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Originally Posted by Mike Maurice:

Guys,

 

I started my layout in the midst of the market crash of 2007 I got about halfway through my layout decor which is a converted ping pong table when I had the bright idea of how fortunate we as toy train collectors. I suppose I wanted to make a statement.

 

The other half of my layout is dedicated to people living on the edge (Hoboville). I have 5 Hobo camps. All told there are 25 Hobos on my layout. Most keep to themselves but there are the fringe element who regularly ride the rails and have "dust ups" with Railroad cops!

 

I call it Boardertown. Edgy, isn't it?

 

Brother, can you spare a dime?

 

Mike Maurice

NO rail Cops on my layout. Hobo's can whenever they want. But trains still don't go near Big Rock Candy Mountain. No booze on my line. LOL

The Loops- The Main, The Low, The Tunnel, & The Big Hill.

In my head, the ceiling layout is Michigan Central. Outliving its NYC parent company,  it acquires control of many railroads, but corporate teams run them with their original branding. The system is known as "The Loops" for its 3-circles, all loops share the "Main", and stops locations vary with my mood, but...Today a dedicated eastbound priority out of Detroit /Windsor wrapping around the southern side of Lake Erie to Buffalo/Toronto. From Buffalo one western line cuts across Canada along the north side of Erie back to Detroit mostly passenger runs, its known as the "Low". Another line, the "Tunnel" is Toronto to Port Huron/Sarnia before going south, back to Detroit. "The Big Hill" or "Hillbilly Heaven"("hillbilly" is a Michigan farmer by definition) A loop was created for "100 years of heavy ore cars use without maintenance""Seems like it will last a thousand". It is an elevated line most of the way and MC's largest effort. It climbs a grade to elevation height right out of Toronto, heading northwest to Sault Ste. Marie. After first being presented with a rail version of the Mackinaw Bridge, congress quickly helped build it to get ore south. "We need that ore for the war"..That slogan, along with a small enemy sub photographed in the Great Lakes by Canadian officials, helped get the votes.(turns out it was a canoe, swamped and sent adrift)(We still win and because of "The Great Aluminum Canoe Scandle", Canada offers to pay for a nice bridge at Sault Ste Marie as well).

 

My Micro layout is "Mars A-tacky" A korny cartoon themed space train.

 

My living room layout is MC too. But the routes remain nameless. I do call it the junk pile on occasion.

 

A narrow gauge line from a Michigan ghost town's saw mill is rumored to be a possible subject of for restoration by the MC. The Shelldrake line was quite profitable for those who could keep the mill from burning(really). Its original owner Con Culhane, has regained his health, and has offered to manage the projects staff hiring "His way", "if a man will fist fight for a job, he will likely work for it too". Win or lose he offered."

    

Gramps would say his was "Lionel Lines". "Offering express rail service of all types between Lionelville and Plasticville City. Fast regular connections to P.P.-ville (not worth peeing on)(or a more PC, Smalltown-USA), "the Farm Platform/Silo", the "Dinner Factory"(cows&milk scene), various industrial spurs (oil, log, etc), and of coarse, the "[expletive] Yard", cause that's what an engineer would call it. (think happy beavers).  

 

 

  A narrow gauge logging line and mill is rumored to be trying to connect      

Originally Posted by Stephen C. Puntar:

I have a few names for my Layout. I just have to make sure the Grandkids are not around when I use them…...

Steve:  It's a shame we don't live closer to each other.  Your sense of humor is like mine, and you keep me in stitches with a lot of your commentary.  I think we'd get along famously.

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