modeling the SP

Last fall, as part of a trip to Portugal taken by my wife and me, we took some time in England and visited Brian Moore in Plymouth, partly t...

I began this series with a post showing my method of making paper overlays of freight car graffiti, either starting with photographs I had t...

Over the last decade I have given a number of talks at model railroad meetings, about the linked topics of prototype waybills and how to mod...

I was recently asked about the color of handrails on Southern Pacific cabooses, which reminded me that I too needed answers in this area, fo...

This happens to have been the 20th anniversary of this excellent meeting, all 20 of which I have attended with pleasure. And that was why th...

In an earlier post, which I’ll call Part 1 of this series, I gave a summary of my contribution to the “Getting Real” series of monthly colum...

I have built a few fences on my layout, largely board fences using the molded parts from Central Valley, suitably painted. These are good bo...