modeling the SP

Among the planned industries for my layout town of Ballard is Guadalupe Fruit Company. In the prototype area where my layout is set, Nipomo ...

The end of my mythical Southern Pacific branch line, and the town for which the branch is named (many SP branches were named that way), is S...

After my post about an operating session on my rewired layout (see:  http://modelingthesp.blogspot.com/2013/09/an-operating-session.html  ),...

I recently was asked for more information about the tiered staging arrangement I devised on my layout when it was in Pittsburgh, PA, and rep...

I have built a number of resin kits over the years (in fact, way back in the 1980s, I wrote a review for Railroad Model Craftsman for the v...

In the previous post, I described completion of the girders for this bridge, including weathering (it’s at: http://modelingthesp.blogspot.co...

My regular column in the on-line magazine  Model Railroad Hobbyist or MRH   has just come out in the September issue. This is Part One of a...