“You can never be too rich, too thin,…….or have too many lumens” Wallis Simpson. Coming up with a method of lighting the LAJ proved to be more challenging than expected. Since this was in a finished room, with decorative track lighting already in place, the biggest obstacle was coming up with something that would bath […]
After my most recent hand laid track project using P:87 tie plates I was struck by the fineness of the plates themselves. Others have asked me about this as well. Rightly so. I had two choices, paint the rail a lighter color to highlight the tie detail or paint it the darker color it […]
The LAJ layout is powered by running a tap downward through the floor to the Downtown Spur in the basement below. I seem to recall an event in my son’s hormone laden teen years that resulted in him branding me a “cheap ass bastard”. It probably centered around a differing point of view as to […]
Inconvenient truths. These are things that we’d rather not be the case but are. Philly cheese steaks with fried onion ring toppings aren’t good for you (don’t have to even look that one up) but we’d rather not know that. Fortunately our evolutionary development has granted us coping mechanisms such as rationalization and denial. One of the […]
The quality of images available on Google Streetview has reached the point that site visits become less necessary. The one drawback though is that Streetview images are only taken from the street and the right of ways we want to document aren’t always visible. I ended up with a spare day on a recent […]