modeling the SP

A month or so ago, I hosted three operating sessions on my layout for the San Francisco Bay Area operating weekend, BayRails VIII (I describ...

This post continues a description of building a Terry Wegmann / Red Caboose kit for PFE’s Class R-30-16 rebuilt refrigerator cars. The previ...

My layout models a branch line of the Southern Pacific (a mythical one), and does not have a yard in the usual sense. But yard-like work has...

In the previous post, I described some of the background to the rebuilding of United States Railroad Administration (USRA) hopper cars on th...

In previous posts, I have explored many aspects of what waybills are and how they are used, always with the goal of informing model operatio...

I have mentioned several times in past blog posts that gondolas were often used for lumber loading along Southern Pacific lines. These were...

I confess to suffering from an advanced case of “type geek” disease, which manifests itself, among other ways, in noticing when lettering is...