and he muses -
There's a restaurant chain near my home where the animals talk and I
recall a scene in "The Wizard Of Oz" where the trees threw apples,
but trees and such on a layout should not move a twig. Nor should a
saw mill saw or a coal tipple tipple. And trains should run endlessly
with the same loads they've lugged since Laddie was a lad.
One doesn't need a smoking steam engine, or a signal that moves, or a
diesel that roars to impress visitors. Pay no attention to those
stores about people watching a rotary coal dumper in action
- they're just letting their minds rest instead of watching the
woods and imagining what the trees are doing!
Maybe I'm not seeing the trees for the simulated but prototypical
woods, but I do know that visitors to layouts with operating
accessories are usually interested in them. Dick Cataldi and I built
the "Easyville" layout in Flyer for a magazine article and he did
tell me that visitors, even scale guys, got a kick out of running it
while only a few feet away was his W&OD scale layout. Go figure!
Bill, you reinforce my earlier assumption that some model railroaders
do not engage in "play time". It isn't necessary that modelers who
enjoy the hobby for the pleasure derived from modeling do so, but
there are some (like myself) who enjoy both. And as I write this I'm
looking at my "Sam The Semaphore Man" I bought forty years ago - He
just sits on a bookcase just waiting for me to fire him up again!
Raleigh in boring Maine ( lotsa trees, woods and a few prototype railroads)...
At 12:17 PM 11/27/2007, Bill Fraley wrote:
>"Folks my contention is that if you do a good job on scenery you
>don't need operating accessories.
>Visitors look at the layout and their minds do the rest.
>Most important is that the trains run and operate prototypically."
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