modeling the SP

This series of posts describes building a plywood-sheathed refrigerator car, PFE Class R-30-24, from a collection of parts, most of them fro...

 I had the good fortune last week to participate in an operating session on one of the area’s nicest N-scale layouts, Steve Van Meter's ...

 In the previous post on this topic, I showed photos from the 1980s of the earliest work in constructing my layout town of Ballard, concludi...

 Some time ago, I decided that my layout operations could benefit by using a fast clock, because that would open the door for effective use ...

This post continues an account of building a Proto2000 kit for a Union Pacific 50-foot automobile car, particularly the changes needed to th...

 Many people reading this blog have likely heard of this ambitious HO scale layout being built under Paul Weiss’s direction in Novato, Calif...

 In Part 3, I showed the completed body (superstructure) box, and the completed attachment of underframe parts and brake detailing, for this...