Learn about how the automobile industry and trains have worked together with this book from Jeff Wilson.

Description

Learn about how the automobile industry and trains have worked together with this book from Jeff Wilson.

This book gives you information about

• Rail and auto traffic history.
• Open and enclosed auto racks.
• Auto parts boxcars and how they carried thousands of auto parts.
• Assembly plants.
• Automobile train switching.
• Plus other operations.

Author Bio

Bernard Kempinski is a freelance writer who has written more than 4 magazine articles on model railroading, many of them on layout planning, and one book on realistic, mid-size track plans. He is an active model railroader and has built many models on commission, including a 195s steel mill and a paper mill featured in recent Walthers catalogs. A former U.S. Army captain, Bernard works as a defense analyst in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Introduction

1.) Rail and auto traffic history

2.) Manufacturing plants

3.) Automobile boxcars

4.) Auto carrier containers and trailers

5.) Open auto racks

6.) Enclosed auto racks

7.) Distribution and reload centers

8.) Auto parts cars

9.) Operations

Bibliography

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