It’s the first week in August 2008 and the switch job works Sweetener Products, swapping loads for empties, pulling, pushing and swapping flat black tanks. It’s what they did the week before and will do the week after. There’s a certain timeless appeal in the pure ordinariness of rail operations.
Category: Los Angeles Junction Railway
Layouts as Wall Art
As you walk through your living room, chances are that somewhere on the wall hangs something you enjoy looking at. It could be a painting, poster, sculpture, or photograph. Whatever it is, you liked it when you bought it, you liked it a year after you bought it, and to this day it gives you […]
Vernon
If you want to get picky the LAJ isn’t technically in LA, it’s in a separate municipality just south of downtown called Vernon. I’d like to say I had the artistic forethought to pick a location for the LAJ that had a storied, textured past. Not so, I just go lucky. Seriously, how can you […]
Communicating the Emotion of Timelessness
I’m not sure I’ll ever be able to articulate, either in writing or photographically, why I’m so drawn to Allapattah (Miami), Hialeah (Miami) or Vernon (LA). Time never seemed to move on in these places, seemingly locked permanently in the forties and fifties. Walking down 22nd Street in Miami or 48th Street in Vernon […]
Corona Avenue
View of completed scene looking south towards the Corona Avenue grade crossing. This unique crossbuck, although just a block from the LAJ, actually belongs to BNSF. Note the flattened pipe post. Too interesting not to “borrow” for my layout!