Sam Posey (1)
Auteur de Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale
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Œuvres de Sam Posey
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Sharon, Connecticut, USA
- Prix et distinctions
- Emmy Award for Sportswriting for Trans-Antarctica, the International Expedition.
- Agent
- Eric Simonoff(Janklow and Nesbit)
- Courte biographie
- Sam Posey was a professional race car driver for nearly twenty years. His career highlights include a fifth place in the Indianapolis 500 and a win in the Twelve Hours of Sebring. After retiring from the track, Posey became a commentator for ABC, receiving an Emmy Award in Sportswriting for Trans-Antarctica, the International Expedition. His first book, The Mudge Pond Express, describes his racing days, He lives above his train layout in northwestern Connecticut, with his wife and two children.
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Playing with Trains: A Passion Beyond Scale par Sam Posey
This book answers the age-old (no pun intended) question: why do grown men play with trains? And while he describes in great detail the process of building his own HO scale layout, one wonders what his wife and children are doing in the meantime. He spends countless hours modeling, both alone and with a myriad of friends (all male, of course), and scarcely mentions his family. Which, I suppose, is fine when one considers that the book is about model trainers and not matters of the family. But, still...the question lingers... Anyway, this book is a great resource for those of us heavily involved in modeling train layouts. He also talks about an interesting array of well-known (to other modellers) modellers and their works, much of which is undeniably outstanding, and, occasionally, incredible. Come to think of it, this book may very well explain to the uninitiated (modellers wives and girlfriends, for example) why grown men play with trains. Read this book if you are at all curious.… (plus d'informations)
½A good book, but not one I found very interesting. I don't think it went far enough in answering the question the book poses: Why do grown men play with trains?
Wonderful true life story of growing up with model railroading in the blood. From the first days running a train under the Christmas Tree to completing your first model railroad layout, Sam unfolds the story of many a grown man obsessed with model trains.
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njtrout | 4 autres critiques | May 27, 2009 |
njtrout | 4 autres critiques | May 27, 2009 | Posted my review at http://riptrack.net/node/52
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- Popularité
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- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
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- ISBN
- 9