Hobo Jungle

[rogruth]

Wayne,

Whose model?Yours?
I like the cactus and woodpecker.I remember seeing similar scenes when I visited Arizona that were not models.
Where did you [or somebody] find the woodpecker model?
A cool model of a hot scene.Love it.

[healey36]

I had a Northern Flicker that used to drum on my old outdoor TV-antenna, usually in the spring of the year. Unfortunately the antenna was mounted on a sixty-foot piece of galvanized pipe, the bottom of which rested against the vent-pipe for the basement oil-tank. The amplification he achieved via the sheet-metal antenna, sixty-foot pipe and 250-gallon oil tank was extraordinary.

He would turn up every spring, hang around for a couple of weeks, then head off to where-ever it is that Northern Flickers go. A couple of years ago I finally got rid of the old antenna, and conveniently the Northern Flicker. Later that year one of my neighbors revealed he had a bird beating the hell out of one of his aluminum downspouts...I said nothing.



Coutesy of Wikipedia, the Northern Flicker.

Healey

[Mitch]

Where did you [or somebody] find the woodpecker model?
A cool model of a hot scene.Love it.

Yeah, Roger, but if the GP9 is scale, the friggin' woodpecker is as big as a pterodactyl!

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Now that might be a better choice if you hit a large number of times and put the remains on a neighboring property.

Oh, I believe that that might be done, just toss the carcass out on Highway 61...

Hey! That'slike a little hiku...

Oh,
I believe,
that that
might be done,

Just
toss the carcass
out on highway
61.

(We don't need no stinkin English teachers here! )

[webenda]

Roger,

Yes, my models. I threw the scene together by shoveling some sand from under my outdoor layout table onto the table and spreading it around with a brush. Then wiggled the track and cactus model into the sand. Placed an engine and caboose on track and snapped photo.

Cactus/Woodpecker came from the drugstore. A few years ago they sold them as Arizona Souvenirs.

It was hot today, 122 °F inside storage shed, 134.9 °F on the train table.

The above thermometer is not calibrated but compares well to one I calibrated in an ice bath and steam bath. I think it is accurate.


Mitch,

You are correct (as usual) the Pterodactyl was about the same size as the woodpecker on my cactus model. I had to look it up because I thought they were even bigger. (One pterosaur rivaled a giraffe in size.) A scale size Gila Woodpecker would have to fit through those nest holes below the pterodactylpecker.

[webenda]

Night-blooming Cereus, Monday, ‎June ‎04, ‎2012, ‏‎7:24:44 AM

[rogruth]

Ahhh Wayne.There you go again.

[Tramp]

Wayne, that's a beauty.


Here's something colder. Plow or no plow? http://www.wimp.com/trainsnow/

[rogruth]

Cool video.So cool I'm glad someone else was out making it and I can watch from my house.

Thanks Tramp.

Do you know what railroad[s]?

[Mitch]

Looks like it might be CPRail, Roger.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Night-blooming Cereus, Monday, ‎June ‎04, ‎2012, ‏‎7:24:44 AM

Nice! I had one of those and being downwind of it was an adventure...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Now that might be a better choice if you hit a large number of times and put the remains on a neighboring property.

Oh, I believe that that might be done, just toss the carcass out on Highway 61...

Hey! That'slike a little hiku...

Oh,
I believe,
that that
might be done,

Just
toss the carcass
out on highway
61.

(We don't need no stinkin English teachers here! )

Haiku.

And, it was with apologies to Robert Zimmerman.........with inspiration from Johnny Winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGGR3b8vycY

[hev52]

Nice SP Wayne. Who done that engine? I have the Williams SP Power and Dummy unit from many moons ago. Runs to the max. Good investment.............





Rufus................why don't ya git vinyl windows. I would think his beak would go dull on that stuff..............

[webenda]

Hev,

[hev52]

Good choice...........................