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 Posted - March 21 2013 : 11:51:36 AM
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Picked up a couple of old books at my LHS and an antique market...
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Posted - March 21 2013 : 12:21:19 PM
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mike,looks a good bit of reading,more so the life on the loco,i picked this up the other week, ken
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Posted - March 22 2013 : 12:40:44 AM
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I love "The Complete Book of Model Railroading!" It even has some Mantua (Tyco) (sic) in it. IIRC, it even has a section covering the conversion of a Varney docksider into a cab forward using the part Ken posted recently in another thread. Also a chapter on the then current GE ASTRAC system. Great book!
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Posted - March 22 2013 : 08:29:04 AM
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Mike, hello there. Have you gone through your new George Williams book, " Life of a locomotive " yet. I see it is a Chicago and North Western locomotive that is center of this story. What type is it ? How descriptive is the book? Does it get into operation of this locomotive? Are there photos and script on it operation ?
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Posted - March 29 2013 : 09:35:54 AM
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quote:Mike, hello there. Have you gone through your new George Williams book, " Life of a locomotive " yet. I see it is a Chicago and North Western locomotive that is center of this story. What type is it ? How descriptive is the book? Does it get into operation of this locomotive? Are there photos and script on it operation ?
frank
Originally posted by toptrain - March 22 2013 : 08:29:04 AM
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Hello Frank I have only had time to flip through it so far. However I will pick out some highlights...
The cover photo shows "Buddy" at the throttle on the 1616 Class E Pacific at the Milwaukee Depot in 1937. It seems pretty descriptive throughout. When I get a chance I'll scan some pictures to post here.
Mike
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Posted - March 29 2013 : 2:57:48 PM
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Not books, but I came across this today at the Internet Archive. Here's a few copies of "Railway Modeller" from the 1960s; a monthly British magazine about Model Railways published by Peco. The price is right (free) and they are interesting to look at.
http://archive.org/details/railwaymodeller
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