After a few months of ramping up on the learning curve, I finally felt I’d gotten to the point where I could actually produce something. The first “short movie” out of the box is a helicopter flyover of my LAJ layout. You can see the clip HERE. Somebody that has been following this […]
Category: Los Angeles Junction Railway
Step Into My World
The camera lens allows us to interpret, capture, and experience our models in a way that simply isn’t possible with the naked eye. It takes us to the place we envisioned when we started this whole layout building process. The image above of Federal Cold Storage took most of a weekend to get the end […]
Appreciating the Ordinary
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.
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 […]