Description
Building the Rio Grande K 27 Volume 1 by Kozo Hiraoka is a large hardcover book based on long-running serial in Live Steam & Outdoor Railroading magazine. The publishers say “this is the most comprehensive text on building a live steam locomotive ever published“.
Building the Rio Grande K 27 features over 400 pages chock-full of drawings, color photos and detailed text. It also includes all-new with foldouts for larger drawings. Features material not present in magazine articles. Volume 1 contains first 27 chapters.
Volume 2 to be released after serial concludes in magazine.
Here is a list of other excellento books by Kozo Hiraoka on building model steam locomotives: