Название: Model Trains. The Collector's Guide
Автор: Chris Ellis
Издательство: Chartwell Books, Inc.
Год: 1994
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 88
Размер: 14,0 МБ
Язык: Английский

Model trains are older than the railways themselves. The pioneers of steam power tested their ideas with small scale models, and toy locomotives were produced almost concurrently with early engines like the Rocket and Adler. Originally viewed as children's toys, model trains now are collected primarily by adults. The earliest model trains, produced in the mid-nineteenth century, were wooden pull-along toys that were not intended to be faithful replicas of the real thing.