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World Locomotive Models By George Dow Dust Jacket 1973 168 pages indexed.
World Locomotive Models By George Dow Dust Jacket has plastic covering. Copyright 1973 168 pages indexed.
The model locomotive is almost as old as the full-size prototype, and during the early Victorian era its potentiality came to be recognized as a tool of research, as a sales-aid, and later as an absorbing recreational pursuit. The story of the engineering scale-model is, then, the story of the locomotive; by bringing together for the first time more than 250 scale-model locomotives of railways throughout the world, this book demonstrates visually the development of motive power on railways from the earliest days of steam (the first model is from 1804) to its virtual replacement by electric and diesel traction.
The photographs have been assembled in chronological order of the appearance of the prototype engines; there are 268 of them-representing 40 countries-many of which have never before been published, and together they form a unique collection of profound interest to railway enthusiasts and of unsurpassed reference value for all modellers. Each photograph is accompanied by a long caption which describes in detail the model itself and also gives the history, design and performance of its prototype.
When he retired in 1968 the author was a Divisional Manager of British Railways. He spent all his working life as a railwayman, has been a model-railway enthusiast for as long as he can remember trains-from about 1910-and he is an established railway historian. George Dow was the first President of the Model Engineering Trade Association, and has been President of the Historical Model Railway Society since its foundation in 1950.
With 252 monochrome illustrations and 16 color plates.
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