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Show Me Something: November 2014

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Show Me Something: November 2014
Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, November 1, 2014 2:01 AM

November Already! Time to set your clocks back Saturday night. More nighttime hours to be working on your layout or modeling projects...

Last October request was for something SCARY! How scared is the crew in that Pennsy E-7 when they see the future... and the future is AMTRAKCrying!

Old Meets New!

Amtrak's GE P-42 40th Anniversary engines overtake a venerable old P-Company EP-20 struggling up the 1% grade into the big city.

A quick reminder, post photos of whatever the previous request was.

In an effort to keep the thread moving, if it has been 24 hours anyone can post a new photo or request.

Show me another "Old meets New" scene...

Ed

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Posted by Kyle on Saturday, November 1, 2014 6:01 AM

Link to last month's edition (Show me Something: October 2014) http://goo.gl/1AxhmG 

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, November 1, 2014 8:53 AM

Old meets new: Here is one from the BRVRR archives.

A NYC passenger train lead by an ABA set of ALCO's passes a Husdon powered local at the east end of the BRVRR layout in 2011.

Tags: BRVRR , ALCO , NYC

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Saturday, November 1, 2014 10:38 AM

I'll keep the old meets new theme going. A K4s passes a local off to an E8A.

Let's keep the old meets new going.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Saturday, November 1, 2014 11:23 AM

Here's an old steamer staring down its modern replacment:

Let's keep the old meets new theme going.

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Posted by De Luxe on Saturday, November 1, 2014 2:36 PM

 Show me a lighted passenger train at night.

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, November 2, 2014 10:43 AM

It had been almost a day, so this is the closest I can come. A comparison of lighting for HW (incandescent/yeloglo LED) and LW (fluorescent/bluewhite LED) passenger cars

Show me any passenger train

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

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Posted by De Luxe on Sunday, November 2, 2014 1:08 PM

My brand new 1894 Sunset Limited at night.

Show me a 4-8-4 steamer in passenger service!

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, November 3, 2014 7:57 AM

Here is a 4-8-4 steamer at the head of a passenger train.

New York Central Niagara #6015 at the head of a heavyweight passenger train approaches Black River Station on the west bound mainline of the BRVRR layout.

Show me an 'articulated steamer' at the head of any type of train. 

Tags: BRVRR , NYC

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Posted by howmus on Monday, November 3, 2014 7:44 PM

SLOW  Mallet #326 (a 2-6-6-2) pulls a long string of boxcars up the 2% grade on the way to the top of Bare Mountain on the Seneca Lake, Ontario, & Western RR.

Another articulated locomotive please.

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

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, November 4, 2014 12:59 PM

My Class A 2-6-6-4 on the left..

Show me something on your layout you wish you'd done differently.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 1:54 PM

Shown here is Horseshoe Courve on my layout. To the right you'll see a piece of wood supporting the tracks. The is a raised 2'x4' rectangle nneded to accomodate a small "smurf door" leading into the attic area. I was I hadn't made it a rectangle and instead cut the corner that juts into the middle of the curve at a 45-degree angle.

Show me some railfans on your layout.

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Posted by PM Railfan on Wednesday, November 5, 2014 7:13 PM

TO GP-9_Man: "Show me railfans on your layout" I couldn't help my sarcastic response but - does a picture count if it is a bunch of friends (railfans) standing on your new 1x4 benchwork for a stress test? Or does it have to be models? Laugh j/k 

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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, November 6, 2014 8:06 AM

GP-9_Man11786

Show me some railfans on your layout.

A few railfans hanging out near the Route 32 overpass on the BRVRR layout.

Show me a coaling tower/station.

Tags: BRVRR , UP

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Posted by middleman on Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:23 AM

Here's a coaling tower that needs some weathering...

Please show another servicing area - steam or diesel.

Mike

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Posted by peahrens on Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:21 AM

My service area, unfinished...

Show me a city or town scene.

Paul

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:54 AM

My city in a corner scene. (A work in progress.)

And this is where it is located on the layout. (Lower left corner in the photo below)

Show me another town or city scene.

Elmer.

The above is my opinion, from an active and experienced Model Railroader in N scale and HO since 1961.

(Modeling Freelance, Eastern US, HO scale, in 1962, with NCE DCC for locomotive control and a stand alone LocoNet for block detection and signals.) http://waynes-trains.com/ at home, and N scale at the Club.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, November 6, 2014 4:59 PM

gandydancer19
Show me another town or city scene

From the archives:

Let's continue with the city/town theme...

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, November 6, 2014 9:25 PM

Here is a shot taken in City of Heartland. 

 

Please shw an industry. 

GARRY

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Posted by yellowiron on Saturday, November 8, 2014 12:31 PM

PRR Geep working the MGM Distillery complex.

http://i643.photobucket.com/albums/uu155/tillerman55/railroad168.jpg

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, November 8, 2014 3:58 PM

Snake Eye Bennett's salvage yard might be considered an industry though Bennett never was the industrious type... :)

Show me something that is wider than it is tall.

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, November 8, 2014 5:06 PM

My new 3D printed HOn30 boxcab shell is wider than tall

Is your layout going to the dogs? Show me ALL the dogs on your layout (scale model ones, not live ones)

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

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Posted by zstripe on Saturday, November 8, 2014 8:31 PM

I'm sorry....You said scale dogs. LOL:

Take Care! Big Smile

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, November 8, 2014 9:16 PM

G Paine
Is your layout going to the dogs? Show me ALL the dogs on your layout

ALL the dogs? Well, some of my old engines are dogs... but hey.

A traditional pose...

"You aint' nuthin' but a hound dog..

A boys best friend...

These guys make sure the line that says "Pullman Passengers Only" stays that way!

... and of course, the proverbial Junk Yard Dogs!

Anybody else have some dogs of their own to add?

Ed

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, November 8, 2014 10:25 PM

You can see "Dawg", the junk yard dog in this photo. 

Please show an animal (or more than one) 

 

 

GARRY

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Saturday, November 8, 2014 11:31 PM

A herd of deer watching a K4s approach.

More animals, please.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, November 9, 2014 12:10 AM

Grampys Trains

Herd-o-Antelope

Show me a circus animal.

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, November 9, 2014 8:39 AM

Here is a circus animal on the loose. The locals call him Broadway.

Let's see another cat.

Bob

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, November 9, 2014 5:24 PM

The request was for a cat, here's a Cat, a D9 to be exact. Let's see another cat.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Tuesday, November 11, 2014 6:26 AM

Well, it's been well over 24 hours and no cat, feline or power equipment. Show me a bulldozer.

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