Author: Lmind1

Upgrading A Coil Car

My latest project was upgrading this Intermountain coil car for the LA layout. The goal of this project, and the point of today’s blog, was to focus on keeping the weathering subtle. Follow along as I walk you through things. The title of today’s blog involves a bit of bait and switch. It’s less about […]

LA’s Billboard Culture

LA’s billboard culture is long-standing.  In the 1950s, you had the iconic “Methyl” ads created by the Foster and Kleiser ad agency. Many of the sign creators went on to become artists in their own right. Billboards. Depending on personal tastes, opinions vary from “hate ‘em”, “tolerate ‘em”, “sorta of like ‘em”, to “love them!”.  […]

Time For A Change? An Update

Shown above is a design for a proto-freelance, removable module extension to the current LAJ layout. Sweetener Products is no longer rail-served under this plan, and its spur serves as a lead into Arrow Reload, a logistics/team facility. In my June 21st blog, Time For A Change, I wrote about feeling “stuck”. Both my primary […]

Half Brothers

BNSF GP50 #3175 (Athearn Genesis) and BNSF GP39E (Broadway Ltd.) approach District Blvd. for a shot staged on my LAJ layout. Both models are superb runners and finely detailed. Other than new couplers, they didn’t require any additional detail work. The weathering was another matter. Different eras, prototypes, and paint schemes all require their own […]