Jimmy_BraumOh yeah, and not exactly odd, but I want to put in a 1950's NASCAR dirt track.
Best idea ever for what to do with that otherwise worthless slot car set.
Plus gives you at least two more operator positions to fill when things are kinda slow.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
The dog and fire hydrant are one of the small scenes on my layout
Honest Sams Used Cars with the guy trying to to convence his wife that the sporty coupe is a better choice than the practical sedan
The Ravinous Lab Bisrto is a wall avdvert on one of my buildings
For some reason, women like the pumpkin patch scene on the Boothbay Railway Village layout - could it be that the women in the scene are working while the man is taking a break??
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Not quite yet but there will be a plasma ball in the end car of the Hogwarts Express, during a visit to my maintenance shed.
I hadn't thought of that Mike. Now how can I shrink myself so I can get into the Phone booth?
mlehman Alantrains I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know! Alan, Great idea! That should make prototype research really convenient
Alantrains I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!
I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!
Alan,
Great idea! That should make prototype research really convenient
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
Yeah, fitting in we don't quite have worked out yet. maybe send tiny drones with cameras for now?
Maybe it just because quirkyness is more fun than sameness, oddities just seem to quietly sneak into the portions of my layout that are farther from the front edges. Visitors seem to start humming the same cello based movie theme when they finally spot a very large fish chasing a very small boat out in the middle of Lake Bruce. That might not be as odd as the blue haired trolls that live in Troll Hollow (which is convienently located under a bridge). Up in the hills, the crew working the Lost Sasquatch Mine, excavating for gravel and small amounts of prosperium, just never realize the Squatch was not lost at all- just over the hill- and clearly not a happy camper.
What seems to work best is when the quirky is well camoflaged by a heap of normal activities and familiar items. Then it becomes a game to find police car 54, always parked either near a source of food or where traffic violators are easily found.
Don H.
The club I belong to, has amember who strung up a plane crashing. I was also thinking of on my module (when I build it) of having a buried locomotive being dug up.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
A friend of mine had a laYout with a house of instant pleasure. You could see the naked lady and her guest in the window of one of the bedrooms. I always got a chuckle out of it. REST IN PEASE GEORGE.
On my new layout, I may try to work in Snoopy, in his WWI Flying Ace outfit flying his doghouse...er...I mean Sopwith Camel in pursuit of the Red Baron.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Hmm, perhaps I'll have an old loco being raised from a lake...
Anyone read Clive Cussler's The Chase? The opening scene of the book has a turn of the 20th century loco being raised from a lake - in the 1950's. So while the locale doesn;t fit my layout, the era sure does...
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
Visit my web site at www.readingeastpenn.com for construction updates, DCC Info, and more.
The good 'ole high school HO layout used "an inactive" Gilbert Erector Set to construct highway overpass bridges.
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
Well, from the Mt Hood Club layout, we have polecats invading a picnic. Too bad for those gents who don't see them comin'!
- - and here we have a tiger, lost by the recent in town circus, looking for lunch. Too bad the dog is looking the wrong way...
That reminds me Tom, I also have a mountain lion up on a hill top looking down on a couple of deer that he's sizing up for his next meal...
Kind of odd I guess. Playboy Bunny inspired servers in this nightclub:
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
Maybe things that are odd are mostly things that familiarity is limited in one way or another. My grand kids find telephone booths to be odd items when spotted in town, but have no such concrens when they locate a bronto saurus tucked deep into a swamp. So much of what we do when modeling becomes just another way (generally delightful) of sharing different aspects of relatively recent history, that would be otherwise overlooked as the future obscures the past at a faster and faster pace.
I try to avoid purposefully weird things, but on my previous layout, a certain visiting arachnid took a liking to these ingot cars in my steel mill:
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
I have a couple movie scenes from the movie "Mad, mad, mad mad world". I have a small park with 4 palm trees that form "a giant dubya" as Jonathan Winters might say. I also have two yellow taxis parked nearby. Not movie related, I have a mobile home on the corner of my layout, with a pet pig and a sofa on the front porch with a redneck front yard with abandoned pick up truck and other junk. On the roof are a couple chickens and a rooster.
Jeff B
On my, "To do," list are an operating tunnel boring machine (window in the fascia) and an operating pile driver (the hammer actually hits the BOTTOM of the piling, causing the model driver head to bounce.)
Considering the location I model, the five-tiered pagoda and the sumo ring are mundane.
Oddest of all? The squirrely gaijin wandering around the tracks, camera and clipboard in hand.
There are things to be said for the idea that modeling Central Japan as it was a half-century ago is odd enough for most purposes...
Chuck (Modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
After making some trees, a friend made the following suggestion.
Marlon
See pictures of the Clinton-Golden Valley RR
MisterBeasley Hmmm, let's see. There's the odd goings on at the Burns Oil and Coal company...
Hmmm, let's see. There's the odd goings on at the Burns Oil and Coal company...
Nothing odd at all, they are just contemplating their next aquisition...
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
I've tried to put a little humor into some of the signage. The old Lifelike kit of the restaurant "Ma's Place" inspired these signs.
Here's the town of Frostbite Falls.
with directions to the local institute of higher education...
Now I need to find a figure of a moose..... standing upright on his hind legs.... and a squirrel wearing a leather flight helmetl.
George V.
Georgev,
Beautiful snow work on Frostbite Falls.
It might be easier to have Boris and Natasha lurking in an alley...
Chuck (Who resembles Bullwinkle, modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
CSX_road_slug I try to avoid purposefully weird things, but on my previous layout, a certain visiting arachnid took a liking to these ingot cars in my steel mill:
Yeah, I leave these ones alone. That looks like one of the wolf spiders. They hunt their food down and don't leave webs all over the place. It's like having a little bug-eating cat on the layout -- and no litter box to change
Raised on the Erie Lackawanna Mainline- Supt. of the Black River Transfer & Terminal R.R.
mlehman CSX_road_slug I try to avoid purposefully weird things, but on my previous layout, a certain visiting arachnid took a liking to these ingot cars in my steel mill: Yeah, I leave these ones alone. That looks like one of the wolf spiders. They hunt their food down and don't leave webs all over the place. It's like having a little bug-eating cat on the layout -- and no litter box to change
Last time I saw a spider on my layout, it laid a bunch of webs on the CN SD40-2W and ran away.
-Khang Lu, University of Minnesota Railroad Club
As long as it is not a black widow or a brown recluse,
Spiders are okay
SooLine720 mlehman CSX_road_slug I try to avoid purposefully weird things, but on my previous layout, a certain visiting arachnid took a liking to these ingot cars in my steel mill: Yeah, I leave these ones alone. That looks like one of the wolf spiders. They hunt their food down and don't leave webs all over the place. It's like having a little bug-eating cat on the layout -- and no litter box to change Last time I saw a spider on my layout, it laid a bunch of webs on the CN SD40-2W and ran away.
this is from here...http://cs.trains.com/trc/f/1/t/225379.aspx
it`s cool and it`s odd, and some pretty good modeling IMO,.
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/xx168/shahomy/6c78bf88-453c-4307-9317-1df4180e1ade.png
Am i ever gonna be able to lay any track???