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Art of Brass in Model Railroading Volume 1, The Presse Eisenbahn w/ Dust Jacket
The Art of Brass in Model Railroading Volume 1
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
230 Pages
Copyright 1982
PREFACE4
DIESEL LOCOMOTIVES12
ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES42
TURBINE LOCOMOTIVES49
STEAM LOCOMOTIVES50
PASSENGER CARS (OLD AGE)67
PASSENGER CARS (NEW AGE)90
INTERURBAN CARS168
STREET CARS188
ELECTRIC CARS203
RAIL MOTOR CARS208
CABOOSES210
FREIGHT CARS214
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS217
INDEX219
One day, some thirty years ago, I happened to be strolling in the shopping arcade of the Marunouchi Building, one of Tokyo's oldest emporiums close to Tokyo Central Station. Upon graduating from the university I had been employed by a large trading company as a clerk in charge of toys in their sundries department. Though I now was working with my father, a wholesaler of textiles, my former job had implanted a habit of browsing about toy shops. I often did it, but little did I realize that on this particular day this habit was to change my life.
There in the show window of the Haibara Toy Shop was a model train. It came in a thin wooden case and consisted of one steam tank locomotive painted black, some very colorful, American-type freight cars and a caboose, as well as a circle of snap tracks with two rails on a wooden roadbed. It looked like an American import; but, to my surprise, I found that it had been made in Japan. The manufacturer, the shop clerk kindly informed, was a firm by the name of the New One Manufacturing Company.
There's no explaining compulsions but I had to have that train set. Its price was prohibitive - far beyond what I then could afford. Still, when one wants, something badly enough, one struggles about until finding some way to get it. Somehow or other that train set would be mine.
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