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Odd things on your layout...
Posted by Tracklayer on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:51 PM

Some of you may laugh but I have an N scale size figure of the Iron Giant from the movie of the same name standing in the woods looking down on the town below just as the giant robot did in the movie. For those of you that have seen the movie, you may recall the part where the giant decideds to eat the railroad tracks when the boy that's befriended him starts yelling for him to put it back because there's a train coming which ends up hitting the robot and knocking him apart... Otherwise my layout is just like the real world of the mid to late 1950s down to the last detail.

Anyone else out there have anything odd on your layout like this ?.

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:23 PM

I have a Pink Elephant in the woods near the moonshine still in the woods...

It was supposed to be a 6' white rabbit named Harvey, but......  Couldn't find anything close! Laugh

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Posted by selector on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:32 PM

I have nothing very creative or imaginative, but I DO have an N scale item.  See if you can spot it.

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Posted by Schuylkill and Susquehanna on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:32 PM

Just get an O or G scale wildlife set and paint one of the rabbits standing on its back paws white.

Presto - Harvey!Laugh

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P.S.  The pink elephant is a lot better.  Harvey only appeared to his friends, not when they were drunk.

 

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Posted by Schuylkill and Susquehanna on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:34 PM

I would guess either the coaling dock on the left or the track and signal behind the coal docks.

S&S

 

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Posted by galaxy on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:41 PM

Schuylkill and Susquehanna

I would guess either the coaling dock on the left or the track and signal behind the coal docks.

S&S

 

I would say since the figure near the water tower is about an inch or so shorter than the figure near the loco, that the figure near teh water tower is the "Nscale Item".Could just be the angle?

Or it could be the coal tower in the background? It could be angle/perspective too.

Could be wrong, I've been wrong before and I guarantee I will be wrong again, sometime.

I have/had nothing unsual, I guess.

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Posted by crhostler61 on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 5:43 PM

I don't have anything really that odd on my layout...yet. But my strange sense of humor will have me do it in the near future. I was thinking of putting an invading tripod from the last War of the Worlds movie on a hilltop. 

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Posted by Tracklayer on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:22 PM

I'd have to say it's what appears to be a little kid standing next to the water tower.

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Posted by Eric97123 on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:30 PM

I have some mobsters on a boat over a body that they feed to fishes and I have some bears eatting a camper.

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Posted by selector on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:47 PM

I have found there to be quite a bit of variance in HO accessories, especially automobiles and figurines.  In my photo above, only the far coaling tower is an N Scale item.  It serves as a small sanding tower perched on a shed...with reinforced walls, roof, and cribbing under the tower, of course.  Whistling  It is now nearest the camera lens.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:54 PM

Hmmm, let's see.  There's the odd goings on at the Burns Oil and Coal company...

And old Mrs. Preiser should watch her step in the subway...

Then again, something very fishy is going on at Mermaid Rock...

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by zstripe on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:11 PM

I don't really have anything funny or different on my layout. But the Museum of Science and Industry, on the HO scale layout they have in Chicago. In the city scene of downtown near the Elevated, they have a cow sitting on a bus stop bench, reading a news paper. There are a few more, but I will always remember the cow and so do my Grand Kids. Laugh

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Posted by river_eagle on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 7:19 PM

something like this?

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Posted by rrinker on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:26 PM

 Love the Bat Signal

Reaper ought to be on a big pale horse.

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Posted by singletrack100 on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:51 PM

I don't have anything funny/strange YET, though I am reminded about when I visited Miniature Wonderland in Hamburg, Germany, the largest HO layout in the world.  What a treat! Anyway, figures hanging on the edge of the fascia, like they are hanging onto the edge of the world, snowmen driving cars in the winter scenes, penguin families, with luggage, waiting at passenger platforms.... you get the idea! And then there are the monks hanging out in the background of a painter painting his nude subject, or eyeballing the woman in short shorts bent over in her trunk getting her spare tire, or watching the couple making love in the woods...Whistling

Anyway, if any of you EVER have the chance to check it out, DO!!! All I can say!

Happy RR'ing!

Duane

I saw these things and have pics though they are not downloaded to Photobucket to show... Makes me wonder, if I saw all this, what did I miss? On a side note, my wife, from Germany, planned the trip to Miniature Wonderland as a surprise, thinking we might be there 2+ hours.

Six hours later (and feeling rushed)...

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Posted by steamage on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:11 PM

 

The old 1950s movie THEM! with the giant ants in the Los Angeles River.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:26 PM

Well, I had a couple of the "adult" themed Noch figures in my road side park area, "playing" near the water fall,  MOH made sure I removed them when the grandson came to visit.  Just never put them back.

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:40 PM

It'a s regular jungle out there.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 9:47 PM

Wow, Lion must think it's a subway station.  They are everywhere!

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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, December 11, 2013 11:55 PM

My daughter occasionally leaves me little surprises to find while she is off at school. This was one such beast. It now sits on a shelf in the train room along with all her other little gifts that have mysteriously appeared over the years.

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Posted by hon30critter on Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:35 AM

Brent:

Your daughter is quite talented! Make sure you save that stuff for the future (sounds like you are already doing that).

Dave

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Posted by twhite on Thursday, December 12, 2013 12:35 AM

Not really "odd" at least out here in the Sierra Nevada.  Charlie the Lonesome Cougar about to take a lunch break.

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Posted by mlehman on Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:15 AM

Well, there's lots of things a bit odd or photogenic -- and it's not just my narrowguage diesel roster. In the interests of decorum, I'll limit myself here, but if you follow the pic links through to my ImageShack account and poke around you can find a few things for when the Family Hour is over...

In the meanwhile, greenhorns around here often comment on the fact that the miner's militia seems pretty well armed...

On the rare occassion -- mainly because more than half the mines in the area are co-ops or are worker-owned -- when there's a labor dispute, management usually finds a way to accomodate labor's needs. It helps that there's a booming economy...and then there are those Scuds the miner's militia pulls out for "training purposes" whenever there's a picket line, which always seems to help bring an agreement quickly.Wink

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Posted by Alantrains on Thursday, December 12, 2013 5:11 AM

I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, December 12, 2013 8:11 AM

My scarecrow is failing to scare crows.  I have a few other whimsical mini scenes. 

 

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Posted by caldreamer on Thursday, December 12, 2013 8:48 AM

I have a two level N scale layout 39 feet long and 121/2 feet wide.  On one side of the center peninsula I have an operating hump yard with 10 classification tracks, 3 inbound and 3 outbound tracks as well as all of the uxilliary tracks that ae associated with a hump yard.  The 2 longest classification tracks are 10 feet long.  The total length of the hump yard is 19 feet feet.

  

 

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Posted by mlehman on Thursday, December 12, 2013 8:53 AM

Alantrains

I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!

 

Alan,

Great idea! That should make prototype research really convenientBig Smile

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Thursday, December 12, 2013 1:40 PM

Alantrains

I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!

 

Funny, I was actually planning to buy a Micromachines, which are close to N Scale,  Back to the Future DeLorean and stick it on my transition-era layout.

I also have a moonshine still on my current layout

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:08 PM

I always have a derailed passenger car on an unused siding...explains why nothing is running there to kids.  Oh my 4x8 layout had a car that ran into a lake.  I have been wanting to get a 59 Plymoth  and paint it red over white Devil

Oh yeah, and not exactly odd, but I want to put in a 1950's NASCAR dirt track.

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Posted by Beach Bill on Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:45 PM

And I wonder when folks fail to comment if they didn't see things or if they are just afraid to say anything to the clearly disturbed person.

On my former layout I had a full-dress Indian Chief looking out over the valley, lamenting the loss of the former hunting ground to the RR yard.   I also had a green stegosaurus hidden deep in the woods.

I have that delightful Woodland Scenics "Bear Hunter" scene up in the woods now, and a nod to my career as a police officer with a couple officers arresting a drunk in an alley, complete with the dropped wine bottle.

When the loggers come down out of the woods on payday, many tend to visit "Lisa's Sportin' House", which has a complete interior on both floors (HO).  The red light by the door operates, but since the roof has to come off to display the interior, I don't have to worry about little ones visiting the layout seeing something that would be difficult to explain.

Thanks to all for sharing!

Bill

 

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