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This vintage book is a complete guide to model trains, dealing with the construction of trains, stations, and accessories. Detailed diagrams and comprehensive instructions, this handbook will be of considerable utility to the modern train enthusiast and would make for a useful addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: “A Model of the North Star”, “Locomotive”, “How to Build in Wood a Model”, “Locomotive 'Cock O' the North'”, “Final Instructions for Making Out”, “Our Gauge Signal Box”, “Fittings for a Signal-Box”, “Fittings for a Signal-Box”, “Electric Automatic Traffic Signal”, “Photography-Taking Pictures of Your Models”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on model building.
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A MODEL OF THE
NORTH STAR LOCOMOTIVE
WE are giving this week, details and instructions of how to build a model of one of our old pioneer engines, and feel sure model builders will be pleased.
A word or two about the prototype of the model will not be out of place.
The North Star
—for such is the name of this quaint old engine—was one of our earliest locomotives, and indeed one of eight which formed a procession at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in Septtember, 1830. The Duke of Wellington, being then Prime Minister, performed the opening ceremony. All the engines were built by Stephenson, the celebrated engineer, who, himself, drove the first one in the
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