Let’s see some Fun/Silly/Fanciful things around the Layout

@Susan Deats posted:

Operating Tippy Outhouse with Pranksters

Built and sold by Greg Balmas Action Animations in 2004.

Fantastic! I need to find this for my layout.

@Virginian65 posted:

Man, that's one ****ed off lizard! 

Nicely done!

George

Zoinks Scoob!

Scooby-Doo and Shaggy were looking around the layout's cemetery and they saw the ghost of "The Hookerman"!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day Everyone!

After a day of prayer and worship, the railroad has a special cargo to delivery into town for tonight's festivities:

9338: "We need to take this to the warehouse dock which is this a way".  9343: "No!  You are going the wrong way.  It is this a way!"

Oh, the things that go on in the hood...

Interesting car, where did you get those "tanks"? TIA

@PRRMP54 posted:

Interesting car, where did you get those "tanks"? TIA

I picked up the car at Leesburg Hobbies & Collectibles in Leesburg VA some years ago. I don't know person who actually designed it but I imagine that the owner of the store does. It goes nicely with the MTH Coors train set.

Happy Easter

@Greg Houser posted:

Here you go:

-Greg

Greg this is the best one yet!

I can't top that one! Great job!

@lee drennen posted:

Happy Easter

Happy Easter! I love your consist Lee!

Bryce

All aboard the Easter Train!

Some “Bunny” Opened the wrong door on this Boxcar at the C.E.S. Warehouse

Fortescue is always a good egg...

Mitch

Oh No!! The layout has hippies!
Hopefully they are just passing through on the way to Woodstock

Check out this video showing a new addition to my layout:

Did you notice the two light blue Bronx Zoo cars at the end of the train?

OMG, I guess one of the giraffes didn't duck in time!

LOL, Arnold

PS: the car with the giraffe that still has its neck and head was a Christmas gift from my 32 year old son, David, a couple of years ago, which he got on e-bay for me. (David has a great sense of humor). I recently got the triggering mechanism and tell tale (love that expression) from a LHS. The Bronx Zoo car with the giraffe that has the missing neck and head came in a junk box of trains that a friend gave me 5 years ago.

These Bronx Zoo cars fit nicely into my layout with features of "The Put." The southern most stop on The Put was Sedgewick Avene near Yankee Stadium in The Bronx and the Polo Grounds in Manhattan.

Arnold,

Add a red laser light "death ray" coming from the space ship, focused on and melting an outfielder!  :-)

Arnold:  Drop the Train Tender a line; he should have all the parts to get your second gi-raffe car up and running!  ;-)

If not, drop me a line and I'll see what I can dig up. 

Mitch

I just saw this fun Area 51 layout on the TM Books & Videos YouTube Channel (all rights are theirs):



Does anyone know if this is a private layout or was it made for the tmbv show?

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Arnold:  Drop the Train Tender a line; he should have all the parts to get your second gi-raffe car up and running!  ;-)

If not, drop me a line and I'll see what I can dig up. 

Mitch

Great idea, Mitch, thank you. Today I ordered the parts from Jeff Kane of the Train Tender. Arnold

The end of this short video should put a smile on your face:

Two giraffe heads are better than one. LOL. Arnold

Does anyone remember those Gateway computer boxes? This is where they came from.

It all began here in this pink Edsal.  Junior and Bobbi Joe on a date down under the trestle.

Next thing ya know they are in front of  Our Lady of Locomotion saying their vows before Father Bowman.  Sister Mary Battleax, resigned to not allowing this union to take place inside the church,  gallantly guards the front door of the church.  Bobbi Joe's pappy, holding the musket, provides Junior with a bit of incentive just in case Junior forgets the words " I do."  

Photographers take photos of this matrimonial event.

The North Pole is busy preparing for Christmas.

The Disney park is popular, even in winter.

Watch out for your nose, Frosty!

A canoe ride across the harbor.

Up, up and away!!!!!!

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

The end of this short video should put a smile on your face:

Two giraffe heads are better than one. LOL. Arnold

Hoorah for gi-raffes! 

Mitch

This is one of the things that I love about O is that it due to its size, it lends itself more to doing set scenes - whether they be realistic or fanciful - than the smaller scales. And I've dabbled in those scales (HO, N) and larger (G)

@Amfleet25124

Kevin:

I am a life-long O gauge fan and I agree fully with you. O gauge is large enough that visitors can easily see the details of scene vignettes as well as the details in the scenery and the trains themselves. Your observation is quite astute.

Here are some scenes from our 2012, pop-up, Christmas store layout at Richardson Farms in White Marsh, Maryland.

There are many transportation options to and around the Disney Park, train trolley and monorail.

Here are some shots of the North Pole in the great, white north ... Eh!

The ghost town with real spirits.

Mom, Mom!! Look at what I caught!!!!

Man, Woodhaven Blvd really went downhill after I left NY...

Across 110th Street Pimps trying to catch a woman that's weak

Across 110th Street Pushers won't let the junkie go free

Across 110th Street Woman trying to catch a trick on the street, ooh baby....

.........

Bobby Womack must’ve had a subway layout also.

Here’s my little Area 51 layout, based on an idea by Jim Policastro. The aliens have landed on the bluff to the left, and are planning to recover their captured other ship. The AEC beep and caboose are by RMT, and the cars are Lionel.

@M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

Hoorah for gi-raffes! 

Mitch

Mitch, if my memory serves me correctly, you are the #1 fan of the giraffe car.

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Mitch, if my memory serves me correctly, you are the #1 fan of the giraffe car.

Now whatever gave you THAT idea?  ;D

Mitch

@PRRMP54 posted:

Who made the CP Huntington loco?  4-2-4?

Mitch:  LOVED THE GIRAFFE CAR TRAIN...thanks for posting

Don

These are a few  Christmas cars I made up.  I have about 25 different ones.

@John23 posted:

Who made the CP Huntington loco?  4-2-4?

Unknown, I bought it 27Apr15 on ebay. I suspect that it is scratch-built and is probably 17/64 scale; the driver is much too large, I think, as the only reference that I could find states 54" for the prototype. The one on the model scales out to over 100". Oddly, it has insulated two-rail pilot and trailing wheels, an un-insulated driver, wound-field motor, and third-rail pick-up rollers.

Climbing at Yosemite is one thing, but climbing on my railroad?!

And who invited this guy to the railroad?!

I just got a package in the mail today for a potential micro-layout idea:


I think most of you can figure out what the theme is!