modeling the SP

In an earlier post, I described several alternative approaches to waybill design, all stemming from prototype practice, but with different f...

Many older models from such sources as AHM, LifeLike, Model Power and others might have car bodies which were attractive starting points for...

In several prior posts about freight traffic and waybills, I have mentioned an institution called the “bill box.” One such post was about “T...

In the previous post on this topic, I showed the pre-1960 prototype placards which were in use during my modeling year of 1953 (see: http://...

One of the items I discovered at Winterail this year was a vintage tank car placard. It is reproduced below. (For a description of the annua...

There have been several modelers around the country in the last few years who have been experimenting with ways to do model waybills in more...

Last Saturday, March 10, was the annual meeting in Northern California called Winterail (supposedly named by analogy with the famed drag rac...