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AUTHOR'S PREFACE The writer began his professional and journalistic work in connection with model locomotive engineering about the year 1900. His early book on Steam Models, published at a time when the making of a satisfactory working model had only just become general, has long been ojt of print, and may be considered to have performed a service to the model engineering craft in that it pointed out the likely methods of obtaining success. In writing the present work, which aims at presenting a comprehensive survey of the whole subject, it has been possible to illustrate numerous types of locomotives by reproduced photographs of actual models, most of these models having been amateur-made. This fact alone shows the interest taken in the subject, and the author appreciates the compliment such model work pays to the many hundreds of designs prepared by him during the past twenty or thirty years for both home-workers and model-making firms. The author has to thank all those model-makers who have sent him photographs of their work. He wishes also to mention his indebtedness to his friend, Mr. W. J. Bassett-Lowke, for several interesting pictures, and would like to place on record the valuable assistance rendered by his daughter Elenora in the preparation of the major portion of the finished drawings hero reproduced. Owing to the immensity of the subject and to the enormous amount of detail involved in the construction of a working model locomotive, it has not been possible to