modeling the SP

I have posted two write-ups about the recently released HO scale models of the 1937 AAR box cars from Rapido. In the first of these, I showe...

Recently I reported on two of the new 1937 AAR-design box cars in HO scale, both of them Canadian cars, as it happened (you can view that po...

Some years ago, I described the creation of a stand-in version of a Southern Pacific postal-storage car, in two blog posts. The concluding o...

In a recent post, I described a project to upgrade a Rivarossi streamlined postal-baggage for service on my layout as an SP car. In that pre...

As I have written a number of times, my layout is primarily a branch line, with limited amounts of mainline traffic passing by on the Southe...

The title of this blog post may remind some readers of an excellent book of some years ago with a very similar title. That’s on purpose, tho...

This is the on-line handout for a clinic entitled “Modeling SP Operating Practices.” The purpose is to provide documentation of the various ...

Back more than 30 years ago, the Bookmine bookstore in Sacramento (long gone today) acquired a huge stash of “surplus” paper materials from ...

A core document of the Southern Pacific for many years was the Accounting Department’s Circular 4. I realize that isn't an informative n...

My layout is very freight-car oriented; nearly all car movements on my fictitious branch line to Santa Rosalia, and most mainline action, ar...

Continuing his remarkable series of books about the Southern Pacific, John Signor has just published the latest, this one about the San Joaq...

In the preceding post, I showed the general features of the new Southern Pacific “Shipper Guide,” for 1952. For me as an SP modeler, it'...