Ohhhhh boy, this has been one of my favorite pastimes.
On our Christmas layout…
the Bad Boy Coal Mine (supplying the North Pole with all their coal needs).
a container of Prozac on a Depressed Center Flatcar...
On our Delaware Large Scalers modular layout…
a man walking out of an outhouse with toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his shoe
Liekies Dry Storage...
Insurance Broker/The offices of Eubeen Hadd...
the Sildenafil Citrate (Viagra) Tank car Loading Platform (with a light blue tank car that has acquired a vertical clearance problem after being loaded), the loading facilities are tanks that hold the secret formula...Fix-a-Flat and Minwax's Wood Hardener, the car has USEX reporting marks - Upright Shippers Express, and is stenciled "This end up", "May exceed maximum vertical clearance", and "Handle with care")...
And then my old HO model railroad club…
Fuller Bra Company (making mountains out of mole hills since 1934)...
and finally the Peking Moon Restaurant (picture of cat in a full moon, Chinese writing that loosely translates to "Cat, the other white meat")
But my favorite one would have to be what happened when our layout was set up last October at a train show here in nearby Elkton, Md. A mother in her mid 30’s was walking around with her 10 year old son, Johnny. Mom stopped to look at the Hooker Chemicals tank car which had a scantily clad lady perched atop the tank car and a man in a purple leisure suit and a wide brimmed hat rimmed with fur standing near her. The mom called out, “Johnny, did you see the people on this train?”
Johnny replied from about 20 feet away and at almost the top of his lungs, “I KNOW MOM, SHE’S A HOOKER!!!”
It was at that moment that the mother “got” the joke, and quickly grabbed Johnny and left the train show with her face beet red.
Apologies to all, I am an equal opportunity offender.
Keith