modeling the SP

This handout is intended to provide the factual background, and information about further sources of information, for my talk with the same ...

The clinic is aimed at describing and illustrating my ideas of what we can do on a layout to reproduce some ideas of prototype railroad jobs...

A few years ago, I posted a description of the kinds of line-ups that I use for layout operating sessions, and explored several ways of lett...

In the preceding post, I showed an old Ulrich twin hopper car that has been in my “some day” project box for quite a while. It lacks coupler...

A few years ago I went beyond the modeling of maintenance-of-way (or MOW) equipment, equipment many of us enjoy modeling, and touched on som...

Around a decade back, Robert Bowdidge initiated a line of 3D-printed HO scale SP freight cars, under the name Dry Creek Models. The business...

Some years back, I adapted an E&B Valley kit of a streamlined Pullman-Standard diner to serve as a Southern Pacific streamlined diner. I...