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A Railroad Signal Primer Pt. I

This series is started by looking at signal hardware, signal configurations and features, rules, and terminology. Diagrams for the various states are shown with both lighted signals and semaphores.

A Railroad Signal Primer Pt. II

This last installment covers signal types, signaling philosophy, speed, signal aspects, sources of information, and how to model signaling (briefly).

Cobleskill Coal Co.

A retail coal dealer in rural New York. Includes prototype photos of the building upon which this model was based. Also includes scaled drawings. Construction is mostly text as model photos are only of the completed model.