MELGAR posted:Arnold,
Almost all my little people are from the City of Artista, in which the citizens are pre-painted. So far, we have photographed only a small part of the hobo population...
MELGAR
It’s a good thing that Artista paints them different colors to make the little guys more interesting.
Melgar, hobos remind me of a great movie: Bound for Glory, which is the story of the great songwriter/singer, Woodie Guthrie. He wrote the famous song This Land is Your Land and many others. He was very courageous, wrote songs about, and fought for, the rights of workers, and did not compromise his values by selling out. He was a lot like Pete Seeger in that regard.
The movie is a great work of art, with great scenery, acting, music, and is very well written. It also has great scenes showing Woodie riding in boxcars on trains during the time of the Depression.
A famous actor, whose name escapes me at the moment, plays Woodie.
Woodie Guthtie was played by David Carradine in the movie, Bound for Glory. David Carradine gave a stellar performance.
In fact, I have Woodie Guthrie in O Scale! Here he is;
That’s Woodie sitting on the station floor playing guitar on the lower left! LOL
Arnold,
The Great Depression was relatively recent history when I was a youngster, and there were many images of hobos and stories of the hardships of that era. You may want to have a look at a book titled "An American Journey - Images of Railroading During the Depression," by Mark Vandercook, published in 2000 by Hotbox Press. It contains 95 photographs taken by government photographers of the Farm Security Administration between 1935 and 1941, many of hobos and rural America. Hence the hobos on my model railroads.
MELGAR
On the tops of boxcars.
MELGAR
Guys, I love your hobos. What company makes them?
A couple of famous characters dot the layout and custom painted couple who look suspiciously like self and wife coming out of church
pdxtrains posted:Guys, I love your hobos. What company makes them?
The ones on my layouts are made by Arttista Accessories at
MELGAR
LP folks for today.
Up on the roofs.
MELGAR
Moonson posted:MELGAR, Roofs? How about up here?
..or here...
Quite a climb, so he takes his time. He's been there a while.
At first glance I thought this was a scaffolding for a hanging.
trumptrain posted:LP folks for today.
Patrick, what brand and model is your N&W J????
Ron
Moonson posted:MELGAR, Roofs? How about up here?
Moonson,
This little fellow has been trying to get to the top of my tower for more than fifteen years! It was the first structure that I built for the railroad.
MELGAR
Moonson,
No matter how many pictures of our layouts we may compare, my engineering is OK, but your artistry is superb!
MELGAR
MELGAR posted:Moonson,
No matter how many pictures of our layouts we may compare, my engineering is OK, but your artistry is superb!
MELGAR
MELGAR, Thanks very much, for bestowing such a compliment on me. I enjoy the conversation of our exchange. It's fun to see what you have done, but I don't really compare. I just see the different ways you and I have had of interpreting the use of those figures and of expressing ourselves in this hobby of ours and find that enjoyable. Plus, we get ideas from each other and maybe others do too.
FrankM
Moonson posted:MELGAR posted:Moonson,
No matter how many pictures of our layouts we may compare, my engineering is OK, but your artistry is superb!
MELGAR
MELGAR, Thanks very much, for bestowing such a compliment on me. I enjoy the conversation of our exchange. It's fun to see what you have done, but I don't really compare. I just see the different ways you and I have had of interpreting the use of those figures and of expressing ourselves in this hobby of ours and find that enjoyable. Plus, we get ideas from each other and maybe others do too.
FrankM
I would press the “Like Reply” 10 times for that one.
FRANK Very well said, you"re quite the gentleman.
PRRronbh posted:trumptrain posted:LP folks for today.
Patrick, what brand and model is your N&W J????
Ron
Hi Ron - it's a Lionel which came out in the 2005 cat.
A gentleman's club. On the other side of the tracks in Patsburg.
Cheap little folk added to the observation car
Four inches of snow in Northern Westchester County, NY.
Wouldn’t it be nice to see a Spring Training game in Florida and talk to the players after the game?
Snowy in Connecticut too.
After breakfast, hop a freight to somewhere else.
MELGAR
This guy is my favorite little person. He has a lighted inspection lantern.
MELGAR posted:Snowy in Connecticut too.
After breakfast, hop a freight to somewhere else.
MELGAR
Melgar, that chubby guy has a twin! Here he is at my ballpark sitting in the top row on the right side of the Popsicle stands:
Scorecards here, scorecards here:
Arnold D. Cribari posted:MELGAR posted:Melgar, that chubby guy has a twin! Here he is at my ballpark sitting in the top row on the right side of the Popsicle stands:
Looks to me like the same guy. He just likes railroad diner food and baseball in The Bronx! I see that they have already extended the netting in compliance with the new MLB regulation.
MELGAR
Number 90 posted:
This guy is my favorite little person. He has a lighted inspection lantern.
Very cool!
MELGAR posted:Arnold D. Cribari posted:MELGAR posted:Melgar, that chubby guy has a twin! Here he is at my ballpark sitting in the top row on the right side of the Popsicle stands:
Looks to me like the same guy. He just likes railroad diner food and baseball in The Bronx! I see that they have already extended the netting in compliance with the new MLB regulation.
MELGAR
We are on the same wavelength.
Very interesting use of the little people. You can't have enough people in realistic scenarios to bring life to your railroad empire.
A gentleman's club. On the other side of the tracks in Patsburg.
Waitress,...
I'd like a fruity drink and one of those little umbrellas on my table please 
Adriatic posted:trumptrain posted:A gentleman's club. On the other side of the tracks in Patsburg.
Waitress,...
I'd like a fruity drink and one of those little umbrellas on my table please
This one has me grinning from ear to ear.
Making up some dialogue or telling a little silly story when discussing and showing trains is so cool. It’s what I did with my kids when they were little.
By the way, I read all the technical stuff you guys post too, and I like it and am learning, but I have a long way to go. I also have a mediocre, at best, mechanical aptitude.
I nearly failed metal shop in the 7th grade, was otherwise an A student, and my father nearly got into a fist fight with the metal shop teacher for causing my grade point average to be a little lower. My father called the metal shop teacher “a horse’s ***.” LMAO
Mark Diff posted:Shoot'n the breeze at Jimbo's on a summers day...
Very nice, Mark.
Here’s another Jimbo on my layout. That was a nickname for Jim Morrison of the Doors, whose most famous song, Light My Fire, is my all time favorite rock and roll song:
A picture of Jim Morrison singing into the microphone is on the little marque or billboard above the little red structure on the left. The larger red structure on the right is Whiskey a Go Go, the LA bar where The Doors started out. These structures are not very accurate, but I have seen a picture of the real Whiskey a Go Go, and it was red like mine.
More importantly, one can have some fun taking a stab at creating, and putting on their layout, whatever they like.
The Doors happen to be, by far, my favorite rock and roll band.
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