New Book!

Now available through Amazon.

I began this book back in 2000 which was to be just plans and drawings with photos on front and rear cover. It was about half done when I seemed to have got away from it for about 20 years. How time flies.  

About 2024 I saw Lance Mindheim was publishing books through Amazon. I purchased a couple and they looked really good. I contacted Lance for some advice regarding the book I began so long ago. The comments were all positive. I began working on the book once again but with photos and a focus. I still had a lot of content for this "Modeling New England Railroads" book although some had been diverted away to RMC and CARM over the years. 

I had plugged a New England Book to RMC but Otto wanted a more general book which what was then published under my name.

Working on the book again there was a bit of struggles though with scanned drawing and photo sizes. From the scanner to what I saw when test printing the word document saw the scale size change. Even more when loaded to Amazon. It did not want to accept some images at all so about 8 pages had to be removed. The rest of the drawings are either right on for size or close. 

Content includes ball signals  some plans and sketches, structures such as the B&M WRJ yard office, Bellows Falls freight house built by Don Janes and updated and on my layout, B&M style station and a number more. Also three caboose models and a handful of New England freight cars are covered. Milk cars and creameries make up a chapter. Some of my Maine narrow gauge is covered. My ideas of coloring B&M and Rutland structures are included and snapshots of my WRD layout. At the back there is my tips on paints, stains and powders. 96 pages total.

The book is now available through Amazon for $26.00 US. I tried to keep the price as low as possible as I am more about getting the information out than the profit...George Dutka