modeling the SP

My layout, set in 1953, includes a modest engine terminal in the town of Shumala, with a turntable, two-stall roundhouse, and a sand house, ...

I’ve just received my copy of an excellent new book from Firecrown Media (successor to Kalmbach Media and all its assets). This book was cre...

Today I want to say a few words about a wonderful book I’ve admired and treasured for many years, Superpower , by David Weitzman (David R. G...

I have not posted many comments about Southern Pacific passenger power, steam or otherwise. I did offer an introduction to the topic a few y...

I began this series of posts with prototype information and photos, focusing on later classes of Southern Pacific 0-6-0 switchers, and discu...

A few weeks ago, I posted a commentary on Southern Pacific steam switchers, focusing (as did SP) on the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement. I concluded...

Like most railroads, Southern Pacific in steam days owned a considerable fleet of switchers, very predominantly of the 0-6-0 wheel arrangeme...

The General Electric 44-ton diesel switcher was sold to railroads large and small, and to industrial users, all over North America, and many...

I have an all-black Broadway Limited HO scale model of a Southern Pacific 4-8-4 locomotive, Class GS-4. That is how these engines were paint...

As I’m sure was the case for many Southern Pacific modelers, the recent announcement by Broadway Limited Imports (BLI) of new HO scale locom...

Coming less than a month after the annual convention of my home NMRA region, Pacific Coast Region (PCR), the convention of PNR (Pacific Nort...