Handlaid track.
A flatcar with a missile launcher.
for my protolanced wheeling-
NO CSX smaller than a six axle.
No modeled derailments
no equipment older than 1990
(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).
chutton0118 telephone poles with scale working wires -- I presume you mean EZ Line thread here, and while there is definitely a tangle hazzard using it, the results do look nice (and it does snap back under mild deformation).
I actually want to string code line for my signals and actually transmit over it. Thinking of using magnet wire.
the old train manI do have a ho scale world war two tank im thinking about putting on the layout with a crushed auto behind it.
13 real weeds growing between the ties of the track -- Real weeds? OK, what kind of micro-bonsai bio-technology are your refusing to use here anyway? OTOH, little used spurs and branches are vegetation magnets, and there is quite an availability of model foliage and grasses nowadays
14 purple houses -- There was one not far from my house, next to the LIRR Montauk line. That said, such colorations for houses (such as pink, purple, turquoise, etc) can be pretty rare if they are not used as retail outlets or art/antique shops...
18 telephone poles with scale working wires -- I presume you mean EZ Line thread here, and while there is definitely a tangle hazzard using it, the results do look nice (and it does snap back under mild deformation).
21 x rated scenes - You're no fun anymore...For me, it'sNo cutsey/overused scenes like cops hiding behind billboards or dogs wizzing on hydrants or firemen rescuing a treed cat (COUGH!woodland scenics mini-scenesCOUGH!)In conjunction, keep company/business names reasonably realistic (No W.E. Snatchem's here).No industries with building smaller than the freight cars they recieved will be modeled. Instead, either they will be modeled as flats, with extensions off into the backdrop, or implies via a sizable transload operation I plan to create (with warehousing and unloading equipment - maybe not as cool as branch lines snaking thru canyons between industrial buildings from the pre-Conrail era, but even by the 1980s such old indutrial buildings were being repurposed as offices, public storage, and condos when they weren't being torn down all together.Oh yes, everything gets a light weathering, but not to George Sellios hyper-depression-era-apocalypse levels.
Everything must be to scale, no ifs, ands or buts!
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
A single track main that goes double just as it enters a tunnel.
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
All of the op's list except 18, 21 and 24 (the layout wont be more than a 30" reach to any point). Also add no battery powered locomotives, just capacitors. You cant have current detected signaling if you dont clean the rails.
Remember guys,I said you wont find them on MY layout.If you want to include any of the above mentioned,be my guest,just so your having fun. I do have a ho scale world war two tank im thinking about putting on the layout with a crushed auto behind it.
Here's a few more:
1. Dinosaurs
2. Hot Wheels vehicles
3. Round "tennis ball" like trees packed into the background
4. Political signs referring to actual campaigns in progress or hot-button issues
5. Small cards or thumb tacks attached to the roofs of my rolling stock
6. Fake grass mat
7. Un-realistic smoke from my locomotives
About that purple house..Sorry to disappoint there is or was at one time a purple house on RT.4 outside of Attica (Oh) several years ago.
I will add freight cars that does not fit the era I'm modeling.
Larry
Conductor.
Summerset Ry.
"Stay Alert, Don't get hurt Safety First!"
Tom,I forgot to mention real rain water to match my rolling thunder,your it.
Mel,friend of mine modeled a weed killer car & put insecticide instead of weed killer in the car.Worked pretty good til a roach died on the tracks & derailed his new 2- 8- 8 -2....................Just kidding.
Most of those that you've listed plus graffiti and smoke. Tag...you're it.
Tom
https://tstage9.wixsite.com/nyc-modeling
Time...It marches on...without ever turning around to see if anyone is even keeping in step.
1 spider webs on the mainline
2 o scale automobiles
3 1 inch trees in the foreground & 6 inch trees in the background
4 real water in the lakes and streams and especially in the ocean scenes.
5 traction tires on a caboose
6 engines pulling more than 200 cars around the layout
7 a wye in a tunnel
8 a spur track in a tunnel
9 a turntable in a tunnel
10 a cab forward pulling an ac6000 around the layout
11 a night scene with no lights
12 footprints
13 real weeds growing between the ties of the track
14 purple houses
15 elephants grazing along with cows in a pasture
16 brass rail
17 a mortuary scene
18 telephone poles with scale working wires
19 an airport with 7 fullsize passenger planes on the runway
20 engines that go over 150 scale mph
21 x rated scenes
22 curves sharper than 14 inches
23 manual switches on the back of the layout,further than 4 feet from the edge of the layout
24 a sign saying, Im finally thru with my layout