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How to Run A Model Railroad by Boomer Pete Spiral Bound
How to Run A Model Railroad by Boomer Pete
How to Run A Model Railroad
Boomer Pete
Spiral Binding Notice top spiral ring is missing /broken
153 Pages
Copyright 1944 Third Printing
Contents
1 So you're going to run a railroad .1
2 You're an engineer ......17
3 The problems of railroading . . . 25
4 Operating the home railroad . . . 41
5 Five basic train orders....,64
6 Operating by timetable . . . . 68
7 The model railroad club . . . . 93
Operating code of rules . . . 115
Forms of train orders 140
THE railroad is a living thing. It is not just a collection of inanimate locomotives, cars, tracks and buildings. It is smoke, team and cinders. It is a Mallet articulated tackling Seventeen-Mile Grade with 75 cars of coal and a couple of helpers. It is the sleek, gray, streamlined Twentieth Century sliding through the morning mists on the Hudson River. It is Proviso, world's largest freight yard, with seemingly endless streams of cars being pushed over the hump and down into their allotted classification tracks. A railroad is also the men who run this scene. It is action, variety and romance.
The locomotives and the cars and the men become trains; the trains running on the tracks become distinct personalities. It is all this that you are trying to create in building a model railroad, and to just follow the plans is not enough. You want an action picture of reality-something which becomes much more than just a museum of scale models, accurately and skillfully built though they may be.
The train is the essence of the railroad, and your railroad models are, with few exceptions, intended to be run in trains. It is by coupling many cars together with one crew and one motive-power unit that the railroads mass-produce transportation; and the railroad yard, where cars are shuffled together into trains, is the assembly line.
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