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How To Build A Model Railroad By H V Loose COVER damage 19.38
How To Build A Model Railroad By H V Loose
64 Pages Indexed
Copyright 1938
Step by step handbook for beginners and veterans.
Contents
I. Getting Started 5
II. Scales and Gauges 13
III. Track Layouts 20
IV. Track Laying 28
V. Power Supply and Control 36
VI. Locomotives 43
VII. Car Construction 55
VIII. Scenic Accessories 60
Index 64
INTRODUCTION
WITH model railroading forging ahead as one of America's fastest-growing hobbies, beginners are flocking into it by the thousands. Bankers and business men, doctors, and clerks in every state of the Union are awakening to the pleasures that can be derived from having one's own miniature empire in basement or attic. These men, before they get started, want and need information. They ask:
"What gauge is best for a space ten by fourteen feet?"-"How can I insulate wheels for two-rail?"-"How big is an 00-gauge Hudson-type locomotive "-and a hundred other questions. Although all these problems have been answered, over and over again, on the pages of Model Craftsman and Miniature Railroading, they are repeated day after day because each month brings a new group of enthusiasts into the hobby. These beginners are not always aware of what has been printed before, and the same information cannot be repeated time after time, so there exists a need for a permanent source of information that beginners can draw on while they are getting their layouts under way, as well as a compact fund of knowledge that old-timers can keep on hand when they decide to make additions to their layouts.
To meet these needs, this book is written. In preparing it, I have been conscious of the fact that the entire subject of model railroading often seems cloaked in mystery to the man who looks at it from the outside. New terms, forbidding expressions, and an unfamiliar jargon have kept many potential enthusiasts away. Accordingly, I have tried to describe everything in the simplest possible terms. To help show what different expressions mean, I have drawn freely on illustrations that previously have appeared in Model Craftsman, and have attempted to correlate these pictures, drawn from many different sources, into a description that would enable any newcomer into the field to know the difference between a semaphore and a switch, a motor truck and a reefer, and so on.
For these illustrations, and to the ideas expressed in them, I am indebted to many of the contributors to Model Craftsman, and want to express particular thanks to H. H. Quarmby, Frank Pratt, Louis H. Hertz, Walter Smith, Hugh R. Nason, A. P. Herff, W. A. Daney, R. Eichorn, C. H. Smith, Eric LaNal, R. C. Frazier, S. D. Ashford, E. J. Tomkiewicz, C. H. Smith, E. P. Alexander, R. D. Ward, Harold Darr, Jeffrey Winslow, H. K. Myers, Warren B. Crater, L. F. Beach and Frank Waldhorst. Also, thanks are due to the clubs whose layouts are pictured on some of the pages.
No one book, however big, could hope to cover the countless ramifications of model railroading. This one does not even pretend to try. It is intended, as its title indicates, simply as a guide to the methods in most general use. Those readers to whom it serves as a beginning will want further information as their modelmaking careers progress- as they wander down one of the "branch-track" phases of the hobby. To these men, I offer whatever assistance is in my power to give if they will write to me in care of the publishers.
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