modeling the SP

My first post to this blog was on December 8, 2010, which makes today’s post a completion of 14 years of this activity. As of today, this is...

I was recently browsing in my stash of old or unused freight cars, and came across an Ulrich metal hopper car from my teenage years. Among o...

In the previous part, I mentioned that no matter how carefully built the layout is, or how conscientiously maintained, careful examination w...

I have written about this topic before, and in the present post, am adding more examples, in part to show a different technique. Crated load...

This topic may seem a little surprising. The great majority of my layout has been pretty much complete for ten years, and parts of it are co...

My topic today is realistic operation of a layout, including small layouts, and how to achieve it. A goal of many layout owners, including m...

I have written a number of posts about the hazard placards used on tank cars, concentrating on my modeling era (1953). Placards were used to...