Operating off-line passenger cars
On most railroads, back in the days of passenger service, the railroad’s own passenger ca…
• August 10, 2024
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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
Modeling SP passenger cars, Part 21
In a previous post, I described lettering for my two streamlined Southern Pacific passeng…
• July 14, 2024
Operating an SP business car, Part 2
In the previous post, I described my attempt to use the Rivarossi heavyweight observation…
• July 08, 2024
Operating an SP business car
Business cars, or as they are more often called by railroaders, “official” cars, are a di…
• June 29, 2024
Modeling SP passenger cars, Part 20
As in the recent posts in this series, I continue in this post to address lightweight pas…
• June 08, 2024
Modeling SP passenger cars, Part 19
In recent parts of this series, I described work on creating Southern Pacific lightweight…
• June 02, 2024
Express reefers from REA
The Railway Express Agency, or REA, was an outgrowth of a number of prior express compani…
• March 07, 2024
Stand-in head-end cars
In my layout operating sessions, I usually operate either a section of the Coast Division…
• November 30, 2023
Handout for passenger car talk
This post is a handout for a talk about Southern Pacific passenger car modeling. The ta…
• October 28, 2023
My latest column in _Model Railroad Hobbyist_
In the October issue of the “Running Extra” section of Model Railroad Hobbyist (MRH), I …
• October 25, 2023
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