modeling the SP

I recently came across an article I wrote for a local modeling publication after riding the Zephyr that was still being operated by the Denv...

The Naperville freight car meeting, as it originally was, was founded by Martin Lofton of Sunshine Models, partly to provide a venue at whic...

Recently I was given a box of old HO toy trains and brass track from my neighbor, Andy Laird, who had passed away. Most of the models were a...

Every layout faces the challenge in an operating session, of having a place for crews to examine and sort paperwork, especially waybills or ...

A famous part of Southern Pacific food service after 1939 was the articulated triple-unit dining cars, comprising a coffee shop and a dining...

At a modelers’ meeting not long ago, I was asked an interesting question, one I couldn’t readily answer without visual aids. The question wa...

Since my post several weeks ago about the new Achievement Program of the OpSIG (Operations Special Interest Group of NMRA), I have received ...