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Sci Fi Fantasy Railroads
Posted by BigDaddy on Thursday, December 5, 2019 7:24 PM

I'm a Dr Who fan, at least until it went ultra socially correct, but I've never participated in any of the fantasy threads here.  However this video brought a smile to my face.

My mother claims to have seen a UFO, so maybe this isn't prototypical  Laugh

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Posted by Eilif on Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:48 PM

I really like Sci-Fi trains.  It wasn't operable, but I made a Sci-Fi Train in aproximately O scale (28mm wargaming scale) that I used for convention games.

 

You can see more detailed pics of the train here:

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2016/11/sci-fi-train-finished/

The whole city with elevated stations and buildings here:

https://www.chicagoskirmishwargames.com/blog/2018/04/adepticon-2018-showdown-at-valstetech-airfield/

There was a fellow there who had setup a Necromunda (a Sci-Fi Underground Post-Apoc game) table with a small train pulled by a Beep that was fully operable.  

You can see more of the train here:

http://ghosts719.rssing.com/browser.php?indx=30484049&item=171

 

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Thursday, December 5, 2019 8:50 PM

I've always been a sci fi fan from childhood, but never had the urge to mix it with trains.  Sorta like some foods don't go together.

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Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:18 PM

SCI-FI trains and layouts are fun to look at, but I would never build one.

BUT!  If I did, it would be "steam punk".  Pirate

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Posted by York1 on Thursday, December 5, 2019 9:28 PM

I'm a fan of the 1950s movie "Forbidden Planet".

My layout has names taken from the movie.  The train station signs for the town are "Altair", the gas station is "Robbie's Stop and Rob", and several others.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, December 5, 2019 10:01 PM

Okay,  now you guys are really pulling out some heavy artillery here.

I moved to the Minnesota Canadian border wilderness when I was a kid,  12 years old.

I seen things up there that you would not believe,  many times in the sky in formation and changing formation from a consistent pattern and then slipping across the sky so fast it was unbelievable.   

 

It made the four of us on the cliff that night watch in wonder.  One of the people in our group tried to explain it with some kind of BS.  The other three including me did not have time for that,  we knew what we had seen.

One time close up across the Waters of Lake Kabetogama behind an Island.

It was so close up I saw the detail.  It rose up above the island went down and back up.  I could hear the water and the sound of the electronic humming of the craft.  It went up and down and the sound of the water taken in.

I'll never forget it,  it turned slightly and I almost felt it turned because they were looking at me for a brief moment.  It moved slowly across Lake behind Cutover Island and became a little harder to see but I watched it before it slipped down towards Namakan Lake.

 

Anyone that believes we are the only ones that are among the living in the vastness of space is,  well......  I don't know how to put it......  very ignorant and naive.

 

The closest railroad to that area was the DWP Duluth Winnipeg and Pacific also known as the Peg.

 

 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Friday, December 6, 2019 8:51 AM

Yes, all I've got is a warehouse door way back in the corner that says "Mom's Robot Oil."

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Posted by BigDaddy on Friday, December 6, 2019 5:12 PM

Well TF you have us all beat.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, December 6, 2019 5:43 PM

BigDaddy

Well TF you have us all beat.

 

 

 

 

No I don't.  Not my intention.

Thanks for the slap in the face BD.  A Scotsman always enjoys a good slap in the face,  the best advice is don't be in the same room with him after you do it.

Just something that happened when I was a young kid.  I ain't the only one that experienced that up there.

I thought I'd share it to break up the monotony on a Thursday night.  For the most part,  I don't talk about it much.

 

DWP Railroad serviced the line between Boise Cascade International Falls, Fort Frances and down to Duluth.   It was called the Peg.

DWP's  slogan was Delivered With Pride

 

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, December 6, 2019 6:29 PM

Eilif
I really like Sci-Fi trains. It wasn't operable, but I made a Sci-Fi Train in aproximately O scale (28mm wargaming scale) that I used for convention games.

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Great looking train. All the terrain on that table is mighty impressive.

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I have saved all my leftover bits and gubbins from assembling my 40K armies to use on the layout.

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I have a scrap metal load in a gondola that is mostly Ork Shootas. You always have so many leftover shootas.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, December 6, 2019 6:53 PM

SeeYou190

 

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Great looking train. All the terrain on that table is mighty impressive.

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-Kevin

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Here here.  Agreed,   Looks very good,  back to the thread at hand.

I've been known to take a few side tracks.  That UFO one.... took me back.

Re-rail,  back to the thread at handSmile, Wink & Grin

 

 

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Posted by Eilif on Friday, December 6, 2019 8:15 PM

SeeYou190

Great looking train. All the terrain on that table is mighty impressive.

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I have saved all my leftover bits and gubbins from assembling my 40K armies to use on the layout.

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I have a scrap metal load in a gondola that is mostly Ork Shootas. You always have so many leftover shootas.

Thanks! I had alot of fun building that city.

A scrap load of Shootas sounds awesome.  Maybe I should make a scrap load of bolters...

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Posted by xboxtravis7992 on Friday, December 6, 2019 10:24 PM

Some "prototype" sci fi trains that have caught my interest:

Solo: A Star Wars Story

Star Wars: The Clone Wars 

 

Fallout 4

 

Of course if you want something that is real yet still has an air of sci fi to it... monorails. A part of me wishes monorail modeling took off as a more frequently visited niche in model railroading. 

Also not really a train based on a fixed path... but expanded Star Wars material has made it clear the YT1300 freighter (Millennium Falcon's class of freighter) was built to push short 'trains' of intermodal containers... in space:

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Posted by Harrison on Saturday, December 7, 2019 4:57 AM

I am a fan of Star Wars, and enjoyed the "trains" from Solo and the Clone Wars. I never knew that the YT-1300 pushed intermodal... Also there was a transport train at the imperial base in Rouge One.

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Posted by SPSOT fan on Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:04 AM

A an HUGE Star Wars fan who has read too much about the back story of Star Wars, I honestly dought that the idea that the millennium falcon pushes those trains. Those trains are FAR from Corellia, where the Falcon would have been made!

I suspect the material that talks about a YT pushing trains in non-canonical, likely a fan fiction of some sort.

Irregardless those Star Wars trains are quite cool!

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Posted by BigDaddy on Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:08 AM

Track fiddler
Thanks for the slap in the face BD.

I'm sorry if you took it that way, it was not my intention at all.  My son has a selfie he took in some mountain valley in Mexico with a silver saucer in the distant background.  I hunted with a guide from Roswell who swore he knew someone with a piece of the space craft, buried under the patio.

My mother's UFO story may have been a sign of early Alzheimers.  Shortly thereafter she told us how unpleasant Oprah was to work with when they worked at the same TV station in Baltimore.  The did work at the same TV station.  The only problem was Oprah 5 years away from being born when my mom worked there.

Her entire side of the family had some amazing ghost stories, moving tables, rocking chairs rocking with no one in them.  No trains were involved.

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Posted by York1 on Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:29 AM

xboxtravis7992
Of course if you want something that is real yet still has an air of sci fi to it... monorails. A part of me wishes monorail modeling took off as a more frequently visited niche in model railroading. 

 

I agree.  Ever since I saw the monorail at the Seattle Worlds Fair in 1962, I have been a fan.  Some people go to DisneyWorld for the exhibits and rides.  I go to ride the monorail.

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Posted by gregc on Saturday, December 7, 2019 10:40 AM

newark airport (NJ) has a monorail connecting its 3 terminals and the northeast corridor.

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Posted by xboxtravis7992 on Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:08 AM

York1

 

 
xboxtravis7992
Of course if you want something that is real yet still has an air of sci fi to it... monorails. A part of me wishes monorail modeling took off as a more frequently visited niche in model railroading. 

 

 

I agree.  Ever since I saw the monorail at the Seattle Worlds Fair in 1962, I have been a fan.  Some people go to DisneyWorld for the exhibits and rides.  I go to ride the monorail.

 

I rode the Seattle Monorail last year with my family. Its a pity that plans to expand the line were shot down due to politics. 

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Posted by Medina1128 on Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:31 AM

York1

I'm a fan of the 1950s movie "Forbidden Planet".

My layout has names taken from the movie.  The train station signs for the town are "Altair", the gas station is "Robbie's Stop and Rob", and several others.

 

Ha, who ISN'T. I'm hoping they make a remake of it, as long as it's better than that atrocity remake of "The Day The Earth Stood Still" starring Keanu Reeves!!

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Posted by Medina1128 on Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:35 AM

BigDaddy

Well TF you have us all beat.

 

One of the greatest sci-fi shows of all time. I don't remember the number of times I went to bed, terrified to turn out the lights. Ha! Smile, Wink & Grin

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Posted by Track fiddler on Saturday, December 7, 2019 6:43 PM

Just one of those things where you had to be there.

 

Image delited.

 

I always thought they looked better over the water.

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Markgro on Saturday, December 7, 2019 9:27 PM

How about Doc Brown's Time Train?

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Posted by rrinker on Saturday, December 7, 2019 11:52 PM

 Hmm, hide enough drone parts under it and maybe you could get a loco to fly... 

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, December 8, 2019 5:12 AM

I must have misunderstood before.  I guess it pays to read more thoroughlyWhistling.  I've heard of the show Outer Limits but I have never seen it.  I'll have to check it out on Amazon Prime.

I like the Back to the Future movies,  I have all three in my DVD collection.  Good stuff.

 

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Posted by gregc on Sunday, December 8, 2019 5:27 AM

Genesis II, has an underground transportation system spanning the globe

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, December 8, 2019 6:37 AM

Track fiddler
I've heard of the show Outer Limits but I have never seen it. I'll have to check it out on Amazon Prime.

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The Outer Limits had two versions. There was the original show from the mid 1960s, then in the late 1990s it was brought back on showtime.

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I prefer the later Showtime version, which continued onto the Sci-Fi Channel later in its run. The 1960s version just seemed like a Twilight Zone rip-off to me.

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Steven Spielburg's Amazing Stories will probably always be my favorite.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, December 8, 2019 6:45 AM

SeeYou190

 

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The Outer Limits had two versions. There was the original show from the mid 1960s, then in the late 1990s it was brought back on showtime.

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I prefer the later Showtime version, which continued onto the Sci-Fi Channel later in its run. The 1960s version just seemed like a Twilight Zone rip-off to me.

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I found it.

It looks like I have all the seasons with the freebie ribbon in the corner...... sweet

 

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Posted by rrinker on Sunday, December 8, 2019 10:59 AM

 The original Outer Limits was always more direct, in your face SF/BEM type stuff. Twilight Zone was more cereberal. The new version of Outer Limits made the great choice to get many of their episodes written by known SF and fantasy writers.

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Posted by xboxtravis7992 on Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:45 PM

SPSOT fan

A an HUGE Star Wars fan who has read too much about the back story of Star Wars, I honestly dought that the idea that the millennium falcon pushes those trains. Those trains are FAR from Corellia, where the Falcon would have been made!

I suspect the material that talks about a YT pushing trains in non-canonical, likely a fan fiction of some sort.

Irregardless those Star Wars trains are quite cool!

 

 

No its canon, the idea first originated in concept art done by Lucasfilm fir The Force Awakens and was made into canon via the latest update to Ryder Windham's YT 1300 Owner's Manual from Haynes. 

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