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Working on Your Layout, Mayan Style

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Posted by Motley on Friday, December 21, 2012 12:02 PM

andrechapelon

Motley

According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.

Our earth has in fact,  been destroyed.

But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. 

 
Oh goody. Now I can go up to San Jose and watch steam powered commute trains. Or down to Bakersfiield to watch the San Joaquin Daylight swap GS-4's for F7's (or the other way around depending on the time).
 
The Friant Branch is still using 2-6-0's.
 
 
 

Not only that, but gas is now 29 cents per gallon!!!!!!!!!! 

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Friday, December 21, 2012 12:05 PM

Motley

andrechapelon

Motley

According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.

Our earth has in fact,  been destroyed.

But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. 

 
Oh goody. Now I can go up to San Jose and watch steam powered commute trains. Or down to Bakersfiield to watch the San Joaquin Daylight swap GS-4's for F7's (or the other way around depending on the time).
 
The Friant Branch is still using 2-6-0's.
 
 
 

Not only that, but gas is now 29 cents per gallon!!!!!!!!!! 

....and the dollar is much more valuable and we are still on the gold standard. 

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 21, 2012 12:46 PM

Motley

According to "Doc", we have entered an alternate time divergant.

Our earth has in fact,  been destroyed.

But we are now in another world and the date is: Nov. 5th 1955. 

Yesssssss!  And this time around, I am NOT going to sell my huge collection of Lionels.  Or the original boxes.

Instead, I will finance my HO layout by betting on the Jets to win the Superbowl in 1969.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by tomikawaTT on Friday, December 21, 2012 1:59 PM

I thought I had it figured out - there are no Mayans in the Alfred E. Neumann universe.

Then I checked, and discovered that the Neil Armstrong universe (aka reality) is still here.

So the odometer rolled over.  Can we put the Mayans out of our minds for the next 300+ (or 5000+) years?

Chuck [Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964 - today (12/21/12) and for the foreseeable future]

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Posted by Geared Steam on Friday, December 21, 2012 2:50 PM

Welcome to the new world, glad you all made it!!

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein

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Posted by UPinCT on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:10 PM

I'm not clear on the Myan end of the World.  Are we safe by now or does the world end at 12 midnight? 

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:45 PM

UPinCT

I'm not clear on the Myan end of the World.  Are we safe by now or does the world end at 12 midnight? 

12 midnight is technically December 22, 2012, so we lived through it. 

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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Posted by UPinCT on Friday, December 21, 2012 6:53 PM

phew I was on pins and needles for a while.  It must have been those guys in the Jello commercials who went and sacrificed pudding on the Myan temple who saved us.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItjE3f3clQQ

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, December 22, 2012 4:35 AM

I cannot believe this.

December 21, 2012 came and went, and we are all still here.

What went wrong?

I had sold off my layout and donated the proceeds to the Mayan Relief Fund.

Well, at least I think I did. 

Yesterday, two little Russian ladies in babushkas approached me in the grocery store parking lot and said that they were acting as couriers to take cash to the Mayans so I entrusted all of my money to them.

So, I need to start over, and I have several questions:

1.   Which is better, DC or DCC?   Laugh

2.   Who makes the best steam engine?   Whistling

3.  Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point?   Geeked

4.  Why did they paint steam engines black?   Smile, Wink & Grin

I need answers and I need them now.   Alien

Rich

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Posted by "JaBear" on Saturday, December 22, 2012 5:35 AM

richhotrain

I cannot believe this.

December 21, 2012 came and went, and we are all still here.

What went wrong?

I had sold off my layout and donated the proceeds to the Mayan Relief Fund.

Well, at least I think I did. 

Yesterday, two little Russian ladies in babushkas approached me in the grocery store parking lot and said that they were acting as couriers to take cash to the Mayans so I entrusted all of my money to them.

So, I need to start over, and I have several questions:

1.   Which is better, DC or DCC?   Laugh

2.   Who makes the best steam engine?   Whistling

3.  Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point?   Geeked

4.  Why did they paint steam engines black?   Smile, Wink & Grin

I need answers and I need them now.   Alien

Rich

Gidday Rich,  maybe this may help..............Whistling

http://www.marklin.com/start/ho.html

Cheers, the Bear.                  

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:56 AM

"JaBear"

So, I need to start over, and I have several questions:

1.   Which is better, DC or DCC?   Laugh

2.   Who makes the best steam engine?   Whistling

3.  Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point?   Geeked

4.  Why did they paint steam engines black?   Smile, Wink & Grin

I need answers and I need them now.   Alien

Rich



Hey Rich!!!?

1:  Do both (in a section), with a switch so you can enjoy all your New & Old products!

2:  Iron Horse Models for Precision Scale Co.  (At least in HOn3 Shays)

3:  Yes, all that

4:  All the Red got used up on Barns, the White on Houses, plus Black (then) covers rust better than any color.

More questions Please!
Yes I am being facetious, but we enjoy that.. 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, December 22, 2012 10:02 AM

MisterBeasley

I'm going to consist an AC4400 with a Big Boy, and the rivet-counters be damned!

If you want, we can put a GE Cab on a Cab Forward & really Sci Fi it out!

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Posted by IRONROOSTER on Saturday, December 22, 2012 9:50 PM

richhotrain

...

So, I need to start over, and I have several questions:

1.   Which is better, DC or DCC?   Laugh

2.   Who makes the best steam engine?   Whistling

3.  Should my track work be continuous loop or point-to-point?   Geeked

4.  Why did they paint steam engines black?   Smile, Wink & Grin

I need answers and I need them now.   Alien

Rich

1.  Neither one.  Use AC with sequence reverse.

2.  Lobaugh

3.  Point to loop is best.

4.  The red was used up on cabooses.

 Laugh

Paul

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