The trouble with an in-joke thread is that a genuine in-joke is not usually transmissible. My railroad always has an eatery known as “Mudd’s Dinor”, a prime hangout for the youth gang known as “The Gang” (long story), but these just make no sense if you don’t know the history, and once you do,the joke is ruined.
And some jokes are just goofy, with nothing more comprehensible to insiders. The Saracen warriors who were buying pop from the machine outside the last version of Mudd’s were just out-of-place anachronisms, nothing more.
The towns of “Wattsburg” and “Johnson Furnace” are more comprehensible gags. They are in the table corners nearest the electrical panel and forced-air heating unit.
One of the trackside industries on my layout, the Notyme & Munee RR, will be a distribution warehouse for Jim’s Discount Hockey Supplies (“Jim is a real cheap skate”).
I have serious concerns about the the 2007 24 car being in your 1967 based layout. My concerns are the “prototypical” kind of concerns, and am only doing this because I want you to become a better modeler. So my first question is:
Is the 2007 Chevy the Car of Tomorrow or the Car of Yesterday?
Remembering that 2007 was about a 70/30 mix of old car / new car, we need to establish a timeframe you are modeling, (month, week, day) , from this information, we could conclude the closest tracks as being Indy, Pocono, Chicago, of these 3 tracks rans the car of tomorrow was not run at any of them, so I hope you have modeled using the car of yesterday.
I like to have scenes that you look at and think, things are going to change in a moment. On my garden layout there is station platform with a number of people standing on it and a large black bear just about to come around the corner and into view. The dino on my On30 layout is at the bottom of a rapids in the river with canoers heading right for it. No way to exit.
The only good Gag that Im familiar with is having to drop a blue box full of small parts that makes this collasping crunch of metal breaking when it hits the floor.
Best used when someone is on the throttle demonstrating total focus on coupling.
I dont recall where I got that idea from but if done right, the focusee would jump 5 feet.
I am planning to have a red english sports car parked next to a telephone booth. The suited man inside will be chopped down to give the impression he is taking an elevator down.
Obviously not a NASCAR fan. The “Car of Tomorrow” is now the standard NASCAR racer, and it still bears a passing resemblance to street legal. (It also has a V8 with four-barrel carburetors - the ‘Car of Tomorrow’ with Grandpa’s Dream Engine![(-D])
Modeling challenge - model a pig unit loaded with NASCAR haulers. If fuel costs keep going up, we may see it in the prototype.
Chuck (NASCAR fan modeling Central Japan in September, 1964)
One of the members in our modular club has a naughty scene behind some bushes, only visible if one knows where to look - a farmer getting amorous with a sheep!
I know a guy that had a (this not to offend anyone please) “gay” section of one of his towns…also had a brothel with a removable roof to show the “details”…
