QUOTE: Layout animation that is so perfectly mechanized, that all of the Prieser figures stop and stare in frozen wonderment?
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen 1) Benchwork built strong enough to support the weight of a 300lb adult – on layouts where trains can easily be reached within arm’s length (Go figure….?)
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Building the CPR Kootenay division in N scale, blog here: http://kootenaymodelrailway.wordpress.com/
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
QUOTE: Originally posted by joeyegarner Using anything other than a Kadee coupler!! yea and that rivet thing get's me too, what's up with that?? Being completley prototypical, why it's a model and can't be done anyway.
QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44 At my MRR club, there ARE sections that are only reachable by standing on the layout, like the mountain section, a while ago we were installing a backdrop, so we had a couple guys (Who weren't so skinny) standing on a small yard, and it barely bent!
QUOTE: Originally posted by KenLarsen QUOTE: Originally posted by trainboyH16-44 At my MRR club, there ARE sections that are only reachable by standing on the layout, like the mountain section, a while ago we were installing a backdrop, so we had a couple guys (Who weren't so skinny) standing on a small yard, and it barely bent! I agree, that's definitely a good reason. I was referring to situations where there would NEVER be any need for somebody to climb on the benchwork in the first place, but they just built it like a fortress because "that's the way everybody else does it and it's always been done that way."
Ray Breyer
Modeling the NKP's Peoria Division, circa 1943
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
QUOTE: Originally posted by orsonroy Matchbox cars on an HO layout.
QUOTE: 4-4-0s pulling double stacks.
QUOTE: Athearn boxcars with claws on the bottoms of the doors.
QUOTE: Anything Varney.
QUOTE: Hobos on layouts.
QUOTE: Nekkid lady models.