{"id":3764,"date":"2013-12-07T22:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-08T03:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3764"},"modified":"2015-06-22T12:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:16:11","slug":"dollars-for-scholars-train-show-winooski-vt-12072013-lots-of-panoramas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/12\/07\/dollars-for-scholars-train-show-winooski-vt-12072013-lots-of-panoramas\/","title":{"rendered":"Dollars for Scholars Train Show, Winooski, VT, 12\/07\/2013: lots of panoramas!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Janna and I hit the Dollars for Scholars Train Show this morning, conveniently located blocks away from where we now live. I spent hours making panorama shots and correcting the nasty yellow fluorescent cast on all these photos, so witty captions will be sparse.<\/p>\n

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Clip art shows the way.<\/p>\n

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At the "Oh God, please make it go away!" table, Janna stocked up on magazines.<\/p>\n

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Panorama of Lewis Buchspics’ layout, which we saw last year<\/a> in a slightly different configuration. Detail shots below.<\/p>\n

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Some seller was offering both this framed Lionel packaging and the pieces below. The full-color pictures are so beautiful.<\/p>\n

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I greatly admired this tinplate O-scale cable car. It reminds me of a box of animal crackers, and the combination of bright colors and cheerful expressions make me smile. Janna bought it for me!!!<\/p>\n

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1:24 scale porter of color has unfortunately been hand-detailed by some white dipstick whose sole experience of people of color extends to bug-eyed caricatures.<\/p>\n

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A portion of the Vermont Garden Railway Society’s layout appears above. Detail of West Randolph Grill below.<\/p>\n

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Don’t let that bunny get away, or else you will have to change your soup du jour!<\/em><\/p>\n

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The "create a panorama" function in Photoshop Elements allows me to give photographic overviews of large layouts, such as this one by the Northwestern Vermont Model Railroading Society.<\/p>\n

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Ephemera for sale advertises various train routes.<\/p>\n

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It’s my favorite part of the show: Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout! Smaller than usual, this testament to her creativity and twisted sense of humor nevertheless contained many humorous vignettes for me to find.<\/p>\n

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Cat lady feeds her horde of not-particularly-loyal familiars.<\/p>\n

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Centaurs don’t know what that whizzing thing on the circular road is, but they’re going to kill it the next time it comes around.<\/p>\n

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The bovine-loving aliens have returned. This time they have convinced a stegosaurus and a triceratops to go along with their endgame [whatever that is].<\/p>\n

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Not interested in the aliens’ proposals of world domination, however, the velociraptors harass the driver of a delivery van.<\/p>\n

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Just above the left gate, a zombie mime [?!] with a crowbar terrorizes the graveyard.<\/p>\n

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Having been in the air for twelve hours straight without a layover, Santa relieves himself behind a convenient tree, unaware that a firefighter observes him.<\/p>\n

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Get a grip, Spiderman!<\/p>\n

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Head-first into a snowbank — what a way to end up!<\/p>\n

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1602315.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I’d prefer it if you’d comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Janna and I hit the Dollars for Scholars Train Show this morning, conveniently located blocks away from where we now live. I spent hours making panorama shots and correcting the nasty yellow fluorescent cast on all these photos, so witty captions will be sparse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[646],"class_list":["post-3764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4927,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3764\/revisions\/4927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}