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 Posted - September 25 2016 : 9:34:46 PM
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The venerable Honest Sam's. Archival pic from 2009 Amtrak Train Days at Union Station in
El Paso. The 2x6 portable traction layout is called "Smelttown" in reference to a since
demolished neighborhood in El Paso, that used to lie in the shadow of the now gone
Asarco Copper Smelter, upon the banks of the Rio Grande River.
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Posted - September 26 2016 : 8:05:33 PM
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Chops - I think Sam needs to dust off his inventory a little bit.
Here's a ceramic HoJo from my archives. I can find no record of one ever looking like this.
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Posted - September 27 2016 : 7:50:21 PM
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Posted - September 27 2016 : 10:05:10 PM
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Yeah, I didn't realize how bad that looked. A little farther away but clearer
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 Posted - September 28 2016 : 12:49:21 AM
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coool
will look for that at toy show
I wants a closer pic of the Exxon tanker please
O.O I LOVES that Texaco Sign you made! 
I want one!
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Posted - September 28 2016 : 7:53:23 PM
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Microbusss - The Hojo, The Texaco Station, the white fire house you can just see by the flags and the buildings on the each end of the top level are all by a ceramics comp any called Lefton. The large ones went for $80+. I walked in to a Value City Department store and they had a rack of them at about 1/10 of that. Needless to say I loaded up a cart with my favorites. Their roadside series I believe are the same ones Bachmann has recently released in resin. I don't think you'll find the originals at a toy show.
Which Texaco sign, the tall highway sign or the Sky Chief billboard? Both easy to make, glad you like.
Sorry I don't have a good pic of the tanker truck.
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Posted - September 28 2016 : 9:29:18 PM
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Great scene. A lot going on. That HoJo's is the max! I'd like to
see more photos of your layout.
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Posted - September 29 2016 : 02:48:40 AM
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the TALL Texaco sign
I might tho 
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Posted - September 30 2016 : 11:23:27 AM
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"Chops - I think Sam needs to dust off his inventory a little bit."
You'd be right about that. El Paso is dusty as Hell. When
the wind blows, and blows like a typhoon, we call them
"West Texas Blizzards."
I am lazy to clean it up, so I call it weathering.
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