modeling the SP

I have long wanted to duplicate a particular load for a depressed-center flat car that is documented in Southern Pacific photographs. The ca...

I  have written before about weight agreements, but not recently, so here is a summary. Railroad cargoes were mostly billed by weight (there...

 I have written a number of kit appreciation posts for freight car kits that I have especially enjoyed. This one is about a Speedwitch Media...

In a recent blog post, back on February 12, I showed my assembled HO scale Roco kit for a U.S. Army M47 tank (new in mid-1953, the year I mo...

Today I want to say a few words about a wonderful book I’ve admired and treasured for many years, Superpower , by David Weitzman (David R. G...

 What’s a string chart? It’s a way of representing schedules, for trains in our case. The idea is pretty well known in model railroading. It...

I just recently learned of some new 3D-printed box cars from Lines West (Richland, WI) in HO scale. You can visit their website for informat...