Who are the people on your layout?

[Red Horse]

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!

[Cannoli]

Death waits for the Number 6 train after a frustrating day with no customers:

I love this one, great pic!

[steemtrayn]

I say give him a gold tie and a plaid suit and put him in a used car lot.

[chutton01]

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

[Packers#1]

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.

[Anonymous]

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...

[lvanhen]

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!!

[Red Horse]

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.

[steamage]

Joe, Ed and Jim are geting the 250 ton wrecker ready for a derailment on the main line.

[wedudler]

Travellers in the waiting room.

Wolfgang

[steemtrayn]

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?

[eeyore9900]

Up at Vindex, some customers kibbitz on the front porch while Edna shakes out a towel after dusting.

I really like that one...LOl!

Nice pics!

Holy crap Lee, did you hit me with a memory grenade (in a sense)

As a young pup, my buds parents up the road from me were from western Maryland. At the time I knew the small town where they were from, but I had since forgotten. VINDEX! that was it! Sheez, I haven't heard of the town in 25 years at least. Back then they used to get the Oakland paper sent over here, & I used to browse it for fun when I was at their house. One of the boys I was buds with some years ago moved back to a family owned farm in the Accident area. I've been invited over to visit, but haven't had the chance.

KLUKE & I went over this some time back as Garrett Co is one of his fave vacation spots.

[Grampys Trains]

Hi all: This is me in my 58 Corvette with a couple of my buddies, Jim and Cork.

 

 

This is Pappy Dick, Krista, and Kaitlyn stopping for lunch.

 

 

This is Uncle Elmer, Bonnie and Bob, Doug, and David and Krystal camping.

 

 

[PMeyer]

Since our layout people and vehicles normally don't move, scenes were they are normally static (sitting, standing still, parked, stopped at a stop sign, and so on) seem more realistic than if simulating movement.

Mark

Agree! "Frozen" runners and jumpers look strange when trains are moving. All the cars on my railroad are parked, too.

[PMeyer]

Alfred Hitchcock

 

 Are you sure that's Hitchcock and not Ed Asner?

 

[Tjsingle]

Everyone this is Jimmy, Jimmy likes to fish in the local stream

[lvanhen]

Oooohh.  How can you abide such detestable persons devising their next evil plot!  I'm sure you've got better friends than that, Mister Beasley!

Well, yeah, I do...

 

Mr B, we always knew you were a DOM!!

[markpierce]

Mister Beasley!!

[MisterBeasley]

Oooohh.  How can you abide such detestable persons devising their next evil plot!  I'm sure you've got better friends than that, Mister Beasley!

Well, yeah, I do...

 

[markpierce]

This is the kind of people I'm talking about (worthy of display, in miniature):

Who happens to be a teacher, instructor, writer, tutor, as well as a PhD, reporter, photographer, gardener, and the joy of my life!

Mark

[HEdward]

 

Death waits for the Number 6 train after a frustrating day with no customers:

 

I keep telling you those people on the IRT are scary!

[HEdward]

Is it possible to have TOO many people on a layout? 

Only if Dick Dastardly is tying Prudence Purebred to the rails!

[markpierce]

It would be fun to include cut-out photos of people we know reduced to scale-size and display them where two-dimensional figures wouldn't be objectionable.

Mark

Yes, Mark, an excellent idea...

Oooohh.  How can you abide such detestable persons devising their next evil plot!  I'm sure you've got better friends than that, Mister Beasley!

Mark

PS -- Thanks for the image!

[mikelhh]

Alfred Hitchcock

 

 Fred MacMurray [and Mrs Mac]

 

Andre Rieu

 

and of course Lorraine Powell.  [she was the secretary of a friend of mine ]

 

 Mike

 

P.S. love the cut-outs idea

[MisterBeasley]

It would be fun to include cut-out photos of people we know reduced to scale-size and display them where two-dimensional figures wouldn't be objectionable.

Mark

Yes, Mark, an excellent idea...

 

[Jumijo]

The town of Jumijo has had a few famous visitors of late.

McCain and Obama chat at Hillside Hardware while I stagger past them with my choo choo.

 

Ginger looks over a truck's engine in the foreground while Gilligan checks out the silver Vette in the background.

 

I think everyone recognizes the black car and its driver...

 

 

[markpierce]

It would be fun to include cut-out photos of people we know reduced to scale-size and display them where two-dimensional figures wouldn't be objectionable.

Mark

[markpierce]

Since our layout people and vehicles normally don't move, scenes were they are normally static (sitting, standing still, parked, stopped at a stop sign, and so on) seem more realistic than if simulating movement.

Mark

[twhite]

My MR is populated by miners, loggers, just plain folks doing what 1940-50's plain people do in the Sierra Nevada.  And lots of fishermen--the Yuba River is chock-full of Kokonie, a tasty fresh-water salmon. 

Of course, the son of the Mayor of Sierra City is ALWAYS being pulled over by Officer Metzger when he tries to frequent the--ahem--'ladies' of Ma's Place.  The boy should be in school, LOL! 

 

And Billy and Mike always like to do a little weekend fishing from their canoe on Bullard's Bar lake:

 

And Mike Scott's Great Dane just can't stay away from fire-hydrants:

Meanwhile, Lloyd Perryman works at the Champion Mine dumping tailings:

Tom

[R. T. POTEET]

My people are just everyday-run-of-the-mill mooners!