Here’s a link to my webpage where I think you can see some pics of my first adult O gauge layout. It’s nothing much now, but once I get the basement done in the next year, it should make a nice detailed area.
I’ll be adding pics of my Halloween layout, complete with my Transylvania RR locomotive, tender, boxcar (bobbing ghost), and working caboose, and my wife’s Hallmark stuff.
Hi
Sorry but the link dosen’t work
Andre.
Try this: http://www.webpages.charter.net/jwf123
sorry - you have to just copy my link into the address line - the www doesn’t work.
or try this:
http://webpages.charter.net/jwf123
Okay - I just tried this link and it works - sorry for the confusion!
Jimbo
Way to go Jim!
If you are looking for cheap(er) buildings to add in your theme cheak out the Hobo shacks and covered brige kits from Plasticville/Bachmann. They have a similar prestressed wood look. Interesting theme.
Do you consider the people homeless or hobos? Some kids I met asked me if I remembered Seseme Street (Of course I did being my age). “Well do you rember the name of that green homeless puppet?” It took me a while to figure out she was talking about Oscar the Grouch who lives in the trashcan. Funny I had never thought of him being homeless.
I read Hoboton and thought of the short people from Lord of the Rings. Hobos not Hobbit, oh well good work anyways.
Right - I was thinking of a hobo version of hobbiton myself when I typed that! Don’t know why, but it made sense at the time.
My grandmother had an uncle who was a hobo, and her father and most of her uncles worked on the railroad. One brother died because he took a nap and a train backed over him - honest. I think he’d had a little nip for lunch, though. Anyway, the uncle would show up every once in a while looking for some food and a few dollars. He always wanted to eat eggs. She’d make him go and clean up, give hiim some of her husband’s old clothes, and then fix him a big platter of scrambled eggs. He would spit all over them first, so nobody would steal his food! LOL
It’s just a theme that appealed to me for what I think are humorous reasons. I always figured hobos were homeless on purpose. I work with medical records, some going back decades, and I’ve seen examination reports from the 30’s and 40’s referencing “hobo tendencies” etc.