Model Train Journal

Picked up a couple books of house-plans, as offered by the Sears, Roebuck and Company back before the war. There are a few here in the 'hood that are strikingly similar, but it's tough to tell if they are Sears houses given 90-100 years of modifications. Anyway, for the Christmas "garden", the Cornell from 1926:



Standard construction technique - card stock, matt board, USPS corrugated, basswood interior corners, vellum paper window-glazing, various glues, acrylic craft paints. Went a little heavy on the glitter

I just keep finding more and more junk for the layout

and more track work

The "bridge to nowhere"...looks good. Estate sale finds?

Ebay, auctions Carey, and FB market place

Dennis Holler wrote:and more track work
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Thank you for all the interesting pictures Dennis. I saw them before they vanished. Nice sharp photos.

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healey36 wrote:Picked up a couple books of house-plans, as offered by the Sears, Roebuck and Company back before the war. There are a few here in the 'hood that are strikingly similar, but it's tough to tell if they are Sears houses given 90-100 years of modifications. Anyway, for the Christmas "garden", the Cornell from 1926:



Standard construction technique - card stock, matt board, USPS corrugated, basswood interior corners, vellum paper window-glazing, various glues, acrylic craft paints. Went a little heavy on the glitter

Love, love these !!! So well done!

COLD!

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[quote="gregj410"Love, love these !!! So well done![/quote]

Ditto!

Healey, another winner!

Thanks guys...fun project, maybe the last for awhile as I try to tackle some other stuff.

"Bigfoot Spotters Railway"...that's hilarious, Wayne. How do you find this stuff?

Paul

healey36 wrote:Wayne. How do you find this stuff?

The answer is, pinterest.com



See the tiny Lionel layout in the center photo (or PIN as Pinterest calls them.)
Here is the link to John Fiala's pins showing the steps in building that layout:
https://www.pinterest.com/elky78/lionel ... out-build/

I've never spent much time on Pinterest...never really understood what the intent was. Maybe I should look around in there every once in a bit.

A friend of mine recently asked me to try to run down some documentation on a distant relative of his, a former long-serving passenger agent for the Chicago & North Western whose career ended tragically some hundred years or so ago. Never shying away from a rabbit hole myself, I dove into the digital archives of Railway Age, a tremendous source of info on obscure topics. While I didn't find anything related to the guy's relative in there, I did read a number of articles concerning the nascent motor-coach industry of the mid-1920s. With a business model that challenged regional rail-travel, many of the lines were snapped up by the railroads in an effort to head off the competition.

Here's a shot of a motor-coach of a line owned and operated by the Denver & Rio Grande in 1927. The coach was built by Mack, and it had striking similarities to a Tootsietoy bus that came from a childhood collection that belonged to The Old Man:



They certainly didn't do a great job of cleaning off the flash in the casting department at Tootsietoy, but it's a fair representation of a motor-coach back in the 1920s. These turn up at the train and toy meets every once in awhile, but the buses are tough. The Old Man was one of the least sentimental people I ever knew, so a bit of a miracle he hung onto these for seventy years. Says something for his interests as a youngster, I suppose.

A few prewar American Flyer tank cars:



These represent 25+ years of O-gauge, with production ending in 1942.

Crack out the Jameson's tonight and hoist a glass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TD2Niae26Ow