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Paul, instead of another sound boxcar or reefer, Lionel should come up with rolling stock that emit smell.  Imagine how good that boxcar of biscotti would smell on an early morning leaving the factory.  The youth hockey players at the skating rink next door would be drooling as the train went by.

Let me take you back to 1956 in horse country where a Maryland Midland diesel hauls a B&O freight train through a town called Plasticville.

[This introduction reminds me of the way Rod Serling introduced his Twilight Zone episodes. He would add a spooky remark like: "Although the train is moving, the people and creatures are frozen in time, as still as mannequins in a store window." LOL]

The smoking locomotive is an MTH Premier Proto 3 Maryland Midland diesel. Arnold

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Rod, I mean Arnold; what is the structure between the gas station and the tower?

Jay, to the left of the tower and in front of the gas station in my above video is the back of the Plasticville supermarket.

To the right of the tower and the gas station is the Plasticville corner men's clothing store.

Here is a photo of the Corner Men's Clothing Store:

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Here is a photo of the front of the supermarket:

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Since I don't have much room for structures on my long narrow layout, I chose these structures because they are relatively small, and I could have eough structures to make a little village. Arnold

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@coach joe posted:

Arnold did the crew stop t the Bird in Hand Bakery for some Shoe Fly pie?

Not sure, but if I was in the crew, I would have headed straight for the saloon in Intercourse, PA.

I just Googled it:. Don't know if there is a saloon, but there are some interesting activities relating to the Amish.

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I was going thru my plug door boxcars which are an extension of my childhood trains. I have been trying to recreate the

set I had between about 1953 and about 1965. It started with 1953 set when I was about 4. 1130 loco, 6066T tender,

6034 boxcar, 6032 gon, 6465 tankcar and 6037 caboose. It went into grandmas attic after that. I would get to play with it

when I went to visit for a few days. Somewhere along the line a 6062 NYC gon was added. About  '55 or '56 my dad and

grandfather set up a sheet of homosote on a couple of sawhorses in her basement, a bit wavy with no framing but amazing

for me. My grandfather showed me how to solder and how to use his table saw and said there you go and went back up to watch

the Cubs. Imagine a 7 year old today standing on a wooden box operating a table saw with no guards and an open belt. I

learned to make my own uncouplers (glue a nail in an old spool, wrap wire around the spool and apply power), made crude

manual switches on a piece of wood from an old box, etc. Anyway, here are a couple of short vids of my recreation of my first

set, and its progression thru the next few years. The little 1130 could manage the cars on the sheet of homosote back in the

day kinda, but I don't want to burn this one up. Sorry about the crude video

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July is military trains month at my house.  So I dug out some of my PW military items.  The inner train is pulled by 2 US Marines Alcos (both powered) and ends with the US Marines caboose.  I put an MRC sound system in the lead unit so now it has prime mover sounds, horn and bell.  Really livens up the action with these old Alcos.  The outer train is pulled by the US Navy Alco AB and ends with the security car.  Lots of fun shooting missiles and rockets at exploding bunkers and exploding boxcars.

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Boomer 0622, thank you for the compliment, we used hydrocal in scenic express molds and painted each one individually, and yes, 5 levels, all inter-connected together, so a train on the bottom level can wind it’s way around via two helixes through each level all the way to the top and via a “Y” on the top level turn the train around to decent to the bottom level. I’m getting ready to set up Routing with my Cab 2 remote to make it easy. Thank you for asking. Winston B, cool video, I love the UP lash up freight train, wow…James RX, Beautiful NYC diesels video, nice layout and great scenery,  Happy Railroading Everyone

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I got that last HO loco running yesterday evening. It's almost 25 years old. I now have four HO locos to run, along with a small fleet of freight cars. These are my locos (some of the locos have parts missing and are not in the best condition, but they run):

-Life-Like HO UP GP38-2 Hi-Nose #2007 (Just got it running yesterday)

-Life-Like ATSF Warbonnet GP38-2 #3500

-Bachmann HO ATSF GP40 #6067

-Bachmann HO UP Greyhound 0-6-0 Steam Loco #4441

Here are a few pics of the locos (not my photos of course):

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