modeling the SP

This is a new talk handout, intended to provide citations to many of the printed and on-line resources mentioned in the talk with the same t...

The topic of diaphragms on the ends of passenger cars, particularly the Southern Pacific ones I model, has been raised in this blog several ...

In a previous post, I showed the prototype paint scheme I wanted to reproduce on a model car, a corrected and upgraded Athearn “42-foot tank...

As many readers know, I am one of a rotating group of monthly columnists in the Model Railroad Hobbyist on-line magazine. The columns are a...

Coming less than a month after the annual convention of my home NMRA region, Pacific Coast Region (PCR), the convention of PNR (Pacific Nort...

In recent posts on this topic, I have been describing a project to build two Southern Pacific streamlined sleeping cars, for the floor plans...

By this I mean freight cars from historical layouts of prominence. I was reminded of this topic while writing my previous post, an appreciat...