And I got Mongo And GW.
Chip
Building the Rock Ridge Railroad with the slowest construction crew west of the Pecos.
Well let's see. I have a Preacherman dragging toilet paper on his foot and a cat chasing it.
And I have a piano being loaded with a buckboard--and the ticket clerk watching the fun.
steamage wrote:Remember the old 1950s movie THEM! With the ants in the Los Angeles River. I have the LA River with ants.
Now, YOU'RE my kind of guy! Better yet, have an old ATSF wooden boxcar in the yard with the door ripped off and a little decal saying: "For Sugar Loading Only."
That's still a WHOPPER of a good 'Big Bug' movie!
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
1. Near HO Scale Star Wars figures including Darth Vader, Han Solo, Storm troopers, jawas etc and an Imperial walker having a battle in a back alley and on some rooftops in my city scene that uses the Bachman Spectrum buildings as well as some other DPM and Korber buildings. Makes an interesting scene. Because it is in a back alley it is not distracting but gets a good laugh when it is spotted.
2. HO Scale Trans Am driven by the "Bandit" being chased down main street by NY's Finest in their Chevy Caprices.
3. HO Scale firehouse with rooftop tennis court and players.
John R.
I regret that I am unable to recall the name of the Kansas (or Missouri) model railroad club to give them credit for the following bountiful harvest scene:
The Cedar Branch & Western--The Hillbilly Line!
BCSJ wrote: 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 still haven't figured out who did this (though I've a couple of suspicions).Regards,Charlie Comstock
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 still haven't figured out who did this (though I've a couple of suspicions).
Regards,
Charlie Comstock
Now THAT is good clean fun!
Classic!!!!
There's something funny about the name of this factory...
or maybe it's just my imagination.
A true friend will not bail you out of jail...he will be sitting next to you saying "that was friggin awesome dude!" Tim...Modeling the NYC...is there any other?
One of the members in our modular club has a naughty scene behind some bushes, only visible if one knows where to look - a farmer getting amorous with a sheep!
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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fiatfan wrote: Geared Steam wrote:Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpghttp://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpgGS, I love that shot. It is now my desktop. Thanks for making my day! Tom
Geared Steam wrote:Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpghttp://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpg
Not on my layout, but I spotted these at a train show a couple weeks ago.
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2505.jpg
http://i203.photobucket.com/albums/aa28/twomule/Longview/PICT2506.jpg
GS, I love that shot. It is now my desktop. Thanks for making my day!
That is the best thing I've seen in a long time.
Autobus Prime wrote: Geared Steam wrote: - Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday? GS:I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick.
Geared Steam wrote: - Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?
- Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?
GS:
I am pretty sure that the "Car of Tomorrow" would have to have more fins, a bubble canopy, six wheels, some turbine intakes, and steering by joystick.
Obviously not a NASCAR fan. The "Car of Tomorrow" is now the standard NASCAR racer, and it still bears a passing resemblance to street legal. (It also has a V8 with four-barrel carburetors - the 'Car of Tomorrow' with Grandpa's Dream Engine!)
Modeling challenge - model a pig unit loaded with NASCAR haulers. If fuel costs keep going up, we may see it in the prototype.
Chuck (NASCAR fan modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
I've got a HO Herbie that will find a home eventually on the streets of my layout. Perfectly complimenting my tribute to the Mouse.
All businesses and locations are connected in some indirect in-joke way, such as Elias & Co. Dept. Store, Dinoco Gas and WESAYSO Logging and so on.
Life is simple - eat, drink, play with trains!
Go Big Red!
PA&ERR "If you think you are doing something stupid, you're probably right!"
Some great gags and ideas here
I am planning to have a red english sports car parked next to a telephone booth. The suited man inside will be chopped down to give the impression he is taking an elevator down.
I have the Spock's Wingnuts Factory - Bigger ears, better grip; The logical choice. Here's their boxcar:
And also, the Stave Brothers Cooperage (A cooper is a barrel maker):
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
The only good Gag that Im familiar with is having to drop a blue box full of small parts that makes this collasping crunch of metal breaking when it hits the floor.
Best used when someone is on the throttle demonstrating total focus on coupling.
I dont recall where I got that idea from but if done right, the focusee would jump 5 feet.
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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I like to have scenes that you look at and think, things are going to change in a moment. On my garden layout there is station platform with a number of people standing on it and a large black bear just about to come around the corner and into view. The dino on my On30 layout is at the bottom of a rapids in the river with canoers heading right for it. No way to exit.
Dave
train18393 wrote: My mid-60s NYC themed layout (June, 1967) between Dayton and Springfield Ohio has the Jeff Gordon 2007 Nextel Cup car he drove in 2007 year very visible in downtown Dayton. Every other automobile, and truck is in keeping with the theme of the layout as are all the rolling stock and motive power. But hey, its my layout so the 2007 chevrolet(sort of) stays At least it was easy making those head and tail light decals look like head and tail light decals.PaulDayton and Mad River Railroad
My mid-60s NYC themed layout (June, 1967) between Dayton and Springfield Ohio has the Jeff Gordon 2007 Nextel Cup car he drove in 2007 year very visible in downtown Dayton. Every other automobile, and truck is in keeping with the theme of the layout as are all the rolling stock and motive power. But hey, its my layout so the 2007 chevrolet(sort of) stays At least it was easy making those head and tail light decals look like head and tail light decals.
Paul
Dayton and Mad River Railroad
I have serious concerns about the the 2007 24 car being in your 1967 based layout. My concerns are the "prototypical" kind of concerns, and am only doing this because I want you to become a better modeler. So my first question is:
Remembering that 2007 was about a 70/30 mix of old car / new car, we need to establish a timeframe you are modeling, (month, week, day) , from this information, we could conclude the closest tracks as being Indy, Pocono, Chicago, of these 3 tracks rans the car of tomorrow was not run at any of them, so I hope you have modeled using the car of yesterday.
I love the Lake Hammond refernce.
I have the family corn field where I learned to hunt, complete with the family and the pheasants.
I have models of all my drag race cars parked around my small town.
I have the Malachite Quarry as if someone liked gemstones more than copper.
The "Sublime to Redikulus" name was inspired by John Allen in the 60's
I have found the Lost Dutchman Mine and started mining(two competing mines to be accurate)
I have Yosemite Falls in Yellowstone Canyon.
The most rediculas is me, painting a picture of Yellowstone Falls from Uncle Tom's stairway.
Some will say my whole layout is a joke.
AltoonaRailroader wrote: Dallas Model Works wrote: On the old version of my layout I had one of the Preiser nudists talking to a Preiser cop.I've got the Preiser Grim Reaper but haven't decide what to do with her yet. I also have the Pope but haven't scratchbuilt his pointy hat yet.LOL
Dallas Model Works wrote: On the old version of my layout I had one of the Preiser nudists talking to a Preiser cop.I've got the Preiser Grim Reaper but haven't decide what to do with her yet. I also have the Pope but haven't scratchbuilt his pointy hat yet.
On the old version of my layout I had one of the Preiser nudists talking to a Preiser cop.
I've got the Preiser Grim Reaper but haven't decide what to do with her yet.
I also have the Pope but haven't scratchbuilt his pointy hat yet.
LOL
Hopefully, my wife won't read these boards.
Craig
DMW
One of the trackside industries on my layout, the Notyme & Munee RR, will be a distribution warehouse for Jim's Discount Hockey Supplies ("Jim is a real cheap skate").
Jim
"I am lapidary but not eristic when I use big words." - William F. Buckley
I haven't been sleeping. I'm afraid I'll dream I'm in a coma and then wake up unconscious. -Stephen Wright
Folks:
The trouble with an in-joke thread is that a genuine in-joke is not usually transmissible. My railroad always has an eatery known as "Mudd's Dinor", a prime hangout for the youth gang known as "The Gang" (long story), but these just make no sense if you don't know the history, and once you do,the joke is ruined. :(
And some jokes are just goofy, with nothing more comprehensible to insiders. The Saracen warriors who were buying pop from the machine outside the last version of Mudd's were just out-of-place anachronisms, nothing more.
The towns of "Wattsburg" and "Johnson Furnace" are more comprehensible gags. They are in the table corners nearest the electrical panel and forced-air heating unit.
When I get to that point, there will be a "Lars Thorwald, Butcher" shop in town. Lars Thorwald was the character played by Raymond Burr in the movie "Rear Window."
wm3798 wrote: It's been a few years, but a popular feature on club layouts a few years ago was the Presidential Motorcade parked outside the "No Tell Motel"... Lee
It's been a few years, but a popular feature on club layouts a few years ago was the Presidential Motorcade parked outside the "No Tell Motel"...
Lee
change that to governor and it is true to life modeling in New York.
On my n-scale layout, I've used place names and signs to add humor: the Tena Sea, for instance. The Rocky Top Coal Company has it's "No. 1 Mine". Even the limited amount of graffiti is custom-made [see photo].
Look closely. It spells out "Kenfolk".
A small town on my layout is named "East Minister" - that's an inside joke to Marylanders. Many of us have a habit of referring to the town of Westminster* as "West-minister".
* a great railfanning location for the WM while it still existed
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
I have a Penn Central engine that's clean and runs! HAHAHAHA!
But seriously folks, It's not on my current layout (yet) but I have a factory for Einbinder Flypaper, (The brand you've gradually grown to trust over three generations) which was "sponsor" of the old Bob and Ray Radio Program... I also have a warehouse for Acme Bird Feed... "Beep Beep!" (also purveyors of such novelties as Rocket Powered Roller Skates, giant sling shots, and high-powered magnets)
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