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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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
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
Another SP ballast hopper
I often operate a ballast train in my layout operating sessions. As was Southern Pacific…
• May 18, 2024
Understanding bridges, Part 3: Details
The two preceding posts in this series attempted to provide a broad background for bridge…
• May 15, 2024
A Jordan spreader for the layout
I have been intrigued by Jordan spreaders since I was a boy, and saw a spreader being wor…
• May 06, 2024
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