Books & Research Material...

Researching a project is an important task when modeling. To get a finished product thats authentic is a task that sometimes involves more then just pictures. These books are worth their weight in gold, when you fill in all the prototypical gaps in the story. Today we have an assortment of books, each taking on an industry or location of interest.

There are a few publishers out there however this page will start around our first supporter Signature Press. To see a full list of current titles please look here.

Key System Streetcars,
by Vernon J. Sappers
Price: $70, hardbound Size: 480 pages, 8H x 11"; 778 photos (45 color), 47maps.

The east shore of San Francisco Bay, long known as the East Bay, was served for almost 80 years by a network of streetcar lines, both for local service and to bring passengers to ferry piers for travel to San Francisco.

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Pullman Standard Freight Cars 1900-1960,
by Edward S. Kaminski
Price: $65, hard covers Size: 192 pages, 8.5" x 11"; 418 photographs.
Pullman-Standard was for some years the largest freight car builder in North America, though the Pullman name is perhaps more famous for passenger cars. This long-overdue book fills a gap in builder history, and provides an overview showing a selection of the many cars built over a 60-year span.
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Southern Pacific's Salt Lake Devision,
by John R. Signor
Price: $70, Size: 480 pages, 8.5" x 11"; 682 photos (77 in color); 68 maps.
More than 500 miles from Ogden, Utah to Reno, Nevada, at the eastern foot of the Sierra Nevada, comprised SP¹s Salt Lake Division. Although it was a vital and historic part of the Southern Pacific, from the building of the Central Pacific until the end of the SP in 1996, its day-to-day history and operation, with the difficulties of weather, scant water, and steep grades, has remained in relative obscurity.
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