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Freight Train Cars (Enthusiast Color) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Mike Schafer, Mike Mcbride
Publisher: MBI
Category: Book
List Price: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 394007
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 96
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.7 x 8.1 x 0.1
ISBN: 0760306125
Dewey Decimal Number: 625.240973
EAN: 9780760306123
ASIN: 0760306125
Publication Date: September 26, 1999
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Condition: New, clean paperback by Mike Schafer.
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Product Description
In the world of railway enthusiasts and modelers, freight carriers are every bit as technically involved and evocative as engines and cabooses. This full-color gallery features and describes a trainload of "rolling stock" - boxcars, flatcars, hoppers, gondolas, tank cars, auto-rack transports and others - representing a variety of railways in action around the US.
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 Useful for Pro and Newbie Alike April 4, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Is it a gondola that carries coal, isn't it? I've heard them called "hoppers" too. But that's only for grain, isn't it? Answers: (1) rarely; (2) hoppers (open-top) are not gondolas, and most coal is carried in them. (3) Hoppers (covered) carry more than just grain.
This is a wonderful book of pictures that will prove interesting to the beginner and fun for the aficianado. FREIGHT TRAIN CARS covers its subject very well, in essence a "field guide" to American freight cars including those that are fairly rare (coil car) and those that are growing obsolecent (boxcars). The pictures are old enough to show some marvelous B&W detail, but new enough to show the newer shipping modes like shipping "cubes" (which are boxes but not perfectly cubical, and most world trade depends on them, stacked on ships and railcars as high as possible).
This may not have been the intention back in the early Nineties when this book was first produced, but FREIGHT TRAIN CARS is also a riot of colorful "fallen flags" (Railfan talk for rail companies that have gone out of business or merged into a "megasystem").
Highly recommended. There are other books, but for the money and IMHO, this is the one to go for, especially if you can get a good clean used copy inexpensively. Signed, Al Smalling, proud to be called "Railfan."
 as good as it gets June 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book was good overall of the freight car produced but not of any that were produced for DOD, Navy or Marines.
Nice book for the person who likes to see the history of products produced over a time period.
 A Nice, Simple Survey October 3, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book is a simple one that seeks to do no more than to introduce readers to the common varieties of freight cars found on the railways and it does a commendable job of doing that. After briefly discussing the origins of freight trains themselves, we are taken on a tour of the different types of cars. The development of each is examined and then their usage through the 19th and 20th centuries in the US is given. These are not in depth treatments but they are very adequate for an introduction.
highly recommended February 19, 2004
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
This book, although relatively small, is filled with a large amount of info. It is an easy read and when I finihed it I was disappointed it was not longer.
Neither engine nor caboose, but all parts in between June 21, 2000
16 out of 17 found this review helpful
Like many others, as a child I was fascinated by trains, an interest I recently discovered. Unlike many other railroad enthusiasts, my interest was not primarily on the locomotives, nor the cabooses at the end. It was the freight cars that fascinated me, in their variety of types and colors.This book gives a very good overview of railroad freight cars. There is discussion about the earliest freight cars of any type, as well as the history and usage of the various types and some insight in to modern freight trains. It has many interesting notes about the design and construction of these cars, in the past and the present, but stops short of getting mired in a lot of details that are likely to bore many readers. The outstanding photographs are what really make this book, including some of the details revealed in the captions. I wish there were more of them - a lot more - and was tempted to give it a rating of one less star for that reason, but for the price of this book vs. the quality of the printing and binding, such a complaint is not really justified. If trains interest you at all, buy this book!
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