Little Engines that Can and Toymakers who Create them

210 illustrations in Premium Color and personal stories from 1877 to today of the creators & creations of Backyard Model Railroads. Built to last and to ride by a half-million enthusiasts in the USA alone who buy & sell engines, cars, track, & accessories in the billions of $, in Book I. Train buffs today still recognize the accessible Miller Backyard RR products that, timeless even 75 years on, some still find & use, in Book II. After a fire, toymaker & entrepreneur Bob Miller saved Conestoga Big Bang Cannons, rehired its workers, did the same for a precision measuring instrument company and an historic gray iron foundry, ran a dozen other entities employing 600, and did much for his community in his short life, in Book III.

Robin Miller was educated at Lehigh University (BSEE & unfinished MBA), and was an on-air personality on radio station WGPA. He wed Miss Lehigh Valley 1965, Nancy Desiderio of Bethlehem, with whom he had two children. He was General Chair of the 1969 Bethlehem Arts Festival, featuring Duke Ellington, the National Symphony, & Pennsylvania Ballet. After client-producing an IBM national sales film, he started Robin Miller, Filmaker Inc that he grew to the largest independent producer in Pennsylvania. He now researches and writes on various technical, health, and entertainment topics.