Anybody remember the Eddie Murphy movie 'Coming to America'? When Eddie went to his boss' house (Mr. McDowell), he had an LGB steam engine and flat cars delivering drinks on his in-home bar. Eddie dident look too impressed. As for real work......um.....err.....Well, i guess you could set up tracks all the way down the street and use a heavy train to walk small dogs . OR, you could drive around a construction site delivering hoppers full of nails to carpenters. Strap some GP-9's to your feet and train-skate your way around the house. IDK, i dont think they are realy valuable as employees. Maby a REALY REALY small coal mine could use a REALY REALY small coal train. LOL. but honestly, besides circling around the roof of a restaurant, or delivering drinks in a bar, theyre just for fun.
Let's not forget Pacific 2-3-1 by Arthur Honneger or the Train to Kaipura (sp).
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL
Mel Hazen; Jax, FL Ride Amtrak. It's the only way to fly!!!
My uncle was thinking of opening a bar with a friend about a year ago. He wanted to have a train bring people their drinks. I think you could make it look really nice by building the tracks into the bar like you would build a trolley line into a road (with the ties hidden). Haven't seen any other examples of trains at work. Although an italian restaurant around where I live has a large postwar lionel display in a showcase!
"I bet there's rich folks eating in a fancy dining car. They're probably drinking coffee and smoking big cigars"
Life's hard, even harder if your stupid John Wayne
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PhilaKnight wrote:Less we not forget Johnny Cash and Fulsome Prison. Everybody nows it's a song about the train and not the prison.
Johnny Cash had a lot of train songs. An entire album called Story Songs of the Trains and Rivers. I think it came out in 1969.
Sorry Boyd, looks like we railroaded you....
I apologize. Other than the food service at restaurants, and trains running around places of business, I don't know of any other businesses that put toy trains to work.
Kurt
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
Yes indeed. This is a better thread, Boyd
I'm always partial to Chattanooga Choo-Choo, Atchison and Topeka & the Santa Fe
kpolak wrote:
Another item to be added to the "Should be made in O gauge" list.
Modeling the "Fargo Area Rapid Transit" in O scale 3 rail.
Is this what you mean????
Jumijo wrote: Mystery Train by ELVIS PRESLEY
Mystery Train by ELVIS PRESLEY
Ok, ya got me .... 1955 it was done by Elvis, origionally written by Junior Parker and Sam Phillips.. Performed by Junior Parker of Junior and the Blue Flames, in 1953.
LAZ isn't old enough to know who Elvis is...I was trying to be contempory for his sake.
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
And TUESDAY GONE by SKYNYRD.
laz57
laz 57 wrote: Hope you played TRAIN by BLACKFOOT, and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH by Jethro Tull?TWo of my favorites.laz57
Hope you played TRAIN by BLACKFOOT, and LOCOMOTIVE BREATH by Jethro Tull?
TWo of my favorites.
What about Long Train Running by the Doobie brothers, Slow Train Comming by Bob Dylan, and Mystery Train mostly by Jerry Garcia...Once by the Grateful Dead
JOHN, how did you make out with the WEAVER L1b?
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