modeling the SP

I want to summarize my standards for freight cars in my fleet. Although I divide these into mainline and branchline cars, meaning cars which...

Modeling the SP in California means that hopper cars are simply not very visible, and moreover company cars will almost all be ballast cars ...

Some of you will perhaps have seen my article on freight car reweighing in the April 2011 issue of Railroad Model Craftsman (RMC), pages 72...

My previous post on how I make my waybills, available at http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2011/02/waybills-4.html , showed the final result...

I have analyzed the box car data in the 1948–1952 conductor’s book I mentioned in my previous post on this topic (analyzing refrigerator car...

My first post on this topic had to do with car fleet size and paint schemes. It can be viewed at:   http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2010/1...

For those who model the steam-diesel transition era, as I do, the chronology of locomotive introduction is important if era accuracy is a go...