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This is a project I had nearly finished 25 years ago; last Xmas I decided to get some photos of it with my dad's N gauge railroad:

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I like it! Good thinking using the railroad as the backdrop!

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Good idea! I like it!!

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i'm ready to strafe.... enemy of course!!! :twisted: :minigun:

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Nah... he's just ridin' the rails home to watch Sky King after a busy day of cloud seeding :D

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Does anybody have some background on the cloud seeding company that owned it?

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