| The Model Railroader's Guide to Locomotive Servicing Terminals |  | Author: Martin McGuirk
Brand: Kalmbach
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 192,839
Media: Paperback
Pages: 80
Number Of Items: 1
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Dimensions (in): 10.5 x 7.9 x 0.2
MPN: 12228
ISBN: 0890244146
Dewey Decimal Number: 790
EAN: 9780890244142
ASIN: 0890244146
Publication Date: October 2001
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Product Description
This book offers hobbyists a guide to modeling locomotive service, repair, and storage terminals. Also includes tips and techniques for modeling trackage, structures, and other terminal details appropriate for the steam or diesel era.
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 Review of Model Railroader's Guide to Locomotive Servicing Terminals May 27, 2010
Linus J. Portman (BRIDGETON, MISSOURI, US)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is a invaluable reference and great "how to" guide for any model railroader who is planning to include a locomotive servicing and fueling facility on his layout. After presenting information on the procedures, equipment and structures actually used by the railroads to maintain their locomotives, the book goes on to show how models of this equipment and these structures can be constructed for a model railroad.
Good start for ideas.... January 29, 2008
Ryan Boudreaux (Wake Forest, NC)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book was a quick read for me and it did have some good ideas for modeling locomotive servicing facilities. However, the focus is more on steam than diesel facilities, so I was left feeling a bit short changed. It gave some good prototype information, but then going to the train room or layout for actual model building was not enough for me. The last section on building the diesel terminal was good, but again, when I turned that last page expecting more, and then hit the supplier and manufacturer list. There were some good ideas that Marty McGuire did offer up, such as working a roundhouse into a backdrop. Overall it is a good book, but it just scrapes the surface and left me wanting more. I guess that's Kalmbach's plan, wanting you to buy another book.
The book would have gotten 5 stars from me if it had more in the way of modeling information.
A Good Resource February 27, 2007
John A Lee III (San Antonio, TX)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Modeling trains allows the opportunity to put together a lot of fascinating machinery and buildings. People who like to build models tend to like to do that sort of thing and the instructions that come with the models are usually adequate. Unfortunately, that can leave a modeler with a really neat gizmo that he or she does not really understand in the great scheme of things. A nice sanding tower may be built but, once built, the modeler may have no idea about how it would be used in real life or where it would be most appropriate on a layout. This book explains things like that.
It does its explaining both in terms of steam and in terms of diesel equipment. It explains how real railroads operated to turn trains. Along the way, it also gives some good modeling tips.
Useful Guide December 26, 2003
Stephen Levin (Florida)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
As with most books of this type, this is an extremely useful guide. Photos are crisp and text is well-detailed. Any modeler interested in modeling a free-lance engine terminal will find this a valuable resource.
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