Freight Terminals and Trains
Language: English
Published by National Model Railroad Association, 1998
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National Model Railroad Association, Published 1998. Paperback, vi, 567 pp.; 24 cm; facsimile reprint of the 1925 McGraw-Hill second edition; illustrated with black-and-white photographs, plans and diagrams, including a folding plan. New introduction by John Armstrong. In Very Good condition. Glossy paper covers, black-and-white pictorial front cover, cream rear cover printed in blue. Bump and crease to top fore-edge corner, mild shelf and edge wear with some scuffing and light soiling. Binding tight. Light crease to top corner of text block; pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Facsimile of the 1925 second edition of John A. Droege's work on the design and operation of American railroad freight terminals, yards and engine facilities, reprinted by the National Model Railroad Association from the copy in its Kalmbach Memorial Library. Droege (1861-1961) rose from telegrapher to general manager of the New York, New Haven and Hartford. The first edition appeared from McGraw-Hill in 1912; the 1925 revision added chapters on electrical operation and on integrating motor-truck and rail freight. Includes chapters on classification yards, team tracks, live-stock handling, water-front terminals, coal piers, grain elevators, freight houses and engine houses, with yard plans and photographs of named terminals (Selkirk yard, the Kansas City stockyards, the Santa Fe elevator at Chicago, the Boston freight houses on Fort Point Channel). Armstrong's introduction reviews Droege's career and the book's use to model railroaders planning layouts. Cover photograph: Chesapeake and Ohio's Peach Creek, West Virginia, freight terminal, January 1946. Contents: Preface; The Terminal Problem; Terms and Definitions; General Requirements of Terminal Design; Track Construction and Maintenance Details; Classification Yards; Operation of Yards; The Yardmaster; Management and Discipline; Loading Cars; Makeup and Movement of Trains; Time-freight Service; Team-delivery Yards; Live-stock Handling; Weighing Freight; Records and Statistics; Water-front Terminals; Coal Piers and Storage Plants; Ore and Lumber Docks; Grain Elevators; Freight Houses; British Freight Service; Mechanical Handling of Merchandise Freight; Transfer Stations; The Freight Agent; Operation of Freight Houses; Refrigerating, Ventilating and Heating; The Engine House; The Engine-house Foreman; Engine-coaling Plants; Ash and Sand Plants; Electrical Operation; Integration of Freight Transportation; Index. …
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- Title
- Freight Terminals and Trains
- Author
- John A. Droege; John Armstrong (introduction)
- Publisher
- National Model Railroad Association
- Publication year
- 1998
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0964705028
- ISBN 13
- 9780964705029
- Item weight
- 16 ounces
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
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