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train shed cyclopedia How useful ?
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reubeft
Many moon s ago had a stack of these publications. Unfortunately lost them all. Been looking at a few that I interested in purchasing. Big question, " How useful are they. Considering in some the scope is very narrow and the age they cover. My interest late 40's - early 50's. Know there are numerous publications that cover this time range. Some of the "T.S." seem to overlap and has mentioned above. Don't know if I have an interest in boiler design and terminals of the 1890's.
Reuben @ Poplarville, Ms |
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spsalso
Reuben,
I find them useful. I pull one down for one reason or another every month or two. An example would be for checking flat car deck thicknesses. I wouldn't mind having all of them--I've got 5. I've also got three of the REAL Cyclopedias. Also useful. It's hard to have too much reference material. Ed Edward Sutorik |
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Some are more useful than others, but some have incredible data. I would narrow your question to what topic you are looking for.
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Kevin NGMC On 2023-01-23 17:37, reubeft via groups.io wrote:
Many moon s ago had a stack of these publications. Unfortunately lost --
Kevin Macomber NGMC (717) 474-8399 www.narrowgaugemodeling.com |
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I use them quite a lot,but it depends on what you are interested in. Fenton On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 6:59 PM Kevin Macomber <sales@...> wrote: Some are more useful than others, but some have incredible data. I --
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WILLIAM PARDIE
They were instrumental. No Bob's Photo back then. Bill Parrdie Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: O Fenton Wells <srrfan1401@...> Date: 1/23/23 2:13 PM (GMT-10:00) To: main@realstmfc.groups.io Subject: Re: [RealSTMFC] train shed cyclopedia How useful ? I use them quite a lot,but it depends on what you are interested in. Fenton On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 6:59 PM Kevin Macomber <sales@...> wrote: Some are more useful than others, but some have incredible data. I |
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reubeft
Thanks for the responses. Like everything you have to narrow it down to what you need. Not every issue but certain ones.
True for any research. Thanks, Reuben @Poplarville, along the SRY mainline, Ms. |
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akerboomk
As they are reprints from the car builder's cyc, remember a bunch of cycs thru 1925 are available on-line:
http://designbuildop.hansmanns.org/car-builders-cyclopedias/ Later ones are available but you need some kind of Hathi-trust access. -- Ken Akerboom http://bmfreightcars.com/ |
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Dave Parker
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 08:20 PM, akerboomk wrote [referring to the original CBCs]:
Later ones are available but you need some kind of Hathi-trust access.Just to clarify: 1. The ones through 1919 are all in the public domain, and can now be downloaded by anyone from Hathi Trust it would seem (or from Google Books). 2. The 1925 edition is now available at Hathi (but not elsewhere to my knowledge). You can download the entire PDF if you are a "member", but I also recall one or two workarounds being posted here, maybe two years ago? A Messages search might turn those up. 3. The 1922 edition was digitized and sold on CD by raildriver.com, but is now discontinued and unsupported. It might show up on Ebay or the like, but I have never checked. 4. Nothing from 1928 onward is available in the public domain. The Hathi site allows you to search for keywords in a few editions, but to no good purpose; you can't even view, much less download, a given page. A group of pre-Depression modelers that Eric and I belong to pooled resources and had the 1928 and 1931 editions scanned to share among ourselves. This eased the pain of purchasing hard copies on the used book market. Perhaps other groups could employ this approach for later periods of interest. -- Dave Parker Swall Meadows, CA |
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