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Post pictures of the different train books that you have. Here's mine.
The first one here is one of my first train anything that I got when I was a toddler. The only other train thing I think I had at that age was some TOMY Thomas stuff. The only reason why I still have it is for memories and I love the illustrations, so nostalgic.
This one I got as a Christmas gift a couple of years ago. I still like it.
-Steve
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 1:35:48 PM
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Oh I got the complete Thomas book by Rev Audrey
& Ivor The Engine book from UK!
Do want more of them Plus possibly a HO/OO model of Ivor
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 4:43:06 PM
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I have a whole shelf... my favorites have to be The Second Diesel Spotter's Guide (Jerry Pinkepank, 1976), an original 1st edition copy of Lucius Beebe's legendary Mixed Train Daily, and an almost-complete set of Model Railroader 1939-40.
From the railroads themselves, two different Conrail employee division maps I found, a pair of PC timetables (1966 and 1968), a PRR philly division timetable from 1964, two Reading rulebooks (1974? and a 1944 interlocking guidebook), an old LV rulebook from sometime in the 50's, the AAR rulebook of freight car repair (my favorite!), a yardmaster's pad of Form 116 train orders (unused, printed sometime around WWII), a 1944 children's book about trains that was obviously sponsored by the PRR (every other picture is a pennsy builder's shot of new equipment, even though they aren't credited anywhere, I found it quite amusing)... I could go on...
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 5:32:02 PM
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Here are most of my train books. There are a few more in a box, somewhere.
 
Except for Fiddletown and Copperopolis, these books were from an estate sale where a friend of mine picked them up for $2 each.
Carpe Manana!
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 6:42:18 PM
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| I got too many to list. The size of my collection rivals several small libraries and museums in size. Lots of magazines but some of them are the size of books.
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 7:08:00 PM
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quote:Oh I got the complete Thomas book by Rev Audrey
& Ivor The Engine book from UK!
Do want more of them Plus possibly a HO/OO model of Ivor
Originally posted by microbusss - April 22 2014 : 1:35:48 PM
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My brother has a similar book and he doesn't allow me to look at it. It's the book that got me interested in The Flying Scotsman because of this story that was in it.
-Steve
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 7:09:30 PM
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quote:I got too many to list. The size of my collection rivals several small libraries and museums in size. Lots of magazines but some of them are the size of books.
Originally posted by LGLrr845Â -Â April 22 2014Â :Â 6:42:18 PM
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I've also got a ton of old Model Railroader magazines in the garage. I didn't post it for the same reason as you.
-Steve
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 7:59:47 PM
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F&C cooool Real towns in California BUT never had a railroad connecting them
Always did want to do a loco from that book
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 9:41:31 PM
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Here are most of my train books. I would have more but they are (the ones I want anyway) so dang expensive. I also have a few years worth of L&N Historical Society Magazines and a LOAD of old Trains magazines I found at a Half-Price bookstore for next to nothing. It was literally a car trunkload of them.
 
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 22 2014 : 9:54:19 PM
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Tip of the iceburg...I highly recommend these...
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Posted - April 23 2014 : 5:54:52 PM
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I have many railroading books but this is my all-time favorite, How to Run a Railroad, by Harvey Weiss. This was a long-time favorite of mine, and I recently bought my own copy of it as the Houston library system does not have it. although the scenery methods are somewhat crude, it really shows the ingenuity of model railroading as the author built a layout and made all his buildings from scratch with cardboard. There were many instructions on how to build all sorts of buildings like bridges, trestles, oil refineries, airports, and helipads. There were also a few basic instructions on operating the layout. The only store-bought hobby supplies were the engines and cars, which were Tyco. As I recall there were also some Tyco AMCs and Camaros, and dodge piggyback trucks on that layout as well.
Not my photo, from Amazon.com
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Posted - April 23 2014 : 9:29:55 PM
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I actually lent a slide to be published in a Morning Sun book; I have too many probably to list, including some of the old Ralph on the Railroad series - which was sort of a mystery series along the lines of The Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew, but centered around a kid who worked his way up from a locomotive wiper through various jobs on the Great Northern. There were all kinds of series like that back in the 1900-1935 period, most never got reprinted.
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Posted - April 23 2014 : 10:06:34 PM
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quote:I have many railroading books but this is my all-time favorite, How to Run a Railroad, by Harvey Weiss. This was a long-time favorite of mine, and I recently bought my own copy of it as the Houston library system does not have it. although the scenery methods are somewhat crude, it really shows the ingenuity of model railroading as the author built a layout and made all his buildings from scratch with cardboard. There were many instructions on how to build all sorts of buildings like bridges, trestles, oil refineries, airports, and helipads. There were also a few basic instructions on operating the layout. The only store-bought hobby supplies were the engines and cars, which were Tyco. As I recall there were also some Tyco AMCs and Camaros, and dodge piggyback trucks on that layout as well.
Not my photo, from Amazon.com
Originally posted by ChessieRRÂ -Â April 23 2014Â :Â 5:54:52 PM
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Didn't you show a picture of that book a while back on the forum? Anyway, the way you described the book reminds me of a book I forgot to put in my thread. Here it is!
-Steve
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