Blue flags and lockouts
The title of this post may be baffling to some readers, but it refers to track safety mea…
• August 21, 2024
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Waybills, Part 116: early prototype examples
I have by now written quite a few posts about using prototypically-oriented waybills in m…
• August 19, 2024
Early HO scale couplers, Part 2
In my first post on this topic, I described a number of the early couplers available in …
• August 16, 2024
More on HO automobile license plates
Every layout has at least a few vehicles on it, and from the earliest days of the 20th ce…
• August 13, 2024
Operating off-line passenger cars
On most railroads, back in the days of passenger service, the railroad’s own passenger ca…
• August 10, 2024
Operating empty open-top cars
It occurred to me on a recent trip out of town for an operating weekend, that many layout…
• August 07, 2024
Model building
I recently received an interesting and challenging comment via email about the context of…
• August 04, 2024
Operating an SP business car, Conclusion
In the previous post, I completed what I want to say about the prototype SP 119 official …
• August 01, 2024
An Athearn “Blue Box” tank car, Part 2
In the preceding post, I showed my collecting together of the main parts for one of Athea…
• July 29, 2024
Early HO couplers
Looking at some freight cars I’ve picked up at swap meets, and seeing the variety of coup…
• July 26, 2024
An operating weekend around Chicago
This past weekend, four Californians traveled to Chicago for operating sessions on four o…
• July 23, 2024
Reworking an Athearn “Blue Box” tank car
I have written numerous times in this blog about the uses I have found for Athearn’s old …
• July 20, 2024
Another Hendrickson project
In addition to the many freight cars I inherited from Richard Hendrickson, there were als…
• July 17, 2024
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