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 Posted - January 20 2014 : 10:40:19 AM
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this lot of buildings were given to me off a dismantled layout a few years back,all snow bound ken
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 11:05:51 AM
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Nice buildings ken - and interesting, not very often to see buildings with snow. Good depiction of 'half-melted' snow look.
http://tycodepot.com/
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 11:55:24 AM
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My Tyco Barn & Silo kit... Guess there must be farm in the future of my layout...
Nice buildings Ken. The top one looks like a building that I like in Columbus, Ohio 
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 3:36:58 PM
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SOTW.... SNOW and SILOS SETS of the week
I don't have a one track mind. It depends on the turn-out.
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Is that a power-trip or just another pick-up line?
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 4:03:07 PM
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Am gonna hafta looky for that barn sometime
Since I is out on farm & The Beef State (Nebraska)
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Posted - January 20 2014 : 8:10:57 PM
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| Ken, those silos remind me of when my wife and I drive to Kansas to visit her mom and now I'm wondering if there is anyplace in England that looks like Kansas?, Ha! You're modeling a Pennsylvania road?
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Posted - January 23 2014 : 10:54:08 PM
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While rearranging buildings to plant my last BOTW, I sowed the seeds of discontent in my gas station. This is an old Speedy Andrews gas station how it looked last week:
As a kid, I was fascinated with the Sinclair dinosaur, and tried to hand draw it on the gas station from memory. It's not exactly right, and the green ink I used has faded to yellow.
The cast plastic imitation wood shingles were a funny color and really didn't fit my image of a gas station.
I found some Sinclair signs on the internet and saved and edited the pictures to fit on the false front over the garage and to make a roadside sign. I also put corrugated roofing on the building and repainted the thing. Hopefully, this is an improvement:
Here's how an HO motorist would see it (and grumble because both pumps are occupied).
The roadside sign post is a corn dog stick notched like a tinker toy on the pointy end. A piece of cardboard was cut in the shape of a Sinclair sign with a tab on the bottom to glue into the notch in the post. The whole works is painted green and the sign pictures are glued on and coated with acrylic matte medium to seal the paper.
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Posted - January 24 2014 : 6:32:43 PM
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That Sinclair station is lookin' good Don. And those vintage automobiles are fine. When I saw this I had to take my camera for a ride to our local Sinclair station where they have two of the Sinclair dinosaurs. There was only one, but sometime in the 80's the company borrowed it to make a mold and then presented the local station with an extra. I just googled to see when Sinclair started displaying these sculptures and my limited search shows it was in the mid 70's; probably a little too recent for your era . . .
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 Posted - January 24 2014 : 6:43:01 PM
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I don't give a darn what anyone says but Dino is STILL a BRONTOSARUS!!! 
Plus I has a friend who collects Sinclair stuffs & he even has a old 3 digit gas pump!
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Posted - January 24 2014 : 7:02:45 PM
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| hi scsshaggy,sure looks good sitting on your layout,the work done is brilliant,ken
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Posted - January 24 2014 : 7:48:11 PM
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Barry, I remember the sculptures being around before ARCO supplanted the Sinclair brand in my part of the country. This was before or during the mid '70's, so I think they go back at least a little earlier. The dinosaur logo goes back to 1930, but would not have looked like the one I used way back then. The period of my layout is vaguely post-WWII so I don't have to go all the way back to 1930's décor. Someday, though, I'll probably regress to an earlier version.
Ben, based on this line from Wikipedia, "Sinclair has long been a fixture on American roads with its dinosaur logo and mascot, an apatosaurus (Brontosaurus)". I think the logo is a brontosaurus and that apatosaurus is another name for the same thing.
Ken, thanks for the kind words.
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Posted - January 25 2014 : 8:13:54 PM
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nice thing about Tyco Bridges....sometimes with a bit of creativity....
Psuedo bailey bridge
just me Ray... and just because I have Tyco doesn't mean I am not a model railroader
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Posted - January 26 2014 : 6:05:23 PM
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| Looks good Ray. I first thought that was a real-life scene until I noticed the air hose on the floor, etc.
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Posted - January 26 2014 : 7:53:07 PM
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quote:Psuedo bailey bridge
Originally posted by rgcw5Â -Â January 25 2014Â :Â 8:13:54 PM
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I looked up "Baily Bridge" and that's one impressive piece of engineering. What struck me as amazing (and your model illustrates it) is the ratio of the length of a span to the height of a truss. To the eye, it looks overly optimistic, but there are real bridges out there with forever long spans holding up to the traffic they carry.
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