What kind of funny trains, cars, or locomotives do you run? I used to run a train of 89’ flats loaded with:
A 2-10-4
The tender for the 2-10-4
A daylight A unit
A daylight B unit
Another daylight A unit
A 44 tonner and an 0-4-0 (on the same car)
A GP9
Another GP9
An old trolley
I used to run this at the club. I called it the “Museum Train”. As you can imagine engines are heavy so It took quite a few engines to pull it. Now I either sold or run the engines and I sold all the flatcars. If only I had taken some pictures of it…[B)]
Way back when, when I was a kid, I used to put my pet lizards in my stock cars. They didn’t seem to mind too much.
I stopped doing that after one of my anole’s ( American Chameleon ) figured out how to open the door and made an escape. Mom wasn’t too happy about the lizard being loose in the house! She was even less happy after one of my garter snakes got loose, though! [:D]
I’ve always thought a train of 30 or so cabooses, all different numbers and schemes, would be funny. It’d be even better if it was led by a couple of SD90’s or any other new locomotive.
Like the suttle movement of 3985!
I used to pul an old stemer kit that my dad made 40 years ago and never worked on a flatcar, but it weighed more than 2 Kato SD90s!
Matthew
I haven’t done this…probably 'cuz I don’t have them…but lashing up ten or 15 2-20-4’s, or anything bigger, and just running them, by themselves, would be an eye-opener. Of course, so would 15 0-4-0’s!
I run everything with anything, and anything with everything. I like running my older locomotives with my newer rolling stock. As well as my CSX veranda turbine with some streamline passenger cars.[:D]
I once saw a traveling circus train side-show/dinosuar exhibit with a couple painted reefers with dino’s on the side. The last reefer had a T-Rex sticking his head out. You would think he was a model, except he had two legs sticking out his red mouth.
“Hey anybody seen Clarence The Clown? And why is betsies stomach honking like a squeeze bulb horn?”[:D]
I had the idea of having a Z-scale operating train to go with the carnival I was thinking to include in my HO layout; but I never finished that layout and have since switched to N-scale. Good thing I didn’t buy the Z-scale set beforehand. [8D]
I guess I’m not the prototypical modeller as I don’t find mixing different era cars and locos to be all that funny; odd maybe, but not funny. [?]
A concept came to me while writing this: Funny cars… dragsters… how about a drag-racing railroad loco? Out of curiousity, anyone ever put in a dragstrip in their layout?
Then there’s the other form of drag, a pink loco/passenger car with curtains. [:D]
And thanks for the laugh about the clown and the T-Rex. I’m still laughing at picturing Betsy making a funny face each time the horn sounded. [:)]
I keep threatening to get one of the Kato Bullet Train sets to go on my 1958 railroad, under the guise that the Bunter Ridge R & D Department is at it again.
“Slightly ahead of our time.” I think that was a Panasonic slogan for a while.
There’s a real life one I saw a couple months ago. The govenor of PA dedicated the branch line that goes past my store and came in his own coach with staff coaches. The motive power? Two SW1500 switchers.
