NCIS's Ducky is a model railroader......

Ducky plays trains??

How the heck did I miss that??????

Just got done watching that episode. I wonder if model railroading is going to be popping up more in the future?

Dr. Mallard has a Mallard. How appropriate...

Once upon a time, "Ducky" was none other than agent " Ilya Kuryakin" from "The Man From Uncle". Wonder if he played trains in those days?

I saw an O scale "Mallard" on a shelf behind him in one episode.

BTW, my last name is also Mallard, and I live about 300' from the shore of Duck Lake. For Real. And I didn't plan it, it just happened. I still don't own a "Mallard" - would like to have an Ace version one of these days.

John

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Once upon a time, "Ducky" was none other than agent " Ilya Kuryakin" from "The Man From Uncle"

YEP....old enough to remember that too! Liked both characters!!! My other hobby model cars......a Man from Uncle model car of Ilya's is pretty rare/valuable!

I've seen the Mallard quite a few times in the background. I thought it was "O" scale. The one he was working on last night looked much smaller than the one I remember on the shelf. Illusion ?
Ed

There does not seem to have ever been a reference to Duckey ever operating model trains. But the people associated with the shows writing obviously have some knowledge of trains. The Mallard in the background on the shelf was lika an inside joke. You had to know it was a 'Mallard' to make sense.
Last night he specifically mentioned that it was a Hornby Mallard that he was working on.
Since these models come fully assembled from the factory, he was obviously doing something like preparing it for operation. Mayby there will be a train around the tree for Christmas.
By the way, there was an episode where I believe Abby asked Gibbs what Duckey was like as a young man. Gibbs replied in his usual manner, 'just like Ilya Kuriakin, and left the room. Fade to black.

I saw it, good stuff from a great show. I believe a few years back Ducky and his assistant were being held hostage in the morgue by a terrorist and they were talking about this very train in Scotland, setting a speed record back in the 1930's. Ducky mentioned the speed the Mallard train was going last night. I can not remember the exact speed.

Many thanks,

Billy C

Ducky likes trains! Awesome! I loved him in Pretty in Pink!

"For now, we will simply ruminate on the old Mallard train, which made a run from London and clocked a record 202 miles per hour"

I just don't want a repeat of that CSI episode where the killer was sending them models of crime scenes was a model railroader. Made us all look like nut-jobs. We may actually be nut-jobs, but we shouldn't be portrayed as nut-jobs.

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Originally posted by willbacker45:
"For now, we will simply ruminate on the old Mallard train, which made a run from London and clocked a record 202 miles per hour"

Not quite. The "Official Record Speed" for steam is 125.88 Mph (equaling 202.58 Kph), achieved by the Mallard in 1938.

Of course Milwaukee Road steam went faster.

John

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Originally posted by otftch:
I've seen the Mallard quite a few times in the background. I thought it was "O" scale. The one he was working on last night looked much smaller than the one I remember on the shelf. Illusion ?
Ed

Nope. Apparently he likes them, and has both O and HO models.

John

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Originally posted by LIRR Steamer:
Once upon a time, "Ducky" was none other than agent " Ilya Kuryakin" from "The Man From Uncle". Wonder if he played trains in those days?

I loved The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

In one episode Solo is tied up and forced to keep pressing switches to keep two toy trains from colliding, which will result in his demise.





J.P.

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Originally posted by J.P.:

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Originally posted by LIRR Steamer:
Once upon a time, "Ducky" was none other than agent " Ilya Kuryakin" from "The Man From Uncle". Wonder if he played trains in those days?

I loved The Man From U.N.C.L.E.

In one episode Solo is tied up and forced to keep pressing switches to keep two toy trains from colliding, which will result in his demise.





J.P.

You, of course, are referring to "The Children's Day Affair." It's available on Itunes and the series DVD collection is out.

I am a member of the Hornby Railway Collectors' Association (http://www.hrca.net/). This is mainly for Hornby 0 Gauge, Hornby Dublo and other Meccano products up to the 1960s, but also features some other makes including quality new products and reproductions. Quite a few members in the US and worldwide. I mainly collect Dublo but have a few 0 gauge display items.

 

There's been some discussion on the Ducky Mallard in our magazine and forum on this side of the pond! It is almost certainly a modern Hornby 00 loco (sorry about our odd scale compared with yours!). Older Dublo not thought to be in this exact livery.

 

I'm a fan of NCIS and over here last week's episode was season 8-10 False Witness. I have a copy on my hard drive but it is only a glimpse of the loco on the shelf behind in one scene. I guess your episode on 11 October with Ducky working on the loco was 9-4 Enemy on the Hill (from Wikipedia episode list and air dates). Looking forward to that but it will probably be next year over here. If anyone has sightings noted in episodes after 8-11 we would appreciate info.

 

Alan.

Thanks for the info Alan.........

So we have Ducky and Sheldon as reps on TV!! Could be a lot worst!

I'd like to join the HRCA. Thanks for the link!

Once upon a time i invited a psychiatrist friend of my wife to a session of our group of model railroaders. His comments later to my wife was "They're all certifiable."

Hmm. Known, to me, notable model railroaders/railway modelers were
Buster Keaton, Luftwaffe chief Hermann Goering, Sir Arthur Harris ("Bomber Harris"), and,
if memory serves, Jill StJohn. Yes.

If the above is accurate, in the European War there were two railway modelers sending
their air forces against one another. Good story; hope it's true. And like any red-blooded
guy in the early 1960's, I found Jill StJohn...notable for all kinds of reasons.

Hottest model railroader ever????

 

Maybe she and Adam West are going to run some trains!!! Per her bio the model train thing is real!!!!

Just a side bar for those who saw the TV series "CHICAGO HOPE" from 1994-2000.  How many of you remember Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin) and his office at the Hospital?

Carpet layout and his Lionel Trains.   He is a lover/collector of Lionel model trains and he continues to enjoy playing with them to this day.  He considers the concept of hanging on to such "classic" influential toys from the past very important to pass down to future generations.

Just a side bar for those who saw the TV series "CHICAGO HOPE" from 1994-2000.  How many of you remember Dr. Jeffrey Geiger (Mandy Patinkin) and his office at the Hospital?

 

Just slightly off topic, but seeing the above quote reminded me that "I Love Toy Trains" on the RFD network did an episode with Mandy Patinkin where they visited his layout.  He is extremely passionate about the hobby.  

 

They also did episodes about Tom Snyder's layout and Frank Sinatra's "train cottage".

Duck walks into a hobby shop and picks out a few O Gauge train sets and says, wait for it, "put them on my bill"