train oders

On 2/21/2008 1:45 PM azrock spake thus:

Shoot; and here I thought you were going to tell us how to make a module that would emit real train orders (wood, coal or oil smoke for steam, diesel exhaust, or ozone for electrics).

Been done years ago, as I recall. Think the company was Olfactory Airs or something similar. They offered bottles of scents that had a railroady theme. You put the scents on a scrap of material and placed it near whatever it was you wanted to smell a particular way... i.e., creosote near a timber trestle or your track work.

On a totally OT note, remember scratch 'n' sniff inserts in magazines?

Claude Allen

Hmmmm - was that in the Athearn catalog? The Lil' Hustler? Or the other Hustler?

"Steve Caple" wrote

I understand the first magazine to feature a scratch-and-sniff insert was a limited-edition publication intended strictly for our WWI doughboys.

It was entitled "Oder There".

The lucky among those guys were getting OJT and didn't need scratch and sniff centerfolds.

"Steve Caple" wrote

"OJT"?

On-the-job training. After all, wasn't one of our more decorated units called "The Fighting 69th"?

"Steve Caple" wrote

Well, if you're still speaking of the First World War, not really.

By the time WWI rolled around, the "fighting 69th" had become the 165th Infantry.

You gonna believe what some Army bureaucrat came up with, or Jimmy Cagney and Pat O'Brien?

"Steve Caple" wrote

Yes, I know. ;-)

But living in southern California as I do, and having worked in the entertainment industry, I'm also aware that movies are not (gasp) actual history. (Unless they're labeled "documentaries", in which case nobody saw them anyway.)

-Pete

How about "Docu-dramas??? Huh, huh? ;-)

Greg.P.

"Greg Procter" wrote

The word "docu-drama" is properly pronounced "fiction".

-Pete