modeling the SP

There is one aspect of handling empty cars on the SP which is worthy of further comment. I discussed empty car handling and Empty Car Bill p...

In what may require several posts, I want to explain my method of setting up car flow on my layout. What I mean by “car flow” is the pattern...

In previous posts I have mentioned how a town agent functions in my waybill system. Just as in the prototype, a person acting as an agent at...

In a previous post on this topic (Waybills-7), I described some tentative steps toward waybilling “through” cars, that is, cars which are mo...

The Railroad Prototype Modelers meeting, hosted for 16 years by Martin and Patricia Lofton (of Sunshine Models) at the Holiday Inn in Naperv...

My previous post describing what the Friends of the Freight Car represents, and how it came about, had a full history of the shirts. Here’s ...

At the just-concluded Lisle meeting, Richard Hendrickson and I did a joint clinic on weathering of freight cars. I talked for 30 minutes abo...