modeling the SP

 In this series of posts about crates as open-car loads, I have described scratchbuilding some large crates, and included some older crates ...

 Once again, I want to show some interesting waybills from Andy Laurent’s collection, and I have to thank him again for his generosity in sh...

In the previous post on this topic, I showed how I chose the diaphragm length (parallel to the car length), and a little about the “bare bon...

 In the previous post in this series, I showed some scratchbuilt crates, that are intended as very large loads requiring open-top cars for s...

 In recent posts about car fleet proportions, I described my understanding of the ways in which freight cars usually moved about the country...

 In several recent posts, I have addressed the topic of weight agreements, the arrangements by which  a shipper could certify weight of a sh...

 In my previous post, I introduced the topic of modeling passenger car diaphragms, starting with older cars like heavyweight Pullmans. I sho...