modeling the SP

In this post, I want to describe resolving a situation often encountered in freight car modeling: how long did a particular car group last i...

The concept of waybills controlling cycles of car movement is something familiar to any modeler who has operated freight trains. Some of the...

Awhile back, I posted to this blog a general description of my old layout in Pittsburgh, and included information from an article about the ...

In several places, including on this blog, I’ve referred to a kind of record book called a yard “jumbo.” One example would be my post about ...

My first exposure to model aircraft control linkage was in trying to simplify the switch machine connections for a double crossover in the h...

One of my earliest blog posts was about choosing a model car fleet, and I illustrated my points with the cars of Pacific Fruit Express. The ...

A question I have been asked, both in live clinics and after some blog posts, concerns how one determines routing of shipments, which would ...