Authoritative Guide to Lionel's Postwar Operating Cars

by Algozzini, Joseph P.; Piazza, Emanuel F.; Carp, Roger; Schmid, John W.

• ISBN13: 9781933600000
• ISBN10: 1933600004
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-10
• Publisher: Project Roar Pub

Summary

Based on 1,000's of authentic internal postwar Lionel documents as well as the expert observations of two leading postwar historians, Joseph P. Algozzini and Emanuel F. Piazza, this volume provides the most complete and authoritative guide to Lionel's operating cars.

Author Biography

Joseph P. Algozzini is one of the leading postwar Lionel historians in the country. He began collecting Lionel trains in late 1965 and has written extensively on them for Classic Toy Trains magazine and other journals. He is the author of Lionel's Postwar F3's, Lionel's Space and Military Trains and TCA's Postwar Lionel Reproduction Handbook Guide, and the co-author of Greenberg's Guide to Lionel Trains, 1945 û 1969 Volume IV: Uncataloged Sets. As a member of the TCA Standards committee, he has helped increase the level of awareness and importance of original postwar items.Emanuel F. Piazza has been a collector of Lionel trains since the late 1960s and is also a leading postwar historian. He is a contributor to Lionel's Postwar F3's and has written articles for Classic Toy Trains magazine. He is a past president of the Midwest Division of the Train Collectors Association. Emanuel lives in Addison, Illinois, with his wife LaVerne.Roger Carp has been a member of the editorial staff of Classic Toy Trains magazine since 1988 and now holds the position of senior editor. He is the author of The World's Greatest Toy Train Maker: Insiders Remember Lionel (1988), Lionel Classic Display Layouts You Can Build (2000) and The Art of Lionel (2003), and Great Toy Train Layouts. Roger lives in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, with his sons, Benjamin and Daniel.