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List of useful book titles prototype and modelling, etc.
#2
Posted 07 October 2009 - 08:18 PM
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.
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.
#3
Posted 08 October 2009 - 04:34 PM
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.
Thanks to Charlie Vlk of the Steam Era Freight Car List (STMFC) on Yahoo Groups for bringing this to my attention.
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