Author: Lmind1

The Gift of Modern Railroading

OMNI Transload in Miami’s Commerce Park Industrial zone next to the airport (several hundred yards west of runway 8R). Although it’s one structure, it’s broken down into individual spaces, each leased to a different tenant. In effect, each of those cars serves a different customer. (Thanks to “Mr. Miami”, Tolga Erbora for bringing this operation […]

Know Your End Game

A view westward down 22nd Street from 13th Avenue. Peaceful. Optimistic. Unique from an architectural, surface texture, and color standpoint. Numerous visits have given me a sense of its essence, what makes it what it is. If I could successfully capture that in model form, I’d feel like I was “there” whenever I walked into […]

2201 17th Avenue

It’s a milestone of sorts, the last major structure on The Downtown Spur, 2201 17th Avenue, is now a wrap. Although building the structure itself was fairly straightforward, the surrounding scratch-built palms, and back parking lot took some time. Here’s the back parking lot. The biggest challenge was finding a finely detailed wrought iron fence. […]