All layouts require some compromises, I would suppose. But how about out-and-out illogical features? What do you have that really requires suspension of disbelief? This question occurred to me while responding to a reply under the thread "What one item is missing..." Didn't want to totally hijack it. My contribution is a highway tunnel that goes nowhere. I guess that's why the blondes in the car are coming back.
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Would the third rail count?!
I thought it all was pretend 
!!! Can't post pics from here, but a trolley to nowhere. A DSR street car that never gets to Cass Ave. I mean, the list can go on forever, lol. It's all in what works for each individual. And yes, I think the third rail counts 
mainline locomotives that can handle a 40° (O72) curve?
I don't have a "permanent" layout yet to represent my railroad, the FH&J, but I have tons of backstories and even some advertisements for my railroad (to look like it was for a real railroad on the walls of some future train room) made and ready to print on my iPad.
Another "tunnel to nowhere". In this case the river that flows under my bridge...
It's beautifully done though, Gilly. 
Probably for me the extra short runway at the airport. Then of course there was the plastic people next to k-line/plasticville buildings where the people would be taller than the doors! lol. But I run postwar anyway so I never worried about size differences
On my layout as a teenager, it was the #175 Rocket Launcher right next door to the Plasticville Cathedral.
The wedding scene I had staged on the sidewalk in front of the cathedral was often upset due to a crash landing of a rocket, typically at the pastor's feet.
This amused my father and his friends to no end...
On my layout as a teenager, it was the #175 Rocket Launcher right next door to the Plasticville Cathedral.
The wedding scene I had staged on the sidewalk in front of the cathedral was often upset due to a crash landing of a rocket, typically at the pastor's feet.
This amused my father and his friends to no end...
That is amusing to me, just picturing it. You must have had a ball.
Probably for me the extra short runway at the airport. Then of course there was the plastic people next to k-line/plasticville buildings where the people would be taller than the doors! lol. But I run postwar anyway so I never worried about size differences
Yes, huge installations like airports and racetracks just have to be compromised. It's all good! 
Would the third rail count?!
Ya beat me to it!!!
After that, everything else has been of no logical consequence for the past 70 years!!
Besides, the same train passing the same scene every ____ seconds/minutes (fill in your own blank) is pretty 'illogical'.
O3R? 'It's only illogical!'...Dr. Spock, running his trains with Dr. Cooper.
More joe, more joe...
All I have to do is look at my 9 foot newsboy!
Peter
I mean, they're miniature toy trains with plastic people and sawdust grass. I've got to pretend the whole time
What are they doing on a layout?
How about 95% of 3-rail layouts are continuos loops and many couplers leave 15 scale feet between the cars.
Other than that it's all real... in our minds.
How about 95% of 3-rail layouts are continuos loops and many couplers leave 15 scale feet between the cars.
Other than that it's all real... in our minds.
About 99% of all model train layouts are loops...in any scale.
Jeff C
That's nothin' 
mine has refinery sized fuel storage tanks close enough for the blast off to become a very interesting.(blast googles on please).Running 0-4-0s at 140mph?
Coal and sand lasts forever over 100mph
Derailment is fun.
Rollovers even funner
Santa and a reindeer are driving a convertible Bug, caught in a traffic jam of VWs from the 40's to the present.
The wind is from the N by NW at all times.
Catenary is that fancy Tesla/Scott version made entirely of transparent aluminum.
The flagman's name is "Shack-Neil" O'Keil" 
Right now I have to study you guys' layouts and pretend I have one too. But someday...soon.
This is for Charlie, wish no more!!
My transparent catenary will eventually be upgraded to wood and copper.
Until then...
Oh, that and my single stop passenger service .
My whole layout requires one to pretend. It starts with little electrically operated lokies that pretend to be big time steam locomotives and goes on from there.
What are they doing on a layout?
"Something wrong with that horse"
There is no pretending on the layout. It is all to have fun
There is no pretending on the layout. It is all to have fun
The exact same locomotive and consist of cars passing in the same direction every couple of minutes........humm, that would do it for me. Which is why I am building a point to point operation branch line.
I pretend that 1930-40s trains ran at the same time that 1950s cars did.
I pretend (but tell nobody about it) that there are trolley-wires above this trolley. The trolley's rooftop armatures don't even reach up for the wire overhead! Nobody has ever asked about this anomaly, however, and I certainly do not bring the topic up. Or maybe visitors just never saw real-life trolleys with their accompanying overhead power lines and don't know they should be present. I am from Pittsburgh, after all, and we knew trolleys (esp. 1940 - 1960's), so there is some irony, too, along with the pretending!
FrankM.
What can I say, folks don't even ask why a neighborhood that size needs a trolley of its own, in the first place (!) Maybe, all our guests in the train-room are just having fun and are blessed with good manners and plenty of the ability to pretend, right along with me.
My entire layout is pretend. Roads going nowhere, runway next to barrel loader.
Swing sets next to coal loaders, and on and on.....
All I have to do is look at my 9 foot newsboy!
Peter
oh, i don't know, here he is after work with the man behind the counter....
A lot of great responses on this thread - gave me a good chuckle when reading!
--Greg
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