| Carstens Publications, Inc. copyright 1999, Hal Carstens, 152 pages, hardcover $30.95 WRP Bookstore RMC誌の編集長（表紙の男性）が、NMRAの他、業界のエピソードを満載して、スケール・モデル製品の成り立ちを語る。Oゲージの状況を含み、マックス・グレイ夫妻など、我々が見たことも聞いたこともない話ばかり。英語が不得手でも写真が多いので楽しめる。 Here's the first comprehensive history of model railroading: over 400 photos and illustrations of early manufacturers, their products, the pioneer modelers; the beginnings of NMRA, TCA and TTOS as well as the early trade organizations: AMRRM, HIAA, and MRIA. The Author NMRA Life Member 0020; Harold H. Carstens started model railroading in 1938, discovered HO in 1940 and joined the staffs of Railroad Model Craftsman and Toy Trains in 1952. He became Managing Editor in 1954, Editor in 1957 and President and Publisher in 1967. He has served as Secretary of the Eastern Model Railroad Manufacturers, President of the Hobby Industry Association of America, the Model Railroad Industry Association, Friends of the New Jersey Railroad & Transportation Museum and the Train Collectors Association. He was one of the first three recipients of NMRA's Distinguished Service Award in 1962 at Montreal, holds the HIAA Meritorious Award of Honor and has been inducted into the Model Railroad Hall of Fame. He received the Wagner College Alumni Achievement Award and served eleven years on the Wagner College Board of Trustees. He was NMRA Man of the Year in 1990 and is listed in Who's Who in America. His train collection has been displayed at the Abby Aldridge Rockefeller Folk Art Museum in Williamsburg. Virginia; Trenton State Museum; and the National Geographic Hall, Washington. He is married to the former Phyllis Merkle and has four children: Rebecca, living in London, England; Heidi, Jacksonville, Florida; Harold G. and Henry who is active in the publishing company. | FRONT COVER: TOY TRAINS art director Julia DelCoro, poses for the camera with Hal Carstens on the giant American Flyer display layout at the Gilbert Hall of Science in New York. Color transparency was from the cover of the Sept. 1952 issue of TOY TRAINS. TOY TRAINS Introduction This book started out to be a simple, selected compilation of my Dispatcher's Report column from the pages of RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN. As the material was gathered it developed into a history of the model railroad hobby from its earliest years until the late 1970s. Photographs came from my personal files as well as from the RAILROAD MODEL CRAFTSMAN library and a number of other sources. It would be impossible to include everybody who had a part in creating the early days of the hobby. Photographs of some important early pioneers were not available to me as the book grew in scope. Perhaps more photos will turn up after this book is printed. The same is true of many of the early modelers who played an important role in promoting scale model railroading, collecting scale and toy trains, creating standards so locos and cars were interchangeable and those who worked, sometimes behind the scenes, to organize the trade and consumer associations which helped our model railroad hobbies grow and stabilize. The hobby and industry could not have grown without their efforts. The manufactures, wholesalers, dealers and consultants listed in this book have given freely of their time and effort to help the hobby grow. So have the pioneers who formed NMRA, TCA, TTOS and other smaller organizations to create platforms where modelers and collectors could meet and share ideas, create standards for operating and collecting, and make new friends. Harold H. Carstens |
Contents
| 3 A Dedication 5 High School and the Army 14 Invention of the Steam Railroad 19 150 Year Old Models 20 The First Known Hobby Railroad 27 Model Craftsman is Born 32 Early Hobby Days 33 MCPC moves to Ramsey 34 NMRA is Born 38 1939 New York Word Fair 42 Pearl Harbor 43 HO vs 00 46 Wartime Rail Photography 48 1933 49 TT is Born 50 Then Came HO 53 Mystic Knights of the Rusty Rail 54 Ramsey Journal Building 54 Early Hobby Kits 59 Early Kits Were Scarce 66 George D. Stock 67 Stephan Schaffan 69 Sondel Doniger, X-Acto 71 William Schopp 72 The Polk Brothers | 76 1943 81 EMRRMA at the Barn 82 RRing in 1880, 1920, 1960, 1975 86 Death of a landmark 90 MIA & EMRRMA 94 The Hobby Industry Assn. 98 A College Exam: 1952 98 Day the Trains Stopped Running 99 Founding of TTOS 101 Chicago's Big Snow: 1967 104 The HIAA President Years 106 The Rebirth of No. 1Gauge 107 Glue Sniffing 108 The World Gets Smaller 110 Model Railroad Industry Assn 112 N Scale 113 Post War Aftermath 115 Wood Kits 117 Joe is an 0 Gauger 118 1943 was Yesterday 119 Post War 120 The Railroads Rebuild 121 Hobby Shopping & Brass 123 Augie Kniff 123 Sherman Dance: Gandy Dancer | 124 The Carstens' Specials 126 The Craftsman Trophy 128 Steam boatin' with E. J. Quinby 129 Bernie Paul 130 Kramer buys Varney, etc. 132 Champ goes of the Gold 134 Why the HIA Star Logo 135 MRC's First Fifty Years 135 Iry Athearn and John Munson 137 Howe & French, Ambroid 143 Tootsietoy - Strombecker 148 Famous Modelers 149 D. C. NMRA Convention 150 HIAA Meritorious Award 150 HIAA Past Presidents 150 HIAA Lifetime Members (RR) 150 MRIA Past Presidents 150 MRIA Hall of Fame 151 NMRA Pioneers of Model RRing 151 TCA Past Presidents 152 TCA Honorary Members 152 TTOS Past Presidents 152 TTOS Honorary Members 152 Hobby & Trade Associations 152 Craftsman Trophy Winners |
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