Post #760532 by EnchantedTikiGoth on Wed, Mar 9, 2016 8:21 PM

On 2016-03-09 19:25, Veronica! wrote:
This gives me one of my good ideas.

For couple years I have subscribed to Garden Railways magazine with intention of modeling President Lincoln's funeral train in 1:20.3 G scale. And using the railroad to serve drinks.

Problem: Funeral train does not put the fun back in funeral. President Lincoln not party animal.

But tiki train is. And tiki train does not need specific steam locomotive.

You can always do a model of a Hawaii plantation train. For example: http://www.aloha-hawaii.com/maui/sugar-cane-train/ and http://www.kauaiplantationrailway.com/rrhist.htm

I think it would be kind of neat to build around a "pre-Tiki" feature like a steam train... Go for more of the colonial aesthetic of the late Kingdom of Hawaii or early Territory of Hawaii periods (e.g.: Moana Hotel) or the Twenties (e.g.: Royal Hawaiian Hotel), something like that.