HO Scale Freight Car Types Explained: A Practical Guide to Prototype-Accurate Modeling
Posted by William Jeffries on 30th Dec 2025
I bought my first Broadway Limited locomotive in 1989 and immediately realized I had a problem: I had no idea what an actual Pennsylvania Railroad freight train looked like. That single question sent me down a research path that, frankly, I never came back from. Now I spend my days as an archivist a
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The Complete HO Scale Track Planning Guide: Standards, Geometry, and Lessons from 35 Years of Mistakes
Posted by William Jeffries on 29th Dec 2025
I've been modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1989, and my HO layout has been "almost finished" since 2014. If that timeline tells you anything, it's that I've had plenty of time to make mistakes and learn from them. Most of those mistakes happened during track planning, not scenery. A crooked
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William Jeffries
Posted by Staff on 28th Dec 2025
Bill Jeffries has been modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad since 1989, when he bought his first Broadway Limited locomotive and realized he had no idea what actual PRR trains looked like in operation. That question sent him down a research rabbit hole that never really ended. By day, he works as an a
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