Great photos, new maps, and history for 150+ railroads make The Historical Guide to North American Railroads, 3rd Edition the perfect guide for modelers, railfans, and history buffs!
This updated edition features a new, larger format and a comprehensive index that makes searching for information quick and easy. Each listing includes historical information, a photo, a route map, and key statistics regarding miles of operation, locomotives, and rolling stock, and much more.
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RC Plane flying and building – Probably this is the only Hobby that involves Engineering, Electronics, Building, Aerodynamics, model making, etc.
This is a hobby which is demanding and challenging and yet rewarding, when you fly it! The feeling you get when you fly the plane successfully, is priceless. As a RC Plane hobbyist for several years I have come to experience this priceless feeling again and again and I want others to feel the same about this hobby. That is why I have created this illustrated guide, so that with minimum frustration and ‘fuss’ you can go about making your flight a successful one.
This Guide covers some very important segments in the process of flying without which a successful flight will one be a matter of chance!
This guide is a creation and compilation of some extensively research both from actual experience and available information.
Lastly, I want to say only one thing about flying RC Planes, “The more you know about them, the better your flying will be”
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“The BIM Handbook is an extensively researched and meticulously written book, showing evidence of years of work rather than something that has been quickly put together in the course of a few months. It brings together most of the current information about BIM, its history, as well as its potential future in one convenient place, and can serve as a handy reference book on BIM for anyone who is involved in the design, construction, and operation of buildings and needs to know about the technologies that support it. The need for such a book is indisputable, and it is terrific that Chuck Eastman and his team were able to step up to the plate and make it happen. Thanks to their efforts, anyone in the AEC industry looking for a deeper understanding of BIM now knows exactly where to look for it.”
—AECbytes book review, August 28, 2008 (www.aecbytes.com/review/2008/BIMHandbook.html)
Discover BIM: A better way to build better buildings
Building Information Modeling (BIM) offers a novel approach to design, construction, and facility management in which a digital representation of the building process is used to facilitate the exchange and interoperability of information in digital format. BIM is beginning to change the way buildings look, the way they function, and the ways in which they are designed and built.
The BIM Handbook, Second Edition provides an in-depth understanding of BIM technologies, the business and organizational issues associated with its implementation, and the profound advantages that effective use of BIM can provide to all members of a project team. Updates to this edition include:
Completely updated material covering the current practice and technology in this fast-moving field
Expanded coverage of lean construction and its use of BIM, with special focus on Integrated Project Delivery throughout the book
New insight on the ways BIM facilitates sustainable building
New information on interoperability schemas and collaboration tools
Six new case studies
Painting a colorful and thorough picture of the state of the art in building information modeling, the BIM Handbook, Second Edition guides readers to successful implementations, helping them to avoid needless frustration and costs and take full advantage of this paradigm-shifting approach to construct better buildings that consume fewer materials and require less time, labor, and capital resources.
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Remote control vehicles are something both the young and old can enjoy. If you want to bring out the kid in you, RC vehicles Gear Guide can just be the perfect thing you’ve been looking for! RC Vehicles Gear Guide is equipped with rich info about the types of RC Vehicles, Toy-grade and Hobby-grade RC Vehicles, Kit or Ready-To-Run, On-Road and Off-Road Vehicles, Gas-powered and Electric-powered RC Vehicles, Size/Scale, Frequencies and Multiplayer Capacity and more! Go ahead, control those remotes and get the engines running!
About the Author: Robert Pattenson
Robert is an avid collector of all kinds of toy vehicles, especially radio controlled car models. This hobby of his started when his father, who was then a car mechanic, gave him his first set of Matchbox toy cars for his 5th birthday. Every Christmas and during his birthday, Robert would usually receive a different kind of toy car as a present from his dad. He took good care of all his toys and more than 20 years later, Robert now has 258 pieces of toy vehicle models. His collection, which came from varied sources, continues to grow with his current addiction on RC vehicles. With his passion for toys, Robert decided to put up a store which offers radio controlled vehicles of all sorts, and that is how Internet-RC.com was born.
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Using photos, illustrations, and a straightforward style, notable Model Railroader magazine author Tony Koester shows you how to make creative, plausible choices for the concept and construction of your next model railroad. Covers key topics like developing an entire model railroad theme, choosing a scale, integrating signature design elements into your track plan, and much more.
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This book contains a wealth of information on building and flying your first radio controlled model aeroplane.
If you wish to be the builder, maintenance engineer and pilot all rolled into one, look no further as this book is the essential guide. Valuable information in the book includes finding a radio set to control it and fitting a suitable motor to power it, whether an internal combustion engine or an electric motor. The author, Malcolm Messiter, passes on his knowledge in an informative, friendly way, dipping into his own modelling past to put across the fun that can be had from participating in this all-consuming pastime.
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Tired of people coming up with lame excuses that they don’t know what to get you for Christmas because of your discerning tastes, or maybe you signed up for your office’s secret Santa and are stumped or perhaps you just need that perfect bespoke piece for that special architect in your life. Looked no further that architechnophilia’s 2013 Holiday Gift Guide (the Architect’s Version).
Previously sold by Merchant 4, Place for Trace is a smart and nearly obvious solution for designers and architects
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This is The Model Railroaders’s Guide To Logging Railroads
by Matt Colemann from Kalmbach Books?«
FEATURES: This 79 page book traces the history of the timber industry and it’s
railroads, following advances in logging methods and equipment,
specialized rolling stock and the development of geared steam
locomotives, including the Shay, Climax and Heisler designs
This book also includes information and tips about: Logging camps and
structures. Sawmills and log ponds. Skeleton cars, log bunks and
other rolling stock. Loading and unloading log trains. Track
planning for logging lines and geared steam locomotives
More than 150 photos and diagrams
INCLUDES: (1) 79 page book
Kalmbach
Part KAL12423
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Here at last: the fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture—in print since its publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential reference to American houses.
Focusing on dwellings in urban and suburban neighborhoods and rural locations all across the continental United States—houses built over the past three hundred years reflecting every social and economic background—this guide provides in-depth information on the essentials of domestic architecture with facts and frames of reference that will enable you to look in a fresh way at the houses around you. With more than 1,600 detailed photographs and line illustrations, and a lucid, vastly informative text, it will teach you not only to recognize distinct architectural styles but also to understand their historical significance. What does that cornice signify? Or that porch? The shape of that door? The window treatment? When was this house built? What does the style say about its builders and their eras? You’ll find the answers to these and myriad other questions in this encyclopedic and eminently practical book.
Here are more than fifty styles and their variants, spanning seven distinct historical periods. Each style is illustrated with a large schematic drawing that highlights its most important identifying features. Additional drawings and photographs provide, at a glance, common alternative shapes, principal subtypes, and close-up views of typical small details—windows, doors, cornices, etc.—that can be difficult to see in full-house illustrations. The accompanying text explains the identifying features of each style, describing where and in what quantity they can be found, discussing all of its notable variants, and tracing their origin and history.
The book’s introductory chapters provide invaluable general discussions of construction materials and techniques, house shapes, and the various traditions of architectural fashion that have influenced American house design through the past three centuries. A pictorial key and glossary simplifies identification, connecting easily recognized architectural features—the presence of a tile roof, for example—to the styles in which that feature is likely to be found.
Among the new material included in this edition are chapters on styles that have emerged in the thirty years since the previous edition; a groundbreaking chapter on the development and evolution of American neighborhoods; an appendix on approaches to construction in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings throughout.
Here is an indispensable resource—both easy and pleasurable to use—for the house lover and the curious tourist, for the house buyer and the weekend stroller, for neighborhood preservation groups, architecture buffs, and everyone who wants to know more about their own homes and communities. It is an invaluable book of American architecture, culture, and history.
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