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(More customer reviews)Like many others, as a child I was fascinated by trains, an interest I recently discovered. Unlike many other railroad enthusiasts, my interest was not primarily on the locomotives, nor the cabooses at the end. It was the freight cars that fascinated me, in their variety of types and colors.
This book gives a very good overview of railroad freight cars. There is discussion about the earliest freight cars of any type, as well as the history and usage of the various types and some insight in to modern freight trains. It has many interesting notes about the design and construction of these cars, in the past and the present, but stops short of getting mired in a lot of details that are likely to bore many readers.
The outstanding photographs are what really make this book, including some of the details revealed in the captions. I wish there were more of them - a lot more - and was tempted to give it a rating of one less star for that reason, but for the price of this book vs. the quality of the printing and binding, such a complaint is not really justified. If trains interest you at all, buy this book!
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