modeling the SP

 I know from many conversations in the corridors at modeling meets that modelers tend to view waybills as simple and straightforward documen...

 Part 1 of this pair of posts was about the prototype GAEX box cars, 50-foot single-door cars with DF (“Damage Free”) loaders, built by Gene...

 Since the pandemic began, almost a year ago, most modelers have not been able to attend or host operating sessions. For myself, I substitut...

 My next step with waybill stamps was to create some images I could use on model waybills (I have previously described how I do this in Pho...

 From time to time I receive comments, either on individual posts, or in personal emails separate from the blog, asking, essentially, about ...

 What the heck is GAEX? some readers may be saying. It was the reporting mark of General American-Evans Corporation, an entity set up to bui...

 In recent blog posts about a single aspect of prototype waybills, I have shown ways the car weight was shown on the bill, weight being the ...