I added a chapter in the How To section on upgrading and enhancing Micro Engineering turnouts.
Author: Lmind1
LAJ Lighting
“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 […]
What You Don’t See
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 […]
Cheap Ass Bastards and DCC
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 […]
Hand Laid Track
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 […]