I'm gonna pull a despicable marathon to watch them. I saw about 10 minutes and decided they need to be watched in order.
I only have two figures on the 4.5x9 now. A lady walking to the depot early, and a workman carrying an empty milk can. Everyone else is sleeping. What did expect for someone up all night? 
I do have near a dozen animals though.
When I find the old population, you'll know. 
Out front of the Grace L. Ferguson Home and School for Wayward Girls where the Headmistress has returned home after a lengthy tour of the subcontinent....
What? I can't hear you.
Lovin the new signature.
...as usual
AZGARY posted:Ice cream time on Patton st. Truck is by Road Champs. Azgary
That's obviously the one that was asked about on my layout. I bought mine from DieCast direct (at least my notes say that) but I guess Road Champs "made" it????
Spectators gather at Strath Valley Junction to witness train riding cow
walt rapp posted:I guess Road Champs "made" it????
Yep, it's a 1/43 scale 1953 Chevy, from Road champs. Wasn't tough to look it up.
jackiejr posted:Spectators gather at Strath Valley Junction to witness train riding cow
The train stopped 
Why isn't it mooooooving? 
jackiejr posted:
Jackiejr. Your plowed field looks excellent.
FrankM
Moonson posted:jackiejr posted:
Jackiejr. Your plowed field looks excellent.
FrankM
I can appreciate the beauty and peacefulness of trains running by farms, cornfields, etc.
Arnold
Jackiejr's post and Frank's reply has me thinking of changing my layout by removing certain accessories, and adding a farm, rural landscape and maybe the operating cattle and/or horse corral. Already have a milk unit train wirh 6 operating mikk cars and 2 milk platforms that would fit in nicely.
A cabin overlooks the railroad.
MELGAR
Jackiejr's post and Frank's reply has me thinking of changing my layout by removing certain accessories, and adding a farm, rural landscape and maybe the operating cattle and/or horse corral. Already have a milk unit train wirh 6 operating mikk cars and 2 milk platforms that would fit in nicely.
MOONSON (plowed field) Thanks I thought it was a neat idea; not original of course. I've yet to do someone mowing tall grass with short grass left behind.
ARNOLD If you are modeling 40s/50s era, farms were plentiful and I like how that blends into rural townships.
Thanks for your comments.
ADRIACTIC 
BAR GP7 #63 posted:
Awesome shot.
Nice detail too.
RichO postedWorld Cow and her friends (Look carefully)
Jackiejr's post and Frank's reply has me thinking of changing my layout by removing certain accessories, and adding a farm, rural landscape and maybe the operating cattle and/or horse corral. Already have a milk unit train wirh 6 operating mikk cars and 2 milk platforms that would fit in nicely.
What? ....How? Why? When?....... How?
I suppose the are MU-oooooed
Prime mooovers
jackiejr posted:Spectators gather at Strath Valley Junction to witness train riding cow
Now you know how the term "cow catcher" came to be.
Track repairers.
MELGAR
The photo above with cows on the track reminds me of the adorable American Flyer cow on track accessory. Would love to know if anyone has geririgged (sp?) it to work on 3 rail O or O27 track.
I know the cow is way too big and out of scale for S or O gauge, but that can be fun and delightful in the same way as the operating Gateman.
My parents and I were 100% postwar Lionel, but my mother really liked the AF cow on track when we saw it at Macys; she would have bought it for me in a heartbeat if it worked on 027 track.
Arnold
MELGAR posted:Track repairers.
MELGAR
Very nice, Melgar, your guys look perfectly real.
Arnold
Arnold D. Cribari posted:The photo above with cows on the track reminds me of the adorable American Flyer cow on track accessory. Would love to know if anyone has geririgged (sp?) it to work on 3 rail O or O27 track.
I know the cow is way too big and out of scale for S or O gauge, but that can be fun and delightful in the same way as the operating Gateman.
My parents and I were 100% postwar Lionel, but my mother really liked the AF cow on track when we saw it at Macys; she would have bought it for me in a heartbeat if it worked on 027 track.
Arnold
I think so, but don't recall who. I can't think of a reason off hand why not except I think AF used some frequency based triggers at times (?). Even then a new trigger to activate the coil or motor shouldn't be too hard or expensive at first thought.
I think it is "Jury rigged" used in a different context....?
RichO posted:Jackiejr's post and Frank's reply has me thinking of changing my layout by removing certain accessories, and adding a farm, rural landscape and maybe the operating cattle and/or horse corral. Already have a milk unit train wirh 6 operating mikk cars and 2 milk platforms that would fit in nicely.
Yep, a steam engine, four sitting cats and a map of the world. ;-)
Looks like business is slow at Buster's barbershop and Bridgeport News. On my under-construction 10 x 5 layout.
MELGAR
I call this shot: "Moo, y'all!"
LP folks.
Conversations.
MELGAR
LP " engaged in dialogue"
Hobos again!
MELGAR
Frank,
No more hobos? But you do have a remarkable number of complex scenes on your layout.
There always seem to be transients hanging out in back of Mel's Diner, down by the tracks.
MELGAR
MELGAR posted:
I know that was directed to Frank, but I don't have hobos on my layout as it takes place in the height of WW2. The draft would have been going on for a while by 1943 (with the standards severely slackened the following year after huge losses in the Pacific and Europe invasions). While it wasn't illegal everywhere (though, I found, it was in a few places) to be a transient during WW2 in America is your draft number hadn't yet been called up, people didn't really allow it as much as they'd had during the Depression.
Heck, I actually removed every able-bodied male figure from the layout that wasn't in a military or RR uniform. The only draft-age men figures on the layout now are RR employees or in the military. The rest are women, kids and old men.
p51 posted:MELGAR posted:I know that was directed to Frank, but I don't have hobos on my layout as it takes place in the height of WW2. The draft would have been going on for a while by 1943 (with the standards severely slackened the following year after huge losses in the Pacific and Europe invasions). While it wasn't illegal everywhere (though, I found, it was in a few places) to be a transient during WW2 in America is your draft number hadn't yet been called up, people didn't really allow it as much as they'd had during the Depression.
Heck, I actually removed every able-bodied male figure from the layout that wasn't in a military or RR uniform. The only draft-age men figures on the layout now are RR employees or in the military. The rest are women, kids and old men.
Yes, but don't forget, during the war, and even just before it, there were plenty of men and women working in factories, such as the steel mills (I'm from Pittsburgh) and at plants such as Ford where cars were no longer made, in deference to them making munitions and tanks, etc. instead. In fact, as a boy, I do not recall ever seeing a man in uniform, but did see plenty of factory workers going to and from work every day.
FrankM
Control tower personnel.
MELGAR
Trussman posted:I noticed the title of this thread and thought, hmmm..... I didn't know the Roloffs were into model railroading. :-)
Interesting.
And my first thought when I spied the title was whether Leona Helmsley had secretly been into model railroading prior to her demise....and decided to portray us taxpayers in whatever menial, compromising, and stationary situations she could conceive.
"We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes." ---Leona Helmsley
I mean, leaving a $12 million trust fund for the care of your pooch is.....well,......a bit over the top, methinks!
I wonder if she ever knew Veranda Turbine, the famous little people's actress that a former forum member introduced us to. Anyone else remember Veranda?
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Nice work, Arnold, Frank M., et al.
KD
Lunchtime on the railroad.
MELGAR
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