modeling the SP

As part of the weathering project I mentioned in an earlier post about Rapido models of Pacific Car & Foundry 70-ton box cars, I also ag...

A month or so ago, I posted the second of two blog essays on switching layouts (the most recent was called “Pratt Island,” and it is here: h...

In the preceding post to this one, I showed some very nice HO scale models of International-Harvester construction equipment that I undertoo...

Recently I reported on two of the new 1937 AAR-design box cars in HO scale, both of them Canadian cars, as it happened (you can view that po...

My layout, set in 1953, includes a modest engine terminal in the town of Shumala, with a turntable, two-stall roundhouse, and a sand house, ...

Last year, I posted the first steps in competing one of Richard Hendrickson’s projects that I inherited, which was on his work bench when ...

As part of the weathering project of some 1975-era freight cars, about which I posted recently, I also was requested to weather some HO scal...