Little People

Ted...great theme and picture.  Love the "Eldorado" and tow truck!

Follow up to Ted  Quarter Gauger:  

Fast forward a year later:  Turns out that the female driving the 1957 powder blue Caddy convertible was Don's girlfriend and tied, by association, to the organized crime ring running out of Patsburg.  The girl friend, Leslie Moore AKA "Les is Moore", an exotic dancer at " Bada Bing Gentleman's Club" located on the other side of the tracks, turned states evidence.   Don and Juan,were later arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to hard labor for conspiring to hijack a  precious commodities train loaded with toilet paper.  Word is that Vladimir Peskoff is now running the Patsburg organized crime syndicate from his Swiss cheese mobile.

Thankfully Patsburg as well as Fairfield are now getting back to normal.

Random pics of LP doing their thing in Patsburg. 

STOCKING THE DINING CAR WITH FRESH PRODUCE.  Chef Boi R. Dee peers into the truck to select only the finest while Huber shows off a delicious pumpkin and Albert leans over a crate of potatoes. CREWS UNLOAD CRATES for upgrade of interior renovation of Ma & Pa caboose. 

BIG HOOK gets the inspection once over before being brought into action. 

UNLOADING SACKS of concrete and aggregate on the team track.  

Patrick, had mentioned Night trains'.. in of his terrific posts'. So in that theme.  How bout some `Night Moves'... Also, One of my favorite songs... 

The best seat in the house', or is it, best seat in the coach'....

Lots of `Pusher service these days, and ready for departure'..

All Aboard'''... Next stop, Kansas City....

...workin' ..

I am so proud of my son, David, now almost 32 years old, who got married this past weekend.

Here he is at age 13 skateboarding, which was his favorite thing to do at that age:

IMO, you can't go wrong by putting on your layout whatever you love; when you do that, you will love your layout. Arnold 

PS, that skateboarder is an Arttista O Scale figure.

I designed and built what will probably be my last layout for my two great-grandsons: Matthew (now 7) and Hudson (now 6) to enjoy. However, not long after the inaugural sessions, their interest turned to dinosaurs -- books, videos, and toys. So I added a DINOSAUR PARK to the layout as a counter-strategy.  Attached pix show the beasts with their keepers and audience members.

Mike Mottler     LCCA 12394
mottlerm@gmail.com

Mike, what you have done is wonderful, making your trains more appealing to your great grandsons by adding to your layout, what they love at the moment: dinosaurs.

It just so happens that I also have dinosaurs to add to my layout in case I believe they will be entertaining to my audience. I will post photos of these "little monsters" (LOL) later. Arnold

Here are a few of my "little monsters," who will make Redsox fans. Pirate fans, and other Yankee haters very happy:

LOL, Arnold

Now that is really SICK...I love it!  Not very many folks seem interested.  He was most likely reading about his 401k latest news.

At the Buladeen depot, the ladies working the rayon mills at Elizabethton are waiting for the 12:30 to arrive...

Meanwhile, a soldier is confirming with his ride that the Johnson City train for his 7 day leave will show up soon enough.

Little People.

Discussing the next switch move. 

Locomotive service personnel.

Fireman to brakeman ... " The tank is topped off!" 

Passengers on platform and inside the observation car. 

Let's go Odell... this car ain't gonna unload it self!

I posted this a while back in another topic....L to R,  Uncle John, Uncle Joe (back from Korea) and my Dad. JohnA       Zoom in on figures

Gram and Gramps used to have a very large chicken farm but now just a couple dozen chickens and time on the porch watching the trains.

@sidehack

Ray:

Your scene is superb! Your chicken coop and pen looks quite realistic. Where did you get the O scale chickens. I have been looking for the for years.

@railroad-guy posted:

Where the heck did you get these figures? They look amazing!

@p51 posted:

Where the heck did you get these figures? They look amazing!

These are actual 3D scans of real people from AndIan Models and costume painted by Fanai59 Miniatures.

You can find AndIan Models with a Google search and here is Fanai59 Miniatures railroad page: https://www.facebook.com/media...et=a.294051598193813