modeling the SP

I recently agreed to build a Yarmouth Model Works kit for a friend, perhaps a natural move for a self-confessed “freight car guy” (for back...

When my layout was first built, it was in my basement in Pittsburgh, PA. I imagined it as a short line, running from the Southern Pacific ma...

This post is to discuss several prototype waybills and their contents. I think that all have interesting features that are worth presenting....

This year’s Prototype Rails meeting in Cocoa Beach, Florida took place last week, and as usual, it was a thoroughly enjoyable and informativ...

The title of this blog post may remind some readers of an excellent book of some years ago with a very similar title. That’s on purpose, tho...

This is the on-line handout for a clinic entitled “Modeling SP Operating Practices.” The purpose is to provide documentation of the various ...

Back more than 30 years ago, the Bookmine bookstore in Sacramento (long gone today) acquired a huge stash of “surplus” paper materials from ...