modeling the SP

In my first post about the new Owl Mountain lumber load kit, their no. 3001, I showed the process of assembly of simulated wood panels into ...

I reviewed the topic of wine tank cars in an earlier post, the main focus of which was wine as an industrial commodity (you can read it at t...

I need to add another grade crossing in my layout town of Ballard, to serve an additional bulk oil depot. This is not particularly complicat...

In a previous series of posts, I described a number of loads for open cars, starting with gondolas, including loads of pipe (you can read it...

In my first post about building a postal storage car for my Southern Pacific 1953-era “Coast Mail,” I showed the kitbash from an Athearn RPO...

I have been rediscovering something I guess I knew long ago, but keep running into. It has to do with variety. Like everyone, I have occasio...

In previous posts on the topic of SP heavyweight sleeping cars, I have described modeling the outside of the cars. The most recent post (at ...