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 Posted - May 07 2018 : 07:31:05 AM
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Some small cars the Buss wants to see.
frank
 Cadillac ambulance nothing else
 Brekina made in W. Germany
 Horch Viking Berlin-W
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 09:14:30 AM
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Love them! Fantastic Frank!
Sean
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 09:44:28 AM
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Major league cool, Frank!   . I'd sell my lousy cat for
that ambulance! Who in the world made such an Art Deco thing??
I'm going to double dip, seeing how the Tycomania World is
drooping these days. Maybe it will annoy enough readers to
post something better!  
First up is this Ferris Wheel. I've had it since about 1999, and it
has been demolished not once, not twice, but three times. The
first time I dropped a 2x4 plank on it,   , then the
cats got to it twice. That is why it is missing a few seats. I've
got a whole box of seated figures and I need to sit down and
paint and install them. It is motorized, and it runs pretty slow
at about 4 volts. Adds a lot to the appeal of Smeltertown,
a shabby West Texas city, somewhere East of Nowhere.
I rather enjoy incorporating found objects, so when I stumbled
over this newspaper ad for a free poetry contest, back when
newspapers were more abundant, I had to make it a billboard.
Looking at this mis ensemble, it is evident that the shabby water
tower, reigning supreme, really needs a good coating of pigeon
droppings ... This layout hopefully goes on display at the El Paso
history museum Trolley Fest this Saturday.
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 12:36:30 PM
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Frank, love the ambulance!
Chops, you've really captured the feel of a gritty town with that layout.
My submission is a tiny TV (a Philco Predicta to be exact) that sits in the display window of an HO scale shop. It's cobbled together from bits of styrene. Not the most impressive looking thing up close, but it blends in nicely to the background of a scene.
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 12:45:04 PM
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here is what the double decker bus looks like that toptrain has
mine is original Made in England too
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 2:38:54 PM
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quote:here is what the double decker bus looks like that toptrain has
mine is original Made in England too
Originally posted by microbusss - May 07 2018 : 12:45:04 PM
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Bergen Point Bus line;
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Posted - May 07 2018 : 7:32:33 PM
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| Cool cars Frank and great photo quality.
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Posted - May 08 2018 : 12:31:21 AM
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My AOTW is actually track. Very OLD track. Tenshodo company wooden track. Got this in the lot I picked up Friday. Rail is spiked down on them, but not on every tie yet. There's enough for a full oval. Not sure if I'm going to keep them or not.
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Posted - May 08 2018 : 09:04:12 AM
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| Neat track AMC! Just how old is it?
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Posted - May 08 2018 : 10:35:28 PM
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Awesome accessories, everyone!
Here's my AOTW offering:
My collection of various Tyco HO-Scale signs....now put to good use on RETRO TYCO.
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 12:21:25 AM
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Great details. This is really coming along. Again, seeing the
over view, you demonstrate excellent forsight keeping it as
small as it is; with your close in photography it looks
huge, yet as an entire entity it is portable and is just
right as a demo for Tyco. Small layouts always fascinate me,
as this one really gets it right. It is more challenging, I
opine, to do a smaller layout than a large one- getting
the balance of what to leave in and what to leave out.
Sorry to babble, I love this stuff.
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 12:26:25 AM
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quote:Frank, love the ambulance!
Chops, you've really captured the feel of a gritty town with that layout.
My submission is a tiny TV (a Philco Predicta to be exact) that sits in the display window of an HO scale shop. It's cobbled together from bits of styrene. Not the most impressive looking thing up close, but it blends in nicely to the background of a scene.
Originally posted by DaCheez - May 07 2018 : 12:36:30 PM
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I've admired your dresser top trolley layout for years. So small, yet it feels so big.
Plus, it reminds me ever so much of the Toronto, or maybe it was Hamilton, I
knew as a child riding the lovely street cars with Mother. Your creation even
looks and feels cold! BTW, is the Predicta on a stand on the sidewalk?
It reminds me how fortunate I was that we got such lousy TV reception, and
what little there was were things like the CFL or curling matches. We did
stuff, and my life is the richer for it.
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 07:26:25 AM
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quote:Great details. This is really coming along. Again, seeing the
over view, you demonstrate excellent forsight keeping it as
small as it is; with your close in photography it looks
huge, yet as an entire entity it is portable and is just
right as a demo for Tyco. Small layouts always fascinate me,
as this one really gets it right. It is more challenging, I
opine, to do a smaller layout than a large one- getting
the balance of what to leave in and what to leave out.
Sorry to babble, I love this stuff.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â May 09 2018Â :Â 12:21:25 AM
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Thank you, Chops!! I really appreciate that, and yes, that's exactly my goal -- to remain purely Tyco, and in doing so, "build it small." Honestly, it seems there's no end to Tyco's locomotive and car production, yet amazingly, I have dedicated my interests to only specific cars and locomotives, so as not to fall head-first down the slippery slope. Man, now all I need is that Hunt's Snack Pack chocoloate pudding car.... 
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 09:20:53 AM
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quote:
I've admired your dresser top trolley layout for years. So small, yet it feels so big.
Plus, it reminds me ever so much of the Toronto, or maybe it was Hamilton, I
knew as a child riding the lovely street cars with Mother. Your creation even
looks and feels cold! BTW, is the Predicta on a stand on the sidewalk?
It reminds me how fortunate I was that we got such lousy TV reception, and
what little there was were things like the CFL or curling matches. We did
stuff, and my life is the richer for it.
Originally posted by Chops124Â -Â May 09 2018Â :Â 12:26:25 AM
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Thanks Chops! Ottawa hasn't had street cars since the '50s so I unfortunately never had the exposure you did. The TV is a pedestal model and sitting on the sidewalk in the picture. It eventually ended up in the window of a store.
This is what a real one looks like...
I realized after uploading my photography is not on point today. 
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 09:59:58 AM
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That's interesting to know about Ottowa. My visits to the capital
city were short and fragmentary, but memories of this charming
city linger. Wow, they got rid of their street cars in a hurry,
n'est pas? What was the rush?
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 3:18:51 PM
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If I understand correctly the cars and track were aging and in need of repair, and it was deemed more cost effective to implement buses. Sad, but on the bright side the city is putting its brand new electric light rail system through testing at this very moment. The plan (as far as I've heard) is to eliminate the majority of buses in the downtown core.
Oh the irony.
There is still one surviving Ottawa Electric Railway streetcar.
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Posted - May 09 2018 : 8:42:58 PM
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quote:Neat track AMC! Just how old is it?
Originally posted by RealBnsfIAÂ -Â May 08 2018Â :Â 09:04:12 AM
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I have an old Tenshodo 1960s? catalog showing this exact track. So it's pretty old.
Jerry
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