Modeling the SPSF MEADOW SUBDIVISION by Eric Miller Proto-freelancing brings post- merger railroading to Nebraska ... When I started out in model railroading in the mid-1990s, I saw an advertisement for Athearn that featured a photo of three bright red cabooses in an interesting scheme I hadn’t seen before. The ad read, “Our Kodachrome cabooses painted red and yellow for the failed SP-SF merger in the late ’80s lives on in bay windows, wide • INDEX • TABLE OF CONTENTS