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MichaelWinicki

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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #15 on: April 13, 2017, 05:43:23 PM »
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Heh, you say that, but not sure you realize just how much truth there is in that statement!  I've chased along the old Middle Division west of Lewistown, PA with various East Coast Asshats and I gotta tell ya...some really sketchy chunks of Appalachia that make Deliverance seem like a walk down Fifth Avenue.  Trailers with tarps for roofs, inbred families of dogs under porches, etc.  Every stereotype you could imagine made manifest.  <shudder>

And from 1980 until the mid 90's there would be have been a 10' satellite dish next to each one.

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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #16 on: April 13, 2017, 07:10:10 PM »
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                 :|The Mobile Home at Shapeways  looks like the "Bungalette" that Lucile Ball and her movie husband Nicky looked at in the movie "The Long Long Trailer" at the trailer show before she saw the bigger longer one and fell in love with it which was the main focus of the movie. The Woodland Scenics trailer is a much foreshortened version of these older longer beauties. It still looks nice , yes "yikes !" will be very expensive. Remember "always apply your Trailer Brakes first, Trailer Brakes First!"                           Nate Goodman (Nato).  :|

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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #17 on: April 13, 2017, 07:13:06 PM »
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These could result in an N scale tornado...
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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #18 on: April 13, 2017, 08:21:00 PM »
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So have any railroad used planted trailer homes for workers instead of those crew shacks ?


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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #19 on: April 14, 2017, 02:50:16 AM »
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In the 50s and 60s these would have been nice working-class homes, and the trailer parks well maintained.  We lived in an old park from 1957 to 1974.  It was built as worker housing during WW II, and was well past its prime by the 60s.  The lots were 20x40 feet, designed for trailers no more than 40 ft long.  Think an international container, 40x8.  Sewer hookups were basic, stick a piece of flex pipe on the trailer, and the other end into a sewer pipe sticking out of the ground.  When the park was built, many trailers didn't have toilets.  The park had a washhouse, with washers and driers in one room, and separate men's and women's toilet/shower rooms.  Water connections were just as basic, a faucet at the bottom of a concrete pipe, about 12 inches in diameter and 3 feet or so deep.  Screw a hose on.  Unused connections were stuffed full of rags and covered with a board, to keep people from falling in, and the connection from freezing in the winter.   Electric meters had 120V plugins, although newer trailers could be hardwired to them.  Basically, today, it would be an RV park, facilities-wise.

I live in a 36x8 trailer until I was 12.  Nice people, grass, trees, no trash.  Not upscale, and there were more modern trailer parks in Pasco, but not a bad place to live. 

When we got a bigger trailer, 64x12, it had to be parked diagonally.  The park management had started doing that several years earlier, to fit larger trailers into the available space, and it made the lots a little hard to define.  Nobody seemed to mind, though, and unless one had a garden to protect, people walked wherever it was most convenient.
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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #20 on: April 14, 2017, 02:21:47 PM »
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Kinda looked like possibly a roof is removable.

I wonder how long it will take someone to take one of the scenes from Noch Sexy Scenes to be installed in one.

Video showed 3 different versions. Will definitely be curious at the wallet ouch factor for a trailer park.

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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #21 on: April 14, 2017, 02:40:33 PM »
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What - no junk yard dog on the porch ?

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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #22 on: April 15, 2017, 01:00:40 PM »
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What - no junk yard dog on the porch ?

We also need an old bathtub with a car transmission sitting in it.  :facepalm:
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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #23 on: April 15, 2017, 03:13:41 PM »
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We also need an old bathtub with a car transmission sitting in it.  :facepalm:

Some people are not as monetarily blessed as others and they make do as best as they can . Sometimes they come up with odd but ingenious methods to solve problems that the money rich would never had thought of . When I travel through the well to do hoods on LI I see the results of paid gardeners , but when I cruse the buck challenged homes or trailer parks I see innovative solutions and litter . I love those work-around's more than seeing the high priced spread .


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Re: New Woodland Scenics mobile homes in multiple scales
« Reply #24 on: April 15, 2017, 03:20:03 PM »
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Some people are not as monetarily blessed as others and they make do as best as they can . Sometimes they come up with odd but ingenious methods to solve problems that the money rich would never had thought of . When I travel through the well to do hoods on LI I see the results of paid gardeners , but when I cruse the buck challenged homes or trailer parks I see innovative solutions and litter . I love those work-around's more than seeing the high priced spread .

Good or bad, the goal is realistic modeling, isn't it?  :D
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