modeling the SP

I recently had an interesting question sent to me by email. The essence of the question was, “Is it realistic to operate three-compartment t...

In a recent post, number 9 in my series on this topic, I showed the work done in leveling some track in the area between my layout towns of ...

In alternate years, the layout owners around Puget Sound, Washington put together an operating weekend called, for obvious reasons, SoundRai...

In a recent post about the steel express refrigerator conversions of Pacific Fruit Express, I mentioned the Chrysler freight trucks applied ...

In the previous post, I discussed the most fundamental principle of bridge design, the importance of beam or bridge depth, relative to lengt...

I have an all-black Broadway Limited HO scale model of a Southern Pacific 4-8-4 locomotive, Class GS-4. That is how these engines were paint...

In the first post on this topic, I briefly summarized the history of the Railway Express Agency or REA, and showed examples of some of the c...