[PDF] Guide To Prairie Railroading eBook

Author : Tony Koester
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 2023-11-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781627009287

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Prairie railroads have a different feel and character compared to railroads in the mountains. The nature of prairie railroading allows modeling these lines on narrow shelves, which maximizes your layout space whether you're dealing with a large basement or two walls of a spare bedroom. This book is filled with both modeling tips and prototype information: How to model many types of farm fields: corn, soybeans, wheat, and more. How to model various businesses common to the region: such as grain elevators, oil dealers, coal dealers, and lumber yards. How railroads operated and dispatched trains on prairie railroads. How they assigned locomotives. And so much more! Author Tony Koester includes many inspirational photos showing how he and several other veteran modelers captured the essence of these railroads in miniature.

Author : Jeff Wilson
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 9780890247754

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Discover numerous examples of iconic railroad structures, with accompanying modeling tips! Filled with historical photos, this book from Jeff Wilson describes the design and operation of various types and styles of depots, passenger stations, and freight houses. It also covers the smaller structures and details found along railroad rights-of-way such as interlocking towers, maintenance sheds, crossing shanties and gates, signs, and communication lines.

Author : Jeff Wilson
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780890245965

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Build realistic bridges and tunnel portals, from simple culverts and wood beam bridges to majestic stone arches and steel viaducts. Discover how different types of bridges and trestles are used, with historic and contemporary prototype photos, and strategies for modeling, painting, and weathering scale models.

Author : Andy Sperandeo
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780890246207

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Andy Sperandeo offers you passenger train history, types, equipment, and terminal information, as well as tips for modeling equipment, structures, trackage, and details appropriate for any era.

Author : Andy Sperandeo
Publisher : Kalmbach Publishing Company
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780890245767

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HO and N scale illustrations plus prototype and layout photos introduce you to the principles of designing, constructing and operating a realistic freight yard. Covers how real rail yards receive and classify trains, defines the various yard designs and structures, and offers techniques for modeling yards on a layout of any size or era.

Author : Jim Loomis
Publisher : Prima Lifestyles
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 23,50 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation
ISBN :

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This is the definitive guide to North American train travel, complete with booking procedures, on-board etiquette, maps, floor plans for typical coach and sleeping cars, and more. This new edition reflects all the recent changes at Amtrak, North America's largest passenger rail system.

Author : Elmer Griffith Sulzer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780253334831

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Details the history of railroad closings and their impact on the railroad traffic running from the industrial North and East to the agricultural South and West.