modeling the SP

As part of the ongoing series of columns with the series title “Getting Real,” by several columnists including me, in the on-line magazine M...

Setting up my layout for an operating (or “op”) session requires more time and effort than might be evident. Most action on my layout is swi...

I have described previously some of the interesting products (new to me, if not entirely new to the hobby) that I saw at the St. Louis RPM m...

Last month, I attended the Railroad Prototype Modelers meet in Collinsville, Illinois (St. Louis area), as I described in a brief report. Yo...

This project began as an uncompleted model I inherited from Richard Hendrickson. He had stripped off the molded-on grab irons and ladders fr...

As part of describing some interesting aspects of my recent trip to Japan, I wrote an appreciation of the Kyoto Railroad Museum, a superb fa...

This is an old topic in model railroading, where there seem always to have been paint schemes offered in decal form, and decorated on models...