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I have written a number of kit appreciation posts for freight car kits that I have especially enjoyed. This one is about a Speedwitch Media kit for a Northern Pacific 50-foot single-sheathed automobile car, kit K103.
The prototype is a group of 1000 cars purchased by NP in 1926, the first 500 from Pressed Steel Car Co. (cars 5000–5499) and 500 more from Stan...
In a recent blog post, back on February 12, I showed my assembled HO scale Roco kit for a U.S. Army M47 tank (new in mid-1953, the year I model). I then showed the model being shipped on a flat car. (You can see that post at: https://modelingthesp.blogspot.co...
Today I want to say a few words about a wonderful book I’ve admired and treasured for many years, Superpower, by David Weitzman (David R. Godine, Boston, 1977). It’s descriptively sub-titled, “The Making of a Steam Locomotive,” and that is very much what the book contains.
The dust jacket features an illustration that wraps all the way around the book, of the fir...
What’s a string chart? It’s a way of representing schedules, for trains in our case. The idea is pretty well known in model railroading. It is simply a graph of time vs. distance. The distance is the geography of a train’s run and the time span is that of its schedule for that run.
This is very clearly explained, indeed spelled out in detail, in Bruce Chubb’s exce...
I just recently learned of some new 3D-printed box cars from Lines West (Richland, WI) in HO scale. You can visit their website for information on all current products, at: https://lineswestproducts.com/ . The new kits I was interested in are for some 1916-built Western Pacific box cars a...