modeling the SP

I have written in previous posts, some time back, about the question of conveying to visitors, whether model railroaders or not, the locale ...

The topic of this series of posts was chosen in part to emphasize my belief that anything a modeler can do, that emphasizes regional and loc...

In my first post on this topic, I described the ways that ice blocks were moved on icing decks, to bring them from storage to a position alo...

In a previous post, I discussed the presence in Pacific Fruit Express territory of “foreign” refrigerator cars, that is, reefers not owned b...

In the previous post, I described the kind of manufactured ice that Pacific Fruit Express used for icing refrigerator cars, an imposing 300-...

In the previous post, I talked about how ice was handled when it had to be moved along the length of a wooden deck used for icing refrigera...

I have written a number of posts on this topic precisely because I think this is a part of layout modeling that is often neglected. One of t...