Grampys Trains wrote: Hi all: This is me in my 58 Corvette with a couple of my buddies, Jim and Cork.
Hi all: This is me in my 58 Corvette with a couple of my buddies, Jim and Cork.
And what's the mechanic's name? Lou Boyle?
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Travellers in the waiting room.
Wolfgang
Pueblo & Salt Lake RR
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Excellent entries my friends, this is a lot of fun and It is also neat to see some of the same figures in different situations, this is great, keep it up.
I'm off today and will try to post the close ups of my train town tourists...LOL!
Thanks for playing along.
Jess.
Phoebe Vet wrote: lvanhen wrote:The last time I posted pics of figs it got yanked!! BMLA's mooners!!I have those guys, too.
lvanhen wrote:The last time I posted pics of figs it got yanked!! BMLA's mooners!!
I have those guys, too.
This is the pic that was yanked - I've "touched it up" so it wont get yanked again!!
These are some of mine...
Lumber for a layout...
Track patrol... Waiting for his buddies to finish using the station's (behind the camera) "facilities" before continuing their inspection...
Daydreaming out of sight of the manager...
A farmer waiting for trains in his field... The building in the background is Koester Foods, still under construction.
Haven't come up with a story for this one yet... Looks like he's smoking or something...
TrainManTy wrote: Haven't come up with a story for this one yet... Looks like he's smoking or something...
put a wife or buddy in the car (or beside it), and it'll look like he's stopped before entering because they yelled at him to get something and he didn't quite catch it.
Sawyer Berry
Clemson University c/o 2018
Building a protolanced industrial park layout
He's going into an Auto-Parts store (a High-Performance one it seems, not a Auto-zone or Strauss selling crappy Auto-trinkets) - would the wife be yelling for him to get new struts or a manifold for the family truckster...(and did Busch ever release that Dodge van model w/ rear side windows?).
I vote for putting a tiny piece of wire in his hand, painting it white, and moving him to the side of the door so customers can come and go during his smoke-break
MisterBeasley wrote: Death waits for the Number 6 train after a frustrating day with no customers:
Death waits for the Number 6 train after a frustrating day with no customers:
I love this one, great pic!
Modeling the fictional B&M Dowe, NH branch in the early 50's.
As promised here are some of the people who live on my layout.
This guy climbed up on a signal bridge and seems to be bleeding....CALL 911!!!
This guy is running along the river with his inner tube!
Hey, remember this guy, he's always crossing a street on some ones layout!
My line workers keep the power flowing in Black Rock Mt.
Being an EMT I had to have this crew getting ready for their shift.
The mermaid in the river (censored for a -G- Rating).
This is a nice girl watching the river rescue scene.
And this is what is drawing a crowd to the river bank.
These are just some of the folks who live on my layout and some just have no explination,
See I told you....This monkey roams all over the town and pops up in some strange places, most people don't find him right away but when they do it always brings a smile too their face.
Hope you like my towns folks!
Put a string on his hand and a yoyo dangeling from it OR put a cup in his hand, give him some painted on black glasses and a red tipped cane OR place another man in front of him with his hand out so they look like they are shaking hands OR glue a scale sized hawk on his fore arm...LOL!
These two guys are Jazz Musicians who are thumbing a ride too the night Club.
All my roof tops have a National Guard member with a radio because the President is in town.
Here we have a couple of cops covering the Presidental motor cade route from on top of the fire house.
Thats about it, I'm going to be adding more people soon.
chutton01 wrote: He's going into an Auto-Parts store (a High-Performance one it seems, not a Auto-zone or Strauss selling crappy Auto-trinkets) - would the wife be yelling for him to get new struts or a manifold for the family truckster...(and did Busch ever release that Dodge van model w/ rear side windows?).I vote for putting a tiny piece of wire in his hand, painting it white, and moving him to the side of the door so customers can come and go during his smoke-break
As a former employee of Strauss Stores, I ever so slightly take offense to that. That and the new Pep-Boys ad that claims they are the only parts and service place in the country and that they invented the concept. (believe it or not, the founder's grandson was a department head but I was trusted with the keys and alarm code for the office/warehouse)
In fact, I may have to model a Strauss Stores shop for my layout. The one on Fresh Pond Road was oddly shaped.
chutton01 wrote: He's going into an Auto-Parts store (a High-Performance one it seems, not a Auto-zone or Strauss selling crappy Auto-trinkets) - would the wife be yelling for him to get new struts or a manifold for the family truckster...(and did Busch ever release that Dodge van model w/ rear side windows?).
Yeah they did. They have it in silver with fake wood trim and in green. I think they might have also made a few police and emergency vehicle versions of it too.
You have this look from the border of the module.
Go to my Aug blog or to Diamond Vally structuresto see more pictures.
Princess Zelda(sitting and standing versions), here shown on my desk after a paint touch-up:
Interiors and people figures make such a difference. Especially the people.
Of course my layout has a hobo:
This time of year there are also the politicians campaigning:
Kenfolk wrote: Of course my layout has a hobo:This time of year there are also the politicians campaigning:
COOL HOBO!!!
I've not seen this version of a hobo yet, the crossing of his legs is a perfect pose for sitting in a door way like that!
Wish I could see the details of the princess figures, from what I can see they look nice.
This some handiwork by my grandson on the plywood central
Some good guys and some bad guys (allegedly - as they're all presumed innocent etc!)
I guess it was a coincident that the "bad" gugys picked the wrong place to do "something"!!
HEdward wrote:As a former employee of Strauss Stores, I ever so slightly take offense to that. That and the new Pep-Boys ad that claims they are the only parts and service place in the country and that they invented the concept. (believe it or not, the founder's grandson was a department head but I was trusted with the keys and alarm code for the office/warehouse)
Hey, glue a small 'plastic bag' model to that HO guy's outstretched hand, and pretend he just brought a set of Champion Spark plugs for his Dodge.
lvanhen wrote: This some handiwork by my grandson on the plywood central Some good guys and some bad guys (allegedly - as they're all presumed innocent etc!)I guess it was a coincident that the "bad" gugys picked the wrong place to do "something"!!
Awesome work by the grandson, as you know I love those cop scenes, my wife says I watch too many cop reality shows and in my defence....ah, well OK, I don't have a defence, I just love them cop shows!!!
I've seen these figures before and hope to find some soon at my LHS.
I love the old time dunkin Donuts building....real cool.
The owner of my LHS has a DD's and on the roof he has a thief in black mask with a sack over his shoulder making his get a way while there is a line of cops going out the door...LOL!
keep up the good work, I always like seeing what is going on, on your layout!
lvanhen wrote: The sign that I made that is underneath that is "Simpson & Bobbit - Cutlery"!!
Ah, yes, I remember those two...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
PASMITH wrote:On another forum topic, there was an intense debate recently regarding the modeling of the actual social conditions that existed in the era we are modeling without violating existing political correctness. In the 60's and 70's as a property insurance representative, I visited hundreds of industrial plants and their maintenance shops which were always adorned with some very interesting pinup posters. The way I have resolved this sensitive issue is to actually model these shops hidden away in my saw mill but always within the bounds acceptable artistic and moral taste. Peter Smith, Memphis
Interesting you'd bring that up..for a looong while I've wanted to model the Civil War era Western & Atlantic Railroad through Chattanooga and this general area of Tennessee and Georgia..but always been very afraid that at least one plantation would be in order to make it realistic..and while I could care less about political correctness..I do care about lawsuits or other general bad press...but that's a topic for another day, I just had to put this out there since you reminded me...hah..
DarkTalon wrote: Interesting you'd bring that up..for a looong while I've wanted to model the Civil War era Western & Atlantic Railroad through Chattanooga and this general area of Tennessee and Georgia..but always been very afraid that at least one plantation would be in order to make it realistic..and while I could care less about political correctness..I do care about lawsuits or other general bad press...but that's a topic for another day, I just had to put this out there since you reminded me...hah..
Political correctness be ******, history is history!!! What are we supposed to do - re-write our history books? Slavery existed untill the end of the Civil War - actually, during the Roman Empire there were more white slaves than colored - or is saying colored politically incorrect?!! If you model a modern era city, are you going to model pristine streets and buildings with no evidence of crime? I personaly know two men who were fired for telling ethnic jokes - one Italian and one Polish - and they were not nasty jokes, they just included the "normal" slang for the two groups!! I used to work with a Jewish guy - I was the "Nazi" and he was what was common slang for Jewish people at the time - 1970's - and we were the very best of friends with our family's enjoying activities together away from work!!!
I certainly wouldn't include a whipping post or really bad housing for the slaves, as that would be cruel, and not representative of all or even most plantations - of course there are probably completely opposite views to mine. It seems to be OK to joke about John McCains" age, but I don't recall hearing a single joke about Obama, is everyone afraid of law suits - or just being politacally correct - or is age OK to joke about but not ethnicity!!
When I was in school - from 1947 to 1964 - we were taught how the "savage" "Indians" slaughtered, raped, and pillaged the white man and women in our school books, movies, comic books, and early TV. When AIM brought up Wounded Knee, our historians finally started to get it right, but when I was in the Army in 1964/5 I was shocked to see the animosity between white and Native Americans from Oklahoma and other areas with larger Native American populations!! I was even more shocked to hear some comments made by a company executive when taking a factory tour in Minnisota - in the 1990's!! I asked why there were no black or hispanic employees out of about 2000, the response was that there used to be before the "Indians" found they were just like venison!! Sometimes I'm very ashamed about "my people"!!!
I just read the last post and about forgot what I was going to post (agree with it for the most part).
Anyway, "Who are the people on my layout"? Lets see, my layout is under construction, but when it is completed, I believe I would pay homage to several people in my life.
I have already created a little background story line for the railroad and have placed my dad in charge of the locomotive rebuild shops (he worked on EMD fire pumps and generator sets in the 70's and 80's and then retired from ComEd, he was the best choice for the job). He will most likely be pulling up to the shops on his "Geezer-Glide" (I tried to talk him into a Victory but he wanted no part in it).
My late grandmother will be on the steps of the church since she never stopped praying for my brothers and I as we grew up.
My late grandfather will be fishing on his pontoon boat.
My other two grandparents will be at a car show with grandpa's 33 chevy streetrod (don't know where I will find a 33 yet). I wouldn't mind having Zora Arkus Duntov pulling up to the car show in a Stingray.
My mom will have her own arts and crafts store since all I remember of her when I was growing up was all the "Toll Painting" she did (and yelling at my brothers and me for constantly getting into trouble... the reason for grandma's praying).
My brothers will all be at Poopy's in Savannah IL. getting tats! (I am the oldest of 6 boys and have the honor of being able to say to my mom that at 38 years old I am her only son without a tat. Not that tats are bad, but it is important to my mom.)
My daughters (3 of them) will be working at the hospital.
My son will be on the steps of Video Games Anonymous.
And lastly, I will be sitting on the park bench at the Ronald Reagan Boyhood Home holding my beloved wife's hand watching life go by. (The real Reagan Boyhood Home is only 5 or 6 blocks from my house so I better get the details right! Come to think of it, the kit doesn't have the garage or his brother's Model-T that's parked in it either.)
Hi gang.
None of my people have individual names but rather are identified by the roles they play. To begin with, there's a mountain lion standing in the sun set on the side of the mountain with his eye on a couple of deer (buck and doe) that are standing in a clearing in the forrest down below. At the base of the mountain is a lumber mill with employees running about doing their various jobs. In about the middle of the layout and off to the side of the tracks is a junk pile and hobo camp with four hobos listening to the wisest of the group sitting under his shed of scrap tin and lumber telling stories about his adventures on the road. Just before we get into town we find the community's only police officer giving a speeder a ticket. Just in town we find a group of kids playing baseball across the street from the school house, so it's either the summer or a Saturday. At the gas station the attendant is pumping gas in a customer's car while another customer waits for service. In front of the corner store a man is in a hurry for his truck who is apparently late for work or some other appointment. On main street, a man is leaned against the wall of the bank reading a news paper while a near by a man and woman carry on a conversation. A lady stands in front of the dry goods store digging through her purse looking for her keys, while a pretty young girl waits for a bus in front of the all night cafe'. In the fire house, two old coots play checkers while an old hound dog sleeps close by on the floor. Last but not least, the town gossiper and one of his buddies are standing out in front of his house getting caught up on the latest local news. But let's not forget all of the people waiting for the train at the station that I put in and take out depending on the era, some of which are seated on benches while others are greeting oneanother or walking in a hurry down the walk way.
Tracklayer
People are trying to outlaw irrational hate by outlawing the words used to express the hate.
That's why you hear childish phrases in the news like "The N word". It's like going back to elementary school.
I hope that someday we will all come to realize that the reason some people have dark skin is because their ancestors lived for hundreds of generations near the equator.
It is a protection from the sun, and is not a genetic difference.
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Unless you actually believe that those slaves deserved their fate, then I see nothing offensive in modeling their position in the society of that era. It can even be a conversation starter about the disgraceful way they were treated by earlier segments of our society.
Sometimes the bans are not because people of color are offended by the past; so much as people of European ancestry are embarrassed by the actions of their predecessors.
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow