Railroad Car Builder's Pictorial Dictionary (Dover Americana) (Paperback)- Does anyone have an opinion on this book?

If you study it daily for several years, you will know the correct name of every part of every freight or passenger car.

Seriously, it is a railroad technical reference book that can be used if you are scratch building scale model cars.  If you're not, then it has some interesting information about railroad rolling stock, but only you can judge how well-informed you want (or need) to be.

Thanks Tom, maybe there is a jeopardy show on rolling stock?

Seriously, scratch building is beyond my current pay grade but I would like a reference on some history, etc. of rolling stock, beyond a fabrication drawing. No web site has a peek inside on this one. Sounds like you liked the supporting info?

This is what I found:

"1974 unabridged republication of the work originally published by THE RAILROAD GAZETTE, New York, in 1879."

Are you sure you are looking for something no more current than 1879?

Thanks jim, read the fine print as they say. Sounds like a neat book but few of us model that far back. Heavens!

The cover illustration alone should have been a tip-off. But since I am one of the "few," I may have to get a copy!

IT must be amazing, 500 pages of cars built prior to 1879.