With Halloween just a few days away, it's time to carve some pumpkins. Since I'm a Pennsy modeler, I toyed with carving the PRR logo into a pumpkin. However, it looks next to impossible. Which railroad logos could be easily carved into a pumpkin? You could probably do Southern but that's the only one I can think of.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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Conrail, Penn Central, New Haven?
If you wanted to do the PRR (or say, NKP or NYC), you'd probably do best by leaving the flesh mostly intact, and just carving the skin so that light can shine through -- it might require scraping the inside to thin the flesh enough to transmit the light though.
-Dan
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The MEC pine tree would be very easy
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Wouldn't this be the perfect use for your Dremel? It would allow you to leave the small tabs...pumpkin sprues?...to hold the inside of letters (and the keystone itself, come to think of it) in the correct positions.
The Chessie cat Symbol
Joe Staten Island West
BN's Logo.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
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Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
1960s JNR speed script - the top of the R is solid.
As halloween approaches the crew is checking 604 and 6007 before their semi-annual steam-up. The GG1 is over the pit having her gears and bearings greased. Shortly 6007 will run light, in reverse, from the cassette dock to Tomikawa. (No way to turn an engine that long at Tomikawa.) The GG1 will power #25 from Minamijima to Tomikawa, to be replaced in turn by 6007 when the GG1 reaches the end of catenary. On the return trip, 604 will take #26 to Tomikawa, where the GG1 will be ready to run it to its cassette until April Fool's day, the next time those over-gauge (4'8.5" vs 3'6",) under-scale (!:87, not 1:80) monsters will pass through the Central Japan Alps. 604 will run light to the same cassette by way of Takami.
So how does the most famous NYC train get Pennsy power under catenary and N&W power up the single track where wire is spoken of in future tense? In Universe #13, the Ballox O'Malley universe, strange things happen.
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - with deviations)
You can carve just about anything - you just have to leave small bridges between the center and the outer part to hold integrity. No one said it's easy I've seen some crazy things done with pumpkins. A Dremel comes in handy.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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rrinker You can carve just about anything - you just have to leave small bridges between the center and the outer part to hold integrity....
Yup, just like the notebook-size cardboard stencils we used to use in school. (For you young 'uns, not that kind of notebook, but one made of paper). Pens or pencils were used to create words and images in 'em.
Wayne (who just dated himself....probably just as well - no one else is likely to.)
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Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
Not to jump off topic, as your idea of a logo on a pumpkin is a great idea! I dont know why but it made me think of people who paint their personal vehicles in their favorite liverys.
I once painted some Easter Eggs with the Reading diamond logo - see my avatar. Hmm, I should do a pumpkin like that. The orange is kind of glaring though, and the two we already set out have both been stolen. Neighbor hs big pumpkins done up as Angry Birds, no one took his... Anyway, the PROPER thing to do to a pumpkin is, naturally, the BNSF pumpkin scheme.
The Pennsy Keystone is certainly do-able on a pumpkin of ample size. So would be the C&NW ball and bar, the Frisco coonskin, and for the ambitious, the B&O capitol dome.
Dave Nelson
Dunno if this will work or not - quick Google searched turned up this one. Not a logo, but a whole locomotive!
and here's a Thomas
Found a NS one, so far no other railroad logos.
Found a Bessemer, Chessie, and NS on Trainorders, but I'm not a member there so I can't see anything other than the thumbnails. They look quite impressive.