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Frank Ellison on Model Railroads 1954 Hard Cover
Frank Ellison on Model Railroads Fawcett Book #242
Copyright 1954
Soft Cover
COVER is separated from the pages
144 pages
CONTENTS
Fast Freight 4
How Freight Yards Work 12
Way Freight-How They Operate 22
Way Freight-Operation On The Delta Lines 25
Where To Locate Industries 32
Route Switching 40
Short Line Railroading 48
Operating Trunk Line Passenger Trains 58
Simplified Benchwork 66
Track Foundations 73
Engineering Good Track 82
Build Your Own Track 90
The Illusion Of Distance 100
The Fundamentals Of Scenery 108
Creating With Plaster 117
Coloring Your Landscape 126
Miniature Vegetation 134
Operation, Tables and track, scenery, more.
There's no need to tell you what a fascinating and creative hobby model railroading is. If you haven't discovered that yourself, a glance at these pages will reveal a wonderful, miniature world complete with landscape, towns, and the headlong rush of trains trailing smoke and whistle blast. It's a world you make yourself, using all the engineering and creative skills you have, and can share with family and friends. It's an exciting world, where you're the boss.
Let's see what a model railroader is made of: The author Frank Ellison was born in a railroad and theatrical family. His first venture in scenic realism was a reproduction of the burning Spanish fleet near Santiago harbor-and the explosions were real enough to set the house on fire! Later, he read Morse code and issued train orders in wayside railroad telegraph offices. "Riding the cushions" for a half million miles in theatrical work throughout the country, he recreated the flying landscapes in stage settings and in miniature vistas for his basement railroad. As to his reputation as an expert model railroader, here is what an eminent authority-A. C. Kalmbach, publisher of Model Railroader magazine-has to say:
"Mention New Orleans to almost any model railroader and he'll say, 'Oh, yes, Frank Ellison and his Delta Lines!'
"Then he'll pause and add wistfully, 'I'd like to meet Frank and see his pike some day.'
"That wish is just about universal, for Frank is one of the hobby's most gifted practitioners of both the art and science of model railroading. His Delta Lines has that elusive thing that experts call 'balance'-no one thing is dominant at the expense of any other. Scenery, track, structures, trains and operation are a well-integrated whole. There isn't too much or too little of anything. I found operating the Delta Lines a fascinating and mentally challenging game. Trains originate at one point and run to a destination, meet other trains at sidings en route, drop off and pick up cars at stations and industries-meanwhile observing all the rules of full-size railroading.
"Frank is also an exceptionally able, imaginative writer. His articles in leading model railroad magazines range over so many phases of the hobby that it would be pointless to assign him special honors in any one field of model railroading. He is an authority on Model Railroading-period!
"To sum up, you can call the Delta lines a 'model' model railroad and Frank Ellison a 'writer's' writer. This happy combination has long been one of model railroading's major assets."
So in this book you have a top-notch model railroader guiding you to greater enjoyment in one of the world's most fascinating hobbies.
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