Category: Los Angeles Junction Railway

Scene composition is always a slippery slope, especially for freelance or proto-freelance layouts such as the LAJ.  If you cherry pick and select a random collection of the most interesting structures you have what looks like a model railroad.  Go too far in the other direction and you don’t have enough to sustain interest.   […]

CF-7 #2619 idles in front of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory.  The addition of  A-Line windshield wipers wraps up the project.

Completion of the Nathan Anthony furniture factory at 4940 District Blvd. is the final structure along the back wall between the tracks and the backdrop.  Since the layout is proto-freelanced, I took an interpretive approach as opposed to modeling it exactly.  The weathering is slightly more pronounced and I borrowed a few features from the […]

Wrapped up my CF-7 project…..finally!  

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 […]