Model lawn signs would be appropriate this year. I suppose I could photograph the signs and shrink them to HO scale.
Joe Staten Island West
BRAKIE That actually sounds like a really good idea for those modeling a specific year. LensCapOn So this wasn't about puting lawn signs up on your layout? (so sad!) I wonder if thats ever been modeled for the mayor of our modeled town or city? I recall seeing a photo of a Athearn observation(complete with red,white and blue blunting) with a president candidate on the platform with a group of wee figures standing behind it.
LensCapOn So this wasn't about puting lawn signs up on your layout? (so sad!)
So this wasn't about puting lawn signs up on your layout?
(so sad!)
I wonder if thats ever been modeled for the mayor of our modeled town or city?
I recall seeing a photo of a Athearn observation(complete with red,white and blue blunting) with a president candidate on the platform with a group of wee figures standing behind it.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
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Steven Otte So you know, folks... because this thread has the word "politicians" in its subject line, I'll be keeping a close eye on it, and will be less tolerant of off-topic deviations than usual. Talk all you want about political figures' affection for model trains, but do not get into forbidden territory of discussing other aspects of those politicians or your opinions on them. Thanks in advance.
So you know, folks... because this thread has the word "politicians" in its subject line, I'll be keeping a close eye on it, and will be less tolerant of off-topic deviations than usual. Talk all you want about political figures' affection for model trains, but do not get into forbidden territory of discussing other aspects of those politicians or your opinions on them. Thanks in advance.
Darn, I can think of a hundred jokes to reply with........
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
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VP Biden is a big supporter of 'real' trains; while in the US Senate, he rode the train to and from Delaware every day. There have been some US public officials that have been photographed with toy or model trains (like while touring the Lionel plant) but not sure of any who actually were modellers or collectors.
FWIW legend has it that Hermann Goehring had an extensive O-tinplate layout / collection, mostly Marklin I would assume. Don't know that it's ever been proved.
Preiser of Germany offers a few HO scale politicians, historical persons as well as current, including the current President of the US and Pope Francis.
I have to admit that I´d like to see some of them reduced to this size, makes them more "manageable" - for our layouts, of course, nothing else intended.
Steve - Do you all know of any ?
YGW
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
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Biden the vice president into trains. Not sure to what extent
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
Eric WhiteI thought I saw that on Jeffrey's tagline.
Eric, you are quite right - his signature read (among other things) "Spacemouse for President"!
Wasn't Spacemouse going to run for president?
I thought I saw that on Jeffrey's tagline.
I can hear it now:
"This scratch on the Oval Office desk is when Gerald Ford slipped while trying to push on an Athearn metal coupler cover."
"This mark is where Richard Nixon spilled some Testor's cement while assembling an Atlas Crossing Shanty kit.
"These saw marks are where LBJ cut stripwood to length for a Campbell Models kit"
Jim
Just for the record, I'm not implying anything about any of their modeling skills.
Hi!
I thought I read once that Harry Truman "liked toy trains" but I'm not certain of it. In any case, if the wanna be chiefs took up the hobby and actually built a layout, the country would be much, much better off!
ENJOY !
Mobilman44
Living in southeast Texas, formerly modeling the "postwar" Santa Fe and Illinois Central
I am not aware any of our chancellors ever confessed to be a model railroader, but some of them could have been. Frau Merkel certainly not.
One of our state governors, Horst Seehofer from Bavaria, is an avid model railroader and even had a TV home story made about his layout.
Politics and model railroading certainly don´t mix well, but music/arts and model railroading apparently does, looking at the number of celebrities having had their "coming out" as model railroaders.
Bush the 41st likes trains, but I don't think he could be considered a model railroader. Our modular railroad group set up at his presidential library a while back. And the UP lettered and named a locomotive in his honor.
Just a passing thought...anyone know of any politicians running for national office who are model rails? I cannot think of any ever in our history back to 1900 and the beginning of Lionel.
HZ