Sopranos Tragedy

[Anonymous]

Choo-Choo Mike;

Sorry I didn;t see your question until now. The name of the shop was, "Lynbrook Juvenile & Bicycle Center", across from the Lynbrook High School, on Atlantic Avenue, about a mile from Trainland on Sunrise Hwy.

[palallin]

They should have run him over with a train. . . .

 Maybe they could have strapped him to the layout and hit him repeatedly with the steamer till it pounded him to death

[chuck]

It wasn't duct tape, it was like the old style electricians "friction tape".  Irregular surface and adsorbtion characteristics made it harder to lift prints using older "powder methods".   They could have just run him over with a garbage truck and not woried about any of this.

[Jumijo]

It's all so confusing to me...how does duct tape eliminate usable fingerprints?

[anjdevil2]

It would be, but, if I remember my forensics correctly, it is possible to pull prints from the latex - especially if lightly powdered

[Jumijo]

It was in the Godfather Part one as well.  Clemenza instruct Mike to drop the gun as he leaves the scene.  While they tape the gun butt and trigger, I don't think the tape is much good against modern techniques like cyanacrolate fuming or metal deposition for lifting prints.

I would think latex gloves would be easier.  

[chuck]

It was in the Godfather Part one as well.  Clemenza instruct Mike to drop the gun as he leaves the scene.  While they tape the gun butt and trigger, I don't think the tape is much good against modern techniques like cyanacrolate fuming or metal deposition for lifting prints.

[anjdevil2]

Usually, the grips are "duct taped" so that no prints can be had.  No reason to tote the piece home with you, as it just becomes evidence if found in your possesion.  And just because I'm from "Joisey" and of Italian decent, dosen't mean I have first hand knowledge of this stuff......

[Jumijo]

Here's a question for all you Jersey guys. Why do hit men just drop the gun at the scene after a hit? Their finger prints are all over the gun? Bobby did it when he got the guy in Montreal. and these guys did it when they whacked Bobby. Can someone please explain this to me?

Jim 

[laz 57]

Lets see if this works?

A pic of BOBBY B. with the BLUE COMET before being WACKED.

laz57

[Jumijo]

David Chase, the creator of the Sopranos, has a history of using Lionels in his shows. He featured Lionels in a few key episodes of Chicago Hope. Mandy Patinkin, a real Lionel collector, played a doctor that was using Lionels to relax. He built a replica of a 1950s era layout on the show.

Jim 

[CHOO-CHOO MIKE]

   Singleaction,  what was name of your dads shop. I remember going to other train stores around the Lynbrook area in the 70's. I still have receipts from trains I bought back then. I rode my bike there from Bellerose ,Queens.

[edw]

  Never watched the show and did not know there was a train guy. Was trains pretty prominant on the show? If so I will have to rent some dvds. Yes I will watch a show just for trains. Can anyone recomend which seasons and/or dvd volumes to rent to see the most trains?

Don't waste your time. The trains were only shown sporadically and were basically used by the writers as a  means for inviting ridicule on one of the characters from the mob boss.

[traindaddy1]

SingleAction:  

The "chief engineer" (a/k/a  the "boss"), a position she has held for over 35 years, hails from Valley Stream.     Trainland is still a great place to "hang out". 

[Anonymous]

I just wanted to confirm that the scene was shot at Trainland on Sunrise Hwy in Lynbrook, at least the outside shot of the store was. I haven't been to the store in years, but until the last 10 years, I lived my first 49 years in Lynbrook, and use to hang out in Trainland.

As a side note, my father was an auth. Lionel dealer, along with Schwinn bikes in Lynbrook in the 50's> 70's, only about a mile from Trainland on Atlantic ave. Just incase anyone is from the old neighborhood.

[trigtrax]

While limited in Lionel knowledge he discribes a Santa Fe F3 set and Hudson loco. If this is true I am a little scared. That is what I am currently running, and I am Italian. I hope I have no enimies.

"Keep your friends close but your enemies closer"

BTW, I just read on another forum that Kenny Bianco has the "Blue Comet" filmed in that episode.. Something about the boxes being autographed. For those of you with extra disposable income.. Hey, you never know

[1688torpedo]

  Bob-   Yeah, Its suprising an evil man like Hermann Goering had a Marklin Train Layout in his Attic. Go Figure? Take Care.

[lionelsoni]

Hermann Goering was a big (in more ways than one) O-gauge toy-train lover.

http://www.skylighters.org/photos/pow02142000.html

If the hobby can survive that, it can survive the Sopranos;-)

[1688torpedo]

 Hello All!     Frank53 will be glad that no Tubular Track or Postwar Trains were harmed in the making of this particular Sopranos Episode On a serious note. I do not care for the violence & feel that it does not belong in our Hobby at all & we do not need a Mob Show to promote Toy Trains to the General Public as well. If Lionel Could find another Spokesman Like Johnny Cash or Joe Dimaggio then, that would be the better way to go. I guess I'm too old fashioned for the type of shows on TV that are mostly junk anyway which is why I hardly ever watch the Blue Tube. The only reason I saw the video on Youtube was to see what the Hub bub was about & feel that there is nothing special about the Sopranos Show at all. Just my worth. Take Care.

[Reading T-1]

I need to wait until its on A&E im to cheap to pay for HBO

[Andrew Falconer]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtknQdMLXg

The first half is Bobby getting his.

HBO has halted that unauthorized showing of copyrighted content on YOU TUBE.

Andrew

[wrmcclellan]

lol

I checked the Trainworld/Trainland web site as the Trainworld store in Brooklyn which I have been to is under the "el" portion of the F line (Ditmas stop). There are no O guage layouts in the Brooklyn store (At least not in January when I was there - did have a G guage layout). The site they used must have been the Trainland store in Lynbrook.

The Trainworld web site has this:

"BOBBY BACCALA BOUGHT IT IN TRAIN LAND "

This is great.

http://www.trainworld.com/

 

[Bob Keller]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPtknQdMLXg

The first half is Bobby getting his.

[Anonymous]

  Well that's a relief, I don't own either.

[laz 57]

Watched it again on Comcast on demand last night.  Still a great train scene, although I don't think the BLUE COMET is mint after BOBBY B got shot, went down with him.

laz57

[Jumijo]

It was a Santa Fe FT not and F3. The FT was pulling the El Capitan set. The other loco was a UP Berkshire.

Jim 

[Anonymous]

  Well, I called my dad who taped the episode. I will see it next month when I am home on leave. Heard the scene over the phone and the banter of the blue commet. While limited in Lionel knowledge he discribes a Santa Fe F3 set and Hudson loco. If this is true I am a little scared. That is what I am currently running, and I am Italian. I hope I have no enimies.

[Andrew Falconer]

The people in the show seem somewhat dysfunctional

Notice that Tony Soprano was the only one going to talk over his problems with a psychiatrist. They all needed mental and emotional help in their own special ways.

Who gets the Bobby Soprano layout now that the show is done filming? Does it go back to the layout builders?

Andrew

[vsmith]

I'm really scared to say what I think. I don't want to wake up with a horse head in my bed.

 

If it was an O scale horse head, would you notice it was there????