modeling the SP

In a previous post, I discussed some 1920s waybills from the Coudersport & Port Allegany Railroad, all of them for shipments of the Gray...

Southern Pacific introduced piggyback service, highway trailers moving on railroad cars, in 1953. As 1953 is my modeling year, I have held o...

Many modelers think first about 50-foot cars if asked about automobile cars. (The AAR definition until the middle 1950s was that any double-...

I have been writing about waybills, both prototype and model, for a decade or more, and the Part number in today’s title conveys that span o...

In the preceding post, I summarized the history and background of the Georgia Railroad’s USRA box cars and introduced the partially complete...

 This series of blog posts is about using many of the parts of an Athearn “Blue Box” tank car, with the insulated tank body, as the starting...

Many readers will recognize the title of today’s blog post as the title of a book by renowned layout designer John Armstrong. This book, The...