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The title of this hit song, and it's extremely catchy melody, rhythm and lyrics, popped into my head in relation to our model railroad photos and videos. Specifically, this occurred to me when brousing through my gallery of photos on my smart phone, and seeing a picture of my layout that I particularly liked.

We can have a lot of fun with this.

So, I am now going to to hit you with my best shot, and fire away:

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At the moment, this is my best shot because I love the 10 wheeler Lionel TMCC steam locomotive, and the scene with the train station, Arttista figures and other figures that were unpainted that I painted.

Now, it's your turn: hit me with your best shot, fire away, and explain why it is your best shot, at least for the moment.

LOL, Arnold

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Another wonderfully interesting thread idea Arnold!   I can't say that this is my "best shot" but it is a favorite shot of my postwar Lionel locomotives and Lionel aircraft beacon capturing  the 3 decades of the postwar era ....  and incorporates the Bollman bridge and Mt. Randolph ( Named after my good friend and fellow forumite Randy Harrison who helped with building my layout. ) as a backdrop.  In addition to the Lionel Trains dimension, this photo captures a realistic postwar flavor of the co-existence of both steam and diesel locomotives, armed forces personnel on the platform waiting for a train to perhaps go home or travel to another military assignment, and milk cans waiting to be picked up by a milk train.  IMG_4653

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Good one Rick. Videos definitely qualify as best shots.

Here is a video of mine that I made today that is my best shot at the moment:

So, now it your turn to post a photo or video, and sing the chorus with me: Hit me with you best shot, why don't you hit me with your best shot, hit me with your best shot, fire a-wa-ay!

LOL, Arnold

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E4EEB5A0-E1F4-479C-840F-12CC5D7B107DHere is my best shot of the first locomotive that I rewheeled.  Circa 1927, Lionel 251E that I recently rewired and installed new wheels, with matching cars that are rubber stamped New York Central Lines.  I actually got the wheels on correctly and it does not wobble down the track!  LOL  This is previously posted in another section of the forum.  😎

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Good one Rick. Videos definitely qualify as best shots.

Here is a video of mine that I made today that is my best shot at the moment:

So, now it your turn to post a photo or video, and sing the chorus with me: Hit me with you best shot, why don't you hit me with your best shot, hit me with your best shot, fire a-wa-ay!

LOL, Arnold

Whoa.  Is that a sandlot and a stadium on your layout!?

@Brad Trout posted:

@PRRronbh - nice shot!  any recollection of who makes that white barn and where you may have gotten it?

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Hi Brad,  Off hand cannot recall the maker.  But will try to find out next time I am at the store.  This layout is the one that the O-Gauge specialist and I rebuilt around 2005.  But this barn was added just a few years ago.  As I recall there was the white one and a red one. And they were packaged in large clear plastic "bubble" packages.  

It will be probably a week or two before I get back to the shop.

Ron

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Larry:

I love photos of your layout! There is always so much see. I have one question and one comment. In the first photo, what did you use for the stone wall in the photo's foreground behind mile post 28? Also, I now know, when looking at your layout photos, to take in the minutia. In the second photo, the name of your news stand is priceless! Bravo!

@leapinlarry posted:

Wow, this is another great thread, Arnold, you are great at asking Questions, good job. There’s to many wonderful pictures posted to mention all the names, but it’s a fantastic journey. Happy Super Bowl Weekend, and Happy Railroading Everyone 2342DFD6-EB2F-4B57-8532-1CB28FAABE20D56AC660-A73E-432C-ABE7-EB1C40F4776B99AD8CB3-EA40-4CB1-874B-5FBB27A0ACAAF2A243FF-721E-41B0-A5A9-E3FFAB760BD3CAC27421-BF95-4B9F-B185-E14B5251C61A55F99313-4783-4295-8CE5-D480D5F69A3E

Wonderful photos, Larry, particularly the one with the Animated Newsstand, also on my layout.

Browsing through my 1500+ train photos and 1700+ train videos on my smartphone, I found this one, which I particularly like:

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That's a Lionel Boston and Albany Hudson made in the mid to late 1980s that I bought from a LHS in the early 1990s.

It has a terrific realistic horn and sounds, and a good traditional smoke unit that uses liquid smoke. Boston & Albany is one of my favorite RRs.

Arnold

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Is this MTH's display layout from their early days, or is it a very good replica? If it is the display layout, I am guessing you and your son are getting the layout ready to move it to its new home?

This is the original MTH Showroom Layout from the factory. Yes, my son and I were out there getting it ready to move. Took 4 trips from Ohio to finally get it moved to its new home.

You can see a video of how it looked on my first trip out to Columbia here...

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This is the original MTH Showroom Layout from the factory. Yes, my son and I were out there getting it ready to move. Took 4 trips from Ohio to finally get it moved to its new home.

You can see a video of how it looked on my first trip out to Columbia here...

MTH Factory Showroom Layout Video

Thanks for answering my questions! It is nice to see a father and son working together in the hobby. Also, it is nice to see this layout will continue to live on. Thanks again and happy railroading!

@trumptrain posted:

Although posted on other threads in the past, I consider this shot to be one of my "best shots."  " "Yard floodlights enable the night shift unloading crew to work full tilt boogie"IMG_3840

Outstanding photo, Patrick.

Patrick, your basic scenery style is similar to mine, which I call the down and dirty style. I like it because my experience with real railroads is that they are also down and dirty, oftentimes with litter strewn about the right of way..

I will post a photo later showing my down and dirty layout.

Another basic style is clean and neat, which can be very attractive, even beautiful. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes when I see a clean and neat layout, I like it so much I think of adopting that approach with my own layout. Arnold

Having railroad ties and other debris strewn about along or near the right of way can help create the down and dirty look, which comes naturally to me. LOL.

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Arnold

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!

@trumptrain posted:

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!  

Now that is one great looking caboose. It exemplifies the beauty that can be seen in a down and dirty train car.

Thanks Arnold!!  Yes I needed a transfer caboose for my fleet.  E-bay came through for me with this Lionel model at a very nice price.   Upon receiving the caboose I got busy weathering the car to give it that well used, out in elements for years, dirty, look.  

@trumptrain posted:

Arnold - The "down and dirty look" comes easy to me as well.  LOL!!  As a kid I always seemed to notice the debris strewn along side railroad tracks.  Somehow I was alway fascinated by it and felt I needed to model that sort of thing on my railroad.   I guess one could say you and I are members of the " Down and Dirty Brotherhood"  LOL!!

If you like the down and dirty look you might consider searching Google and YouTube for George Sellios' Franklin and South Manchester Railroad.  I have had the good fortune to visit George and his layout. 

Regards,

Lou N

@PRRronbh posted:

This is an O-Scale building.

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I am still trying to find out the maker!  Also this model has no silo like I believe the Earth does.

Ron

No it is an Ertl Dairy Farm toy, they are 1/64 and the silo can be separated from the barn if needed.

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Here is an old post on the barn  :

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/...rm-county-on-o-gauge

And they can still be found.

https://www.3000toys.com/ERTL-...ver-65/sku/ertl12279



Jerry

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@Brad Trout posted:

@PRRronbh - nice shot!  any recollection of who makes that white barn and where you may have gotten it?

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Brad, I have the definitive answer.  Stopped by the "Choo-Choo Shop" yesterday.  The fellow that does most of the ordering was there.  He first thought it is the Ertl "Farm County" set.  Told him I checked that and that set's barn has a large silo.  So he got on the computer checked and decided it is Ertl's 1/64 Dairy Farm Set.  "Baltimoretrainwoks" posted a picture of that set above.  I am surprised that it is 1/64 (S-guagr/scale) looks bigger and was the largest building ever n the layout.

Another view of the layout.

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Sure looks big!

Ron

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