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Traction Guidebook for Model Railroaders By Mike Schafer 1974 SC Cover damaged
Traction Guidebook for Model Railroaders By Mike Schafer
Copyright 1974
Soft Cover
120 pages Modeling articles, prototype data, layout designs, equipment plans, model pikes.
CONTENTS
PROTOTYPE IN RETROSPECT
2 The Lehigh Valley Transit
7 The Fort Dodge Line
14 The great Pacific Electric
MODEL ELECTRIC LINES
18 Bemis Street Railway
22 Southern New York Railway
26 Traction line addition
TRACTION AND MODELING
28 Interurban right of way
34 Interurban equipment
46 Build a trolley car
53 Trackwork in the streets
63 Modeling street trackage
67 Traction overhead
77 Modeling overhead
PROTOTYPE PLANS
82 Pacific Electric Niles car
84 SP "Red electric" combine
85 South Shore Line steel coach
86 Milwaukee duplex interurbans
88 All-steel freight motors from C&LE
90 Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railway combine
91 PST side-door interurban
92 North Shore Line combine
94 Ohio Public Service combine
95 RPO interurban
96 General Electric steeplecab
98 Eastern Massachusetts semi-convertible car
99 ITS parlor-observation car
100 Chicago Surface Lines streetcar
101 Vermont interurban
102 ITS Class B freight locomotive
104 Indiana Railroad high-speed car
106 Sacramento Northern interurban
108 CD&M parlor car
110 Portable substations for electric railways
DESIGNS FOR TRACTION LAYOUTS
112 Shelf layouts
115 Table layouts
119 Around-the-room layouts
FORGET for a moment that North Shore interurbans no longer race between Chicago and Milwaukee, and that owl-eyed Pacific Electric express cars have ceased to deliver goods to the population of Los Angeles, or that Illinois Terminal's electric streamliners were put to rest in a scrap yard. The interurban era has long since drawn to a close, but you can make history repeat itself . . . on your own model traction layout.
The TRACTION GUIDEBOOK FOR MODEL RAILROADERS provides valuable information about modeling the world of interurbans and streetcars. In this book you will find construction articles, track plans, and even "tours" over layouts of other traction modelers. And because the prototype (the actual thing) often is the best teacher, TRACTION GUIDEBOOK contains a wealth of prototype material - photographs, articles, equipment plans, and visits to real interurban lines.
MODEL RAILROADER magazine once stated that traction couldn't be beat when it came to wedging as much model railroading into a given space as possible. Interurbans can round curves sharper than any diesel can negotiate; streetcars can do twice as well. A single powered car constitutes a train, thus costs are lower for a given amount of operating fun. So, whether you plan to construct a model traction empire rivaling that of the huge Pacific Electric, or just add a small traction short line to your present steam or diesel layout, the TRACTION GUIDEBOOK will be a useful addition to your railroad library.
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