Hi, I was wondering what books you could recomend, both on real trains and the hobby trains. Please give as full title as possible since it can be hard to find them otherwise!
Magnus
Check the Kalmbach online listing of their books. They have them for almost anything, pick those that cover your interests and place your order. Your request was too general in nature for a specific answer.
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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Railphotog wrote: Check the Kalmbach online listing of their books. They have them for almost anything, pick those that cover your interests and place your order. Your request was too general in nature for a specific answer. Bob Boudreau
Ok, well I would like books about engines, cars and specific railroads. Also on stations, bridges freight yards and so on. pretty much anything about trains! So if any of you have read ANY book on trains or american history or geopgraphy for that matter please recomend it. I guess I can't be to specific since I'm not very specific in what I want, the only thing is that if it's on any of the above ad you like it, I want it. Besides Kalmbach, what other publishers are there that deal with modell trains.
Oh, the books van be about both modell and real trains.
Lillen wrote: Ok, well I would like books about engines, cars and specific railroads. Also on stations, bridges freight yards and so on. pretty much anything about trains! So if any of you have read ANY book on trains or american history or geopgraphy for that matter please recomend it. I guess I can't be to specific since I'm not very specific in what I want, the only thing is that if it's on any of the above ad you like it, I want it. Besides Kalmbach, what other publishers are there that deal with modell trains. Oh, the books van be about both modell and real trains. Magnus
There are literally thousands of books available on both real and model trains. Look in the magazines at the ads for the book sellers to get some idea. As Bob said, you are going to have to refine your request significantly. Model train hard cover books tend to get out of date fairly quickly, so unless your interest is older toy trains, I would avoid those. Kalmbach updates and/or replaces their soft cover "how to model railroad" booklets every few years. Carstens is another publisher I know of; there are many others. Almost every railroad that existed in the U.S. has at least been featured in a chapter or two in some book. The larger and/or better known railroads have several (or many) books written solely about them.
my thoughts, your choices
Fred W
If you want to see how many books might be available, just do a search on Amazon.com "railroad"; I'm sure you'll get thousands. Many will have descriptions of the contents too.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
Lillen wrote: Railphotog wrote:Your request was too general in nature for a specific answer.Ok, well I would like books about engines, cars and specific railroads. Also on stations, bridges freight yards and so on. pretty much anything about trains! So if any of you have read ANY book on trains or american history or geopgraphy for that matter please recomend it.
Railphotog wrote:Your request was too general in nature for a specific answer.
Texas Zepher your answer was just the kind I was looking for, since I basically am intrested in pretty much anything concerning history and railroads I want you to give me YOUR favorite book titles based on that. I know it's a broad term but since I live in Sweden Ican't get a hold of every book you say, so asking for extremly specific books will generate a few answers, of wich I probably won't be able to get a hold of many. The problem is that my company will pay for any books, BUT they have to be purchased in Sweden. So even though alot of books can be ordered, not all of them can, especially very specific ones.
Thank you ALL of you for taking time to answer my post, I apreciate it.
There are two books that I feel are worth reading. The 1st is Playing with Trains by Sam Posey which someome has already mentioned. I received a copy from my nephrew a couple of Christmas's ago when i decided to get back into this hobby. I've read it twice so far and i will probably continue rereading it every once in a while. It is quite inspiring. The 2nd book is called Empire Express - Building the First Transcontinental Railroad by David Haward Bain and published by Penquin Books. It's a little slow in places but for the most part it's a good read. Enjoy.
GUB
For modeling I recommend these:
Basic references:Dave Frary, The Pennsy Middle Division in HO Scale.Lou Sassi, A Realistic HO Layout for Beginners.
Specfic topics:Track Planning - John Armstrong, Track Planning for Realistic Operation.Wiring - Andy Sperandro, Easy Model Railroad Wiring. Scenery - Dave Frary, How To Build Realistic Model Railroad Scenery.Scenery - Lou Sassi, Basic Scenery for Model Railroaders.City Scenery - John Pryke, Building City Scenery for Your Model Railroad.
For prototype references start with, Kalmbach's The Historical Guide to North American Railroads. This book gives a brief discription of most North American fallen flags, and points you toward sources for more information. I also like Morning Sun Publishing In Color and Trackside Around series. Both series are filled with photos, diagrams, and other information about specific railroads (In Color), or geographic locations (Trackside Around). MBI Publilshing also publishes a large number of good references.
Nick
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I recommend-
Track Planning for Realistic Operation and Realistic Model Railroad Operation. I'm sure I could recommend others, such as, Realistic Model Railroad Design but I don't own themn yet!
Lillen wrote:Hi, I was wondering what books you could recomend, both on real trains and the hobby trains. Please give as full title as possible since it can be hard to find them otherwise! Magnus