Old McDonald Had a Farm

Farm Scenes

Working on the farm here too. Great stuff guys

Erik, you are one talented individual. Those scenes are amazing. I showed that fourth picture to my wife and at first she thought it was just some old picture until I pointed out I was on OGR. She took the laptop from me for 5 minutes going back and forth over those farm scenes, awe struck by the realism.

So far I have a MTH barn, no livestock, not even a farm house. I called the Raineys but they aren't interested in model homesteads.

Another shot along the farm siding:

E-eye E-eye Oh what a nice thread! 

Beautiful work, gentlemen!

George

What a nice scene you have created.  Fantastic photography.  One concern though.  Cows and horses living together?  Sounds like trouble.  Where did you get the woody wagon?

Bill

Fantastic scenes.

Thanks guys,

Ray

@Arnold D. Cribari posted:

Another shot along the farm siding:

Hooray for Plasticville!

My Farm I stole from my daughter, Well on loan.

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Jackiejr,

I see the farmer has a brand new, never used manure spreader.

@turkey_hollow_rr posted:

Jackiejr,

I see the farmer has a brand new, never used manure spreader.

Yep  Just picked it up down at farmers supply. There is a plentiful supply of manure needing spread these days it seems.

....and then the bank foreclosed on him.

I'd call this thread the E-I-E-I-O-gauge thread!

Those farm scenes are great some really nice modeling classic and scale really look good.

I made a little shelf with a simple farm scene on my layout at little kids height with Ertl farm toys barn etc. it is not that fancy but made it for kids to play with it. My kids when little played with it a lot and now their kids my grand kids are playing with it. They get a lot of use from it.

I am just working on some sound modules for farms right now, installing them at our railway museum model railway display. I have found Little Sounds modules have some pigs and cow sound systems. You could use these on your railways or install them in a moving cattle car, cheap and easy to install. Can have a push button to start them then they shut off after going through the sound cycle or they can run all the time. Check them out cheap and good size easy to set up.;

https://www.ngineering.com/little_sounds.htm

Farm and veggie stand....

@mwb posted:

....and then the bank foreclosed on him.

Ahh, but not before Blackstone Capital offered cash at 25% over market value!

I've only visited the country, never lived there, so I did not know, as Odenville Bill mentioned, that horses and cows don't mix well. Thank you for that advice, Bill.

Later,  I will move the cows so they are away from the horses in this photo:

The Plasticville Produce Stand was a must have, when I saw it a couple of months ago at my LHS.

Arnold

The house I live in now was built by my Great Grandfather in 1894. From old photos of the property, taken in the 1920's, there was a "two-stall" barn, and according to my Mom, who visited the house often when she was a young girl, every house along the road had a similar building out back. All the houses built in that time period (late 1890's) backed up to a large (20 acre) open pasture with a pond, owned by one old well-to-do guy, who let all the folks who had houses around his field graze their one horse (for transportation) and one cow (for milk, as refrigeration was still in its infancy, for people with electricity).  Late in the afternoon, all the grazing horses and cows would walk back to their respective gates, and stand there, waiting for their humans to open the gates. They knew what gate was theirs, they came home to sleep, and lived together in each of the two-stall barns every night, apparently peacefully.

Whether the same could be said of the cats and dogs, is another tail.

The farm at Notch Junction is not the focal point of this pic, but you can see most of it.  Currently, the scenery module has been removed temporarily for revision; I will try to revisit the thread when the changes have been made and installed.

My farm has substantially changed during the past couple of years.

Here one photo of part of it now:

More photos to come.

I find the photos of farms on this thread to be calming and soothing.

Arnold

When a farm would typically be found at the end of a small town.

"We stand behind all of our products...except the manure spreaders."

@turkey_hollow_rr posted:

"Erik, you are one talented individual. Those scenes are amazing."

So far I have a MTH barn, no livestock, not even a farm house...I called the Raineys but they aren't interested in model homesteads.

Second that! BTW my wife loves that show (Homestead Rescue), now I do all my modeling in a Stetson and a professionally laundered white shirt opened to the navel!

this was my farm on my NG line, my great grandfathers farm

A few more photos of the farm on my layout:

Arnie, Why don't you add a donkey. They fit nicely with cows, horses or sheep. And I will give you some pigs next Saturday. Then you can have ham, bacon and ribs.

All our family farms, of assorted relatives, were sold out of family at deaths, by urban children with no interest, so l miss them, and their access.  I just have agriculture supporting structures, ranch/farm supply- tractor dealers, mills, and grain elevators, to represent its existent.

An Ertl Toy farm set, (most likely S-scale), works well for a train layout.