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Crispville USA
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Crispville is an HO-scale imaginary community in the Missouri Ozarks at the intersection of two non-existing state highways adjacent to Mount Dink National Forest which is also fictional.
The "Mayor" is a researcher, musician, composer, and artist.
Signage created using Chromebook art programs or real signs.
Interiors of the outdoor shop & general store have backgrounds that are printouts of actual store interiors with 3-D items placed just inside the windows for depth.
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July 19, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚂-18 - FRISCO
Paintbrushes and water-slide decals have been busy as I have basically completed all the transitions from miscellaneous train lines to all #Frisco to join my ready-made Frisco locomotives and cars in #hoscale.
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January 26, 2025 at 2:51 AM
🚂-17 - Winter Project (cont.)
Here's the little Santa Fe engine redone in modified Frisco colors (decided to merge black era & red era schemes on this one engine).
Not too shabby.

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January 18, 2025 at 7:12 PM
I am repainting and re-decaling locomotives and cars.
Is there any reason (like rarity, etc) that these two couldn't become FRISCO?
[Locomotives don't need to be authentic FRISCO for my layout of an imaginary town]
#Frisco
#hoscale
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#modeltrain
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January 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
🚂-17 - Winter Project
My layout's in an unheated garage. Train time moves inside the house.
I use a $5 yard sale metal roll-around computer desk that's perfect for indoor train projects.
Prepping items for transitioning to their new company: FRISCO
#Frisco
#hoscale
#modelrailroad
#modeltrain
January 6, 2025 at 1:50 AM
🚂-16 SIGNS
I like making most of my own signs.
I use Sketchpad® on my Chromebook. Easy to crop downloaded images, insert clip art, lots of options for fonts (kerning, borders, patterns).
#hoscale
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December 29, 2024 at 11:48 PM
🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄
Merry Christmas
from
Our Home
to
Your Home
🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄🎁🎄

#Christmas
December 25, 2024 at 11:35 PM
🚂-15
YEA!!!
My FRISCO HO-scale water-slide decals just arrived from K4 Decals.
The lettering is sharp and clean. I'm so looking forward to creating from my general stock some FRISCO locomotives, boxcars, flatcars, and MOW cars.
#Frisco
#hoscale
#modelrailroad
#modeltrain
#modelrailway
December 23, 2024 at 9:03 PM
🚂-14
I'm waiting for the postman to deliver my Christmas gift to myself: water slide FRISCO decals to use on several train cars and MOW vehicles that I'm turning into FRISCO equipment (see picture).
Historic accuracy is optional.

#Frisco
#hoscale
#modelrailroad
#modeltrain
#modelrailways
December 21, 2024 at 3:49 AM
🚂-13
My stable of Frisco locomotives and cars.
Many are based on actual cars from different eras. Wood, metal, plastic bodies; metal & plastic wheels; different styles of couplers. Some incomplete (will remedy that issue over the winter).
#Frisco
#hoscale
#modelrailroad
#modeltrain
#modelrailways
December 18, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Democrat representation from Missouri? HA!!

Time for Pelosi to heal and time for new leadership in DC.
December 17, 2024 at 6:21 AM
🚂-12
Dad & his brothers worked for Frisco (train) or Frisco Transportation (truck). Not hard to imagine why I would pick Frisco as the theme for my train layout
Since not modeling specific era/location I'm open to anything Frisco from any year from 1876 to 1980
#modelrailroad
#modeltrain
#Frisco
December 16, 2024 at 5:21 PM
🚂-11
I had decided on my layout. Pretty basic, using DC. Turn-outs are by hand, no wiring.
1. Painter's tape marked my roads. In fact the width of the tape was for my asphalt edge.
2. White & black art boards were used on some roads.
#hoscale #modelrailways #modeltrains #modelrailroad #modeltrain
December 11, 2024 at 2:21 AM
🚂-10
When the nearest model train shop is an hour away you learn to search on the Internet for necessary items for the layout.
I found a great source for detail items (fans, trash bins); track; & the unusual (miniature Bernie Sanders). #hoscale #modelrailways #modeltrains #modelrailroad #modeltrain
December 8, 2024 at 1:09 AM
We do more than model trains ...
We like to do music in our household. Here's an old-time piece called "The Kennedy Rag" on banjo and guitar, recorded in our living room a few years ago. Enjoy the music and old movie dancing.
#bluegrass #MusicianSky #banjo #folkmusic #folk #musicsky #ragmusic
Kennedy Rag
YouTube video by BluegillBuddies
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December 7, 2024 at 12:56 AM
🚂-09
The last train show in my town (over a year ago) I made the perfect finds for my layout. FRISCO. Locomotives and rail cars (and a stray MOW car to repaint in FRISCO colors).
This year's show was canceled; it was like losing an HO-scale friend
#hoscale #modelrailways #modeltrains #modelrailroad
December 6, 2024 at 5:00 AM
🚂-08
The layout is in an unheated garage in Missouri. And Missouri has winter.
So I "cut apart" my base so I could carry sections into the Guest Bedroom where I would construct what I could. Then return that piece and bring in the next piece.
#hoscale #modelrailways #modeltrains #modelrailroad
December 5, 2024 at 6:41 AM
🚂-07
Using Google Search and a couple of free Chromebook art programs I created all my signs (with the exception of STOP and crossbar RR crossing signs) in my town.
Business names and even the town use names from the family tree. #hoscale #modelrailways #modeltrains #modelrailroad #modelrailway
December 3, 2024 at 10:37 PM
🚂-06
My train town Crispville has "TV" businesses.
In the industrial area is Acme Dynamite and Anvil Company featuring Wile E Coyote as its spokes "man".
On the highway is KBHR radio from "Northern Exposure"- redid the logo changing the town to Crispville.
#modeltrains #modelrailroad #modelrailway
December 3, 2024 at 5:49 AM
🚂-05
Some of these are signs that I found on the Internet, some are signs that I made using Sketchpad 3.5.9 on my Chromebook. Pic #1 shows the variety of signs for a block of businesses. Pic #2 shows some cool signs I adapted for a coffee shop & dress shop.
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November 30, 2024 at 4:09 AM
🚂-04
I have named my train town: Crispville. Crisp is the last name of some of my ancestors and there used to be a Crisptown.
Every town needs identifying signs. These are some of the signs I've made using a free design program and free online resources.
#modeltrains #modelrailroad #modelrailway
November 27, 2024 at 4:12 AM
🚂-03
Only a few buildings permanently placed (see 1st picture with a snack shack) along the painter tape outlined roads. I started playing with various road and parking lot materials.
The track is a basic oval with a siding (2nd picture) & a couple of spurs.
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November 26, 2024 at 12:52 AM
🚂-02
Two 4x8's in an L-shape. Layout would be level so placed white styrofoam onto top of cheap but solid tables.
First pieces of track then painter's tape and a scattering of buildings begins the layout of my town.
#modeltrains #modelrailroad #modelrailway
November 25, 2024 at 6:04 AM
🚂-01
This was the beginning...
I started constructing or merging or revising various buildings for my layout.
All I knew about the layout was the town would be rural with two Missouri state highways intersecting for a healthy business district.
#modeltrains #modelrailroad #modelrailway
November 23, 2024 at 3:50 AM