How can the word "prototypical" fit in with a track structure that has a rail running down the middle. Not to mention that in real life size it only has one tie every 15 or 20 feet, and a turn radius of 54 feet.
I've started a list of words that should stay over in 87 land.
!. Prototypical
2. Forced perspective
3. Fast clock
What else can you think of?
Lionel
MTH
Paul
Bob Nelson
Modeling the Baltimore waterfront in HO scale
gvdobler wrote: "How can the word "prototypical" fit in with a track structure that has a rail running down the middle.(?)"Easy...you get a 3-rail track that has the center rail painted black so you can't see it easily. Gargraves and MTH have it. Just don't look so dang close when running the trains "Not to mention that in real life size it only has one tie every 15 or 20 feet, and a turn radius of 54 feet."Put away that dang ruler and quit counting ties!!! Don't you have something better to do...like running the trains??? I've started a list of words that should stay over in 87 land.!. PrototypicalI like proto-everything. Proto-sound. Proto-typical. Proto-plasm. Proto-zoa. That word stays. 2. Forced perspectiveHuh? No idea what that is. I lost any hint of proper perspective when I went to bifocals and started spending a bundle on 3-rail, scale-size, Prototypical toy trains. 3. Fast clockWell if you're clock is running fast, there are places to get that fixed.What else can you think of?Well we could always subsitute a bread box for a locomotive and that would solve the prototypical complaint. And we could use butter containers for the box cars. Instead of smoke coming out of the smoke stack we could just tape a cigarette to the top of the bread box. Hehehe...this is fun!We could take your "fast clock" and use it to power the bread box. We could use twisty ties instead of couplers. But I'm still stumped on what to use in place of scale wheels. Maybe some marbles with holes drilled through them? DepP.S. My reply was all in fun...as I suspect this rant thread was too.
"How can the word "prototypical" fit in with a track structure that has a rail running down the middle.(?)"
Easy...you get a 3-rail track that has the center rail painted black so you can't see it easily. Gargraves and MTH have it. Just don't look so dang close when running the trains
"Not to mention that in real life size it only has one tie every 15 or 20 feet, and a turn radius of 54 feet."
Put away that dang ruler and quit counting ties!!! Don't you have something better to do...like running the trains???
I like proto-everything. Proto-sound. Proto-typical. Proto-plasm. Proto-zoa. That word stays.
Huh? No idea what that is. I lost any hint of proper perspective when I went to bifocals and started spending a bundle on 3-rail, scale-size, Prototypical toy trains.
Well if you're clock is running fast, there are places to get that fixed.
Well we could always subsitute a bread box for a locomotive and that would solve the prototypical complaint. And we could use butter containers for the box cars. Instead of smoke coming out of the smoke stack we could just tape a cigarette to the top of the bread box. Hehehe...this is fun!We could take your "fast clock" and use it to power the bread box. We could use twisty ties instead of couplers. But I'm still stumped on what to use in place of scale wheels. Maybe some marbles with holes drilled through them?
Dep
P.S. My reply was all in fun...as I suspect this rant thread was too.
Virginian Railroad
- Union Pacific
- 30 days until York
- what's the best track?
FJ and G wrote: - 30 days until York
what's the best track?
that should be banned. Everyone knows the answer is:
T-U-B-U-L-A-R!!!
God bless TCA 05-58541 Benefactor Member of the NRA, Member of the American Legion, Retired Boss Hog of Roseyville , KC&D Qualified
add:
grits and goober peas
Frank53 wrote: T-U-B-U-L-A-R!!!
TUBULAR....ewwww....sounds like a deadly disease!!!
Glad I got my innoculation of RealTrax to prevent that problem
OK, all in fun, but Forced Perspective is a method by which I can actually use some items that fall on either side of the 1/48 scale. Like my tractor trailers.....1/50th, and a number of cars, 1/43rd. so, I can still use these and finish some scenes and just call it "forced perspective".
Dennis
TCA#09-63805
dwiemer wrote: OK, all in fun, but Forced Perspective is a method by which I can actually use some items that fall on either side of the 1/48 scale. Like my tractor trailers.....1/50th, and a number of cars, 1/43rd. so, I can still use these and finish some scenes and just call it "forced perspective".Dennis
Sounds cool to me. I run both scale and non-scale cars on the same train and just split them up.
I also have buildings that "look close" to 1/48, but may or may not be to scale. Forced perspective seems like a reasonable alternative when we don't have the wide array of stuff available like HO does.
Geez....seems like just about EVERYTHING gets a fancy name nowadays. I remember when forced perspective was called "close enough".
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
waybill cards and timetables
rules of the road
no alcohol when operating trains
no beagles standing on tracks
Grits
The best instruction I got for running electric trains was:
"It's your railroad, you can have it do what you want."
Now I just have to figure out what I want my railroad to do... cut the grass, clean out the gutters...
lawsuit
Doug Murphy 'We few, we happy few, we band of brothers...' Henry V.
"Chopped sine wave" It should also be banned from any transformers made in the future.
- Clint
FJ and G wrote: - Union Pacific - 30 days until York - what's the best track?
My CTT came in the mail today.
Oh, I thought UP was now one of the good guys.
Santa FE Warbonnets everyone has one and everyone makes them YUCK!!!!!!!
Santa Fes yellow and blue freight scheme is cool though. I like yellow and blue as long as there is no big M associated with it
Scale length desials and passenger cars
Cheese grits rule.
Ok this will step on some toes... I apologize in advance
Hand-laid track
Kurt
Lets see....... if we ban any word from 3 rail discussion it would be hi-rail,or realism.But wait, those words sorta mean the same thing as "prototypical" don't they ?
It's toy trains .Who cares how one describes his or her layout,or explains how he/she explains something about a model train.We are all playing out are fantasty of the " real railroad " in minature anyway.
Just have fun and run them trains !
Collin ,operator of the " Eastern Kentucky & Ohio R.R."
Ages 9 to 90
we are never too young or old for toy trains yes I said "TOY Trains" thats what they are and I play with them.
3rd Rail
Atlas
K-line
Weaver
Williams
Lets Just Call Them Trains Instead.
Kooljock1 wrote:1. Rivet. As in "I was counting rivets yesterday, and the new bridge has 6,543,652 rivets, when EVERYBODY KNOWS that the prototype has 6,543,653! If they can't get this right, why do they even bother staying in business!" 2. Chuff Rate. As in "My Erie Triplex should chuff once every 2/3 of a rotation of the secondary drivers while the tender should chuff by itself on the off-beat in the key of G in 6/4 time, shifting to the same sound my 1967 Buick station wagon makes on cold mornings when going from the compoud steam to the vernacular frisbee steam mode. EVERYBODY KNOWS this! If they can't get this right, why do they even bother staying in business!" 3. Scrapple. Jon
LOL!
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