Author: Lmind1

East Rail 2 – 12/2/23

Yard job Y320 out of Hialeah goes knee deep in the weeds as it works the logistics warehouse on my new East Rail 2 layout. As a general rule I don’t use sky images with clouds but in this case it was the better fit. Here’s a shot from the same angle taken on the […]

East Rail 2. Weeks Gas Scene

Weeks Gas stands at the entry point into the East Rail industrial park so it’s a key visual element. Shown above is the finished scene on the layout. You’re standing at the edge of 37th Avenue facing NW. The structure itself is pretty basic so I modeled it out of styrene using conventional means. The […]

My Scenery Book Is Out!

Scenery For Modern Switching Layouts Finally…..my scenery book is finished and live on Amazon! I would describe it as a niche book targeted to two readerships, myself and my blog readers. Many thanks to Tom Klimoski for his editing efforts. No matter how much experience we have, we all have the capacity to improve, myself […]

Indian Matchmaking & Layout Design

One evening, a few weeks ago, I was melting into my couch and surfing Netflix. Scroll, scroll, scroll, nothing.  Essentially what I was looking for was something short, borderline entertaining, and took minimal neurons to process. In other words, trashy but not too trashy.  Up comes the series “Indian Matchmaking”.  Okay, nobody will know, I’ll […]