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My AOTW is the Hot Wheels Back To The Future Delorean!
"Marty! You gotta come back with me!"
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 1:23:23 PM
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| I used to live in Saint John, New Brunswick where they made these cars. They were quite the car in their day but never caught on, died a quick death.
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 1:41:34 PM
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 old Life-Like
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 2:54:56 PM
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"Do you know what this means, young man?! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!!" (My favorite line from the movie). Are not all model railheads "Back-to-the-futurists?"
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 3:04:08 PM
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John "Video Ghost Buster" fashioned us a fine little mini cam that sits in the head light hole of an F unit that transmits an engineer's view of the HO layout to a television monitor. It consumes 9 volt batteries, stored in the video engine, and is a dummy requiring a pusher unit. Like all John's work, it is meticulous and reliable. This is a real crowd pleaser during open house during National Model Railroad Month in November.
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 3:39:27 PM
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quote:John "Video Ghost Buster" fashioned us a fine little mini cam that sits in the head light hole of an F unit that transmits an engineer's view of the HO layout to a television monitor. This is a real crowd pleaser during open house during National Model Railroad Month in November.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â April 13 2014Â :Â 3:04:08 PM
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Besides being a crowd pleaser, these cameras are handy, on a large layout, for finding fallen-off parts and other hidden problems in tunnels.
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 8:43:37 PM
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Found these at a new antique store in the area.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 9:15:26 PM
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quote:Found these at a new antique store in the area.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 13 2014Â :Â 8:43:37 PM
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The wording is ambiguous. Is it the store or the antiques that are new? 
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 9:36:34 PM
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| Nice trucks, Jerry... The green KW is a nice find!
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 10:04:12 PM
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quote: quote:Found these at a new antique store in the area.
Originally posted by JNXT 7707Â -Â April 13 2014Â :Â 8:43:37 PM
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The wording is ambiguous. Is it the store or the antiques that are new?
Originally posted by scsshaggy - April 13 2014 : 9:15:26 PM
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Well come to think of it, some of these antique stores do in fact have 'new' antiques   but price them like old ones!
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 10:25:53 PM
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real cool BNs
Someday I want to find the REAL Dodge semi to make my own version of the UP truck & trailer
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Posted - April 13 2014 : 11:55:26 PM
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| That camera deal is pretty cool. I was at a train show Saturday and one of the modules was a drive-in movie theatre setup. A cartoon was playing on the screen and there was a playground at the front below the screen. Just like the real deal.
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Posted - April 14 2014 : 4:13:05 PM
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Hi Barry
That is the second time I saw that drive in. I was there all day Sat and you didn't stop by and say Hi Grand Pa Andy.
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Posted - April 15 2014 : 11:21:50 PM
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quote:That camera deal is pretty cool. I was at a train show Saturday and one of the modules was a drive-in movie theatre setup. A cartoon was playing on the screen and there was a playground at the front below the screen. Just like the real deal.
Originally posted by Barry - April 13 2014 : 11:55:26 PM
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Oh ya! There was this one dude at my local train show that had an H0 scale drive-in movie theater that had Thomas The Tank Engine playing on it on his layout. It was pretty cool and used a similar concept to the train camera which I've also seen at train shows.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 12:28:39 PM
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My ~AOTW:
Well at least these would work in any train room....
Penn Line advert printing plates... Original Here are about half of what I picked up on Monday:
Sean
"If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough!" - Mario Andretti!
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 2:10:15 PM
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ohhh I am SOOOO envious & jealous of you right now, Mustangs_n_Trains!!
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 5:02:14 PM
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Mustangs_n_Trains, where the heck did you get those from? I've never seen anything like that before.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 8:17:39 PM
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Life-Like flashing light storage tank...
It's using one of those tall skinny incandescent bulbs that blinks on and off. How long do those bulbs last? (If it burns out, I can probably replace it with an LED.)
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Posted - April 16 2014 : 11:24:57 PM
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well its silly with that long bulb in it cause it will light up the whole tower!
I suggest modifying it by removing that red lens on the top & replacing it with a blinky LED
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Posted - April 17 2014 : 4:37:31 PM
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| Driver on ladder checking out a problem with his bus 
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Posted - April 17 2014 : 6:03:23 PM
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| cool wks Where did you find that bus? I want one!
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Posted - April 17 2014 : 6:37:38 PM
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I love that bus, wks. The weird thing is that the bus driver is actually bigger than the bus in terms of scale.
-Steve
"A lot of modellers out there who go to these train shows see broken HO stuff and go, 'This is useless' when, in reality, they can still be used for modeling whether it's as a prop on your layout or a cool project to make something old new again."
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Posted - April 17 2014 : 9:18:44 PM
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The driver looks extremely befuddled about what the problem is, even to the point of pulling out all his hair over it!
Glenn
I was thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said, "... I drank what?"
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