Entertainment - Yesteryear

[Firelock76]

Excuse me while I pick myself up off the floor....

[RME]

Firelock76

That was a gas! Now, just how am I gonna recreate that cool home-made train in O gauge?

Can't be hard.  Use the model supplies (in O gauge) that are the counterparts of the stuff the kids actually used -- old automobile parts, boards, pipes, water heaters and the like.  I'll see about making up Proto-Sound or Tsunami sound sets with appropriate barking, cat hysterics, squeaks, and door slams, if someone helps me map the digital codes so they are appropriate.  I have not decided whether a crank from the main axle or a solenoid is more important to model the feline trying to escape periodically via the firehole.

I distinctly remember John Allen having a ride-on railroad on the Gorre & Daphetid (the locomotive and probably at least some of the cars being those little models you could get -- if very lucky -- from one of those 25-cent coin machines).  And that was in HO...

[Penny Trains]

Firelock76

That was a gas! Now, just how am I gonna recreate that cool home-made train in O gauge?

If I took an N gauge 4 wheel steam loco....

[BaltACD]

Penny Trains

Firelock76

That was a gas!  Now, just how am I gonna recreate that cool home-made train in O gauge?

Or maybe MTH will do one!

I've been wondering about that myself for years!

Ever seen this one?  Gerbils on a train?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km6eRnEz0wk

 

[Penny Trains]

Firelock76

That was a gas!  Now, just how am I gonna recreate that cool home-made train in O gauge?

Or maybe MTH will do one!

 

I've been wondering about that myself for years!

Ever seen this one?  Gerbils on a train? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Km6eRnEz0wk

[Firelock76]

That was a gas!  Now, just how am I gonna recreate that cool home-made train in O gauge?

Or maybe MTH will do one!

[Miningman]

Too good...what a hoot.

[Penny Trains]

Aaaaaah...my favorite railroad film!    A true classic Our Gang short, complete with canine locomotion!

[BaltACD]