Thaddeus Stepek (27 results)

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paperback. Condition: Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

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Paperback. Condition: GOOD. 48 clean, unmarked, tight pages; lightly penciled price and initials on upper front flyleaf; very light shelf and corner wear and soiling on cover.

Large Stapled Softcover. Condition: Very Good Minus. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). Moderate overall wear, including some foxing to cover & facing pg. Spine is tight; pgs are unmarked. Book.

Condition: As New. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. moderate usage, otherwise clean and sound.

Soft Covelr. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Thaddeus Stepek (illustrator). Soft cover, 48pp, shelf rubs and minor corner bumps thn clean and tight inside, pictures on request and with our pleasure.

paperback. Condition: Good. Cover shows light wear. There is a place where a stamp has been removed. The binding is in good shape. The pages of this book are clean and unmarked. A good solid copy. FAST SHIPPING & FREE TRACKING!

Paper bound, 2nd edition, stapled wrappers in magazine format, 4to in multi-coloured covers. Illustrated throughout. Pp48. A very good or better copy. 190 grams. All books in stock and available for immediate shipment from Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Soft Cover Stapled. Condition: Good. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). Atlas Tool Co.,1958. Soft Cover Stapled. Cover has moderate shelfwear, crease line, minor scuffing, spine worn. Inside covers and title page soiled. Light smudges on several pages. Binding is tight.All pages are legible.Good reading copy.

Stapled wraps. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. General wear, but clean and solid. ; Black & white illustrations; 4to; 48 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 36pp, 1978, Softcover. Pages are 11x17 inches, illustrated, having plans for 6 different HO size railroads. Page and covers are somewhat curled at the ends due to the small number of pages, 36, in a publication having pages 17 inches wide. But there are no marks or tears. March, 1978, printing. Size: 4to - over 9? - 12" tall. Book.

Staple. Condition: Fair. Worn but complete with all pages and illustrations. Shelf wear scuffing marks to cover front and back. Creasing along spine. Some corner and edge wear to cover. Front few page bottom edges have liquid stain as well as some top corners.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Thaddeus Stepek (illustrator). Book #13.

Condition: New. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator).

Condition: As New. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). Unread book in perfect condition.

Condition: New. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator).

Wraps. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). Presumed first edition/first printing. 48 p. Illustrations. From Wikipedia: "John H. Armstrong (November 18, 1920 July 28, 2004) was a mechanical engineer, inventor, editor, prolific author, and model railroader best known for layout design and operations. Married for 44 years to Ellen Palmer. They had 4 children. He was born and raised in Canandaigua, New York, and began designing his Canandaigua Southern Railroad model layout when he was 14 years old. After earning a mechanical engineering degree from Purdue University, he settled in Silver Spring, Maryland, in the late 1940s. He was employed at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory of the United States Navy in White Oak, Maryland, for his professional career, and contributed to the design of weapons systems for nuclear submarines. For 10 years following retirement from the Navy, he was a contributing editor for Railway Age magazine. In evenings and on weekends he began building his Canandaigua Southern Railroad O scale layout in the basement of the modest Armstrong family home, carefully cutting the cross-ties from balsa wood, setting them on rail-beds made from scale-sized gravel, and then laying out each length of track and carefully nailing it into place with tiny railroad spikes to scale that were hammered into the cross-ties one at a time. By the time of his death, according to one account, Armstrong had hand-laid more than three real miles of O-scale track on waist-high platforms that bounded a narrow passageway spiraling outward from the foot of the basement steps. Armstrong's son, John P. Armstrong, has said however that he does not think it came to more than 500 real yards of track, but admits he is not sure. Armstrong's layout grew to become one of the most influential model railroad layouts in the United States and attracted visitors from all over the world. Alongside and behind the tracks, Armstrong reconstructed the entire landscape of his childhood in upstate New York. Locomotives and rail cars of the Canandaigua Southern Railroad, all built from scratch, rolled alongside rivers, plains and hillsides all to scale and covered with hand-made stone, grass and trees and through complete small towns as they were in a time when the railroad was so exotic that it would fire any child's imagination. Cattaraugus Yard, the switching yard in the far corner of the basement with its dozen or more tracks that crisscrossed and forked and merged past station houses, power poles, a water tower, signal lights, and beneath a six-story coaling tower, and then into and out of the turntable at the center of the yard that allowed incoming locomotives to be turned around and sent back the other way was as enthralling to many young visitors as manned space flight. To reach the switching yard, visitors had to walk the spiraling passageway through the miniature landscape that expanded the basement to enormous size a landscape filled with railroad stations; houses; bridges; factories; a cliff-side gravel road that ran under a concrete arch supporting a steel railroad bridge in front of a hydroelectric dam with a generating plant beside it topped with twin round chimneys and, above and behind it on a plateau, a solitary white two-story wood frame house; railroad crossings; shacks; coal companies; a three-story brick 'Central Light And Power Company' with a brick smoke stack that dwarfed it, cars loaded with coal from the 'Ynysybwl Coal Company' waiting out front, and high-tension power lines running up the mountainside behind; small town streets lined with banks and stores; and even a careful and detailed reconstruction of the diner in Edward Hopper's famous painting Nighthawks, complete with customers, nested up against a two-story beige brick building that had beside it an equally tall red brick building, upon the wall of which was mounted a billboard for an 'East End Hardware' store with their slogan 'Nuts To You! '. Armstrong pioneered and promoted modern layout design, stressing the concept of designing the model railroad as a to.

Novelty. Condition: Good.

Paperback. Condition: VG. Reprint. Book is in very good condition with minor signs of wear and/or age.

Stapled. Condition: Good. Second edition, 1989 Printing. Complete instructions to help you build a satisfying railroad on the first try. Large. 48 pages.

Condition: very good. Dust Jacket Condition: no dustjacket. 4to pp.48. book.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed.

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. Stepek, Thaddeus (illustrator). This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.