U.S. Space Force dollars at work!

Looks like money well spent!

Looks out of this world!

Great job!  Indeed money well spent!!!!  Enjoy

What percent of your GDP goes to defense spending?  I might be able to use this argument with my wife that I need to increase my defense spending on my layout to keep up with the other nations, 'er Forumites.

Chris S.

Nice military area John. It's neat that the kids in the Plasticville school can look out the window and know why they practice the duck and cover drills!

TJ

Very nicely done!  Excellent placement of everything.  Nice use of greenery to make this look realistic.  

Same age as me...

Mitch

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

 

Same age as me...

Mitch

Actually, I preferred the Ventures version and still have the lp somewhere.

FINALLY! An appropriate use for my tax dollars

VistaDomeScott posted:

Very nicely done!  Excellent placement of everything.  Nice use of greenery to make this look realistic.  

Yes.  It is very realistic indeed.  I remember looking out the window from school and being able to see rockets and missiles launching all the time with nuclear subs being launched at the local marina.  Back in those days, nobody complained about the deafening noise, thick smoke fumes, nor any of the health risks involved.  We were real Americans.  We knew might makes right, and we were the rightest in the world.  That was all that mattered.  Hmm.......I do remember quite a few satellites being launched from many of the flatcars.  It appears that's one detail you forgot about!  Now there was that occasion when I remember aliens monitoring us with some kind of floating balloon, but that may have only been in our local area where they also occasionally liked to study our cows.  They seemed friendly, so we didn't ask too many questions about it.

Thanks for the interesting comments and video guys.

Never thought about the school and the retail street just one track away. I do recall practicing ducking under our school desks in the 1950's just in case of a nuclear war - gotta be safe!

The engine currently pulling the military cars around Cape Warrenaveral is the olive green #45 U.S. Marine missile launching switcher. I also have the blue #44, U.S. Army switcher and 22 other space military cars including the Satellite launching cars and the floating balloon target car you mentioned. All of these will get their chance on the layout.

Gotta be careful with scenery with these two engines - they are very wide.

To stay in the spirit of things I'm running my Lionel Phantom set on the subway route below.

Anybody notice Batman on the grey gas tank in the background?

phrankenstign posted:

 Now there was that occasion when I remember aliens monitoring us with some kind of floating balloon, but that may have only been in our local area where they also occasionally liked to study our cows.  They seemed friendly, so we didn't ask too many questions about it.

Presented without further comment.

Mitch 

Hey Guys,

Click on the first "update" pic to enlarge it. What are the sandbags on the front of the missile firing range in the left background made of?

Mitch, I will never forget to SCROUNGE!

Nice John

I to like the military area.

Larry

M. Mitchell Marmel posted:

phrankenstign posted:

 Now there was that occasion when I remember aliens monitoring us with some kind of floating balloon, but that may have only been in our local area where they also occasionally liked to study our cows.  They seemed friendly, so we didn't ask too many questions about it.

Presented without further comment.

Mitch 

I'd almost forgotten all about the Pet Empowerment Through Aliens (P.E.T.A.) initiative.  Their programs like Habitat for the Manatees, Sloth-a-lympics, and Raising the Roofs for 'Raffes were slow to catch on.  Either the manatees kept falling through the roofs, the sloths found it hard to get motivated, or train station use was minimal, because 'Raffes didn't want to wait in a train station for a ride where they had to duck for every tunnel or risk getting their heads knocked off.

(helpless laughter)  You win the comments.   

Mitch