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Posted by G Paine on Friday, September 30, 2011 1:36 PM

Selector - Friday Sept 30 is more than half over (EDT), do you plan to close this ShowME out and start an October one?? If so, I will have to drag the camera down to the layout!!  Stick out tongue

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2011 12:25 PM

P&Slocal

Ulrich,

I saw some pics on Facebook from a toy show in Belgium that reminded me of your modules. Are such small modules common in the old country?

Not really, but it is slowly catching on. A nice way of staying in (or even entering into) the hobby for those short of space.

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Posted by P&Slocal on Friday, September 30, 2011 11:39 AM

Ulrich,

I saw some pics on Facebook from a toy show in Belgium that reminded me of your modules. Are such small modules common in the old country?

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, September 30, 2011 11:16 AM

Here is my picture of the Eizan Dentetsu Line in Japan. A EMU commuter train is picking up passengers at the terminus on the outskirts of Kyoto:

Show me a PRR GG1 pulling a passenger train!

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Posted by simon1966 on Friday, September 30, 2011 10:30 AM

Top side repairs at the coal mine

 

Show me something that is not American.

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Posted by superbe on Friday, September 30, 2011 9:58 AM

Ken, Times up.....no SOO grain cars so here are their ikissing cousins. One corn and one wheat but who knows what's in them.

For you basketball fans I sponsored Patrick Ewing in a parade just after he graduated from Georgetown therefore the poster on the wall. He a top notch guy.

 

 Lets see  sand mine or a coal mine.

Happy Railroading

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, September 30, 2011 6:21 AM

 Show me a SOO Covered Hopper with the Wheat Stalk. If a hour goes by and no post, any SOO hopper.

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, September 30, 2011 5:54 AM

Times up on the gong style bell.  It's anybodies game!

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, September 29, 2011 11:52 PM

Has a whistle and maybe gets a few, too. Smile, Wink & Grin

 

Show me a loco with a gong-style bell.

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Posted by simon1966 on Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:13 PM

Something Modern

Heritage Scheme SD70ace and an AC6000 in Aussie livery

 

Show me something that has a whistle

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:17 PM

Desert scene:

Show me something modern

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Posted by ARTHILL on Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:29 PM

My whole layout is memories and I have posted many of them. Thsi is my great grandmother at age 100 coming out o fthe egg house wher she candled eggs for more than 50 years. The building was the bedroom of the oroginal house on the family farm where she gave birth to her 4 childen. There are a lot on memories still on the family farm.

Show me a desert scene

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:17 PM

Here ya go.

Show me a scene that models a memory of yours. DJ.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, September 29, 2011 6:12 PM

Since time is up on this, I'll pop in with another one of mine.....

Reefer taking on ice destined for the Big City in mid August from Cooley's Blue Ice.

Show me horses.

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:51 PM

Here's one of the Hoffentoth Bros.' coal and ice delivery trucks heading through Lowbanks:

 

I'm still lookin' for a reefer or boxcar in ice service.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:29 PM

Saturday afternoon in the business district in Hopewell Junction.  Even a concert by the Papec Band in the town park.  It don't get no busier than that around these here parts......Big Smile

Show me a delivery truck.

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:20 PM

Some homemade bridge piers, as homemade as you can get Embarrassed

The pier on the left is made from cardstock and the piers on the right are wood.  The cardstock pier/abutment is a temporary support until I finish the real abutment.  Still have to build up another bridge section on the right.

Show me a busy downtown scene.

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, September 29, 2011 2:00 PM

A peek-a-boo boxcar shot.

Show me a home made bridge pier.

                    BrentCowboy

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:30 PM

Here are some views of an excursion train chartered by the Bertram Machine Tool Works for an employee outing to the Erie Beach amusement park at Lowbanks.

The mix of cars included several Grand Valley coaches (non-air conditioned) along with this open-air "mountain observation car" from the CNR:

Also on the train, but not part of the excursion, was the combine from the regular mid-morning accommodation, on whose time the excursion was operating:

Here's the motive power, a couple of CNR Ten Wheelers, on the bridge at Chippawa Creek:

At Lowbanks, buses took the revellers to the lakeshore park:

Here's the locos, turned and backing to pick up their train:

 

Show me an ice-service reefer or boxcar.

 

EDIT:  Guess I took too long hunting for the photos. Bang Head  This excursion was operated over a branch line, and the combine is the regularly-assigned car, but if this isn't a proper example, please show one that is.  Otherwise, ice-service reefer or boxcar.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:18 PM

Here's Football Special with heavyweight cars pulled by SD's. Perhaps, it's special of U of Colorado fans on their way to U of Nebraska.

Please show a branch line train.

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Thursday, September 29, 2011 1:07 PM

http://i297.photobucket.com/albums/mm237/GrampysTrains/TOFC%20Ramp/P1050523.jpg

Great scene.  Love them early piggybacks and circus style loading/unloading. Yes

Sorry for the digression, back to the special passenger movement request.

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Posted by JimInCR on Thursday, September 29, 2011 12:35 PM

I know this doesn't count because it is not my own layout, but I couldn't resist because I saw this photo in Model Railroading with John Allen at the same time I saw the last request for a special passenger movement!

The previous request still stands.

Jim in CR

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Posted by leighant on Thursday, September 29, 2011 10:46 AM

Chickens are birds, aren't they?  And in fact, I figure-bashed HO scale pigeons with a little plastic goop and paint to create the N scale chickens running around on and under the porch.

This is football season and I am not a football fan but I AM a train fan.  I have heard of schools and colleges running special trains to carry their players and students to an out-of-town game.  Show me a model of a special passenger movement to carry participants in some special event.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:17 AM

Ten wheels, truck + trailer. DJ.

Show me birds.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:06 AM

80mph?  Why sure!  A breeze for this class of locomotive.  Her twin set the land speed record of 112mph not too far from where I used to live at one time.

Show me something with 10 wheels.

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:17 AM

 Tunnel by the power plant, there is a deer on top of it.

 There some bears on the cliff but I don't think you will see them if you don't know where to look.

  Show me something that will go over 80 MPH that is not a VW! Whistling

 

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Posted by wm3798 on Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:17 AM

 

here's a little wildlife along the river's edge...

Show me a trailer park.

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:01 AM

An UP Challenger

 

Show me some wildlife. Deer, Bears, etc.

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Posted by cudaken on Thursday, September 29, 2011 7:16 AM

On the Catenary I don't think Ulrich would mine.

 Show me either a Q2, PRR T-1, Y6-b or a Class A or any other big steam engine.


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