modeling the SP

In the previous post on this topic, while giving some general comments and a few statistics on my freight car fleet (you can read that post ...

The annual meeting known as Naperville (even though this year it was a few hundred yards outside the town boundary of Naperville, Illinois, ...

In my previous blog post on this topic, I described an idea I had, which was to figure out some way to incorporate the frame of the placard ...

Awhile back, I posted some descriptions of the prototype and model use of placards on tank cars, for my era (1953). Here are links to them: ...

Planning. Of course we all plan, for projects and all kinds of other activities. But sometimes planning gets a bad name. One way of putting ...

I have heard modelers grumble about the results, when taking model photos with plain backdrops, such as light blue sheet of cardboard. It do...

In my previous post, I showed my initial mockup for the Guadalupe Fruit Company packing house building at Ballard (you can view it at this l...