I would look at the DVD's available form model-trains-video.com instead.

Got'em all.  Great Set!  I recommend them too.

Thanks Kevin.

Christopher

I'm a little suspicious of sites like that.  It very well could be decent content, but the whole thing is set up as a poor man's infomercial.  I have made a couple purchases in the past from websites eerily similar to that (though with different content - not model railroading related info), and found the content to be wanting.  A lot said, little gained by me in the end.   

Hi Christopher-

While I haven't read it myself I had a friend in the hobby who purchased it and did not give it the greatest of reviews.  While he said it did have a decent amount of information contained in it if you subscribe to the major hobby pubs you probably have already seen most of what is contained in here in cycle of articles that reappear in MR and RMC (i.e. how to ballast, wire track, build benchwork etc.) but if you don't read those it might be a worthwhile "one stop shop" for some decent 30K foot information on the hobby.

I hope that's at least somewhat helpful.

EDIT:  Skiloff has put this more or eloquently and succinctly than I.  What he said!

~rb

For the money, I think you can do better elsewhere. I've seen the book(s) - this person or person(s) books are very broad but not very deep. In other words, they cover a lot of topics, but not in lots of detail.

You would be better served to pick a topic you want to learn (DCC for instance) and then spend the money on books from Kalmbach and Carstens. You can trust those publishers to cover the topic in depth and what you purchase won't be a waste of money.

I also invite you to post a "wish list" of article topics you would like MRH to cover. If we can, we'll track down an article or two on that topic - with video included, if possible. And of course, the price will be right for you ... (wink)

Greetings all,

Thanks for the advice and information.  I will put the money towards more model materials. 

Christopher

PS: Joe, I tried sending you a message through your profile page.  Did you get it or did I not do it right?

If you have all of Joe's videos then I'll second what he says.

You would be better served to pick a topic you want to learn (DCC for instance) and then spend the money on books from Kalmbach and Carstens. You can trust those publishers to cover the topic in depth and what you purchase won't be a waste of money.

I have purchased a number of books from both of these publishers and have yet to be sorry.  Lot's of them can be found in your Public Library where you can enjoy them for free and then just buy the ones that are crucial references that should be in every modelers library.

First This airwolf Crazy Guy  may not be the one actually selling this Book but the guy that owns this site and the E-Book has tried 2 other times to Sell or advertise this E-Book here and has been Deleted I have been offered to get paid if I would go to Model Railroading web sites and promote this E-book. I may be wrong but this post looks like a cheep trick to advertise this E-Book for free here on MRH,

JOE Delete this Scammer Spammer I see airwolf crazy has been here for a year with just 1 post and it is just a little strange about track work back on Feb 1st. I may be wrong about "airwolf crazy" if I am wrong I apologize for my accusation but when I read his post my spam alert went crazy as there is no other posts about anything from this guy other then tearing out ready made track and hand spiking form now on and never any follow up.

3 years ago I bought this so called Book of Model Railroading secrets and it's a scam you can find every ounce of it all free on the internet.

If You're a Day one beginner and want to know the basics of Model Railroading then go to Kalmbach Publications and pick up one of their beginner books called "HO' Primer or N" Primer it has all the information for $6.00 AND IF you have both the Primer and Model Train Help & step-by-step guide and lay them next to each other you can read the same information word for word. 

If you want all the information provided in this E-Book free go to HO Wiki and you can find everything again for free and I would almost bet is where he copied most of his book from check the following link  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H0_scale

Ever sentence in this book is Basic model railroading for the first day beginner and has been copied from someone else that actually did all the work compiling the information and this guy copied everything and now tries selling to the unsuspecting model Railroader thinking they are getting some great new Book that has never been produced before.

Want to know about DCC and in three times the detail with better and more information go to the DCC University and get it all FREE at the following link   http://litchfieldstation.com/DCC-University/University.htm.

If you give this guy your E-Mail address you will get spam mail everyday for the rest of your life from him until you buy his book and then you never hear from him again or at least not for 2 days when then everyday after that spams you to buy his Video tour E-Book which turns out to be links to thousands of You-Tube Videos that are free also.

Sorry for my rant everyone but this book and his post is a scam and if you know anything about model railroading you know everything provided in this E-book and you probably know more.

Joe If I were you delete this post as it is not anything but an add almost word for word that I get in E-mails with a link to his main site.

Dan

I think you might be in error Dan.

JOE Delete this Scammer Spammer I see airwolf crazy has been here for a year with just 1 post and it is just a little strange about track work back on Feb 1st. I may be wrong about "airwolf crazy" if I am wrong I apologize for my accusation but when I read his post my spam alert went crazy as there is no other posts about anything from this guy other then tearing out ready made track and hand spiking form now on and never any follow up.

I don't get the impression that Air Wolf Crazy is trolling for sales.

I don't think that a lack of follow up to a forum posts, or not posting much are reasons to come down on the original poster.   I'd suggest the benefit of the doubt on this one.

Cheers.

Dave that's why I put in the underlined Apology to airwolf in my rebuttal to his posting in case I was out of line as He also may have been duped into thinking it was a good link to quality Model Railroading.

But the link he has posted is the Exact same link that I get every other day in email and that has been posted here twice that I know of by people that have logged in as a new member and their only statement has been check out this great Railroad information when actually they were trying to get free add space.. The second time It was Posted it said Wow I just got the great new E-book with everythig you'll ever neen to build a model railroad. Which I again alearted the administraters as to the spamer looking for free add space  so all I could do was give every body the alert to don't waist their money on this E-Book.

Again it's their money and also once again I apology to airwolf crazy if he is a legitimate member and also tell him avoid the guy selling that E-book as it can all be attained free on the internet or right here on MRH forums and the Magazine again for free.

Dan