Category: Los Angeles Junction Railway

CF-7 Finished!

Post author By Lmind1
Post date December 18, 2016
Categories In Construction, Los Angeles Junction Railway

Wrapped up my CF-7 project…..finally!

LAJ 12/7/16

Post author By Lmind1
Post date December 7, 2016
Categories In Construction, Los Angeles Junction Railway

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 […]

CF-7 Progress

Post author By Lmind1
Post date December 1, 2016
Categories In Los Angeles Junction Railway

Chipping away at the details on LAJ CF-7 #2619….. Cut levers from an Athearn Genesis F unit, air hose, and MU stand. The prototype only had two stacks so I shaved two of the four stacks off.

Ditch Lights

Post author By Lmind1
Post date November 24, 2016
Categories In Construction, Los Angeles Junction Railway

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 […]

CF-7 Upgrade

Post author By Lmind1
Post date November 12, 2016
Categories In Construction, Los Angeles Junction Railway

Adding A Kato Drive Train and Wow Decoder to an Athearn CF-7 Well, that was a process (or, in terms my less refined readers can understand…a major pain in the ass) but in the end entirely worth it. The CF-7 now houses an upgraded Kato drive and TCS Wow decoder. I’m happy. Essentially the […]