While looking around my layout today trying to figure out my next project, I noticed some signs I had posted in my subway, around 2003-2005 sometime. As I've been more or less away from the hobby for a few years, I had forgotten what those signs were. So today I took a closer look. I see they are some of my personal interests back then (and still), along with a few obligatory subway signs (the system map, the liquor ad, and the safety ad).
What nods to OGR do you have on your layout?
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Fight Animal Cruelety, and yet your pigs are packed like sausage in the pen on your pike?
Shame, shame, on you! LOL
Joe
I apologise Brad. It must be the liquor ad...?
HAHAHAHAHAHA @Trinity River Bottoms Boomer
That's too good! I just never in my wildest dreams thought that I'd have to coordinate my toy train forum posts!
Brad, not exactly an answer to your question, but I have quite a few Miller Engineering billboards. I think they are one of the best accessories out there. I would definitely be in for an OGR billboard for on top of a building flat.
@Rider Sandman I agree!
O= The form of most round the room layouts
G= Great
R=Railways
The United States and just about every burg on the planet has been put through a severe test as a result of the Corona mess not seen since the Spanish flu which took many lives along with WWI some one hundred years ago. Though dubbed Spanish flu, according to a 2019 UK produced doc I recently watched on TV actually got it's start in Kansas first exposing American troops on board the vessels that were transporting them to England to assist the British in defeating Germany. The flu quickly spread throughout Europe taking many more lives as were the terrible man made killing machines of war continued to do.
Fast forward to 2020 and now. Many men women and children alike have been placed under heavy amounts of stress due to curfews and total lockdowns thus pushing many humans close to total nervous breakdowns, and sadly, many to their deaths as well. It's times such as what we are currently experiencing when we must search our souls, pray for one other, as well as our loved ones, family and friend alike, and do our utmost best to find as much humor as we possibly can which will surely help us once again return back to the carefree happy times we so vividly remember just some short twelve months ago.
In my case, these past few days your contribution to the O Gauge Railroading Forum has really made my day. Your veggie garden, as well as the videos on your YouTube channel, and the ads posted in your subway have helped me find my humor again. At least they did until I attempted to view the Pennsylvania Railroad Safety First poster with the notice to passengers to "please stand behind the yellow line". Well, the fact that the platform wasn't wide enough for me to get a really good look, I stepped back a tad and WHAM! fell off onto the tracks below landing flat on my back just as a subway train was fast approaching the station stop.
Now you might think that I was looking Grim Reaper straight in his face. On the contrary. As a model railroader, I got my first real close up view of the underside of the subway cars, which will aid me in super detailing the cars just as the rats see them while they are busy peforming their God given rights which is attempting to survive another day underground on the line where the train 123 to Pelham runs.
By the way, I have notified my Shyster Lawyer. You'll be hearing from him soon!
LOL LOL LOL ...my oh my, it never ends!
On a serious note: Brad, Corona is for real. PLEASE protect yourself and your family when in public.
Godspeed
Joe Toth Jr.
Hmmm, Joe, I've been wondering all week what should go on the floor of my subway lines... like in the real world, maybe some trash I was thinking... but now I'm thinking maybe some O gauge rats! I wonder if they would be visible ?!?!? Could you tell from your vantage point down there? LOL
On another note, just let your Shyster Lawyer stay home. I am represented by Dewey, Cheatum, and Howe, so he doesn't have a chance!
@MartyE - I love it! Now fess up... did you do that just for this post? 
Next train show, I will be hunting for O Scale Rats! I will have them crawling throughout the right of way. LOL, Arnold
Here's OGR World Headquarters on my layout. They share space with a milk distribution business apparently:
Rats, this appears to be a trick question in the making?
The best I could come up with on short notice: I Googled "photos of the pide piper" and thought that you might consider picking the best one that shows the dude playing his flute with the rats in pursuit. Then copy to proper scale, and use as a backdrop along the wall of your underground subway station.
Larry Liar, my Shyster Lawyer, was quite impressed with your legal team. So much in fact, he's decided to apply for a position with them. His motto has always been: If you can't beat'em, join'em!
Item: Distribution of trash along the tracks will give the subway line that lived in look and bring out the best in the notice to Keep Your City Clean. Posted on the wall next to the Pide Piper should pretty much get the job done.
Have a nice day!
Joe
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