modeling the SP

 In the preceding post on this topic, I gave some background on produce shipping boxes and showed some examples of the box labels I have mod...

Last week yet another well-known pre-pandemic operating weekend emerged into the light, the “Desert Ops” weekend in Phoenix. As always, it w...

Awhile back, I described my process for walking around the layout and looking for any work that needed to be done, anything from minor detai...

 By “power balancing.” I refer to movements of motive power across one division to another, or even from division point to division point wi...

 As many of you already know, Signature Press is closing at the end of this year. Throughout its life, Signature has been run by Bob Church ...

 My  layout, which is set in 1953, operates year-round. That is, if we were to operate on October 15, on the layout it is October 15 of 1953...

An important part of my layout operation is perishable traffic from packing houses, typical California regional products of both fruit and v...