I don't think anything on my layout is ever really done, but this is for now. It was fun, but I am tired: I had to complete so much more than just the trailer park to really "finish" it, including six feet of my country road that wraps around behind it, and the motel-diner-salvage yard fence "backdrop" buildings, etc. But it was worth it. This area a far, low-ceilinged part of the layout that I thought I might never even fit out with anything. Now it's pretty cool.
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It is just AWESOME! I love the story line to go along with the scene.
Thank you for sharing. Jon
That is just so fine. I love it. 
What can I say Lee, I'm speechless! 
What a great scene and story line. 
trashy, seedy, strip motel across the street, cops, women of the night, housecoats and curlers, people sitting in the front yard drinking beer on couches, and the one tidy trailer with the white picket fence complete with lawn ornaments. 
well done lee....
Geeze Lee, is there anypart of your o guage neighborhood that ISN"T on the "wrong side of the tracks"?
Fun post Lee, its like a 1:48 episode of "COPS".
Rick, it's more fun to be bad than good. 
That is a beautiful piece of work with excellent detail. Very nice job.
Lee, that's an awesome scene you have created! Very nicely done.
Happy railroading,
Don
Pictures say it all. What a talent.
Brent
I was nowhere near there. That's my story and I'm stickin to it. 
Don
Nice piece of work, Lee - well "acted" story.
Speaking of the actors and acrtresses in the scenes, who is the well-endowed lady at the Indian Trails? Where did she come from?
Thank you for sharing!
Alex
Lee: I need to know how this all turns out. Will there be future, on-going adventures at Tacky Timbers Trailer Park? Does the guy succeed with the nice young lady in red? Where is this going? Will these, indeed be the days of our lives?
Very nice Lee. I have cuffed and stuffed a few in parks like that in my younger days. Good work.
Larry
Priceless!
Larry Sr. didn't know you were into that sort of thing! Don
What can I say Lee, you've about covered it all; great work. I'd love to come up and visit your layout sometime, like I need some more projects to start. Will you be at the train show this Saturday in Raleigh? I'd like to meet you and share some ideas.
I love the name "Tacky Timbers"!!!! How did you ever think of that name?
Rick
Will you be at the train show this Saturday in Raleigh?
I am planning to be there around 11:00 to 11:30. Would be nice to meet you. E-mail me
I love the name "Tacky Timbers"!!!! How did you ever think of that name?
Rick
Well, I came up with the name somehow many, many years ago for an N-scale trailer park that I had, which was similarly trashy but of course not nearly as detailed. I loved it and, now that I am in to O gauge, wanted to reprise it. Hence, Tacky Timbers Too
Lee: I need to know how this all turns out. Will there be future, on-going adventures at Tacky Timbers Trailer Park? Does the guy succeed with the nice young lady in red? Where is this going? Will these, indeed be the days of our lives?
Yes, the lady in red is named Veranda Turbine, otherwise known by the nickname the UP gave the locomotive - "the Big Blow." (Sorry folks, could not resist, they really nicknamed the turbines that . . . ). She is a former Hollywood starlet whose biggest role was as the other woman in the classic film noir murder mystery, The Third Rail. I think she is talking to John Beresford Tipton III, whose dad gave away a million dollars a week, 22 times a TV season, for several years back in the '50s, and who basically owns the whole town - why he's driving the newest, flashiest car in town. No good can come of this, but they will probably have a lot of fun in the mean time . . .
Lee,
Once again you have have outdone yourself!!! I don't know what impresses me more - your imagination to think it up, or the skills to build it. I needed a good laugh today and I sure got it from seeing and reading about your trailer park.
Very cool stuff,
Ed
....psst..shh..Lee.. mangy cat pee, spilled trash, dumpster diving, mean dogs swinging from tires, giant ones playing with them, a hemp patch, a still, you like parties, right Lee?..... Lee... Screw paying that big guy back, and screw the rent.. Lets have a motel party with our lottery money instead! We could fit a hunn-ed people in dare man. Oh, the action.. Wadda ya say pal, waddayasay?OKsowe doit,a deal... yourgreat, deal, oweya, deal, nightnightclub, deal, thanksagain, De..............G'night Lee 
..Lee.. Electricity disconnected at the pole..empty telephone poles..wood for a window....raised hoods...roadkill dinners...the guy that got away..look at him go..almost got him, boy those new police cruisers look nice..Don't worry Lee, them cops is way to busy to bust this party up! Hahaha..Joe even stumbled over to the Cubans trailer to invite them so he could hit on the red head. hahaha.He never made it he's getting sick in the bushes the fuzz is just ignoring him..hahaha...Lee,turn up the music, hahaha.. These are my cousins Billy Jo, Bobby Jo, and Betty Jo, they stole a train to get here, I swear ta God. Its outside now lets....G'night Lee
...Good morning Mayor Lee. Sleep well? No, still not enough town money for expanding the police force, ****, squad cars are still crappy and nicer county/ state cars helping us out really make um look worse. The tax increase... would be so small.. Face it Mayor Willis, it would take 8-10 cars a night to clean that side of the tracks up...Govener Willis, the train with the auto carrier full of new squad cars you bought out of pocket is here!...The Coast Guard? but President Willis?....Yes sir..no sir...Yes sir.. the Guard will begin to deliver the beer to the never ending motel party as ordered.....Music Up!...
Too cool! Reminds me of some of the 'backend' areas of Jersey
Lee:
The more I study this and think about it, I believe it could possibly for a future episode of "Cops", "I've got him at gunpoint." Super-fantastic work. You always keep me amused.
Hey Endless, That was better then a movie. Thank You.
Is this why the town fathers built the country road? Did they ever imagine when they built that country road (with all the problems engineering that road, cost over-runs on the project, etc.) that Lee had a permit to build a trailer park already?
Really nice work, Lee.
I would like to see one of semis cruising by the park.
Excellent scene & story.
Lee,
I believe you have created a cult following ! This is just too funny.
I would think this a perfect opportunity for Allan to expand OGR and have a 2 page serial each issue showing the latest goings on at Tacky Timbers. At the rate you think this stuff up and build it, there would never be a shortage of material for the magazine.
Ed
Hey Lee, How about a hat or umbrella for Veranda? A R.R. maint. truck parked at the motel. Darker? Along side a feminine little European mico-car. Darker? a Cadillac, the Family Wagon, and a "private dick" with notes, binoculars or camera....
Lee, your great, reading and viewing posts of yours like the big trailer- tacky timber posts are one of the top reasons I joined here(Ive been reading off and on for a year or two) Your very skilled, and are one of the top ten personalities here. Your humor is big-smile-inspiring. Kept me giggling and thinking while I was painting, thought Id share. Thanks, keep it coming.
Casey, What'cha think. Change my name to the Endless Train?... Endless Adriatic?... Slow Train to Nowhere?..a,
nah..the,nah..it,nah..Wow, three strikes Im out!
Which trailer does Toby live in?
Love the name of the park!
Could you add a pile of empty beer cans?
Awesome Lee;
That's a classic scene. VERY Well done.
I was nowhere near there. That's my story and I'm stickin to it. Don
Did you ever own a 58 Caddy Don?
Great work as always!
Lee, I don't think I've run across anyone who has so much fun with their layout and creating scenes and back stories. The comments from the forum members are a testiment to that. Great job!! BTW, how did you do those curlers and handcuffs? terrific detail.
jerrman
It ddidn't take long for the Indian Trails Motel to become the seedy type of place one can rent a room by the hour. Has it introduced hourly rates yet?
Great job & great story!
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