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When building a layout, it is difficult to find many many things.  Sure we can get nice houses, buildings, and some cases business with all the claptrap that comes with it some new ones out.

BUT

how do you find

swingsets, lawn furniture, lawn mowers, racks, hoes, shovels, mailboxes, sand boxes, sheds, boats on trailers, garbage cans, tv antenna, bird baths, tricyles, utility trailers, oil tanks (heating oil), firepluts corner mailboxes

farm implements, harrows, plows, discs, trailers, racks hoes, shovels, manure spreaders, (the thing that rakes up straw before it is bailed, hay bailers, barrels, wooden barrels, steel barrels, sacks of whatever, fencing, fence posts

business clutter, behind restaurants garbage cans, stop signs, speed limit signs, no parking signs

parking meters, mailboxes, bus stop signs chains, pallets, railroad ties, lumber stacks air compressors

generators

it is the world we lived in that we try to create but where to you find it at

O SCALE??

BTW JUST GOT IN THE COOLEST TRAFFIC LIGHTS AND THE CONTROLLER,  GREEN, AMBER AND RED FOR ALL FOUR CORNERS AND THEY OPERATE IN SEQUENCE AND CORRECTLY .  They would go great in 1955 chicago one thing missing and that is the pigeon crap on em

 

 

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There is "junk" out there. All it requires is a little time to find it. Most of it can be found in places where you may not have looked. For example: MJ Designs is a retail chain of stores that sells all kinds of stuff. From doll house to flowers and paper to models and stuff to make jewelry. Then there is on line with specialty shops that cater to us train modelers. They know what we want. The question is: Are you willing to pay for it?

 

Also, you might try modeling many of those items yourself. I am a pretty good modeler, but I do very little if any, any more.

 

Pete

Originally Posted by Wigville RR:

I get most of my Junk from Model Tech Studios , look on some of these picture's the stone walls ,wood walls ,oil tank's heating ,propane tank ,junk piles by the gas station ,were the hobo camp by the water tower the two building on the left , I have there things all over the place .

 

Guy 

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that is what it takes "stuff"  i remember landing at O'Hare airport once and flying in over DesPlaines il and looking at the back yards of all the houses,  everything you can imagine i saw cars, trailers, boats, whathave you and IMHO that is what makes a model railroad and it seems you and i think alike, i love your photos  this is my old layout that no longer exists and am in process of new one in new building  but  even though it was small about 50sg' i liked it

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