Decades ago I had a sales trainer that happened to be a former WWII battleship gunner. He was emphatic in consistently making his point that we should practice our sales technique BEFORE we were in front of a customer. He made the point at every session and then immediately drew the analogy to his days in […]
The magic of the internet….It didn’t take long for my blog followers to step up to the plate with more information on the East 38th Street prototype. Thanks to Peter Hegan for letting my know the spur in question is called the Alameda Industrial Lead and pointing me to a YouTube video of some live […]
When it comes to planning a layout, a drawing will only take you so far. Fortunately, with a smaller project a lot can be accomplished in 1:1 scale simply by mocking things up full scale with boxes and loose pieces of track. The elements can be re-sized and moved around until you get the look that […]
I first became aware of the Los Angeles Junction while in high school and instantly became mesmerized by it. As the decades slipped by the thought of eventually modeling it was always in the back of my mind. I always thought that when the day came, power would be in the form of a CF-7. […]
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over five years since I first set up the Lancemindheim.com site. Done initially simply as a creative outlet, I’ve been surprised at the volume of traffic that has built up. Tracking the page landings with Google Analytics I’ve also been surprised which pages garnered the most attention. The […]