Work continues with my program of re-shooting The Downtown Spur layout. Shown above the local passes Family & Son, a food processing company that is still active to this day. I used to fly to Miami annually for a one-day photo shoot. On one of the trips, I photographed the industry at ninety-degree angles for […]
With its punch list of chores on The Downtown Spur finished, Y322 heads westward back to Hialeah Yard. Although it’s only three and a half miles long, there are mileposts on the spur. In the background is Antillean Marine. As time has permitted, I’ve been going back and re-photographing the layout over the past few […]
In September of 2008, Tom Klimoski sent me a photo of the eastbound Downtown Spur Yard job parked just shy of the 12th Avenue grade crossing as the crew took a lunch break. It was a pretty unspectacular shot, something he grabbed on the fly for general documentation. It stuck with me, though. I loved […]
Sungas on the Downtown Spur layout. I used a sky image from the actual site for the background. For me, the best way to experience my layouts as if I were actually there is through photography. There are limits to how far squinting with one eye just above the layout will take you! Realism of […]
Some shocking, but great news out of Miami. Yesterday, Tolga Erbora informed me that track for a new industry is being laid a few hundred yards north of where The Downtown Spur splits from the main. For decades, there was a trash recycling business across the main from Hialeah Market Station. At one time there […]