With a nod to Yoho, (who posted it in a different thread). Please post your ideas of scenes that every layout "needs". Let's keep it light / semi serious and fun. I feel every layout needs an: Interchange track Discrete swimming hole Bear in the woods... Next?
I think every model train layout need some track.......I crack myself up sometimes. One I've actually seen quite a few times is a police car with someone pulled over.
2.5 Trains, 1.3 Stations, and 3.7 Tunnel Portals and 12.5 yards of track... :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused: :tb-confused:
I think its clear that somebody on the layout needs to be in a state of undress. Either a state of distressing undress or, alternatively something from the Tales of Ribaldry!!!
Here's my Hobo camp. They're makin' music and there's a music module playing under the camp. The fidelity is good but the playing and singing is lousy. I've decided these guys have hit the moonshine too hard:
125 locomotives, 450 cars, 2-3 vehicles, 4-5 buildings, 5-6 trees and an oval of track on a 2x4 foot board. Frank
No bear in the woods (yet) and I ain't much for swimming but I do have an interchange track: I can't "interchange" any traffic because my mainline hasn't quite made it up to the second level yet. Shame on me for inhibiting commerce!!:mbiggrin: Brian
On various layouts I have had a crashed airplane, an elephant, and a dinosaur hidden amongst all the real stuff.
Too much moonshine, a small bladder, and a dark night might make for an interesting night in that camp! Watch that first step...
Another view..I avoid hobo jungles and stop action scenes like a car pulled over by the police,buildings on fire,bears,fishermen,passengers on the station platform,houses under construction etc..I don't leave shipments on docks. I perfer work a day mini scenes around my factories such as: a trucker opening his trailer doors,trucker talking to a forklift operator and other such scenes.
I would go with: Some roadkill An animal some place it shouldn't be An army tank hiding in some trees.
A space ship and aliens. And of course, there has to be a small mountain with a tunnel in it that the track has to go through instead of around (which would really be just as easy to do).