modeling the SP

 I have written a number of blog posts over the last decade that included mention of my previous layout (built when I lived in Pittsburgh, P...

 As a Southern Pacific modeler, and one interested in produce shipping generally and PFE in particular, I have a lot of PFE refrigerator car...

 The long-running Bay Area Prototype Modelers meet (BAPM), naturally on hiatus during the pandemic,  finally returned this year, and took pl...

The annual Railroad Prototype Modelers (RPM) meeting held in the San Francisco Bay Area has naturally been on hiatus through the pandemic, b...

 In the two previous posts I described why I want to add an additional locomotive to my layout fleet, for passenger moves; the criteria I ch...

 I introduced this topic with a description of how I conduct passenger operations on the Coast Division main line of my Southern Pacific lay...

This post continues my description of this resin car project, assembling a complete model refrigerator car from a stash of resin parts given...