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MODELLING AMERICAN RAILROADS
A SPECIAL GUIDE FROM
Packed full of prototype features, construction articles, track planning and layout visits.
With rare photos and railway art also featured, this Peco Modellers’ Library
publication gives a real insight into the possibilities of modelling
North American Railroads.
PECO MODELLERS’ LIBRARY YOUR GUIDE TO MODELLING AMERICAN RAILROADS – NORTH AMERICAN SPECIAL
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With a peak mileage of over 250,000 miles, American Class 1 railroads once made their way into almost every corner of this vast continent, from the largest bustling metropolis
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right down to the sleepiest rural ‘whistle stop’,
plus short lines and narrow gauge backwaters
– offering immense variety for the potential modeller.
AMERICAN
This selective survey provides an introduction to the wide range of possibilities, old and new, steam and diesel, looking at aspects of design, planning, construction, tracklaying, detailing, and operation, along with some prototype inspiration, both historic and contemporary, plus examples
of finished layouts in various scales and gauges.
NORTH AMERICAN SPECIAL
All aboard for something different!
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Old and (relatively) new – Rio Grande Southern C-19 2-8-0 #40
on the On30 layout of Tony Morris (see CM September 2011)
and a classic Union Pacific General Motors ‘bulldog-nose‘ E7A unit on the extensive Green River HO layout by Bob Phelps.
Both photos: Steve Flint.
Below
Canadian Pacific: the Ashcroft – Kamloops local trip freight
hauled by SD40-2 #5989 departs Wallachin on 19th June 2000.
By this time caboose use was becoming less common
but still happened where switching was required en route.
A train such as this would be an ideal prototype for a modest layout. Photo: John Chalcraft, Rail Photoprints.
Your Guide to Modelling American Railroads – North American Special
First published 2014
ISBN 9780900586019
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book
is available from the British Library.
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