Reference pages

▼
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Article in Dispatchers Office about BayRails

›
The October, 2026 issue of the magazine of the Operations SIG (OpSIG), The Dispatcher's Office or DO, has just been published. I show t...
Sunday, September 13, 2026

Reworking a Broadway Limited chlorine car

›
Back in 2017 when the Broadway Limited HO scale high-pressure cars were released, I purchased more than I needed, including one of their “va...
Thursday, September 10, 2026

Modeling just part of an industry

›
There is a long-standing problem in building layouts, to achieve realistic depictions of industries. The problem is size. Many a layout cont...
Monday, September 7, 2026

Still more route cards, Part 37

›
This post contains a number of additional route card from the Michael Litant collection, as has been the case for a number of previous posts...
Friday, September 4, 2026

Weathering really big tank cars

›
As part of the weathering project I mentioned in an earlier post about Rapido models of Pacific Car & Foundry 70-ton box cars, I also ag...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Waybills, Part 132: warehouses

›
A month or so ago, I posted the second of two blog essays on switching layouts (the most recent was called “Pratt Island,” and it is here: h...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

HO construction equipment, Part 2

›
In the preceding post to this one, I showed some very nice HO scale models of International-Harvester construction equipment that I undertoo...