I built a train to go around our wedding cake in 2011 only to be told that the venue would not allow it. They were afraid someone would knock the cake over. Ended up with a static wooden train at the wedding but my train is on display in the train room.
Joe Staten Island West
My wife's family moved to a town called Petitcodiac here in New Brunswick, Canada. I lettered a box car "Petitcodiac Prefab Potholes" in their honor, using one letter at a time dry transfers.
Insprired by an old ad in MR, I lettered a 1/25 scale highway truck cab "Phartz and Howe Baked Beans". Very few people got the joke!
Bob Boudreau
CANADA
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I tried to come up with a story to tie this in with Patterns Of Force, but since that episode did not actually involve time travel, it did not work out.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
Whimsical ?
I made this scene in an effort to please visiting grandchildren. It only has 15 dalamations, however, instead of 101.
Sometimes, I get creative with names for industries and locations. Example is Stayle Bread Company. Workers there are loafing.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I have some things with names from the movie, "Forbidden Planet". The gas station is named, "Robby's Stop and Rob", but I misspelled the signs.
The control box is up, but the crossing signals aren't there yet.
York1 John
Yes, Whimsical creativity is nothing but fun. Even in the form of a lowly scrap load from a long time ago and far far away.
Rather than disrupt the tributes to Garry in the WPF thread this weekend, I figured I'd resurrect this one to show one of my more recent flights of fancy.
I finished this earlier this year, as a nod to the infamous "Cut Me Own Throat" Dibbler, purveyor of suspicious-looking sausages of Discworld fame.
After nearly twenty five years of Wabash and Monon models occupying most of my modeling time, I'm finally done with adding more of those to the Operations Road Show model railroad and able to start into the backlog of stuff for my planned home model railroad, based on a small portion of the Pere Marquette.
-Fritz Milhaupt, Publications Editor, Pere Marquette Historical Society, Inc.http://www.pmhistsoc.org
I had a friend who had a house of instant pleasure on his layout. He had a naked lady standing in the second floor window. Loved to run on his layout and as the train went by I would smile at seeing the lady in the window.
Wow, Brakie, Randy and Garry all in one thread.
Model in peace, gentlemen.
Too bad so many of the photo links are dead in this thread. I like to go back and look at some of the older threads and it is a shame so many of the photos are kaput
Regards, Ed
gmpullmanToo bad so many of the photo links are dead in this thread. I like to go back and look at some of the older threads and it is a shame so many of the photos are kaput
My Imgur file was a mess with over 3,000 pictures in it.
In January of this year, I deleted about 75% of them, and have been adding them back slowly and more organized. I still delete a lot of them every month now to keep it manageable.