modeling the SP

Designations of freight cars to describe their suitability for different cargoes have a long history. The American Railway Association (ARA)...

 Most modelers interested in freight cars are aware that, starting in 1956, Southern Pacific renumbered almost all its freight cars into a n...

 The potential for 3D-printing of entire freight car bodies has been recognized for some time. But the latest one I have seen is remarkable ...

 In the first post on this topic, I showed the appearance of the so-called “car ledgers” of the Southern Pacific (formally, Freight Car Reco...

 Many readers of this blog (or of my five-book series, Southern Pacific Freight Cars ) will know that Southern Pacific kept large book-style...

 In recent posts about car fleet proportions, I described my understanding of the ways in which freight cars usually moved about the country...

 This post is a follow-on to the recent post about proportions of a freight car fleet, a much more general topic (you can review that post a...

 In a number of previous posts about waybills, I have touched on the issue of car weights, most recently in a post about various ways these ...

The previous post in this series introduced the topic of Pennsylvania Railroad gondolas in the transition era, both as a fraction of the tot...

 I began this series of posts with some general observations about the freight car fleet of the Pennsylvania Railroad, compared to other maj...

This topic probably sounds like the series of posts I have written over the years, about what a car fleet should contain. The most recent of...

By “postwar,” readers of this blog will likely realize I mean after World War II, since I model 1953. At the time of the war, Southern Pacif...

I have just received my copy of Steve Hile’s new book on UTLX tank cars. It is a superb collection of information and photos, and anyone int...

I began this thread by describing needs of my freight car fleet for additional 40-foot flat cars with fishbelly side sills, such as the USR...