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Great Toy Train Layouts of America by Tom McComas & James Tuohy w/ dust jacket
Great Toy Train Layouts of America by Tom McComas & James Tuohy
Hard Cover with Dust Jacket (notice damage to dust jacket corners)
Copyright 1987
143 pages
Contents
An Early Layout1
Chuck Brasher4
Grass Valley, California
Children's Museum18
Indianapolis, Indiana
Ron Davis & Bill Taylor26
Cleveland, Ohio
Ralph Johnson34
Los Angeles, California
Ward Kimball42
San Gabriel, California
Phillip Klopp58
Exton, Pennsylvania
Michael Kolosseus66
Everett, Washington
The Lionel Showroom78
New York, New York
Bruce Manson88
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Michael Primack98
Lake Forest, Illinois
Stanley Roy110
Glenview, Illinois
Tom Sefton122
San Diego, California
Frank Sinatra132
Rancho Mirage, California
Glossary143
The toy train operators featured in this book are as diverse as they are interesting, and so are their layouts. From Ralph Johnson, a former Southern Pacific porter. to Frank Sinatra, the great singer. From Tom Sefton, who has his own railroad car, to Chuck Brasher, who has his own construction company. From Ward Kimball, the Academy Award winning animator, to Stan Roy, an electronic genius.
Each has an approach of his own. One can run 27 trains at once, another considers his layout an animated scrapbook of his life, the scenery as important as the trains. Some operators run only Lionel, some only American Flyer. Some only 0 Gauge. others only Standard Gauge. Some a little bit of each.
This is a work that should be in the library of serious collectors, who will be interested In the technical aspects of each layout and the type of equipment used.
But anyone with even a casual interest in toy trains will enjoy the pictures and reading about the thematic concepts of the collectors-operators.
Brilliant photographs are in full-color
evidence but the text offers an irresistible compliment to the art. Tom McComas and James Tuohy are simply the best writers about train collecting in the country today.
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