Loads — Entidade

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My latest column in Model Railroad Hobbyist

My most recent column in the on-line magazine, Model Railroad Hobbyist, has just appeared in the March issue. It is entitled “Military Loads,” and as readers of this blog will know, I have posted nume

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Completing a ship’s boiler load

I have long wanted to duplicate a particular load for a depressed-center flat car that is documented in Southern Pacific photographs. The cars in the photos are home-built SP 70-ton flat cars, Class F

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A note on the shipping of tanks

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. (

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modeling the SP: February 2026

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. (

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modeling the SP: December 2025

A core document of the Southern Pacific for many years was the Accounting Department’s Circular 4. I realize that isn't an informative name, but its actual title was List of Officers, Agencies Station

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New! Short.io now loads 2x faster

Introducing improvements is something we’ve been committed to since the very start, but adding new features wouldn’t make much sense if we didn’t also improve our website. Which is why we’re very hap

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modeling the SP: 2024

Not long ago I received an interesting question at an operating session on someone else’s layout. One of the visitors came up to me and asked, with a smile, “You’re a freight car guy, right?” As long-

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modeling the SP: March 2022

Two years ago, in early March 2020, I and many others had plane reservations, hotel reservations, and a sign-up for the semi-annual Seattle-Tacoma area event, SoundRail. But of course the pandemic exp