I have decided that strictly following the prototype practice and following prototype layout to the Nth degree just intrudes to much on my romantic notions of the way things should be. So I have decided to embrace the proto-freelance approach. Shortly after making this decicion I was watching reruns of Pinky and the Brain.
This eppisode I was watching, Brain decides to take over the Earth, by building another Earth. This second earth he aptly named Chia Earth. Then he started a large marketing campaign to get the people of earth to move to Chia Earth. It succeeded and his take over of the earth was complete. His plans were foiled because an asteroid ended up taking out the real earth and he thus had to retreat to Chia Earth and start over his plans again.
However in this cartoon. I have found my reasons for my railroad being the Great Northern, but bearing little physical resemblence to how it actually looked. I have decided to model the Great Northern of Chia Earth in 1969.
Welcome, new immigrant to the alternate universe designated #4, Ballox O’Malley. How were things in the Neil Armstrong universe when you left.
I’ve done the same thing with my modeling - strictly prototype with names changed to protect the guilty in one area, totally freelance in another area - except that the areas overlap.
Incidentally, if the references are unfamiliar, check The Number of the Beast and To Sail Beyond Tomorrow, both by Robert Heinlein. Fun reading!
Chuck (modeling central Japan in 1964 - more or less)
hooray!! i thought for a long time that i might be the only one not to strictly model a certain line or period or landscape. probably a little of all of th above lol dave
Seems like there are a few of us around…but don’t you mean To Sail Beyond The Sunset?
Not Heinlein’s best work…personally I prefer his work up to and including Time Enough For Love. The rest were still rollicking good tales, but a bit thin on plot and a bit thick on descriptions of breakfasts and, well, frankly, behavior that is absolutely inappropriate to even mention in a family-oriented forum like this one.
Alternate-universe layouts are kind of fun: ever-popular is the “What would happen if (insert favorite fallen-flag railroad here) never went out of business?”