Layouts and layout building

jwhitten wrote:

My guess is that if their research showed tha a swimsuit edition would increase circulation, we'd see one of those, too. My guess is that they have not actually done that research or else there would be one already.

jwhitten wrote:

My guess is that if their research showed tha a swimsuit edition would increase circulation, we'd see one of those, too. My guess is that they have not actually done that research or else there would be one already.

Actually they already did that.  You can occaisionally see a few shots from the effort in some older books.

Back in the 1970's they had several shots with women in bib overall shorts and engineer caps posing in pictures.  Probably the most reproduced one has two women on top aof a boxcar with what looks to be a huge thumbtack marked for car forwarding (that dates it back to when tack/tag on car systems were much more common).  It didn't go over well and so was quietly side tracked.

About the only "R" rated stuff has been a few double entendre's in ads ("Give your wife a Climax for Christmas", "I want to be your tool lady").

One of the funniest model railroading cartoons I ever saw was in Playboy.  A guy dressed like an engineer is busy at a control panel running his layout.  His wife is standing behind him au naturel and he says "Not now Martha, I have a railroad to run!".  A man's got to have his priorities.

Dave H.

dehusman wrote:

"I want to be your tool lady."

Midnight Railroader wrote:

dehusman wrote: "I want to be your tool lady."   Ah, yes, Patty. Whatever happened to her?

Wasn't that Pam Anderson's gig before she went on to Baywatch?

'Way back when, there were some, 'Right on the borderline,' bits in MRR.  However, the somewhat negative reviews given to the aforementioned bib overall photos ["I don't want my teenage son seeing this!" (at a time when his high school classmates were wearing tube tops over skin...)] caused the editorial staff to swing all the way to the extreme end of the scale.  Any females in MRR are going to be wearing street clothes, business suits or burqa.

Going clear back to the original subject, I have noticed that, with the exception of in-house project railroads, there are very few layout articles that include under-construction and unfinished-work photos.  The only exceptions are those which are introducing new concepts for benchwork.

Of course, if I want to see half-finished benchwork and unballasted track, all I have to do is go into my garage...

By the way, Dave - well done, sir.

Chuck (modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)