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WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine 102 Realistic Track Plans	From the publisher of Model Railroader magazine, 102 Realistic Track Plans organizes many of the magazine’s best layout designs into one spectacular collection. This special issue showcases easy-to-use plans in a variety of scales, shapes, and sizes — from very small and compact, to medium and large layouts that fit in rec rooms and basements. In addition to track plans, the issue features helpful planning articles including: --- Introduction to track planning. --- Curves, turnouts, and track. --- Layout schematics. --- Figuring grades and clearances. --- Structures, scenery, and aisles. --- How to convert track plan scales. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	How To Build Realistic Layouts: Trackside town and city scenery focuses on the towns and cities along railroad lines. This issue brings you how-to stories on modeling telephone and power lines, prototype drawings of storefronts, exciting photography, and much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	This model railroad book is part of a series of magazines to help you design realistic layouts including a freight yard. There is information on building structures, scenery and operation of a freight yard.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	How To Build Realistic Layouts: Industries You Can Model, the special issue from the editors of Model Railroader, shows you how to model lineside industries. It’s packed with articles on: signs for industries, modeling the railroad’s customers, citrus packing houses, grocery warehouses, and much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	How to Build Realistic Reliable Track shows the reader how to raise the reliability and prototype realism of their track and track structure on their model railroad. It does not make any difference which scale in which you work or the type of rail system, the track and its supporting right-of way are the most basic elements of a railroad.
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	It’s all here in How to Build Realistic Scenery! This essential guide gives you proven techniques you can trust to make your scenery as realistic as possible. This special issue includes: --- 23 articles that cover virtually every scenery-building challenge. --- Clear photos that show you how to make it happen. --- Several techniques for every skill level. --- And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	It’s the challenge most of us modelers face: how to make the most of limited space for our layout. Model Railroader comes to the rescue with a packed special issue that offers ideas, examples and hands-on help to maximize whatever space you have with which to work. Get this special issue and get what you need to make your layout fit without losing the realism you want!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Model Railroads Of The 1950s	Get How to Model Railroads of the 1950s, and you’ll have the expert insight you need to recreate an accurate re-creation of a bustling 1950s railroad. • Go back to when steam was departing and diesel arriving. • See an N-scale Rock Island layout in all of its bustling glory. • Get the lowdown on delivery trucks that competed with railroads. • Understand ‘50s rail operations. • Learn to model 1950s trailer-on-flatcar equipment. • Take a close look at architectural details of the era. • And much more!
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Model Railroads Of The 1950s	Issue #9 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #8 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #7 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #6 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #1 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #2 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #3 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine How To Build Realistic Layouts	Issue #4 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 28th Sep 2021		Magazine 102 Realistic Track Plans	Issue #5 in the series "How to Build Realistic Layouts."
WPLives 25th Sep 2021		Book David L. Garcia - Pacific Electric Cars – A Pictorial Journey, 1911-1953	As a result, in 1956, the PE exercised a contract clause that essentially forced Metro to buy PE's electrical facilities-which in turn allowed PE to convert all its freight operations to diesel power. The co-authors had access to extensive photo files illustrating PE cars and their operating environment and selected the most effective for use in this book. Two major goals were in mind as this book came together: -----1. To illustrate all the major classes of cars and locomotives acquired by the new PE after 1911 (as well as providing representative images of "legacy" cars inherited from predecessors). -----2. To provide detailed, informative picture captions that can both stand on their own and also provide the seeds for future research.
WPLives 24th Sep 2021		Book Al Rose - Modesto And Empire Traction	Actually, a booklet, not a magazine. However, "Western Railroader" had the habit of publishing their issues with a volume number and issue number that would look like a magazine. Pretty much all of the Western Railroaders are booklets rather than magazines.
WPLives 24th Sep 2021		Book Francis Guido - Oakland, Antioch And Eastern Ry.	Actually, a booklet, not a magazine. However, "Western Railroader" had the habit of publishing their issues with a volume number and issue number that would look like a magazine. Pretty much all of the Western Railroaders are booklets rather than magazines.
WPLives 18th Sep 2021		Book Various Authors - The Western Railroader	Actually, a booklet, not a magazine. However, "Western Railroader" had the habit of publishing their issues with a volume number and issue number that would look like a magazine. Pretty much all of the Western Railroaders are booklets rather than magazines.
WPLives 5th Sep 2021		Book David G. Stanley - The Central California Traction Company	A Brief History of the Central California Traction Incorporated on August 7, 1905, the Central California Traction Company was originally conceived as a second streetcar line for the citizens of Stockton as an alternative to the Stockton Electric Railroad. September 1, 1907 saw the beginning of electric passenger train service between Stockton and Lodi, in direct competition with Southern Pacific Railroad. By August 1910, the line had reached Sacramento and passenger trains began through service. Almost immediately came freight service as well. CCT's freight operations carried merchandise, livestock and produce (primarily grapes, strawberries and sugar beets). At its Peak, CCT was operating 36 passenger trains a day, over and above its freight operations. Because of CCT's interurban style of operations, CCT used overhead wires in the cities of Stockton, Lodi and Sacramento, but power between the cities was fed by a covered third rail that was energized at 1200 volts DC, CCT was one of the first railroads to use the high tension DC power in the United States. Power in the cities was still at 600 volts by catenary. CCT underwent a management change 1928 when CCT's owning family tried to sell the company to the Southern Pacific. What followed was a struggle for control between the WP, ATSF, and SP Railroads. Ultimately in 1936, the ICC decided that the three railroads would share the CCT. While the struggle for control raged, CCT fell to the economic climate of the times and on February 4, 1933, CCT's last interurban passenger train made its final run. CCT's freight operations continued under electricity, but demands on power created service problems and in 1946 made the switch from electricity to diesel with the arrival of a pair of GE 44-tonners. On December 24, 1947, the CCT dropped their pantographs for the last time... the CCT was dieselized. The Central California Traction Today Currently, the Central California Traction Company (CCT as assigned by the American Association of Railroads - AAR) Operates over two segments of track: 15 miles of track from Stockton to Lodi, and The Port of Stockton Trackage. Service between Stockton and Sacramento via Lodi was discontinued in August of 1998. CCT runs three operations. One operation works out of the former CCT shops on Cherokee Road in Stockton, using CCT #44, a chop-nose former Alameda Belt Line/former ATSF GP7u. and a recently re-built and re-painted CCT 1790 (GP18) This crew will run five days a week between Stockton and Lodi. New customers have turned this job into a 5-day a week operation. The second and third crews work out at the Port of Stockton, where CCT also has its main offices. The crew there runs 6 days a week and uses 4 ex Southern Pacific SW1500's. All 4 have been re-painted into a new version of the red and white CCT paint. CCT also now owns Harbor Belt Lines 102. This unit will become CCT 700 when it is re-painted in 2008. Roster pictures of all of CCT's power is on the Roster & Photos page.
WPLives 2nd Sep 2021		Book Jeff Ainsworth - Pacific Electric Volume 4	on the back cover: Pacific Electric No. 1111 climbs "Oak Knoll" on an unusual day in LA area - Significant Snowfall. Private right-of-way at the time, today part of Oak Knoll Ave. at Old Mill Road near The Huntington Hotel in the San Marino area. Photo by Harold F. Stewart Tuesday January 11, 1949 Negative from Craig Rasmussen collection
WPLives 29th Aug 2021		Book Robert Parkinson - Southern Pacific's East Bay Steam Suburban Service	Image of book was too small for 45worlds parameters so I added the whole picture. My copy is tucked away somewhere in my library. Also note that I was three years off on the date of publication. It should read 1969 instead of 1966.
WPLives 17th Aug 2021		Book Rudolph W. VanNorden - Pacific Electric In Transition, 1911	This book, Pacific Electric in Transition: 1911 - Interurbans Special 30, is a reprint of an article which appeared in the January 7, 1911 issue of the "Journal of Electricity, Power & Gas." See J. McMillan, the mainline on Huntington Drive, the Junction of Pasadena, the Government Breakwater in San Pedro Harbor, the Pacific Electric terminal, Hotel Virginia, the long trestle across Wilmington Bay, the trestle on Glendale, "Ye Alpine Tavern", the Circular Bridge at Mt. Lowe, the electrically operated plant at Slauson, the interior of Slauson tower, the semaphore at Watts, the car shops at Los Angeles, a scale plan of their Standard Depot, various types of depots and shelter stations, freight depot at Los Angeles, a roster of equipment, the interior of Pasadena substation, Covina Junction, the interior of the 6th & Main station, and much more. Printing year was 1967. 43 pages.
WPLives 17th Aug 2021		Book Ira L. Swett - Cars Of Pacific Electric, Volume I	First edition (1964) of Interurbans Special 28 which covers Pacific Electric's city and suburban cars. This is Volume 1 in a three volume series intended to describe every car that ever ran on the Pacific Electric as comprehensively as possible. The text provides detailed information on the cars and their use over the years. Packed with black and white photos (showing the interiors and exteriors of the cars) and detailed schematic diagrams. Covers all Pacific Electric cars which performed local service within cities and those which were designated for the lighter type of interurban work. With rosters showing dispositions. 224 pages. Scarce.
WPLives 16th Aug 2021		Book Various Authors - Glendale & Montrose	With a newspaper clipping with a photo of the old rail car barn, later a lumber shed for Anawalt Lumber on Verdugo Road.
WPLives 16th Aug 2021		Book Various Authors - Glendale & Montrose	Photographs and fold-out map. Includes roster of rolling stock, illustrated with photos and scale diagrams. The diminuitive Glendale & Montrose Railway was the only "independent" traction in Los Angeles County, serving the sparsely settled Crescenta Valley for 21 years.
WPLives 16th Aug 2021		Book Lawrence A. Brough - The Electric Pullman	About the Author Lawrence A. Brough is a retired metallurgical engineer. He is a member of the Society of Automotive Historians and has written several articles on automotive history. He is author (with James H. Graebner) of From Small Town to Downtown: A History of the Jewett Car Company, 1893-1919 (IUP, 2004) and Autos on the Water.
WPLives 16th Aug 2021		Book Lawrence A. Brough - The Electric Pullman	Review Although not one of the major manufacturers in its field, the Niles company produced some notable and well-remembered equipment during the height of the electric interurban railway era. Indeed, among some interurban railway historians, Niles cars are sacred objects. As such, its story deserves to be told and theoretically would be a logical complement to IUP's books on the Brill and Jewett companies. Brough himself is a serious historian who knows his subject and has clearly mined all the sources that seem to exist. -- Herbert H. Harwood, Jr. ✔︎ Helpful Review?

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