Andy Sperandeo offers you passenger train history, types, equipment, and terminal information, as well as tips for modeling equipment, structures, trackage, and details appropriate for any era.

An up-to-date history of intermodal equipment and operations with photos and descriptions of prototype intermodal railcars, loads, and yard equipment. Includes instructions for modeling intermodal transportation on a layout of any scale.

Covers freight and passenger operations, route design, and contemporary railroading operations. The step-by-step design techniques and operation-oriented track plans also make it easy to create your own realistic model railroad.

HO and N scale illustrations plus prototype and layout photos introduce you to the principles of designing, constructing and operating a realistic freight yard. Covers how real rail yards receive and classify trains, defines the various yard designs and structures, and offers techniques for modeling yards on a layout of any size or era.

Add interest to your layout! Photos of different types of prototype junctions with details about how they work give you the inside scoop on junctions. Learn to model junctions and the details around them with expert instruction from Jeff Wilson.

Jeff Wilson demonstrates how to model several rail-served industries with insights, photos, and guidelines. Includes an overview on coal customers, milk, paper, breweries, merchandise traffic, and iron ore.

A comprehensive prototype guide to railroad intermodal equipment and operations tracing the development of piggyback and container traffic from the steam era to today.