modeling the SP

Lots of us have been and still are prone to sitting around, say over lunch, or in a bar, slinging gloom about how model railroading is fadin...

I’m sure it’s no surprise to regular readers of this blog that I find maintenance of way (MOW) equipment interesting and worth modeling. In ...

In my most recent post, I described renovation of an old Athearn metal reefer, which happens to be an MDT car. In that post, I mentioned not...

In a previous post, I showed some restoration work on one of the old (pre-1960) Athearn refrigerator cars, built from a metal kit. I provide...

You mean the two-foot gauge Sandy River & Rangeley Lakes? Didn’t it close down in 1935? Well, yes, it did, but we modelers construct tim...

I received a question via email a few months back, and it’s been bumping around in my head every since. It touched on the fine freight car k...

In the preceding post, I showed the prototype for my modeling goal, building a 50-foot automobile car with a Viking roof (because I had a ni...