It has taken a long time but I think I have just about got my new layout figured out. Over the years I have bought or been given a number of locomotives that actually never existed. Examples would be ATSF SD35's and a strange GP40. Mix that with a couple of BN SD9's and a U28B. Add a Katy rock train and a few Amtraks and boom you have some place south of Fort Worth that never existed around 1975! Just about anything else may show up and I'll claim they just got lost???? Worm hole???? I am now going to start working on scenery and installing more decoders. I have to find a catchy name for the place and that shouldn't be too hard.
There actually comes a time when you have to stop the madness and replace it with other madness.
RMax
I like this idea, I say run with it. Almost like a model railroad version of "Land of the Lost". Add a trucking business owned and operated by Jimmy Hoffa, an alchemist's workshop, a steel mill that produces Rearden metal, and house where the Lindbergh baby resides with his wife.
Call it 3 corners Texas after the devils triangle. Amelia Earhart International airport and Bigfoot's bar and grill. I can see the sign entering town "there is something just not right in 3 corners".
&/Or you can make Sci-Fi type alterations to rolling stock for Off World !!!
I run a more modern-ish CSX line but beyond that I am not a rivet counter. I have respect for hard core prototypers but for me, at the end of the day, I am just playing with toy trains. This hobby should be fun and it sounds like you are enjoying it.. Double
I renber reading a science fiction short story about the Boston T subway system (known for abandoned tunnels that just go off in the dark...). They made another connection to the track and somehow created a wormhole to SOME OTHER PLACE. Trains just started disapparing.......
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
RMax1Examples would be ATSF SD35's and a strange GP40.
Eric97123 I run a more modern-ish CSX line but beyond that I am not a rivet counter. I have respect for hard core prototypers but for me, at the end of the day, I am just playing with toy trains. This hobby should be fun and it sounds like you are enjoying it.. Double
That pretty much describes me too...and we're both having fun with this relaxing and enjoyable hobby.
Another Double
Wayne
Modeling HO Freelance Logging Railroad.
Texas Zepher RMax1: Examples would be ATSF SD35's and a strange GP40. The Santa Fe did acutally own one GP40. I don't remember the story of how they got it, but it was there!
RMax1: Examples would be ATSF SD35's and a strange GP40.
The Santa Fe did acutally own one GP40. I don't remember the story of how they got it, but it was there!
From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered.
sfcouple Eric97123: I run a more modern-ish CSX line but beyond that I am not a rivet counter. I have respect for hard core prototypers but for me, at the end of the day, I am just playing with toy trains. This hobby should be fun and it sounds like you are enjoying it.. Double That pretty much describes me too...and we're both having fun with this relaxing and enjoyable hobby. Another Double Wayne Double Amen RR Brothers, The day working on my layout becomes like being at work is the day I e-sell everything and buy a sportscar
Eric97123: I run a more modern-ish CSX line but beyond that I am not a rivet counter. I have respect for hard core prototypers but for me, at the end of the day, I am just playing with toy trains. This hobby should be fun and it sounds like you are enjoying it.. Double
Double Amen RR Brothers, The day working on my layout becomes like being at work is the day I e-sell everything and buy a sportscar
Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!
RMax1 From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered. RMax
Welcome to the Leslie LaCroix universe. That tall, scrawny-looking chap is Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. I know most of the people on this forum are stuck in the Neil Armstrong universe, so they have understanding problems when they move onto a parallel universe that isn't quite the same.
Your SD35 # 1091 brought up an old memory - Tsip Song Neung, RTAF C-47 1091, was stationed at Tachikawa AB, Tokyo-to Japan - and maintained by USAF personnel including Yours Truly. Since I had gotten to Tachikawa from Thailand...
Incidentally, my own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry?
(With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of)
tomikawaTT RMax1: From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered. RMax Welcome to the Leslie LaCroix universe. That tall, scrawny-looking chap is Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. I know most of the people on this forum are stuck in the Neil Armstrong universe, so they have understanding problems when they move onto a parallel universe that isn't quite the same. Your SD35 # 1091 brought up an old memory - Tsip Song Neung, RTAF C-47 1091, was stationed at Tachikawa AB, Tokyo-to Japan - and maintained by USAF personnel including Yours Truly. Since I had gotten to Tachikawa from Thailand... Incidentally, my own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of)
RMax1: From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered. RMax
WOW! ......Chuck, there must have been something in that meteorite you found last week!
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Chad!
Very funny! That is a whole step up from the Faller(?) space ship with aliens! If you had a spare dummy engine you could cut it in half and put the back half up to the portal. With photo editing you could even recreate the foaming water effect as things go through the hole. That would be artistic license taken to a whole new level.
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Sounds like my method, "prototype modeling of a freelance world".
hon30critter Chad! Very funny! That is a whole step up from the Faller(?) space ship with aliens! Dave
Very funny! That is a whole step up from the Faller(?) space ship with aliens!
Actually a friend gave me a set of Drinking Coasters. & they just happen to be close to HO! It was a staged scene on some C.V. girders & foam pieces. Yes, I agree, a person could do quite a bit with those, more than an new improved tunnel portal! If I could do the 'event horizon' in CG it would make a neat layout video section! Thanks for the comments.
As for modeling I try to build as to the prototype, -loosely. I do a bit of 'what they would have done', too.. It keeps it interesting & entertaining, -to me...
KCSF Sounds like my method, "prototype modeling of a freelance world".
kcsf...great comment that perfectly describes my model railroad. Gonna keep this one in mind, "prototype modeling in a freelance world."
Thanks,
bogp40 tomikawaTT: RMax1: From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered. RMax Welcome to the Leslie LaCroix universe. That tall, scrawny-looking chap is Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. I know most of the people on this forum are stuck in the Neil Armstrong universe, so they have understanding problems when they move onto a parallel universe that isn't quite the same. Your SD35 # 1091 brought up an old memory - Tsip Song Neung, RTAF C-47 1091, was stationed at Tachikawa AB, Tokyo-to Japan - and maintained by USAF personnel including Yours Truly. Since I had gotten to Tachikawa from Thailand... Incidentally, my own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of) WOW! ......Chuck, there must have been something in that meteorite you found last week!
tomikawaTT: RMax1: From what I hear Santa Fe did have 1 GP40 and I think it was numbered 2964. It was never numbered 3502 like Bachmann has done. I have 2 Atlas SD35's numbered 1001 and 1091 which never existed either. The BN SD9's and the U28B did exist. My Katy rock train's engines are yet to be numbered. RMax Welcome to the Leslie LaCroix universe. That tall, scrawny-looking chap is Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long. I know most of the people on this forum are stuck in the Neil Armstrong universe, so they have understanding problems when they move onto a parallel universe that isn't quite the same. Your SD35 # 1091 brought up an old memory - Tsip Song Neung, RTAF C-47 1091, was stationed at Tachikawa AB, Tokyo-to Japan - and maintained by USAF personnel including Yours Truly. Since I had gotten to Tachikawa from Thailand... Incidentally, my own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of)
Just as long as his face does not melt off a la Lovecraft's The Colour From Space...
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blownout cylinder bogp40: tomikawaTT: ... My own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of) WOW! ......Chuck, there must have been something in that meteorite you found last week! Just as long as his face does not melt off a la Lovecraft's The Colour From Space...
bogp40: tomikawaTT: ... My own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of) WOW! ......Chuck, there must have been something in that meteorite you found last week!
tomikawaTT: ... My own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry? (With apologies to Robert A. Heinlein, who first designated universes by the name of the first man on the moon.) Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - sort of)
... My own sleeping pill for a prototype nightmare is to model the Upper Kiso Valley in the Alfred E. Newman universe. What, me worry?
Last week? I've been using this concept for well over a quarter of a century, and advocated it on these forums for at least five.
Not very likely that my face will melt off. OTOH, if you can figure out a way to get that result a couple of feet lower down, I won't be such a tight fit in my layout's aisleways.
And now to get back to 3622, and the further adventures of Dame Sally Mary Caroline, Lady Belfrage, Order of Elizabeth, the grandmaster spacer who's Zamanian Madama of Britannia and Newmerica and managing director of the Galaxy's financial keystone. Sadly, the Monolith Corporation doesn't control a single railroad, or even own a single share of railroad stock. (Her senior semi-husband does have a model railroad...)
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - when not writing science fiction)
If you are doing a "not strictly prototype" layout representing Texas, be sure and include LOTS of tunnels.
My layout is going to have a downtown Fort Worth kind of feel. It's 10ft. long by 2ft. wide and HO scale. One end does have a module turned sideways to make it 4ft. at that point. On my old layout I did have a 10ft. long tunnel.
I'D go with a short line that makes extra money by servicing Amtrak and leased power. Uses BN run through power. Chief industries are a rock crusher, a grain elevator / mill and city industrial switching. An Amtrak depot should be nearby also.
Lee
Lee I have 3 Amtrak E8's and an Amtrak F set just for that..