modeling the SP

I have written a number of posts about the hazard placards used on tank cars, concentrating on my modeling era (1953). Placards were used to...

Most readers know by now that I am one of a group of columnists who, in rotation, write the “Getting Real” column about prototype modeling i...

In this series of posts, I am describing the variety and assignments of cabooses for my layout operating sessions, which are set in 1953. I ...

Not having hosted an operating session on my layout since July, I planned for and hosted two sessions this last weekend. Preparation for the...

In the previous post on this topic, I showed a heavily tarnished Ken Kidder model of one of the Southern Pacific’s distinctive 40-foot bagga...

What do I mean here by “literature?” I don’t mean novels or other creative literature. I mean it in the sense familiar to any professional o...

This series of posts describes a freight car build that originated as a so-called “Shake ‘n’ Take” kitbashing project at the 2015 meeting of...