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Boys Book Of Model Railroading By Raymond YatesHard Cover 1951 Ex-Library Book
The Boys Book Of Model Railroading By Raymond Yates
Hard Cover Ex-Library Book, taped, Library name crossed off inside front cover.
Copyright 1951
172 Pages
CONTENTS
1. Understanding Electricity1
2. Locomotives17
3. Power for the Railroad26
4. Tracks, Switches, and Gage37
5. How to Make Scenery63
6. Bridges, Culverts, etc.79
7. Buildings91
8. Easy-to-Make Things107
9. How to Be a Trouble Shooter119
10. Remote Control130
11. Signals153
12. Running on Time163
13. List of Railroad Terms169
Here is a book which will stimulate interest in a hobby as popular with fathers as with sons. It explains with clarity of derail, to both generations, how model railroads are constructed, and how the owner of a set of model trains can get the greatest possible enjoyment from his valuable possession. Careful instructions are provided for setting up model railroad stations and towns, and for creating the surrounding scenery-mountains, lakes, fences, advertising signs, even gas stations-out of inexpensive materials that are easily obtained in most households.
Surely the boy who knows that "carry the mail" means (in railroad slang) to travel at high speed, and that a "scissor bill" is a brakeman, will have more fun with his model railroad than the boy to whom his possession is just a toy that race; around a track. And that is why Mr. Yates has included in his book a list of railroad terms, a plan for making up train schedules, the railroad whistle code and signals, background material on different typo of locomotives, and an explanation of electricity's role in the running of model trains. The boy who reads this book will feel himself a part of the railroad world, and will operate his line on a businesslike basis, so that his model railroad will be a lasting pleasure for him.
There are one hundred photographs and black and white diagrams by the author, who has a large established audience because of his many other books for boys on scientific and mechanical subjects.
You will find a list of other books by Mr. Yates on the back of this jacket.
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