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Prototype information (no specifications),
Model plans (dimensions).

Model Railroader Cyclopedia: Vol. 1, STEAM, edited Linn H Westcott. Published Kalmbach Books, various editions 1960 through to 1998.

Model Railroader Cyclopedia: Vol. 2, DIESEL. Published Kalmbach Books (details coming when I find the book in my collection).

Availability: Check Kalmbach Book's website and amazon.com, also e-bay and similar sites.

Recommended resource. *****

Pro's: plenty of plans, with dimensions, but no locomotive specifications, so you need to look elsewhere for that information. Large landscape format, softcover, some plans cover two pages.

Con's: doesn't cover the latest generation diesel MPU. Difficult to copy plans due to the format.

As far as I'm aware there is no electic locomotive planbook in the series.

[Genma Saotome]

Simmons-Boardman is the long-time publisher of the Car and Locomotive Cyclopedias, which are the definative volumes for scaled drawings of all types. In the early 50's they published a book aimed at model railroaders that was simply a collection of pages from recent CBC's and LBC's. That's in the the University of Michigan Library and that book has now been scanned by Google and is available as a .pdf download, right here

Thanks to Charlie Vlk of the Steam Era Freight Car List (STMFC) on Yahoo Groups for bringing this to my attention.