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All Aboard Trains (Reading Railroad Books)
Deborah Harding
Grosset & Dunlap, 1989
Informative and Easy to Understand
My 5-year-old son loves trains and this book has been his favorite library book since he was 3. It is very informative, yet easy to understand for preschoolers through first-graders. I was so happy to find it on Amazon.com so that we can add it to his personal ...
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Realistic Model Railroad Design: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Creating a Unique Operating Layout (Model ...
Tony Koester
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2004
An in-depth guide for dedicated hobbyists
Realistic Model Railroad Design by Tony Koester is a methodical, step-by-step guide to crafting a captivating, original layout for an impressively presented model railroad. Full color photography and meticulous attention to the little tweaks that make great ...
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Ed Emberley's Drawing Book of Trucks and Trains
L,B Kids, 2005
Awesome book
Ed Emberly's books are so great. If your child can follow visual directions and draw a line, circle and color in, then he or she can draw these things. My son is five and can draw these. He is quite smart and loves trains and trucks, so those are probably factors. ...
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Building a Model Railroad Step-by-step: Model Railroader's How-to-guide
David Popp
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2007
building a model railroad step by step
A great book for anyone who's ever said "how'd they make it look like that?" It shows everything just as it says, step by step. A lot of great pictures and tips for everything from benchwork to scenery. A definate must for anyone looking to get into the hobby.
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Maybelle the Cable Car
Virginia Lee Burton
Houghton Mifflin, 1997
Cable Car nostalgia for Kids!
One of my favorite books one I was a kid, and enjoyable for grown-ups, as well. Some wonderful art illustrating the workings of a cable car, San Francisco scenery, hilly hills with loads of cable car track, and a sweet story giving a simplified history of the train ...
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My Train Book (Smithsonian)
Ellen Kirk
Collins, 2007
Geared towards younger children
I bought the book for my four year old who is obsessed with trains. He liked the pictures, however, the language was geared towards younger children so it did not capture his attention like I hoped it would.
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Dining By Rail: The History and Recipes of America's Golden Age of Railroad Cuisine
James D. Porterfield
St. Martin's Griffin, 1998
Nostaligia food at its best
The book "Dining by Rail" was purchased at the urging of a ten-year old son who is a rabid railfan. The book not only has a treasure trove of the most famous recipes from all the different rail lines, but it features a marvelous history of railroads from the point of ...
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Track Planning for Realistic Operation: Prototype Railroad Concepts for Your Model Railroad (Model ...
John H. Armstrong
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 1998
The Master's Masterpiece
John Armstrong is one of the best known names to the model railroad hobby. He has written extensively but this book is his finest work.
A person interested in railroads finds himself caught up in lots of detailed scenes and complex trackwork. Armstrong explains what ...
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Realistic Model Railroad Operation: How to Run Your Trains Like the Real Thing (Model Railroader Books)
Tony Koester
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2003
Readers will be provided with a quick-start guide
Realistic Model Railroad Operation: How To Run Your Trains Like The Real Thing by Tony Koester is a complete and "user friendly" guide to realistic model railroad operation. Readers will be provided with a quick-start guide to realistic operating sessions complete in a ...
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Pacific Electric Red Cars (CA) (Images of Rail)
Jim Walker, The Dorothy Peyton Gray Transportation Library
Arcadia Publishing, 2007
Review Of A Very Good Pacific Electric Book
Although there's a plethora of books written about PE, I would recomend this title for those who are uninitated to Pacific Electric.
This book gives a very fact ridden synopsis of one of the US's busiest passenger and freight hauler.
Thew ran 9300 (!) scheduled ...
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American Locomotives in Historic Photographs: 1858 To 1949 (Trains)
Dover Publications, 1993
A great locomotive photo collection.
If you want to acquire a collection of photographs tracing the entire history of American steam locomotive development, this is the book. It is limited to builders' portraits, and has no photos of locomotives "in action". The book is chronologically organized, and ...
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The Grandluxe Express: Traveling in High Style (Railroads Past and Present)
Karl Zimmermann
Indiana University Press, 2007
A beautiful book!
This is a beautiful book - visually gorgeous, with stunning photography and design, written with enthusiasm, grace and authority to match. It's not only for rail fans (the die-hard version of whom are known to themselves as "foamers") but for anyone who likes trains. ...
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Detailing Freight Cars
Jeff Wilson
Kalmbach Publishing Company, 2007
The techniques featured apply to model railroad layouts in all scales
The Kalmbach Publishing Company is a premier publisher of books for model railroading enthusiasts. The newest addition to their 'Model Railroader' series of 'how to' guides is Jeff Wilson's "Detailing Freight Cars". Enhanced with more than two hundred color photographs ...
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New York Subways: An Illustrated History of New York City's Transit Cars
Gene Sansone, Amy Wanggaard Hausmann
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004
New York Subways: The Best Got Better
When Evolution of New York Subways was published in 1997, I bought a copy immediately. Back then, I thought the book was an incredible tribute to the rolling stock of the New York City subway system. I also thought it would be a very long time before such a volume ...
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From the Dining Car: The Recipes and Stories Behind Today's Greatest Rail Dining Experiences
James D. Porterfield
St. Martin's Press, 2004
Great Foodie and Railroad buff interest. Buy It.
`From the Dining Car' is the second railway dining book from railway historian and culinary writer, James D. Porterfield, who is a regular contributor to the magazine of railroad faves, `Railfan and Railroad'.
Looking into this book confirms my suspicions that it is ...
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