Modern Toy Train Repair & Maintenance

Modern Toy Train Repair & Maintenance
Author: R. D. Teal
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897785297

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Toy train mechanic Dick Teal demonstrates techniques for keeping toy trains from contemporary manufacturers in excellent condition. Includes steps for proper lubrication, TMCC/DCS troubleshooting, and the right way to replace traction tires, batteries, and light bulbs. It's the essential workbench guide for toy train operators. Edited by Classic Toy Trains editor Neil Besougloff.

Maintaining & Repairing Your Scale Model Trains

Maintaining & Repairing Your Scale Model Trains
Author: Jim Volhard
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1999
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780890243244

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Save money and avoid repair shops! Learn fundamental repair skills through simple, step-by-step instructions, photos, and illustrations. You'll be able to maintain and repair DC-powered scale model locomotives, rolling stock, and layouts. Also includes various enhancement projects.

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

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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.

Toy Train Repair Made Easy

Toy Train Repair Made Easy
Author: Ray L. Plummer
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 88
Release: 1999-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9780897785082

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Learn how to take it apart, fix it, rewire it, and make your Lionel train or accessory work again! Step-by-step instructions in this detailed 21-project book can help you get your collection running.

Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains

Realistic Modeling for Toy Trains
Author: Dennis Brennan
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 98
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0890247455

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The author shows you how to build a hi-rail toy train layout such as his Sandy Harbor Terminal Railway. He provides modeling concepts as well as practical techniques for incorporating toy trains and accessories into realistic settings.

Command Control for Toy Trains

Command Control for Toy Trains
Author: Neil Besougloff
Publisher: Kalmbach Publishing, Co.
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2009
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0890247528

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Features practical advice on operating Lionel's new Legacy command control system and updated information for running MTH's DCS system as well as Lionel's earlier TrainMaster system.

Classic Toy Trains

Classic Toy Trains
Author: Gerry Souter
Publisher: Voyageur Press
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2002
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 9780760313671

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Text and photographs present a history of toy trains.

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

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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.

Waiting on a Train

Waiting on a Train
Author: James McCommons
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-11-06
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1603582592

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During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.