Just Humor Me!

Are these scale or semi-scale? Is a weathered raptor actually weathered or simply dirty? Is Nellie's fate the origin of the exclamation "Whoa, Nellie!"?

@RustyJ posted:

Menards released some new O gauge vehicles (or close to it!) that come with dinosaurs. I thought I could trust Menards's dinosaurs to behave but as soon as I let them out of their boxes to stretch their legs, they go on a rampage in my Christmas town! Fortunately, they were quickly rounded up with only one casualty! Update: The name of the one casualty was Nellie, who hailed from Tarantula Falls.

Godzilla would be proud……..

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Fortunately the game warden was able to round them up and put them in a safe place

-walt

@walt rapp posted:

Fortunately the game warden was able to round them up and put them in a safe place

-walt

Love it!

Thanks @RustyJ

fun topic to play with.  On my zillion Christmas layouts, I used a dino scene on about 4 of them.  Here is m y 2023 Christmas layout version:

-walt.

Just noticed what this thread was all about!  Good whimsy never dies!  Many of our legion of old pharts in this hobby will remember John Allen and his Gorre & Daphetid railroad.  John, among the many, many skills he had in promoting the "Fun" of model railroading, loved the whimsical.

Case in point: Emma, #13, the work Stegosaurus, occasionally photographed working the yard tracks with her team of 'drivers' and caretakers sorting cars.  In Linn Wescott's book, Model Railroading with John Allen, page 58, is a photo of Emma hard at work.  Per Linn's review of John's love for Emma John wrote, that she was "not very smart, but obliging and strong."  And, Emma was especially versatile over other motive power in a dual-gauge yard!

Emma appeared in several photos in publications about John Allen's G&D railroad, even those famously gracing the entire back cover of issues of Model Railroader magazine for Gordon Varney's innovative HO products.

All of which should result in a smile when working on the our railroad!

Thanks, Menard's!

KD ('Lucas Gudinov')

The county dismantled the dino park due to upkeep costs.  The animals had to go somewhere so they created this alternate site:

- walt

Here's how they got transported.  good old rail travel!!

- walt

A mere 2 years later, a developer bought that property and the poor animals had to be moved again.  They're starting to get mean now!  I don't think that fence will do much.

Here's their smaller new home.

- walt

@walt rapp posted:

A mere 2 years later, a developer bought that property and the poor animals had to be moved again.  They're starting to get mean now!  I don't think that fence will do much.

Ah, yes...  Remembering that hard-working, albeit a tad feisty, Stegosaurus on John Allen's iconic G&D railroad, it's just another sad tale of 'Emma-nent Domain'...those nasty developers working in cahoots with sleazy politicians to disrupt the lives of hard-working locals, promising to 'improve' the neighborhood!

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Sic 'em, T-Rex!!!

I sure hope the Sunoco station I just ordered does not have any dinosaurs with it.  The dinosaur brand station across town might sue.