More books - it's too cold to lay track...

More books for February reading - and both useful as I hone in on what I can realistically achieve...

 Shelf layouts came about because of reading I think in Railway Modeller magazine about shelf layouts.   Given that I have a lawn in the middle to keep safe and the flowerbeds etc around it work with, then seemed to sum up my situation.   As one might expect, very American and perhaps 20% not directly relevent as it is concerned with shelves around a room, but lots of layout and conceptual ideas.  I'd come close to thinking that I needed some sort of fiddle yard concept.  One of the most radical is the harbour  float, which I don't think we would see in Europe alhtough i have been on the Train ferry from the Italian mainland to Sicily.  

   A book written by a real railwayman aimed at the modeller which  he also is.    Still working my way thorough this one but full of assorted miscellany.  How wagon turntables work and capstans - both of which there are remains of on the Exeter Quay trackway.   Pictures of horses used in shunting by British rail from the Mid 1950's if not a little later.