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Bob Bufkin

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« Reply #15 on: March 03, 2013, 09:32:29 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2013, 09:51:00 PM »
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looks like a marble maze game

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« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2013, 09:51:19 PM »
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LOL.  Gravity powered.  Picks up enough roller coaster speed to propel the consist back up to the top! :D

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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2013, 09:54:49 PM »
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That would have entertained the crap out of me as a kid.

I don't think it's being billed as a hyperrealistic model railroad, so I'm not gonna judge.  Now, if that guy were all up in here talking smack about his skillz, we'd be having a different conversation.

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Re: Yo! Dude!
« Reply #19 on: March 03, 2013, 09:57:32 PM »
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Does look kinda like a Japanese Pachinko game.

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« Reply #20 on: March 03, 2013, 10:11:05 PM »
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I don't even recognize that as the same hobby as mine...

It's probably not. Note that the pictures immediately preceding and following the layout are of LEGO constructs.

I'll give the guy credit for some pretty impressive woodworking, and I'll bet it's entertaining as heck to watch a dozen-plus trains looping back-and-forth.

So nice to see everyone beating on him because he's having fun in an unapproved way.   :(
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« Reply #21 on: March 03, 2013, 10:19:20 PM »
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I think there is actually quite a bit of skill on display in this pike, if you're willing to think of it as a kind of kinetic sculpture, or a marble maze, as Karin notes.  While it's not something I'd ever want to build myself, I think it's kind of cool. 


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« Reply #22 on: March 03, 2013, 10:22:39 PM »
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It's probably not. Note that the pictures immediately preceding and following the layout are of LEGO constructs.

I'll give the guy credit for some pretty impressive woodworking, and I'll bet it's entertaining as heck to watch a dozen-plus trains looping back-and-forth.

So nice to see everyone beating on him because he's having fun in an unapproved way.   :(

Says 32 loops , so I am guessing 32 individual circuits ..... 32 trains , and 1 neighborhood brown-out .


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Re: Yo! Dude!
« Reply #23 on: March 03, 2013, 10:36:16 PM »
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Yo dawg I heard you like N scale layouts so I put an N scale layout in your N scale layout so you can watch trains while you watch trains.
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Re: Yo! Dude!
« Reply #24 on: March 04, 2013, 02:48:13 AM »
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Yo! Dude! Frank!
Would you please consider putting an actual topic in your thread titles, PLEEZ?
Unbelievable... :? Yo dude? Really?
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« Reply #25 on: March 04, 2013, 05:30:31 AM »
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I see room for one more track right there.

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« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2013, 06:41:46 AM »
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« Reply #27 on: March 04, 2013, 07:33:35 AM »
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It is surprising to me as well that someone comment this reminded them of an old Lionel layout. I had the same first impression and at age 73 remember two men in my home town who had such Lionel layouts.  Each just had a flat table with no scenery, but lots of track. Only in recent years, did I learn that both men had railroad connections in their life; one had been a brakeman until he lost his leg in a railroad accident and the other man's father was the local B&O agent/station master.
Until recently, I was not aware that anyone still enjoys that time of "train set up."  I met two gentlemen who showed me photos on their cell phone of a similar set up where 9 n-scale trains could run simultaneously.  :)  So those set ups of 60 years ago do still exist!

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« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2013, 09:07:57 AM »
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Looks more like a slot car track than a layout.
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Re: Yo! Dude!
« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2013, 09:41:20 AM »
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I dunno, looks pretty simple to me...

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