Canning tomatoes, thirty-some cotoneasters to plant. Rider game. Amuse yourselves and enjoy the last weekend of summer.
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As a life-long scale modeller, I thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks lance. Although I never got bit by the rail bug, I have always admired some of the great craftsmanship I have seen in layouts over the years.
I worry for the future of our hobbies as electronics reign with today’s youth, but then realize there will always be a need for these types of layouts in museums to show our grandchildren what industry and commerce USED to look like. 🙂
It looks like a grey day here so I might just pull my large 1/16th scale 1939 Jaguar SS100 kit out of the closet, she’s about 90% done and will be a stunner in British Racing Green.
Most impressive! Model railroading was one of my favourite hobbies as a kid.
Btw if you’re ever in Hamburg, Germany, be sure to visit Miniature World. It’s incredible!
Did anyone else have to look up ‘cotoneasters’ ?
Yes!! Just came here to mention that!
Lots of berries but non-edible…guess you guys are preparing for doomsday.
…”not”…preparing…
“Did anyone else have to look up ‘cotoneasters’ ?”
Not people from Saskatchewan. Everyone here knows what you get when you mix cotoneasters with canned tomatoes.
If you like steam trains, here’s a nice montage set to Pat Metheny’s, Last Train Home
(the orange one in the clip is the Southern Pacific Daylight class GS-4 Northern number 4449.)
Very nice. I just came back from the NMRA week long model train show and convention in Portland the last week in August. I saw many excellent home layouts, club layouts and module layouts at the train show. Two HO layouts had a drive-in theatre scene with an actual movie playing on the screen. The one movie I remember was the original 3:10 to Yuma. I got a chance to visit the museum where the SP 4449 was on display. At the time it was being overhauled. There was one O scale layout which was the best that I have seen and it’s scenery was from the floor up. Electronics and model railroading have made great advances. The sound decoders in the engines make the models like the real ones. With the improvement in battery life the next direction is engines powered from batteries (smaller scales) rather that through the track, and radio controlled. It was fun seeing what others have labored to achieve.
Remember when Mr. Burns thought he needed an heir and adopted Bart for a time.
[Bart turns on his model train and it leaves the room]
Milhouse: Where does it go?
Bart: I don’t know, but it won’t be back for 3 hours, one time it had snow on it.
That is one great model railroad. I am in the process of dismantling my 1990 – 2010 era HO layout as we are moving to a new house and will have to build a new one. Just as a sideline I am scratch building a Russian Civil War armoured train consisting of about 10 cars and a steamer clad in armour. Some of you might say, “It figures”. 🙂
Robert W, the layout in Hamburg is probably the best one in the world, although the one in Russia is a close second. The Colorado Model Railroad Museum is also a great layout that is open to the public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AwSBRqnFI
Doug, it would be nice to be close enough to go to the Portland train show. I have seen a number of YouTube clips of it.
Nice big layout. I wish whoever held the camera didn’t suffer from the shakes. He didn’t do it much favours.
I am a millenial who is into model railroading (N scale or 1:167 scale), albeit more of a “watch-em-run” type with freelance layouts. I think there will always be a small group who are into it, and I have run across a few other millenials who are into model railroading as well. It may not be as big as in the 1950s (Back when Lionel and American Flyer dominated), but it has evolved in a major way as the audience has gotten smaller.
For example, it is quite amazing how much the models have changed from mere toys to precision models over the decades. Just look at what Atlas Model Railroad Company offers for example.
Your average model builder nowadays is anywhere between 40 and 80. Not so much a boy’s pastime anymore like when I was a lad.
Further to Robert’s observation about the amazing Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, here’s the link to their English-language page: http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com
Warren, that’s a shame because it is an excellent hobby and has taught me lots over the years, such as patience, problem-solving skills and the pursuit for perfection(ha, though I’ve never actually found it). But who can blame youth today with the exciting RC industry that has emerged. Scale replicas you can customize and then actually operate. Found your website, look forward to viewing your work.
UCSPanther, thank you for an update on the health of the railroading hobby, welcome news indeed. May you have many happy decades in the hobby ahead of you.
A model railroad and Lionel with maybe some working crossing gates and teenie tiny villages with tens in teenie tiny houses dring teenie tiny cars
Good for you. You might also want to check out excellent running and well built and detailed locomotives from Kato and Rapido. Thirty years ago Kato and Atlas worked together, but split later. Rapido produces quality, well detailed models of Canadian rail equipment. Atlas, Athern, and other companies make different levels of quality and detail which are priced accordingly.
By the looks of it, you do excellent work. It is an art.
Thanks Ken! It is an art.
It is a shame. You’ll find that model kit manufacturers have realized that adults mainly build models. That’s why kits being produced nowadays are far more complex, detailed and expensive and no longer molded in colour with moving parts (lol).
As a life-long scale modeller, I thoroughly enjoyed that, thanks lance. Although I never got bit by the rail bug, I have always admired some of the great craftsmanship I have seen in layouts over the years.
I worry for the future of our hobbies as electronics reign with today’s youth, but then realize there will always be a need for these types of layouts in museums to show our grandchildren what industry and commerce USED to look like. 🙂
It looks like a grey day here so I might just pull my large 1/16th scale 1939 Jaguar SS100 kit out of the closet, she’s about 90% done and will be a stunner in British Racing Green.
Most impressive! Model railroading was one of my favourite hobbies as a kid.
Btw if you’re ever in Hamburg, Germany, be sure to visit Miniature World. It’s incredible!
Did anyone else have to look up ‘cotoneasters’ ?
Yes!! Just came here to mention that!
Lots of berries but non-edible…guess you guys are preparing for doomsday.
…”not”…preparing…
“Did anyone else have to look up ‘cotoneasters’ ?”
Not people from Saskatchewan. Everyone here knows what you get when you mix cotoneasters with canned tomatoes.
If you like steam trains, here’s a nice montage set to Pat Metheny’s, Last Train Home
(the orange one in the clip is the Southern Pacific Daylight class GS-4 Northern number 4449.)
Very nice. I just came back from the NMRA week long model train show and convention in Portland the last week in August. I saw many excellent home layouts, club layouts and module layouts at the train show. Two HO layouts had a drive-in theatre scene with an actual movie playing on the screen. The one movie I remember was the original 3:10 to Yuma. I got a chance to visit the museum where the SP 4449 was on display. At the time it was being overhauled. There was one O scale layout which was the best that I have seen and it’s scenery was from the floor up. Electronics and model railroading have made great advances. The sound decoders in the engines make the models like the real ones. With the improvement in battery life the next direction is engines powered from batteries (smaller scales) rather that through the track, and radio controlled. It was fun seeing what others have labored to achieve.
Remember when Mr. Burns thought he needed an heir and adopted Bart for a time.
[Bart turns on his model train and it leaves the room]
Milhouse: Where does it go?
Bart: I don’t know, but it won’t be back for 3 hours, one time it had snow on it.
That is one great model railroad. I am in the process of dismantling my 1990 – 2010 era HO layout as we are moving to a new house and will have to build a new one. Just as a sideline I am scratch building a Russian Civil War armoured train consisting of about 10 cars and a steamer clad in armour. Some of you might say, “It figures”. 🙂
Robert W, the layout in Hamburg is probably the best one in the world, although the one in Russia is a close second. The Colorado Model Railroad Museum is also a great layout that is open to the public.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k4AwSBRqnFI
Doug, it would be nice to be close enough to go to the Portland train show. I have seen a number of YouTube clips of it.
Nice big layout. I wish whoever held the camera didn’t suffer from the shakes. He didn’t do it much favours.
I am a millenial who is into model railroading (N scale or 1:167 scale), albeit more of a “watch-em-run” type with freelance layouts. I think there will always be a small group who are into it, and I have run across a few other millenials who are into model railroading as well. It may not be as big as in the 1950s (Back when Lionel and American Flyer dominated), but it has evolved in a major way as the audience has gotten smaller.
For example, it is quite amazing how much the models have changed from mere toys to precision models over the decades. Just look at what Atlas Model Railroad Company offers for example.
Your average model builder nowadays is anywhere between 40 and 80. Not so much a boy’s pastime anymore like when I was a lad.
Further to Robert’s observation about the amazing Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg, here’s the link to their English-language page:
http://www.miniatur-wunderland.com
Warren, that’s a shame because it is an excellent hobby and has taught me lots over the years, such as patience, problem-solving skills and the pursuit for perfection(ha, though I’ve never actually found it). But who can blame youth today with the exciting RC industry that has emerged. Scale replicas you can customize and then actually operate. Found your website, look forward to viewing your work.
UCSPanther, thank you for an update on the health of the railroading hobby, welcome news indeed. May you have many happy decades in the hobby ahead of you.
A model railroad and Lionel with maybe some working crossing gates and teenie tiny villages with tens in teenie tiny houses dring teenie tiny cars
Good for you. You might also want to check out excellent running and well built and detailed locomotives from Kato and Rapido. Thirty years ago Kato and Atlas worked together, but split later. Rapido produces quality, well detailed models of Canadian rail equipment. Atlas, Athern, and other companies make different levels of quality and detail which are priced accordingly.
By the looks of it, you do excellent work. It is an art.
Thanks Ken! It is an art.
It is a shame. You’ll find that model kit manufacturers have realized that adults mainly build models. That’s why kits being produced nowadays are far more complex, detailed and expensive and no longer molded in colour with moving parts (lol).
I still think the Gorre & Daphetid RR is the best ever model railroad. Destroyed in a fire the year I graduated high school.
https://www.google.com/search?q=gorre+and+daphetid&num=100&newwindow=1&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CCoQsARqFQoTCN765cqXi8gCFcXVHgodD9gIrA&biw=1366&bih=622