1/4 x 10-5/8''. This rspective spans the B&Os entire history from 1828 to its absorption by CSX. Features modern and period color photography as well as detailed information about company history, trains, passenger cars, and rolling stock. Softcover, .....
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The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x 9''. Stan Fischler. This colorful book examines the ten best systems in the worldLondon, New York, Moscow, Paris, Toronto, Boston, Chicago, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, and .....
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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 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Trains Of The Circus 1872-1956

The Enthusiast Color Series offers a range of fact-filled and photo-packed titles that give enthusiasts complete coverage of their favorite subjects. Each is softcover with 96 pages, 80 color photos and measures 8-1/4 x 9''. Brian Solomon. In 1924, Lima Locomotive Works introduced the Berkshire, it inspired a new breed of super steam locomotives with models like the Hudson, Yellowstone and Big .....
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Railroad Color Histories are authoritative texts with dozens of images depicting engines, rolling stock, memorabilia, and promotional materials. Each is softcover with 128 pages, 80 color and 40 B&W photos, and measures 8-1/4 x .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book - Motorbooks Railroad Color Histories -- Union Pacific Railroad, 128 pages, Softcover

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; Sway; Wabash; and others. Hardcover, 160 pages, 150 color and 50 B&W photos, 10 x .....
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Engaging history explains how New Haven managed to order streamline passenger fleets in the midst of both the Great Depression and .....
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The story of the 113-mile railroad that linked Northeast railways to Southern operations via the nations .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Richmond, Fredericksburg & Potomac Passenger Service 1935-75, 128 pg, Hardcovr

Southern/Norfolk Southern excursions in color. Color photos of bygone behemoths and a fascinating text detail nostalgic PR steam .....
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Outstanding color history documents C&O passenger cars and trains from 1945 to the emergence of Amtrak in .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- C&O Passenger Cars In Color, 100 pages, Hardcover

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 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Show Trains Of The 20th Century

Scott Rutherford. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, when the train represented the apex of high-speed travel, railroad companies spared no expense in the design and construction of their stations. A blend of archival photographs, both black-and-white and color, combine with modern color shots to relate the stories behind the design, the architecture and the use of many fine .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Book -- Classic American Railroad Terminals, Hardcover, 156 Pages

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. Includes; Chicago & North Westet Northern; Soo Line; Milwaukee Road; Northern Pacific; Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range; and .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Trains Of The Upper Midwest- Steam & Diesel In The 1950s/1960s

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 .....
...more about the Motorbooks International Photo Archives By Iconografix (Book) -- Milwaukee Road Depots 1856-1954

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 .....
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