Track Plan 9 From Outer Space - Bela Lugosi designs a really bad bowl of spaghetti track plan but dies before the plan is completed. His replacement keeps his face covered so you don’t know Lugosi is dead
The Blob - A model railroader discovers to his horror that the turnback curve on a peninsula is waaay too small for his brass 4-12-2 and that he would have to widen the basement to accommodate the engine
THEM! - A colony of fire ants takes over a newbie’s 4x8 layout
Invasion Of The Kit Snatchers - Model railroaders wake up to find all their unbuilt kits replaced by RTR replacements contained in odd looking seed pods
Village Of The Damned - A quiet village in the UK is beset by strange children with golden hair who force the local train store to shut its doors and all the modelers in the village to take up full contact croquet
The Island Layout Of Dr. Moreau - Dr. Jacque Moreau builds a huge layout in his basement without allowing for access of any kind. Everything goes well until one day a train derails and Moreau goes insane trying to figure out how to get to the train to put it back on the track.
Tarantula! - A big, hairy spider takes up residence in the hidden staging area of a layout owned by a modeler deathly afraid of spiders. As a result of his phobia, the modeler gives up the hobby and joins a cult that worships teddy bears.
The Exorcist - Model railroader builds a large, complicated DCC equipped layout that he can’t get to run to save his life. Hires an electrical engineer to cast out the electrical demons.
The Amityville Horror - Modeler builds a beautiful layout in his basement. All his locos are DCC and sound equipped. Layout is fully signalled and equipped with a CTC machine. However, layo
Revenge of the Nerds - In the middle of the night the Nerds replace a model railroad control panel with the one from the Starship Enterprise. It works, but the layout owner can’t figure it out.
THE FURIES: Barbara Stanwyck attacks Judith Anderson with a pair of scissors in front of Walter Huston because Anderson accidentally stepped on the neat HO scale layout that Stanwyck and Gilbert Roland had set up on the living room floor of the ranch-house.
THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD: Turns out to be a strange locomotive that is not compatable with either DC, DCC or DCS. Oh yah, and it eats sled dogs.
THE SOUND AND THE FURY: Yul Brynner sets all of his Tsunami’s at top volume, then runs all of his trains at once.
War of the Worlds- (1950’s version)- A scientist from Cal Tech figures out that our germs will kill the Martians and returns immediately home to finish his kit bashed SP 4-8-0.
Forbidden Planet- The Krell were killed off by monsters from the id before they could complete there model RR club layout…
Close Encounters of the Third Kind.- The aliens return the navy flyers lost in 1945 in the Bermuda triangle who have scratch built a model of a gigantic UFO that they were a aboard for the last forty years which then takes first place in an NMRA motive power contest.
JAWS- The modeler gets home from w**k only to find that his other half has put the family’s 180 # bull mastive in the basement with the train layout. Finding that the dog thinks your 15 car hand built wood passenger cars taste like kibble.
The Little Hobby Shop of Horrors: Modelers stumble upon small shop with every single model railroad item ever made at 1/2 price, but all become delirious and go insane before they can buy anything.
A Nightmare on Elm St. A model railroader, who lives on Elm St. (of course) keeps dreaming that his layout keeps shorting out at the most in opportune times. After several nights of this dream, he cannot distinguish from the dream world or reality. The next day he is hosting an open house and everything is running fine until Freddy Krueger shows up and puts his knife-like fingers across the rails. His circuit protector malfunctions and every locomotive decoder is fried in seconds.
A train enters a tunnel but never comes out the other end. The chuff can still be heard, as well as that long lonesome steam whistle. Eventually after much pleading the train heads toward the light and emerges from the tunnel with such force and speed it takes the plunge off the end of the layout ending up in a heap on the floor. To this day the developer swears the house in which the layout resides was not built over an ancient RIP track.
Has any one considered a: STARGATE ??? Now lets build it!!!
Stargate Rail Transportation 1. Yeah, planning & making a ‘fun’ Sci-Fi module in 6’ x 2’ plate. It also gives an opportunity to combine all the TV & Movie themes together. This is a quick moch-up. Don’t expect it soon, but do expect cool! Yes, due to the shooting location of many great Sci-Fi shows I used my stock of BC Rail loco’s to show the scene!
Gojira - A beautiful, peaceful layout set in the 1950’s is suddenly beset by powerful modern Japanese hi speed trains. Mass confusion ensues in this tale of time gone mad.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre - Frustrated by poor planning and shoddy bench work an otherwise mild mannered Texan modeler resorts to horrific means to tear down his layout.
It Came From Beneath the Roadbed - All was well with the spline beneath the grade until moisture unleashed a horror that threatened to halt all model railroad traffic. Can the modeler find a solution without destroying the scenery already in place?
The Thing - A nondescript, cheaply made engine finds it’s way onto a strictly prototype modeler’s layout, and slowly works it’s way into becoming the favorite motive power above all other engines. Will this mass produced horror devour the market and destroy finely made models?
Unstoppable - A guy running operations with a bunch of friends, realizes his runaway locomotive won’t stop, a DCC glitch. They get another locomotive, catch it, couple up to it, and slow down the runaway train!
What you need to do is split the stargate with a backdrop. That way you make 2 worlds. the trains go into the gate on earth and exit on anouther world.
I’d really hate to be waiting at the other gate for that train to come through,… to no rails. Now that would be one big wreak spanning thousands of light years.
What I need to do, is invent ‘cellophane plasma’ then I could really apply some trickery…
This was just a moch-up, a conceptual interpertation of the divination of the thing…
I’m just glad that I found a ‘workable’ ‘Gate’ that matches close to the HO scale of the trains & will meet the needs of the future layout! That was a very big win! All other Sci-Fi models are way off scale… However, I hope to plant a BSG Viper somewhere in there too…
I keep thinking that I have a big ‘true scale’ white metal gaming trantula somewhere, oh boy…
I appreciate the suggestion, but on this plan, it will be a ‘gate’ in the raw, meaning it is not active, more like a staging event… So, the scenery will be continous (in my case & on my design). However, your idea would really be neat for an active layout (a module joint perhaps) & would fly, it is something to take into thought for the future… Thanks
EDIT: As for the pass through, all the ‘rail equipped’ addresses would have been approved by the SGC, unless they were ‘gifting’ a RAITH with a hammered GE or EMD on their bridge on their ship… Perhaps not, but that would look cool on screen, not? (If I saw that on TV, I may have an accident!!!)
Hey, since I’m in the 99% that is unemployed, Lets ask for a government grant for finding out what would happen to a locomotive if it crossed through a Gate with out follow through tracks! Why not? If they deny that, lets ask for a grant for why striped ‘streaky’ gophers do not have any ‘path’ wear into their holes… Seriously, every animal leaves a path that is where they walked, them ‘streaky’ gophers don’t… Really! Go follow one, -no trail…
Oh wait, I thought I was on the ‘X-Files’ forum, too much Sci-Fi, early today, sorry …
King Kong- A bunch of raiders land on a mysterious island and breach a large wall built by the local natives. What they find on the other side is that the wall is a backdrop for a 20ft gauge garden RR.
The Shape of Things to Come- Scientists from MR become concerned that there are no more model RR shops or advertisers to sponsor their magazine and begin to build a large rocket to take them to the moon to search for any model RR shops that might still be in existence. An angry group of face book fans storms the rocket but it gets off before they can reach it. The MR editor then makes a dramatic speach denouncing the lack of craftsmanship in our degenerating society.
On the Beach- An atomic sub heads underwater for Australia as atomic bomb radiation threatens to wipe out he world. On their journey the crew starts to build a Z gauge club layout. When they reach Australia, one of the crew members decides to take up slot car racing to end his final days.
Okay, I found a few obscure ones on the back shelf…
The Incredible Shrinking Man - A modeler emerges from a smoke-filled layout room and finds that he must continually change layouts and scales as he loses stature. Eventually, he finds that even T-scale (1:450) is becoming increasingly difficult to operate. Tense moments ensue as he fights over a lonely piece of coal with a deranged dust mite.
Fiend Without a Face - A model train manufacturer creates an new and invisible operating system that strangles helpless modelers who won’t buy into their marketing strategy.
Terminator - A crazed, tin-plate collecting cyborg comes back from the future to try and kill the mother of O-scale magnate, Joshua Lionel Cohen. The fate of the MRRing industry is contingent on a resistance warrior (played by Mike Wolf) protecting Sarah Cohen from the deadly assault of this indestructible futuristic menace known as “Terminator”.
Night of the Living Dead - A night-long operating session turns deadly when a few modelers begin breathing in too much liquid smoke fumes and turn on their modeling cohorts in a zombie-like, blood-laced carnage.
20,000 Leaks Below the Sea - No matter how many pours of EnviroTex he makes, frustrated newbie modeler Harold Nemo can’t seem to locate the continual drainage issues with his deep Yarmouth, NS layout sea port.
The Day the Layout Stood Still - An alien ship from a distant solar system lands in New York Central (NYC) Park and proclaims that the world’s DCC users - of all makes and models - have to pledge to play nice together…or face the wrath of Gort, the 9’+ tall humanoid robot empowered to deter all modeler aggression. Klaatu’s parting and sobering words are, “The decision rests with you.”
Star Trek– A steam Engineer Try’s to Boldly go where no engineer has gone before.( I’m Givin it all I got cap’n , I can’t Shovel no more.) ( I’m a model railroader Jim , Not a Doctor !.)
Otto
P.S. --Resistance is futile , You will Be Rerouted. ( WE ARE THE DISPATCHERS ! . )
