Over the years, I’ve received many requests from my readers to put out a book on my Miami layouts. It took a while, but that day has arrived. The book is now live and available on Amazon. While heavily slanted towards being a photo album, I also cover the thoughts behind the layouts and their […]
Category: CSX Downtown Spur
Milepost 37
Having wrapped up its work for the day, Y320 passes milepost 37 and Antillean Marine on the way back to Hialeah Yard. The Spur is three and a half miles long, and all of the mileposts are still in place.
River Drive 2006
With practice and more experience with cameras, editors, and lighting I feel I can do a better job photographically than I did ten or fifteen years ago. I’ve gone back to re-shoot some of my older images. The one above is looking westward up N River Drive on The Downtown Spur layout. One thing I’ll […]
New Fusee Switch
Watching the crews over the past few op. sessions I could see how the operational fusees (Logic Rail Technologies) added realism without coming across too much like a gimmicky gameboard token. Since they played an integral role in the session, I went on the hunt for a cleaner, more streamlined on/off switch to trigger them. […]
DTS Ops. August 17
A stellar crew made up of the “Three J”s”, L to R Jerome, Jarrett, and Jeremy flawlessly put Y320, the Downtown Spur yard job through the paces. I’ve been giving a lot of thought this year to the long-standing approach to operations in the hobby. Although well-intended, it’s analogous to putting a blindfold on somebody, […]