Selections from Lionel's MODEL BUILDER magazine re-create the joy of playing with toy trains. Features a compilations of construction, layout, and historical articles, and human interest stories.
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This review is from: Lionel's Model Builder: The Magazine That Shaped the Toy Train Hobby (Paperback)
This great book is filled with nostalgia. See how the guys did it in the old days! It even had an article and photos by Frank Ellison. You're sure to enjoy this look into the past.
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Save your money -- this one is well below the usual Kalmbach standards. While the opening essay on the birth, life and end of Model Builder magazine and its editor is fine, the rest of book is a slew of poorly reproduced articles from old issues of the magazine itself. Too many of these reprinted pages have photos that are very dark or muddy (especially in the second half of the book), other pages are reproduced so small they're unreadable. Several reprinted articles are truncated, so you can't even read the full text of the original. There's no index, bibliography, or even a list of contents of Model Builder issues. To cap it off, there's an incredibly self-serving reprint about another magazine entirely -- Model Railroader -- that has nothing to do with Lionel: it's a complete waste of space in what is already a thin and expensive little publication.
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To someone who grew up in the dark ages of Lionel information, the 1960s and '70s, the name seemed magical from the first time I heard it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model railroader, industrial sidings, center sill, permanent layout, railroad practice, model engineers, grab irons, way freight, model railroading, track plans, illustration board, bascule bridge, track layout, brake wheel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Builder, New York, Frank Ellison, Roadside America, The Lionel Magazine, Union Connecting Railroad, Delta Lines, Bob Sherman, Louis Hertz, All Aboard, Fred Nichols, Henry Abraham, New Jersey, Second World War New!
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To someone who grew up in the dark ages of Lionel information, the 1960s and '70s, the name seemed magical from the first time I heard it. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
model railroader, industrial sidings, center sill, permanent layout, railroad practice, model engineers, grab irons, way freight, model railroading, track plans, illustration board, bascule bridge, track layout, brake wheel Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Model Builder, New York, Frank Ellison, Roadside America, The Lionel Magazine, Union Connecting Railroad, Delta Lines, Bob Sherman, Louis Hertz, All Aboard, Fred Nichols, Henry Abraham, New Jersey, Second World War New!
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- Wild West (Headstart) by M Hill on page 55
- Merchant Marine (Passbooks) by Jack Rudman on page 86
- The Wild West (Great American Writers Series) by Zane and others Grey on page 55
- Model Railroading by Lionel Corp. on page 12
- TOY TRAIN MEMORIES by John Grams in Back Matter
- Classic Lionel Display Layouts You Can Build (Toy Trains) by Roger Carp in Back Matter
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