Teaches how to build sturdy model bridges and trestles of stunning realism. Includes construction plans, prototype phtographs, and over 20 sets of scale drawings for scratchbuilding, kitbashing, or modifying commercial bridge kits.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Not great for beginners,
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This review is from: Model Railroad Bridges & Trestles: A Guide to Designing and Building Bridges for Your Layout (Model Railroad Handbook) (Paperback)
This item is perfect if you have been in the hobby of model railroading for some time, or are good at building models from a book of blueprints. However, I have just started and found it really confusing. For someone who is good at this stuff I would give it a five, but if you're a beginner I do not recommend it.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A Wonderful Collection,
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This review is from: Model Railroad Bridges & Trestles: A Guide to Designing and Building Bridges for Your Layout (Model Railroad Handbook) (Paperback)
Speaking as one who was formerly a civil engineer, this compendium is a wonderful collection of articles on building bridges for model railroads. It is not a book by a single author. Instead, it is a collection of reprints of articles from Model Railroader magazine. As such, some are better than others but all are good.
Particularly worthy of note is the first series of articles which is a survey of different types of bridges and their design. It is technically correct and conveys enough information to the modeler to do a creditable job but it is yet simple enough to understand for those without an engineering background. Most of the later articles deal with the construction of particular bridges instead of general principles but they too are well written and adaptable to other situations. Since this work is intended for modelers and not engineers, much of the emphasis is on the aesthetics. This is as it should be as it is the information vital to the modeler. All in all, this is a great collection.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Building Railraod Bridges? Then this book is for you!,
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This review is from: Model Railroad Bridges & Trestles: A Guide to Designing and Building Bridges for Your Layout (Model Railroad Handbook) (Paperback)
This book is a collection of articles that have previously appeared in past issues of Model Railroader Magazine. While the articles are informative and insightful, the format that Kalmbach uses to copy the various original bridge and trestle articles and paste them into a book is not very slick. It would have been nice if they would have updated some of the information and added more color photographs. Books in this format appear to be another way for Kalmbach to re-hash old articles of a similar topic, put them under one cover and generate more sales from already published material. This book has become reference material for my library. I however would recommend the Kalmbach book "The Model Railroader's Guide To BRIDGES, TRESTLES & TUNNELS" by Jeff Wilson, this book is fresh, better organized, and a useful tool for modeling railroad bridges.
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An eastbound Erie Lackawanna passenger train crossing the Starrucca Viaduct in May of 1972. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Valley, Stoney Creek, Southern Pacific, Micro Engineering, Trains of Texas, Harold Russell Fig, Partridge Viaduct, Lamoille County, Canadian Pacific, Forest Park, Lark Dark Gray, San Diego, Annisquam River, Chicago River, Evergreen Scale Models, John Allen Memorial Bridge, Keddie Wye, Missouri River, Model Masterpieces, New England, Nickel Plate Road, Railroad Gazette, United States New!
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An eastbound Erie Lackawanna passenger train crossing the Starrucca Viaduct in May of 1972. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Central Valley, Stoney Creek, Southern Pacific, Micro Engineering, Trains of Texas, Harold Russell Fig, Partridge Viaduct, Lamoille County, Canadian Pacific, Forest Park, Lark Dark Gray, San Diego, Annisquam River, Chicago River, Evergreen Scale Models, John Allen Memorial Bridge, Keddie Wye, Missouri River, Model Masterpieces, New England, Nickel Plate Road, Railroad Gazette, United States New!
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- Covered Bridges by Miriam Wood on page 41, and page 148
- Covered Bridges of the Northeast (Dover Books on Americana) by Richard Sanders Allen on page 61, and page 148
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