Eckert, K. Starke Loks und schwere Züge

This book, which is equally informative for railway fans and model railway enthusiasts, first outlines the development of freight traffic over the last five decades using selected prototype photos. While in the 1960s steam locomotives still carried the main load of freight traffic, today modern multi-system electric locomotives haul long container trains across national borders throughout Europe. The model railway enthusiast gets to know the different types of vehicles that were and are still in use on the freight railway. He also learns how the freight wagons can be modified and loaded in the model.

These are just some of the topics:
. Little brown: covered goods wagons
. Open top: High-sided wagons for many goods
. Now boiling: mineral oil, gas and Schlemm chalk wagons
. Good wood: sawn timber, boards and logs
. All scrap: cargo of scrap iron, construction of a scrap yard
. Colourful boxes: Of containers and other receptacles
. Correct shunting: On the road with the V 90
. Classic vehicles: Locomotives and wagons of yesteryear

Large-format model photographs and numerous step-by-step photos show the way to the perfect implementation of the "Fascination of Freight Transport" on the home model railway layout.