New Book - Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Postwar Operating Cars - At York

[jschmid]

All,

A new book, the Autoritative Guide to Lionel's Postwar Operating Cars is IN and will be officially launched at TCA Eastern Division's York show.

To kick off the TCA show, a book signing "meet the authors" event will be held at 5:30pm - 8:00pm Wednesday at the Holiday Inn Holidome. Joe Algozzini and Manny Piazza will be there signing the book along with snacks and soda. This is a great opportunity meet and to pick the brains of two authorities on postwar Lionel.

As for the book (volume), it is based on 1,000’s of authentic internal postwar Lionel documents as well as the expert observations of Joe lgozzini and Manny Piazza. The volume provides the most complete and “authoritative” guide to Lionel’s operating cars.

It is the first volume to include both price and rarity for COMPLETE component boxed items, including:

- All known and authenticated operating car variations
- Original boxes
- Insert/liners
- Packed envelopes
- Instruction sheets
- Any other peripherals that came with the operating car

It also includes:

- An introduction by Roger Carp covering the history of Lionel’s operating cars
- Rarity based on actual production numbers
- Definitions and pricing for the operating car, its component box, instruction sheet and peripherals
- Comprehensive appendices on boxes, trucks and couplers and box car “Types”

This is the first time this level of detail straight from postwar Lionel has been compiled. This refreshing and new research will increase any collector or operators expertise on this subject.

Hopefully you can all make the book signing event. If not, we'll be in the Orange Hall Q11. Numerous dealers will be selling this volume as well in ALL the halls. Before then, you can download a 14 page sample of the book at projectroar.com.

I hope you all can share the enjoyment we all did in writing the book.

Thanks...

John Schmid
projectroar.com