Tips and Tricks for Toy Train Operators

Tips and Tricks for Toy Train Operators
Author: Peter Riddle
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2000
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897785112

Increase your knowledge and enjoyment of toy trains! Features 144 helpful tips that will improve the performance of your locomotives and the appearance of your layout. Includes crisp photos and easy-to-follow wiring diagrams. Primarily postwar toy trains, but includes prewar and modern era equipment.

Greenberg's Wiring Your Lionel Layout

Greenberg's Wiring Your Lionel Layout
Author: Peter Riddle
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing Company
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1991
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897782067

Shows how to wire a basic Lionel layout. Explains standard electrical principles and recommends tools and supplies. Includes detailed photos and diagrams for powering track, operating accessories, and troubleshooting circuits.

Beginner's Guide to Repairing Lionel Trains

Beginner's Guide to Repairing Lionel Trains
Author: Ray L. Plummer
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1997-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897784382

Teaches how to get old Lionel trains running again! Shows how to repair and maintain Lionel O gauge trains built from the turn of the century through the 1970s. Gives detailed explanations with photos and diagrams illustrating easy repair, lubrication, and maintenance tips and techniques.

Wiring Your Toy Train Layout

Wiring Your Toy Train Layout
Author: Peter Riddle
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2003
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897784771

Covers the essential techniques needed to make electrical connections for a three-rail toy train layout of any size or complexity. Addresses fundamental electrical concepts, wiring and expanding a layout, accessory wiring, automatic train control, and troubleshooting. By Peter Riddle.

Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts

Lionel Accessories at Work on Toy Train Layouts
Author: Neil Besougloff
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2006
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897784818

Add classic accessories to your toy train layout. Lionel's operating accessories from the 1940s and '50s remain popular with toy train enthusiasts. This book provides a variety of ways to incorporate them - both originals and modern reproductions - into toy train layouts. The book features track plans that incorporate the accessories, repair information, and in-depth profiles of the most popular accessories.

Lionel FasTrack Model Railroads

Lionel FasTrack Model Railroads
Author: Robert Schleicher
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2009-09-18
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1616732199

As model railroaders began demanding ever-greater realism, Lionel responded in 2004 with its FasTrack system featuring an integrated roadbed, scale-sized ties, and a less-obvious center rail. Veteran hobby author Bob Schleicher follows up his The Lionel FasTrack Book with a closer, more detailed look at Lionel’s revolutionary O-gauge system. This guide gives enthusiasts a deeper sense of how to take advantage of the FasTrack’s ease of use and unprecedented realism in large-scale model railroading. The book includes 150 color photos and track diagrams for 10 scenicked FasTrack layouts ranging from 6x6-foot tabletop models to an 11x30-foot scale-size empire. Schleicher also provides instructions for building tables to support the layouts, advice for creating both rural and urban scenery, and an appendix of recommended suppliers.

Inside the Lionel Trains Fun Factory

Inside the Lionel Trains Fun Factory
Author: Robert J. Osterhoff
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Do you like Lionel toy trains? Enjoy corporate history? Or just want to take a nostalgic journey back to your childhood? Then Inside The Lionel Trains Fun Factory: The History of a Manufacturing Icon and The Place Where Childhood Dreams Were Made is for you. It delivers a fascinating trip through the rise, fall and rise again of Lionel, one of the manufacturing and pop icons in modern American life. The impeccable research by Lionel historian Robert J. Osterhoff, along with hundreds of unpublished photos and images, tells the history of Lionel's trains, factories, employees and business practices from the late 19th century until today.

All that is Solid Melts Into Air

All that is Solid Melts Into Air
Author: Marshall Berman
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 388
Release: 1983
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780860917854

The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.