modeling the SP

 By “grading,” I mean an inspector’s grade of the quality of a car’s interior, not grading of models in a contest, or photographs in a photo...

I haven’t been writing about it lately, but my granddaughter continues to enjoy and even demand a chance to do a little switching on my layo...

 As the series number in the title shows you, I have been writing about route cards for quite some time. If you’d like to view any of the ma...

 Back in May, my latest “Getting Real” column in MRH ( Model Railroad Hobbyist ) appeared, and I wrote a blog post to say something about it...

 Some time back, I wrote a blog post about duckboards: what they are and how they are used, along with my approach to modeling them in sever...

 I was reminded recently of a conversation from some years ago, speaking with a fellow modeler who was about to host an operating session. “...

As most Southern Pacific modelers will already know, Rapido Trains has just released a large run of two classes of SP box cars, classes B-50...