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 ?.
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!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
I have nothing very creative or imaginative, but I DO have an N scale item. See if you can spot it.
Just get an O or G scale wildlife set and paint one of the rabbits standing on its back paws white.
Presto - Harvey!
S&S
P.S. The pink elephant is a lot better. Harvey only appeared to his friends, not when they were drunk.
Modeling the Pennsy and loving it!
I would guess either the coaling dock on the left or the track and signal behind the coal docks.
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.
-G .
Just my thoughts, ideas, opinions and experiences. Others may vary.
HO and N Scale.
After long and careful thought, they have convinced me. I have come to the conclusion that they are right. The aliens did it.
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.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
I'd have to say it's what appears to be a little kid standing next to the water tower.
Tracklayer
I have some mobsters on a boat over a body that they feed to fishes and I have some bears eatting a camper.
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. It is now nearest the camera lens.
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.
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.
Cheers,
Frank
something like this?
Love the Bat Signal
Reaper ought to be on a big pale horse.
--Randy
Modeling the Reading Railroad in the 1950's
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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...
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)...
The old 1950s movie THEM! with the giant ants in the Los Angeles River.
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.
Mike.
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It'a s regular jungle out there.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
Wow, Lion must think it's a subway station. They are everywhere!
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.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Brent:
Your daughter is quite talented! Make sure you save that stuff for the future (sounds like you are already doing that).
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Not really "odd" at least out here in the Sierra Nevada. Charlie the Lonesome Cougar about to take a lunch break.
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!
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.
Mike Lehman
Urbana, IL
I have a blue British police phone box that appears randomly on the layout. Dr Who fans will know!
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
My scarecrow is failing to scare crows. I have a few other whimsical mini scenes.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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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.
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 convenient
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
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
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
Oh yeah, and not exactly odd, but I want to put in a 1950's NASCAR dirt track.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
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