Fun Things to Add to a Model Railroad
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“The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again.
But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.
Don’t rejoice when your enemies fall;
don’t be happy when they stumble.
For the Lord will be displeased with you
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don’t envy the wicked.”
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I need a HO scale Waldo so people can find Waldo on my layout.
For those who get the chance to go to Hamburg to Miniature Wunderland they have probably done all of the fun things that anyone can imagine.
As they have moving road vehicles there is a city that goes up in smoke and the fire brigade turn out to put it out.
That's on my bucket list. I've seen their videos, but not sure I will ever get there in person. It is amazing! Volcano, working airport and the vehicles are fully autonomous
On my model railroad clubs layout,(set in 1944) I brought a German steam locomotive and set it on the layout. After about 3-4 hours, someone added a Sherman tank next to it! It stayed for about a week!
Thanks for all those fun things to do on your layout. To many times, we get locked into one phase .
Fun is the name of the game. If we are not having fun it is just another 'JOB'. Thanks for sharing.
When I was young, my dad had a Lionel O gauge layout in the basement. One of the cars was a flatbed, with stacks of crates on it, and a railroad employee chasing a hobo around the crates.
I have been watching your show for about a year now. I just subscribed!!
Drinking some Folgers Dark silk with a splash of sweet cream!
I do have a Storm Trooper amongst the trees on my layout.
Another great one Jimmy. I have a fantasy rock one one of my mountains which glows blue in the "night time". Rock cast in resin, drilled to take a micro blue LED.
Hello Jimmy, thank you for a very informative video. I would like to share what I have done on my own layout. I made a list of 45 detail scenes (there are more by now) and printed it out on an Excel spreadsheet with 3 columns. The first list the scene, the second one says found and the last one says: "show me". I then laminated these sheets and when a visitor comes to my layout, I give them a white board marker (dry wipe marker) and challenge them to find all the scenes. If they find it, they make a tic mark next to the scene in the found column, and if not, they make a tic mark in the show me column. I then will show them the scenes they have not found.
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Henry van Wyk, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
I've got a small switching layout in my apartment and I've tried to add different ways to entertain myself for operations. I'm modeling a freight house district in Charleston, WV in the 1950's, so not a lot of "silly" opportunities for scenery, but I've tried to add things to make things more difficult for operators. The freight house could only be accessed using trackage rights on another railroad, so everything can only happen within the modeled portion, so the tail track for the switch to prepare your train to go back to home rails is only big enough for an engine and one or two cars, depending what engine you're using, so you better have everything staged right before you go, especially for the two trailing point industries on that end of the layout. Operators also have to be careful to not block crossings and make sure they don't go too far into the driveway of the freight house with rails embedded, just in case there are trucks being loaded or unloaded there. Also, I've made little easter eggs for myself with car cards by including shipments from cities I've lived in, which might fudge some realism but it is fun for me.
Good information for mature railroaders and newbies alike! We should not forget that this is MY railroad. Do things of interest or things that don’t quite make “sense”, except to you. Thanks!
In an O scale layout I saw for a club, there was a drive in theatre that actually had a screen. The movie they were playing was “Attack of the giants”… The screen played live camera footage of you.
I remember a beautiful model railroad in a hobby shop in upper NY state. While viewing it for the details you suddenly come face to face with a life size rattlesnake coiled among the trees of the model forest. It made people jump back!!! After one jumped back then one realized it was a big rubber snake.
Since I model 1940's, I plan on having a few easter eggs. I already have my bay window bobber caboose (a heavy kitbash, a rebuild project my shops took on as a challenge), a 1948 Tucker stashed away in a garage and a few others. I won't give away all my secrets.
One of the best things I've seen on a layout is a park with a carousel that rises up to reveal a hidden nuclear missile silo. The missiles actually shoot too.
Hey Jimmy… just drinking my basic black Folgers coffee… and while we’re on the subject of being silly… I’m going to add a 3‘ x 4‘ section to my layout for a switching yard and I am thinking of adding a abandon warehouse scene with some kids playing baseball, just like we used to play as kids in the Southside of Chicago
Another great video Jimmy!! As a model railroader that is just starting operations, I had no idea how much frustration and fun can come from operating a railroad. The frustration coming from trying to figure out how to setup the schedule, using the 4 cycle waybills and train lengths. The fun side has obviously been mimicking a transportation system in miniature. My railroad has 2 hidden yards, 1 on layout classification yard and a small industrial railroad. This takes up 34ft x 8ft in HO scale! Still learning!
That would look awesome along the wall in my lounge. But I know what the wife would say.
Fun video, thanks. When visiting layouts, I always look at the workbench. The best modelers usually use half the space I do and get better results. Oh well. Dunkin for me too, a Cafe Americano.
Our club's modular ON30 layout has an operational 'Sharknado'..... Not sure if I can add a picture here, but imagine a huge conical twister, touching down, with all sorts of sharks (to scale) stuck in it, and the twister rotates.... It's a huge hit with little kids.
Sasquatch I think might be fairly standard to find in the hills. I want every business, spot to reference to someone, something in my life. Lastly I would like to have Roscoe in hot pursuit of the General Lee (especially in mid air) or Col Decker chasing the A Team van.
An amusement park train is on my long list to build. If I had space, (and money) I'd get a real life amusement park train!
My club (Belmont Shore Lines in the L.A. area) has a number of interesting shenanigans on the layout. As an example, there's a couple of military tanks maneuvering in one town section; another section has a car crash. In still another, you need to watch out for bears. There's a sign saying "we left this one here" (bonus if you can guess what "this one" is without seeing it); another section has an optional thunderstorm. We have fun.
This goes with my model railroad's #1 rule... My Railroad, My rules!
Sounds like an awesome idea! Cant wait to try it
Another good video James! I like what you did at 1:08. Did you catch it? I am working on a Miracle Salve plant, 'cause it cures the mange😚 Keep up the fine work.
Dunkin’ my Fav
Yes, I have the funeral scene for my N scale model railroad. Although I have yet to incorporate them into my layout, I had to pick them up as soon as I saw the set, for I knew the likes of a graveyard would serve my style perfectly.
Besides, I was already planning on adding some popular paranormal structures which most paranormal fans, at least the ones into hauntings, would easily recognize. I have a small church model, and I am currently creating a two-level hill, or elevated area, directly behind the church that will serve as a graveyard. Once completed, I will then bust open that burial scene to use.
I would like to get ahold of a set of the "sexy times" people (couples engaged in coitus) to hide across the layout, and of course, I would need a drug-dealer in the middle of a deal, a few street-walkers, some naked ladies to explicitly hide across the layout (perhaps one taking a shower, another relieving herself (maybe, or maybe not on a bowl), and a few perhaps doing some extra spicy, but incredibly strange, and bizarre stuff}.
I have also created a small section of single-track in the corner of my layout, but I have yet to find mountain bikers to place upon this section of trail. Realism is not much of a factor for what I create, I simply can not allow myself to use any of the several sets of cyclists which I have found available so far, for they are not riding mountain bikes, and I wouldn't want to make myself, as a modeler appear to be so foolish, and ignorant . . . .well, at least not in that type of manner!
I have numerous ideas of incorporating silly things into my layout, things which, hopefully, you will be hard-pressed to find in other layouts. I have even imagined some complex scenes, but I've cut myself short on considering anything like those now, along with not allowing my imagination to show me any new ideas of a complex nature. Although I know they are definitely possible to create, they would definitely be beyond my capabilities currently, Much of what I am in the process of building, or have built, has largely been beyond my capabilities, but I somehow get through them, and learn from my mistakes. Therefore, it will be some time before I tackle some of the grandiose visions I have currently, ones which haven't even blossomed fully within the realm of my imagination, and I will permit my wandering thoughts truly unrestricted free roam, and I shall advertise that I have vacancies available, in which to store new complex scene ideas.
I even have a few ideas for hidden riddles, with clues scattered all over the layout. One major detail is that the riddles are not labelled. There will be no text that labels a riddle as such, although the riddle itself might have some text-based clues, the riddle will not be expressed in any manner involving words, but instead it will be in a nonverbal form of communication. I would like to create at least one of these riddles that is completely nonverbal, meaning that the clues are nonverbal as well, but I'm not sure if that is possible. I believe some clues will need to be expressed with words. Without accidentally, nor intentionally, revealing any spoilers, suffice it to say that one will need to discover that something is actually a riddle before they can bother gathering clues for said riddle. If this is done properly, observers will not recognize any clue as being a clue until they have uncovered, and recognized a riddle first.
Perhaps time will birth some of my visions as long as I improve, and increase my modelling skills, and as those unavoidably progress over time and practice, my ideas for various aspects of my layout can also progress and grow into more immense, and complex visions!
But yeah, Yay Coffee!!!
Todays coffee on my end is Cameron's jamaica blue mountain blend. I have only 1 industry set up, a wood working facility. Now i have a figure of Banbaro from Monster Hunter World: Iceborne, and in game this thing can grab rocks and logs in its horns and plow into you, so my figure is currently has a log resting across its horns. It works in the logging company carrying logs to the site, loading and unloading trains. If i can get insulated rail joiners i can use my lifelike -0-4-0 tea kettle and 2 log cars as a static display in the sidings. It looks really nice with the log cars. Banbaro easily holds the logs from a walthers log truck, but the industry actually came with toothpicks, a lot of them. Thinking of gluing a bundle of them together for it to carry. Now should i make that 1 or 2 toothpicks long... hmmm...
Oh if theres some hunter figures i can get a dodogama trying to eat the rocks from a mining company with hunters fending it off. Oh this is fun!
I have a Tardis that I move around the layout from time to time.
My Japanese N scale layout is packed with anime and video game references, hence its official name, the JR Otaku Line. Currently I’ve got Gundam, Star Wars, Pokémon, Monster Hunter, Animal Crossing, Godzilla, Ultraman, and of course, Galaxy Express 999 represented. The centerpiece scene will be a Gundam hangar, and it will actually cover both categories mentioned in this video because it will also be a rail-served industry.
Easter Eggs. I put hot wheels cars around our club layout just to see if anyone notices.
Willy Wonka resides on my layout😅🚂🇨🇦🇺🇲🙋
I was thinking ditch the usual control and build a deadman control and really drive it.
Oh, I'm drinking Vittoria coffee at the moment.
I just wish model railroading was a little less expensive..
Not all railroads have run arounds thats why the have engines on both ends of the train....branchlines especially.....plus it makes switching opposing industries easy to switch
Hey, there, have you not heard? There are no more Dunkin' Donuts, they have been rebranded as just "Dunkin'" now.
I've still been drinking Cà Phê Sữa Đá, Vietnamese Iced Coffee, made with Trung Nguyen Gourmet Blend, for the most true and authentic Cà Phê Sữa Đá. However, Cafe du Monde is widely used in Viet-American restaurants because it was the darkest/boldest coffee that refugees from the Vietnam War could find at that time. However, Cafe du Monde has chicory in it, so that alters the flavor of a Cà Phê Sữa Đá significantly!
With that said, I have been wanting to acquire the proper ingredients to replicate the coffee milkshake that Smashburger sold for a limited time. I found an alleged authentic recipe for the coffee shake, which calls for Chameleon cold-brew coffee, and Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice-cream. I do believe it is the most delectable coffee shake I have ever tasted!
If a restaurant serves a coffee flavored milkshake, I have to try it. Culver's makes a tasty espresso milkshake, but they use a frozen custard in their shakes.
Outback Steakhouse temporarily had an incredibly yummy coffee shake as well, that was real close to the tastiness of Smashburger's. However, I have yet to find a recipe for theirs. It was an incredibly creamy, and dreamy, shake, but those sadistic freaks at Outback Steakhouse only served them in a mini-bottle that was about six ounces in total size.
So soon here, my path to attaining coffee-consciousness, in order to communicate directly with Baba Java, will likely be upon the path comprised of coffee which is ice-cream-based!
I’m drinking Arkansas and Missouri railroad coffee
That sounds like fun will add silly things. Enjoy and by silly have a great day.🤡🤖🤔
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Drinking Death Wish coffee this morning.