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Jarrell's Show Me Something - November, 2023 edition

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Jarrell's Show Me Something - November, 2023 edition
Posted by NVSRR on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 7:39 PM

 The last request of last month was for city scene.

 

A pessimist sees a dark tunnel

An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel

A realist sees a frieght train

An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 9:18 PM

A small city!

Show me a wooden barrel.

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Posted by Pruitt on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 10:24 PM

Here's a wodden barrel on the left end of the front porch of Todd Bros. Pallet & Crate...

How about a scratchbuilt anything?

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 10:56 PM

Pruitt
How about a scratchbuilt anything?

I scratch built the ball signal on the HOn30 line through Monson on Bootbay Railway Village layout

Show me something else scratch buillt

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by "JaBear" on Thursday, November 2, 2023 3:42 AM
My first model railroad scratch build, the stone viaduct.
 Stone viaduct by Bear, on Flickr
More scratch builds or kit bashes, please.
Cheers, the Bear.Smile

"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."

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Posted by danmerkel on Thursday, November 2, 2023 9:06 AM

Got it!

How 'bout some interlocking tower pictures...

dlm

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, November 2, 2023 6:02 PM

danmerkel
How 'bout some interlocking tower pictures...

A PRR brick tower:

 PRR_SG_tower2 by Edmund, on Flickr

   —and in the daylight:

 PRR_E6-tower-wide by Edmund, on Flickr

More signal/interlocking towers, please.

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, November 6, 2023 10:54 PM

gmpullman
More signal/interlocking towers, please.

Time to get this going again. An abandoned tower on my layout

The Athearn GP-7 is a custon paint I did from a prototype photo. 

Show me another custom painted loco

 

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, November 6, 2023 11:21 PM

G Paine
Show me another custom painted loco

Maybe not a pretty sight but these were the Penn Central days I remember. Just a PC logo slapped over the faded NYC paint:

 P-C_4090 E8a-curve by Edmund, on Flickr

More custom loco paint jobs, please.

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Posted by ckape on Sunday, November 12, 2023 7:44 PM

Here's a BNSF smurf I did up a few years ago, and of course not too long after that Atlas came out with their own

Show me a bridge

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, November 13, 2023 5:23 PM

ckape
Show me a bridge

Here's a Bascule lift bridge:

 By DB tower by Edmund, on Flickr

Another bridge, please.

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, November 26, 2023 9:13 AM

gmpullman
 
ckape
Show me a bridge

Here is my scratch built vertical lift bridge.

Show me another movable bridge.

Rich

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Posted by HO-Velo on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 11:42 AM

Nice bridge Rich.  Maybe a 'float-bridge' is a stretch, but it does move when rising and falling with the tide.  Show more bridges please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by richhotrain on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 12:53 PM

HO-Velo

Show more bridges please.  

How about three bascule bridges.

Show me a large freight house.

Rich

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, November 28, 2023 2:21 PM

richhotrain
Show me a large freight house.

Hadlock Machinery is located in the former New York Central freight house:

 Hadlock_Night by Edmund, on Flickr

Another freight house, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Monday, December 4, 2023 4:12 PM

I've been mostly absent from these forums for a while. I'm surprised there were so few entries in this thread for November and I don't see a new thread for December yet. In the past, last months thread would have been locked by now. What gives? Has interest in this ongoing subject waning?

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, December 4, 2023 4:17 PM

John-NYBW

I've been mostly absent from these forums for a while. I'm surprised there were so few entries in this thread for November and I don't see a new thread for December yet. In the past, last months thread would have been locked by now. What gives? Has interest in this ongoing subject waning?

There has been a mass migration from this forum since the weekend lockdown a few weeks ago. I fear that the forum is on life support.

Rich

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Posted by John-NYBW on Monday, December 4, 2023 6:16 PM

That would explain only 8 entries in Weekend Photo Fun. What was the reason for the lockdown?

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, December 4, 2023 6:28 PM

John-NYBW

That would explain only 8 entries in Weekend Photo Fun. What was the reason for the lockdown?

Lockdown is probably the wrong word. From about 6 PM on a Friday night until about 10 AM on the following Monday morning, the forum was totally inaccessible. To make matters worse, Kalmbach offered no explanation which caused a number of regulars to swear off the forum. 
 
Rich

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, December 4, 2023 8:33 PM

richhotrain
There has been a mass migration from this forum since the weekend lockdown a few weeks ago.

Besides the access setback I believe there is mounting frustration over the 'popup' ads that are causing grief for those people who use their telephones to access the internet.

It seems these ads overpower the tiny, little screens on these telephones making it difficult to make a response or navigate the site. So, multiple issues, really.

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, December 6, 2023 4:49 PM

It looks to me like Kalmbach doesn't value this forum much as a resource. They're in business to make money and I can appreciate that but I'm wondering if they have found out it's not producing the advertising revenue they had hoped for. 

All of print media is struggling to survive in this digital world. I'm surprised it has hung in as long as it has. It wouldn't surprise me to see MR be entirely an electronic publication five years from now, but I probably would have said the same thing five years ago, so who knows.

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