modeling the SP

By “truck maintenance,” I primarily mean correcting any deficiency in how an in-service model freight car truck operates, but it may be almo...

In Part 1 of this series, I showed close-up photographs of prototype car ends to illustrate what was needed to model correctly the reverse-D...

I wrote, a few years ago, a three-part series of blog posts about trucks for model freight cars, emphasizing what often needs to be correcte...

As readers of this blog know, I have written dozens of posts about various aspects of prototype waybills: how they come into being, what inf...

The title refers to “Western Oregon Ops,” an operating weekend event in the area of Portland and southward. It was held during June 12 to 15...

In the first part of this topic, I showed the challenge of modeling this class of Southern Pacific GS gondolas, namely the reverse Dreadnaug...

I have just received my copy of a fine new book from Lance Mindheim, which contains marvelous illustrations of his approaches to modeling. T...