Hi:
With Thanksgiving so close I began thinking about what an ideal Thanksgiving themed train item might be. I might like an operating turkey car myself.
Bob C.
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An Atlas reefer logoed for a large turkey poultry packer....
Operating gondola: A "native American" with a tomahawk chasing a "pilgrim" around a stack of pumpkins.
Pete
I'll Buy yours Pete.
The Les Nessman Helicopter Turkey Launch Car.
A Car launches the helicopter and turkeys fall out of the copter onto the layout. An accompanying sound car would say "As God as my witness I thought turkeys could fly".
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How about a corn cob tank car, like this but with trucks under it:
Whatever the design, I'm sure it'll be a turkey 
(best pilgrim hat I could find)
How about an animated scene of the first Thanksgiving dinner with a smoking cabin in the background?
Bob C.
Originally Posted by Texas Pete:
Operating gondola: A "native American" with a tomahawk chasing a "pilgrim" around a stack of pumpkins.
Pete
Or a pilgrim chasing a turkey.
Well, as a manufactured, factory accessory, how about a "turkey shoot" car where a turkey or turkeys would stick their heads up and down sort of like wack-a-mole a country boy would pop up randomly and try to shoot one from the trailing car - sort of like that scene in Sergeant York. You could have fun with that.
As to home-made, well, this is the second year I will not have time to build mine own favorite Thanksgiving accessory: a 'Streets Thanksgiving parade, with about six floats and a couple of Caddy convertibles with beauty queens and a "marching band, etc., and at the end a gigantic float with Santa on it, waving to the crowd. I really want to do that, and have designed all of it and know it will work well, but all these other pesky projects keep getting in the way . . .
I believe that Lee is on to something good. How about an accessory manufacturer doing Macy Parade style inflatables for a parade. This could also be added to a Christmas layout.
Lee, best idea so far.
More like this:
quote:The Les Nessman Helicopter Turkey Launch Car.
Yeah, too bad Lionel didn't make the new "Thanksgiving Poultry Car" operating where the man could keep giving away/ throwing out turkeys.
Originally Posted by Lee Willis:
Well, as a manufactured, factory accessory, how about a "turkey shoot" car where a turkey or turkeys would stick their heads up and down sort of like wack-a-mole a country boy would pop up randomly and try to shoot one from the trailing car - sort of like that scene in Sergeant York. You could have fun with that.
That was the first one I thought of when I saw this thread title...a bash of the Lionel Sheriff & Outlaw car, maybe swapping out the Sheriff with a pilgrim figure and the outlaw with a turkey. A little micro switch to trigger a 'gobbling' sound effect when the turkey popped up would also be a nice touch, and possibly even a cornucopia image on the side of the car to finish it off.
The streets parade would be a great Turkey Day display Lee.
Otherwise a 'chase' gondola with Steve Martin running after John Candy...
How about a Legacy turkey stock car with a qwilable gobble!
How about an operating turkey coral like the cattle car but with vibrating gobblers. Gobble sound would be added.
Bob C.
A gravy tank car, a gondola with peach cobbler load, a turkey stock car, an open hopper with ears of corn, a hot metal car with mashed potatoes... 
Cranberry sauce tank car.
Hoppy
Eggnog tank car.
Hoppy
A depressed center flat or an Alexis chambers car with Plymouth Rock.
Originally Posted by prrhorseshoecurve:
TOFC comes to mind...esp from Rochester, ny!
Modify a flat-car with a slowly rotating spit with some turkeys on it. Roast them with a string of flickering LED "campfire" lights.
Postings from left field-
-a turkey stock car with a sign saying eat more ham.
-a pig stock car saying eat more turkey.
-an exploding candied yams car...not a fan of yams I am.
-an after dinner sleeper car.
-an action gondola with an Indian chasing a Pilgrim chasing a turkey.
-a boxcar that counts down the number of days till Christmas...oh come on, you know how early the sales start now a days....ok, maybe make that one the exploding one!
How about a mint car with turkeys rotating on a spit.
Jerry
how about a operating box car similar to the Pepe le pew car.
you could have a turkey on one end and a pilgrim on the other end moving up and down.
How about a Schnabel car carrying the Mayflower?
Try a regular stock car with turkeys replacing cattle. Don
Originally Posted by baltimoretrainworks:
How about a mint car with turkeys rotating on a spit.
Jerry
Count me in for this one Jerry - you could even put a rotating football on the other end of the car!
Get a train of ADM, Cargill, Corn Products, and Staley High Fructose Corn Syrup Tank Cars since the canned cranberry sauce always contains HFCS.
Andrew
I like the Schnabel car idea myself.
Bob C.
I think a gondola with a pilgrim, axe in hand, casing a turkey around the car.
