Field Guide to Trains


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The ultimate guide for train lovers, Field Guide to Trains is fully loaded with pictures and fun facts on all the machines that ride the rails




Beginner's Guide to Locomotives and Rolling Stock


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Keeping locomotives in good condition is critical to smooth operations on a model railroad. In the newest Essential Series book by Cody Grivno, Beginner's Guide to Locomotives & Rolling Stock, modelers will learn: How to choose, buy, and maintain locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars with a focus on HO and N scales. How to perform basic maintenance and simple upgrades using detail parts, new couplers, and new wheels. The basics about steam and diesel locomotive and freight car types.




Railroad Rolling Stock


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The R.G.S. Story


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Hardbound; 8 1/2 x 11 inches; 496 pages; indexed; w/deluxe plastic dust jacket; 85 full-color photos; 354 black & white views; 32 detailed maps; features line drawings of buildings and structures along the RGS by Mike Blazek plus maps and additional structure plans by Jim Key.




Engineering Asset Management 2011


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This text represents state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Sixth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) held in Cincinnati, OH, USA from October 3-5, 2011 The Proceedings of the WCEAM 2011 is an excellent reference for practitioners, researchers and students in the multidisciplinary field of asset management, covering topics such as: Asset condition monitoring and intelligent maintenance; Asset data warehousing, data mining and fusion; Asset performance and level-of-service models; Design and lifecycle integrity of physical assets; Deterioration and preservation models for assets; Education and training in asset management; Engineering standards in asset management; Fault diagnosis and prognostics; Financial analysis methods for physical assets; Human dimensions in integrated asset management; Information quality management; Information systems and knowledge management; Intelligent maintenance; Intelligent sensors and devices; Maintenance strategies in asset management; Optimization decisions in asset management; Prognostics & Health Management; Risk management in asset management; Strategic asset management; and Sustainability in asset management.




Uncle Sam's Locomotives


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Uncle Sam's Locomotives looks at these magnificent locomotives and discusses how and why the designs were chosen, how they related to existing designs, what standardization entailed, and how each performed.".




Steam Trains in Your Garden


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Locomotive Engineering


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Weathering for Railway Modellers


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Once seen as a niche practice, the craft of weathering has now become firmly rooted in the railway modelling mainstream. Not simply a means of rendering models in layers of dirty paint, weathering involves a myriad of techniques aimed at improving realism, including distinctive surface textures, highlights and shading, burnishing and peeling paint finishes. The weathering process brings out the best in a model, making moulded relief or a lustrous livery really stand out. As well as replicating the real world more closely, weathering also helps a model to look at home within a scenic setting. Aimed at modellers of all abilities and eras, this book is an essential guide to creating the most realistic locomotives and rolling stock in any scale. It includes: a guide to tools, paints, washes, dry pigments and other innovative media; the correct techniques for model preparation; a wide range of techniques for wagons, carriages, locomotives and multiple units in any scale; how to replicate authentic surface textures and effects, from polished surfaces to corroded metal and worn timber; how to bring models to life with faded paintwork, peeling and chipped finishes and subtle highlights and shading; the secret to successful airbrushing. This book will be of great interest to railway modellers of varying abilities, particularly those interested in rolling stock and locomotives, and is fully illustrated with 660 colour photographs.




Locomotives and Rolling Stock


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Concentrates on the locomotives and rolling stock purchased or leased to keep trains running. Hand-written ledgers provided notations about maintaining this equipment through breakdowns, wrecks and safety modifications. Photographs illustrate a large quantity of the various changes from 1890-1951. A chapter on Motors and Galloping Geese contains revealing details as changes were made updating the Pierce-Arrow bodies. Victor Miller's former C&S cars are extensively illustrated. Volume XII includes roster charts of all equipment, along with 17 color photographs, 490 black-and-white images and 47 detailed drawings on 416 pages.




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