In Jokes and Gags

[Union Pacific Cascade Division Model RR]

Just spotted this thread, thought I'd share my little play on words with you:

Hint:  Move the first space in the company name 2 characters to the left. 

Good one.

[gmcrail]

Just spotted this thread, thought I'd share my little play on words with you:

Hint:  Move the first space in the company name 2 characters to the left. 

[Union Pacific Cascade Division Model RR]

You need details do ya. I have his arm torn off and there is fake blood on the ground.  

[Kenfolk]

I have a bear eating a dude! It just a bear nessecity. HA!

Oh, yeah. I just bearly remembered, I have a campground scene with people getting ready for a picnic, while the bears have gotten into the goodies in their pickup truck bed. 

[Union Pacific Cascade Division Model RR]

I have a bear eating a dude! It just a bear nessecity. HA!

[graphitehemi]

Here's a couple of pics of a whimsical scene on a display layout I had for a couple of years: 

http://www.ironpeng.com/ufo/whimsy.html

Where did you get the aliens for the UFO scene!?

[Big Ugly Waz]

All of these jokes and gags are visual.  I still think my "stock car with scent" joke a year ago tops them all.   You know, I smelled that car rolling by in a consist at the last operating session....

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1084192/ShowPost.aspx 

TZ,

I think your right, I just read that thread having not been around on the forums at the time, that is absolute GOLD !!! I'm still laughing !!!

Cheers,

Warren

[METRO]

I didn't do it but during the last op session one of my crew added some 'passengers' to one of my cab forward steam engines...

I've always wanted to add a barbecue grill & associated griller on the "porch" of an SD40-2.

You know I've actually seen that in real life, a few years ago, there was a SD40-2 stopped in Wauwatosa outside the Sentry supermarket, two guys on the porch, a small grill and a radio with the Brewers game on, not too bad a setup if you ask me haha! 

Cheers!

~METRO 

[sleeper33]

only trying to help

[Anonymous]

Here's a couple of pics of a whimsical scene on a display layout I had for a couple of years: 

http://www.ironpeng.com/ufo/whimsy.html

On my present N scale layout I'm going to include a scene using the ConCors 3 Mile Island Nuke model, with a few glowing holes in the reactor and a soothing female voice announcing "core melt down in 45 seconds, please proceed in an orderly fashion to the nearest exit.... core meltdown in 30 seconds, please ..."

 

Mike Tennent

[Cederstrand]

Main industry on my (N) layout is Soylent Green.  Will also have a Farmer Vincent's Smoked Meat establishment and a Prison complete with a mote & alligators. All set in steam era, which makes no sense at all.

I like the idea of Doctor Who making an appearance, and he certainly has the means to visit any number of layouts anytime he disires to.

My wife's (HO) layout will have a certain scene from Deliverance hidden just inside a tree line next to a river. Also a hanging tree to represent someone we both have disdain for.

Other than that, both our layouts will generally be joyful places for the wee little people to live on. Rob

[Rotorranch]

Hi gang

 when i was reading some of this conversation I noticed that a couple of you want the TARDIS

( police box ) so here is the web site for a company who stocks them

 www. harburnhobbies.com

 sorry don't know how to set a link in.

 hope this helps

Gav

The one from Harburn Hobbies is way too big for HO.

Rotor

[Milepost 266.2]

Hi gang

 when i was reading some of this conversation I noticed that a couple of you want the TARDIS

( police box ) so here is the web site for a company who stocks them

 www. harburnhobbies.com

 sorry don't know how to set a link in.

 hope this helps

Gav

 

Hornby made an OO scale Police Box.  I've seen them on ebay's UK site.   

[larak]

Hi gang

 when i was reading some of this conversation I noticed that a couple of you want the TARDIS

( police box ) so here is the web site for a company who stocks them

 www.harburnhobbies.com

 sorry don't know how to set a link in.

 hope this helps

Gav

There you go.  It's the little chain icon in the menu.  BTW: Part number is SS 342 or just search for "police box".

Karl 

[MisterBeasley]

All of these jokes and gags are visual.  I still think my "stock car with scent" joke a year ago tops them all.   You know, I smelled that car rolling by in a consist at the last operating session....

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1084192/ShowPost.aspx 

Thanks for that reminder.  I went back and read it again, and again laughed out loud.  For those of you who don't normally follow links:  Do this one.  It's worth it.

[sleeper33]

Hi gang

 when i was reading some of this conversation I noticed that a couple of you want the TARDIS

( police box ) so here is the web site for a company who stocks them

 www. harburnhobbies.com

 sorry don't know how to set a link in.

 hope this helps

Gav

[Texas Zepher]

All of these jokes and gags are visual.  I still think my "stock car with scent" joke a year ago tops them all.   You know, I smelled that car rolling by in a consist at the last operating session....

http://cs.trains.com/forums/1084192/ShowPost.aspx 

[Texas Zepher]

I didn't do it but during the last op session one of my crew added some 'passengers' to one of my cab forward steam engines...

I've always wanted to add a barbecue grill & associated griller on the "porch" of an SD40-2.

[train18393]

It is the car of yesterday, as the car of tomorrow is now the car of today. I assume it was one of those show cars that the various sponsors tour the country with, because the guy driving the car is not Jeff. I don't think that in 1967 they had any touring COTs, so it had to be the car of yesterday. Jeff would probably been driving quarter migits in 1967, so it can't be him driving. Or would it be the car of the future? At least its not a DeLorian, wait a minuit, that would be Back To the Future, not the Car Of Tomorrow. I forgot about the 68 mustang, they didn't come out until the fall of 67, but that was my first new car, so it stays also even though it ain't right.

Paul
Dayton and Mad River RR

[MisterBeasley]

This shot is looking into the window of the Burns Coal and Oil Company:

 

[vsmith]

I dont know if these are considered "inside jokes" or not but most of my layout will or already is named after things I've found in some of my favorite movies, even the very name of my layout comes from a scene in the movie The Great Race ..."Citizens of Borracho!" . Well my layout will have a saloon that will be called "Donovans Reef" from the same movie, a gentlemans club called "Madame Orr's House" and a cafe "Emma's Tasty Treats" both from "Support your Local Sheriff" a few other in the works as the layout progresses. I also have the advantage that at 1/22.5 scale I can use a great deal of commercially avalable figures in 1/2" scale, including some nifty "Galaxy Express 999" figures I picked up recently, they will be hanging out at the RR station, I also have a couple of "Cowboy Bebop" figurines, I'm also looking for a Bob and Doug McKenzie figurine set for in front of the General Store. I will also be hiding some surprises, like a Dalek hiding amongst some tin trash cans. Theirs a German company (schluco?)  producing a line of cowboy/western figures in close to 1/22 scale that are outstanding, I'm planning to modify one gruffy miner to be riding a Grizzly bear, complete with saddle, into town for his weekly visit, and a group of figures called "terrified B movie victims" that will be fleeing. Lots of ideas can be integrated with subtlety into a layout without it getting campy. I think the trick its to not make make these additions obvious.

[lvanhen]

One of our members is working on a hotel...with two separate light circuits.  One for "family" viewers, and one for adult viewers.  And the interior scenes lit by each will be appropriate for each.

For the adult hotel scene, thinking of making a model of ex Gov. Eliot Spitzer? Maybe a state trooper outside the hotel entrance leaning on a patrol car?

Jon

Hey!!  I'm from New Jersey - let's not forget OUR ex-gov!!!

[Kenfolk]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

Go for it, Little Buddy.

                       That is funny!

[jondrd]

One of our members is working on a hotel...with two separate light circuits.  One for "family" viewers, and one for adult viewers.  And the interior scenes lit by each will be appropriate for each.

For the adult hotel scene, thinking of making a model of ex Gov. Eliot Spitzer? Maybe a state trooper outside the hotel entrance leaning on a patrol car?

Jon

[shayfan84325]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

I don't know if it's wise to mess with MaryAnn: 

[PA&ERR]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

No wonder it took them so long to get off that island!

-George

[MisterBeasley]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.

Go for it, Little Buddy.

[ArtOfRuin]

One of my Guilford locos has part of the "R" in "Guilford Rail System" removed so it now reads "Guilford Fail System." This vandalism actually happens to GRS locos in real life, too.

http://photos.nerail.org/showpic/?2006070316442025613.jpg:bysearch:Guilford+Fail+System:SEARCHTYPE=SIMPLE&PAGE=1&BOOL=ALL&SEARCHSTRING=Guilford+Fail+System

I'm going to add a winter rally race scene to my layout. Should I make a scene set in another season, I plan on adding a road race track.

One guy I know did have a 1:48 scale Transformers Subaru WRX he had on his Lionel layout. He'd usually leave it in car mode, but occasionally he'd put it on his old HO scale layout he was dismantling and have it duke it out with Godzilla or Voltron.

[R. T. POTEET]

I'm considering modeling Driggs, Idaho on UP's Teton Valley line; would it be out of order for me to model Dawn Wells getting hauled in for possession.