modeling the SP

As part of the weathering project I mentioned in an earlier post about Rapido models of Pacific Car & Foundry 70-ton box cars, I also ag...

In the preceding post to this one, I showed some very nice HO scale models of International-Harvester construction equipment that I undertoo...

As part of the weathering project of some 1975-era freight cars, about which I posted recently, I also was requested to weather some HO scal...

I recently undertook to weather some mid-1970s freight cars for a friend. His layout is set in 1975, thus prior to the graffiti era. The mod...

Following my lengthy saga about kitbashing an Erie 50-foot automobile car from a Branchline kit, with replaced roof and ends, and a detour c...

As I often mention, I have put together a pair of what Google calls “Reference pages,” linked at upper right in this post, with a fairly spe...

In Part 1, I showed both the model that inspired me to this project (made by Todd Osterberg) and also a prototype photo of a Pullman 12-1 sl...

As most readers know, Rapido Trains recently released a number of paint schemes on a new HO scale model of Southern Pacific Class B-50-15 bo...

 The question mark in the title of today’s post will remind older readers of previous discussions of this topic on my blog. And that stems i...

This post continues an account of building a Proto2000 kit for a Union Pacific 50-foot automobile car, particularly the changes needed to th...

The annual Railroad Prototype Modelers (RPM) meeting held in the San Francisco Bay Area has naturally been on hiatus through the pandemic, b...

 In the two previous posts I described why I want to add an additional locomotive to my layout fleet, for passenger moves; the criteria I ch...