modeling the SP

This post contains a number of additional route card from the Michael Litant collection, as has been the case for a number of previous posts...

A month or so ago, I posted the second of two blog essays on switching layouts (the most recent was called “Pratt Island,” and it is here: h...

What do I mean by “layout instructions?” I mean the kind of information provided by a layout owner to prospective visitors or operators of t...

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

Those among the readers of this blog who belong to the Layout Design SIG (Special Interest Group) of NMRA will be familiar with the organiza...

This past weekend I hosted two operating sessions, with the sequence numbers you see in the title today. As I always do, I rotated most of f...

A few years ago, I posted some comments about the Southern Pacific “Home Shop” form, a form used to direct a car for repair, which was attac...

This is another post in a series about route cards, the small tags of light cardstock, typically about 3 x 5 inches, attached to freight car...

I continue to be, on the one hand, fascinated with the variety of route card appearances, and, at the same time, intrigued with all the prot...

At the recent ProRail operating event, there were as usual many fascinating discussions among attendees, not only during sessions, but also ...

Oranges are probably the canonical California fruit, and although the area I model, the Central Coast between San Luis Obispo and Santa Ma...