What About Billboards?

This one is for you folks that love the west coast railroads like the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, etc.:

Got this one with a Road Champs 1/43 scale  55 Chevy in an old fading diorama type box with yellowing  plastic bubble sitting on the shelf last month at Berkeley Ace Hardware for a couple of dollars. I could not believe my luck. I had not been in there since they moved a few years ago.  They do not have as much  of the hobby stuff as they did back in the turn of the century (been wanting to use that term for a while) when they were on university ave but it is still worth a visit. 

Noah posted:

Got this one with a Road Champs 1/43 scale  55 Chevy in an old fading diorama type box with yellowing  plastic bubble sitting on the shelf last month at Berkeley Ace Hardware for a couple of dollars. I could not believe my luck. I had not been in there since they moved a few years ago.  They do not have as much  of the hobby stuff as they did back in the turn of the century (been wanting to use that term for a while) when they were on university ave but it is still worth a visit. 

Very nice!

Old layout 15-ish years ago....hard to beat the PostWars billboards!

Peter

 

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Peter

Putnam Division posted:

Old layout 15-ish years ago....hard to beat the PostWars billboards!

Peter

 

Looks like you got em all, Peter.

Putnam Division posted:

Recent/current.......

Peter

I think I'm going to buy stock in Max Treats, correction: Max Foods!

Putnam Division posted:

hard to beat the PostWars billboards!

Peter

 

Agree!  I still have the ones that came with my original 1957 set!

Here are a few more post war billboards. I was thrilled to get about 20 to 25 post war billboards about 10 years ago from a local train store as a throw in for buying something else. In other words, I paid nothing for them, which warms the heart of a scrounger like me:

The little people on top are sitting in the top row of my right field bleachers for my baseball field. Train tracks are in the foreground.😊

SouthernMike posted:

That billboard would go great with the MTH Chick-fil-a boxcar!

I did an informal billboard survey around our office here in Wisconsin. Now, remember the slogan on all our license plates is "America's Dairyland".

Anyhow, the cows won out, hands down. It's our office favorite - enjoy!

Thank you,
Mark the Menards Train Guy

ok now to ask the silly question, has anyone made a video billboard yet?

I built this one using craft and chop sticks a few years ago.  It holds the Lionel postwar billboard signs and the best part is that the sign can be easily changed by just sliding the sign out of the top.

 

 

Paul

That looks great Paul!

Check out the site below for printable images of Lionel and other billboards.

Model Railroad Billboards

My contribution. If people really understood how dangerous this stuff really is.

Sponsored by the friends of hydrogen hydroxide, the safer alternative..

I have posted these before but I enjoy creating my own and adding my own warped sense of humor to my layout.  

Billboards are great, i like to match them up with other things on my layout.

 

                                      in this issue... pages 70 & 71

Looks like you, Brian, enjoy making your own billboards promoting products you like, which I also believe can be a lot of fun.

Also, it's fun to change billboards from time to time, like changing art work you may display on the walls of your home.

Haven't done the Christmas layout in a while, should put that billboard to use on the permanent layout.

L & N posted:

My contribution. If people really understood how dangerous this stuff really is.

Sponsored by the friends of hydrogen hydroxide, the safer alternative..

Yeah it kills ya alright.... screw it im drinking some now...  HAHA i got  the joke right away ... 

 

I live in Pittsburgh.  At one time Pittsburgh brewery was based in the city.  It made it's flagship brew along with off-named ones like Old German, American, IC Lite and others.

I constructed these such that trains can run underneath them between the supports.  The "signs" are actual labels from either the can or the carton.

- walt

Here's another in the Iron City set.  For those familiar with the area, there was a pole billboard of this ilk on either Penn or Liberty at, I think, the intersection with the Washington crossing bridge.

Again, the "signs" are either labels from cans or cutouts from the carton.

- walt

 

I took old photos of my sister, my 2 brothers and me to use as billboard material the year that my sister passed away.  I created an entire scene in her memory - the house here is a model that I made of her house.

- walt

Don't know if this qualifies as a billboard but it sorta is one.  I had a dino-park scene on the layout that year

- walt

walt rapp posted:

I live in Pittsburgh.  At one time Pittsburgh brewery was based in the city.  It made it's flagship brew along with off-named ones like Old German, American, IC Lite and others.

...and don't forget "Sam Adams Boston Lager", which was originally produced at Pittsburgh Brewing!

The frames for these 2 billboards were originally for Lionel trains.  The small blinking style one was made by one of my nephews many years ago - I called my layout 'Waltburg', thus the sign's name.

The bigger one was a couple of years later and was a combined effort of 2 of my nephews.  That explains the "Rebuilt and...." lettering.

- walt

This would be a neat one to re-create in a layout taking place in the VA/TN/NC area after the late 50s:

I have a DVD of 1943-dated movie film from the 3-foot gauge ET&WNC, showing billboards placed along the right of way. I was very surprised to see this as there is a two-lane road paralleling the line in that spot, but the billboards are way too 'city slicker' looking for that place and time. Just watch this at 9:00-

Had I not seen the film myself, I would doubt anyone telling me they'd seen this in person as I wouldn't have expected it at all.

I thought it might be fun to post some more billboards:

As you can see, billboards work very nicely around a ball park:

If you are so inclined, please share your billboards. Arnold

Here is one that was a recent gift.And one I made.

Billboard built from a Blair Line kit atop an Ameritowne building.

MELGAR

Here are the Skyline Tin Billboards

Here are a few New Marx Billboards:

Dean

 

one of my favorite oldies... glucose by any other name would taste as sweet!

walt rapp posted:

The frames for these 2 billboards were originally for Lionel trains.  The small blinking style one was made by one of my nephews many years ago - I called my layout 'Waltburg', thus the sign's name.

The bigger one was a couple of years later and was a combined effort of 2 of my nephews.  That explains the "Rebuilt and...." lettering.

- walt

 

 

Looks like they love Uncle Walt!  

walt rapp posted:

Don't know if this qualifies as a billboard but it sorta is one.  I had a dino-park scene on the layout that year

- walt

Did they eat any guests Walt?

These are all great, Bryan's are are hoot. But Menard's Mark is bound to walk off with one ...Dairy Air

SPEED TRAP!!

A few around the layout,