If you're not aware of this guy's work, boy do you have a pleasant surprise ahead! This book however is not intended to showcase Pelle's work (though it does that too very well), but rather it is a series of "simple" / "short" projects that even the average model railroader of modest skills can follow and accomplish to improve various elements of his/her model railroad. The beauty of most of the stuff that Pelle does is that its generally common-sense stuff. Except that he thought of it and you didn't, and that's why he's the author and you're just wishing you were! :-) I love seeing Pelle's work. He has a number of other books available (do a search for him either here on Amazon, or else on Google to dig up more). He has a very interesting style along the lines of "less is more", and yet his scenes are spectacularly "realistic" even for all their supposed "simplicity". What he's not telling you is that you have to pick the *right* "less" to include, to pull it off. Pelle's got the eye and the talent for seeing and simplifying to basic essential ingredients, and he's got the awareness and the patient ability to explain how he does it in terms that the rest of us mere mortals can understand (and pretend we can accomplish :-) Seriously though, kidding aside. This is a good book for any model railroader looking for some rainy-day projects. Well worth the money.