modeling the SP

My layout is set in coastal California, and in the southern half of the state, such areas are suitable for lemon cultivation. Accordingly, I...

Among the many industries in my layout town of Ballard is a facility of the California Division of Highways, predecessor of today’s CalTrans...

Long-time readers of this blog, or those who may have heard a clinic I have given several times, may find that the title of the present post...

Recently a long-time friend, someone even older than me, asked advice about designing a switching layout he could build. He had limited spac...

One of the first industries I wanted to add to my original HO layout in Pittsburgh, PA was a warehouse for a wholesale grocer. This is a gre...

From time to time, I post short descriptions of the industries on my layout, what they do, and how they form part of operating sequences. To...

In my layout town of Ballard, there are two wine shippers, the larger of which is the Zaca Mesa winery. This is a large structure, made from...

Some readers will remember that when I built my layout town of Santa Rosalia, I ended up with a pretty short tail track for switching the in...

 As a wrap-up on what I regard as an interesting topic, the ads found in the timebooks used by train service employees, I want to show one m...

I explained in a previous post that often the timebooks used by train service employees were ones provided free by private printers, who pai...

An ongoing problem in preparing realistic waybills for model railroad layout operation is the identification of the off-layout industries fr...

In the new issue of Model Railroad Hobbyist or MRH, dated July 2022, my article (part of the “Getting Real” series) is entitled “Fitting an...