modeling the SP

 A couple of months ago, I had a challenge suggested to me by email. The suggestion was that I go through the process I would use for a frei...

 Once again, with my granddaughter in town for the holidays, we set up an operating session. The layout had only been cursorily run in recen...

 Almost since I was aware of railroad photography as something beyond snapshots of interesting trains, I recognized the quality and, often, ...

 The shortest day, December 21, falls this year on one of my usual posting days for this blog. December 21 has long been a day of note for m...

 I was tempted to call this “An Appreciation,” but Steinheimer’s reputation needs no appreciation from me. Let’s just call it a reminiscence...

 The title of this post may seem ambiguous, but bear with me. I am referring to the way(s) that empty ice reefers were, or may have been, mo...

 One of the model freight cars that I most often see on visited layouts that cry out to be “improved” are flat cars. Not because the car bod...