Category: Construction

CF-7 #2619 idles in front of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory.  The addition of  A-Line windshield wipers wraps up the project.

Completion of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory at 4940 District Blvd. is the final structure along the back wall between the tracks and the backdrop.  Since the layout is proto-freelanced, I took an interpretive approach as opposed to modeling it exactly.  The weathering is slightly more pronounced and I borrowed a few features from the […]

Wrapped up my CF-7 project…..finally!  

At the corner of Corona Avenue, I had roughly a six-inch gap to fill between the street and the primary industry on that block.  I didn’t want anything too over the top and something that blended into the neighboring structure.  For the side with the tagging on it, I used an image from my trip to […]

Since the last post, I’ve simply spent some time running and breaking in the re-powered CF-7 on my Downtown Spur layout.  I don’t know how long the donor Kato mechanism was sitting in the box (over a decade maybe?), but it has really smoothed out to be a silky smooth runner after logging some run […]