While scale layouts generally don't have log loaders or hay-jector installations, animation is certainly not unknown.
IIRC, John Allen had a working elevator to a restaurant on the top of a mountain on the G&D. He also had dinosaur "switchers", which were not animated but show he retained a sense of humor. Many layouts have working crossing flashers or gates, and not the toy like ones that bang down just as the train passes but slow motion triggered as a train approaches. The late O scaler John Armstrong (The other John Armstrong) wrote up building an engineer figure who turned his had when the locomtive reversed. Jack Burgess, who's Yosemite Valley RR is one of the better known ones today, as well as one of the most prototypically vigorous, being set in August of 1939, has a water plug that swings out over the tender and produces a water filling sound sequence. Tony Koester, builder of the former Allegheny Midland and now the NKP Third Sub layout, has a "working" scale, that displays a somewhat random car weight when it senses a car on the scale. He uses this so crews can actually "weigh" when required by circumstances. Clearly, some aspects of "animation" are seen as desirable by scale modelers. Pieter E. Roos --- On Tue, 3/1/11, Luther <[email protected]> wrote: > Frank Titman had an operating rotary coal dumper in his > scale layout years ago, currently has an operating coal > loader in his coal mine. > The reason the 2 mentioned HO layouts are "famous", > whatever that means, is because of the photos in the MR > press. The South Jersey club layout has been presented to > thousands of eyes and hands around the country and dare I > say it, done more to help the MRR hobby than looking at pics > in a magazine.....Now can we get back to modeling > subjects... > > Luther "S" ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
