Atlantic and Southern RR - Throw Back Thursday

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Tom ...

I'll bite.  What is a patois?

See ya
Bob

Bob,

A patois is a dialect of common people of a certain region. As an example, we as railroad modelers, speak a form of patois. For a 2-10-0, the Pennsy called them Hogs while non Pennsy people called them Decapods.  We refer to 4-6-2 as Pacifics, etc. and etc.

The term Patois can best be described in language as slang or a dialect from a specific group of people.

An example would be like your closing of "See ya" is like a Jamaican saying, "Walk Good" or "Me soon come".

Now, aren't you glad you asked bredren, bread ran/brethren, (friend)?


Tom

[GPdemayo]

Tom ...

I'll bite.  What is a patois?

See ya
Bob

Bob,

A patois is a dialect of common people of a certain region. As an example, we as railroad modelers, speak a form of patois. For a 2-10-0, the Pennsy called them Hogs while none Pennsy people called them Decpods.  We refer to 4-6-2 as Pacifics, etc. and etc.

The term Patois can best be described in language as slang or a dialect from a specific group of people.

An example would be like your closing of "See ya" is like a Jamaican saying, "Walk Good" or "Me soon come".

Now, aren't you glad you asked bredren, bread ran, (friend)?


Tom

Remember the CB'ers in the 70's.....they really had their own patois.....catch ya on the flip side good buddy.

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I haven't posted to this thread in quite some time but since I can't work on the layout I'll add a little more to this thread.

The pictures shown above are of the older version of the A&S RR. I learned the paper and white glue mountain siding from Howard Zane. On one of my visits he was using the paper and glue to form some of his terrain.

Here is a fast forward view of the mountain side with light scenery. I say light as I wanted to get scenery on the layout and then make it more dense later. I never finished the scenery on this portion of the old layout.





More in a few.

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In this next picture you can see in the distance the "N" scale roadway tunnel. I used the "N" scale portal to show some depth perception in the scene.



The railroad tunnel in the next photo is "HO" scale.




The next photo shows an "HO" scale railroad tunnel portal.

More in a few.

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This is a view of the layout on the left of the elevated roadway.






See ya'll next Thursday.

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Tom


Very cool to see the pictures of your old layout. Thanks for sharing them with us.

[deemery]

Speak in patois, I do!   


dave

[PRR Modeler]

Very nice modeling Tom.

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Tom


Very cool to see the pictures of your old layout. Thanks for sharing them with us.

John,

Thanks for looking and you are welcome.

Tom

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Speak in patois, I do!   


dave

Dave,

Patois as in you speak French or like Brad Pitt.

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Very nice modeling Tom.

Curt,

Thank you my friend. I wish you could have seen the old layout and you'd really get the reason I wanted to change to a Florida style layout.

Tom

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Here are several pictures of the small lubritorium area on the layout. This area is between the old roundhouse and the mountain cut.

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This was my first attempt at adding a dirt road across the tracks including water puddles.

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