modeling the SP

 Last week the 32nd Naperville meeting, essentially a Railroad Prototype Modelers meeting or RPM, was convened at Naperville, Illinois. Foun...

John Allen, as even younger modelers must know, built and publicized his Gorre & Daphetid Railroad layout (the name meant to be read as ...

Last weekend the SP Historical & Technical Society had its annual convention at Visalia, California. Like all organizations post-Covid, ...

At most railroad depots, several kinds of business might be done, from selling passenger tickets and checking baggage, to working with shipp...

I have posted many times about open-car loads, and often about military vehicles. Today I’m not talking about the military ones, but about o...

A couple months ago, I reviewed John Riddell’s fine new book, Canadian Car & Foundry , and included in the review several builder photos...

The title of this post is that of a railroad job, the person responsible for maintaining the inventory of active cars on the railroad, forei...