{"id":3765,"date":"2014-03-15T13:33:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T17:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3765"},"modified":"2015-04-11T21:19:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T01:19:45","slug":"vermont-rails-train-show-essex-jct-vt-03012014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2014\/03\/15\/vermont-rails-train-show-essex-jct-vt-03012014\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Rails Train Show, Essex Jct., VT, 03\/01\/2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having familiarized myself with the general layouts last year, I focused this year on the details, particularly of the sets.
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Well, I did take a panorama shot of the Green Mountain Division of the National Model Railroad Association’s amusement park layout. I love fairgrounds!<\/p>\n

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Merry-go-rounds are my favoritest fair rides.<\/p>\n

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This animated vignette features a customer who swivels to and away from the hot dog stand, a vendor who approaches and turns away from the counter and, finally, a dog [behind the fire hydrant, probably taking a leak].<\/p>\n

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Panorama of part of the Vermont Garden Railway Society.<\/p>\n

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Laundry and<\/i> racism!<\/p>\n

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"Let’s take the tub and hustle out of this prejudiced diorama."<\/p>\n

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The Northwest Vermont Model Railroad’s layout contains a scale replica of the first Ben & Jerry’s scoop shop in Burlington, VT.<\/p>\n

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…As well as a replica of the station in the Twilight Zone ep A Stop at Willoughby.<\/p>\n

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"Little boxes on the hillside<\/a> \/ Little boxes made of ticky tacky \/ Little boxes on the hillside \/ Little boxes all the same…"<\/p>\n

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Avoiding HO scale bugs on the screened-in porch.<\/p>\n

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Napping.<\/p>\n

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Freud [?!] heads to work.<\/p>\n

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As usual, I spent most of my time at Barb Pitfido’s Lego layout, which displayed a Harry Potter theme this year.<\/p>\n

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Bart and Maggie Simpson get air on their joyride.<\/p>\n

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A testy zombie dwarf lurks in a stump.<\/p>\n

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Sick of invading, as they were in previous layouts,<\/a> the aliens finally settle down to drink tea with the locals.<\/p>\n

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A small-scale train show occurs in the midground.<\/p>\n

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The gingerbread individual brings a mug to the sweet shop that says DUNK ME.<\/p>\n

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Watch out, unsuspecting humans! I think that vampire woman is going to clobber you with her ice cream cone.<\/p>\n

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Hogwarts students test wizarding supplies and make a huge mess in the process.<\/p>\n

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Centaurs and merpeople hang out around the pond, while the octopus in the foreground leaves for less crowded quarters.<\/p>\n

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Who thought it was a good idea to put the horses, unicorns, ostriches, goat and hippogriff all in the same small pen? And who’s going to clean it out? [Note brown Lego doots and yellow Lego puddles. Barb remarked that she should have had rainbow bricks for unicorn poop, but thought of that too late.]<\/p>\n

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Michael Jackson performs for fans.<\/p>\n

This entry was originally posted at http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1633886.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":"

Having familiarized myself with the general layouts last year, I focused this year on the details, particularly of the sets.<\/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-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-trains"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","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=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4357,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions\/4357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}