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Show Me Something! May, 2017
Posted by Guy Papillon on Monday, May 1, 2017 7:24 AM

SHOW ME SOMETHING!

MAY, 2017

Welcome to the May "Show Me Something" thread! This is a place where forum members can post their photos containing a view of the "requested" scene or object.

No "real-life" photos but models only. After 24 hours, if the requested scene is not posted anyone is welcome to make their own submission and make their own request. It's all about having fun!  

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It seems that this Budd RDC was the last passenger service in April.  

Please show me another (RCD) edit RDC or passenger train. 

Guy

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, May 1, 2017 8:59 AM

Guy Papillon wrote: "Please show me another RCD (RDC) or passenger train."

NYC RDC #53 in service April 2014.

Show us another RDC.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC

Remember its your railroad

Allan

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, May 1, 2017 9:05 AM

a Rapido B&M RDC heading to Sheepscott on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me more RDCs, doodlebug, railbus or similar passenger equipment

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

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, May 1, 2017 11:48 PM

A doodlebug 

Please should a local passenger train with any kind of equipment. 

GARRY

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 12:07 AM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please should a local passenger train with any kind of equipment.

Folks are in a hurry to get to their connecting train...

More passenger locals, please...

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 1:06 AM

Here's "The Bee", the Erie Northshore's local accommodation pulling out of Lowbanks....

Originally a gas-electric, she was converted to diesel-electric after only a couple years of service.
The moniker, originally a nickname used by the locals, was inspired as much by the paint job as it was by the fact that she buzzed into town pretty reliably after the conversion.  
Management picked up on it fairly quickly, and she's now listed in the timetables as such...The Northshore's very own "name train".

How about some more local service?

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 8:19 AM

doctorwayne wrote: "How about some more local service?"

My recreation of a NYC PAX (passenger train) from ca. 1958.

More local passenger trains please.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC

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Posted by Yannis on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 9:39 AM

Will a work-in-progress local do? If yes, this is my (fictional) local passenger train about to depart, connecting National City and Oceanside, motive power usually an E8m a baggage or combine and 1-2 coaches.

How about a steam excursion / tourist train please?

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 11:46 AM

Every year during 'Railroad Days' restored Santa Fe steam engine 3781, an ALCO 4-8-4 Northern, pulls a mixed up set of vintage passenger cars from western railroads around southern California as a tourist excursion.

Please show me any kind of passenger train.

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Posted by last mountain & eastern hogger on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 2:29 PM

Whistling

Part of the CZ. shown going through the Honeymoon Tunnels on the Last Mountain & Eastern RR., with a grain train on the lower level against the river.

I'll request  more Stainless Steel photos, Thanks

Johnboy out................

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 7:06 PM
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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, May 2, 2017 7:56 PM

0-6-0
Show me something shiny.

Here's a shiny PRR B6sb in brass...

Show me something else shiny.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 3:20 PM

gmpullman
Show me something else shiny.

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Here is the STRATTON & GILLETTE Mail & Express train #56 pulling out of Eagle Summit Tunnel on my brand new cardboard layout!

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Show me your oldest WIP project. The one that has been sitting on your workbench the longest.

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-Kevin

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Posted by RR_Mel on Thursday, May 4, 2017 11:38 AM

This project, my wireless remote panning mini camera car, has been process for almost four months.  It has been waiting on a working camera for two months.  I received three DOA cameras in a row, the fourth camera should be here next week.
 
  
 
The circuit board above the battery holders is a two cell Lithium-ion carger card, it unplugs when not charging.  The Arduino BlueTooth module (not in this picture) plugs into the Nano interface shield next to the servo. 
 
More in progress projects please.
 
Mel
 
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My Model Railroad   
 
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I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.
 
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Posted by Guy Papillon on Thursday, May 4, 2017 5:04 PM

RR_Mel
   
More in progress projects please.
 

Two CP clone USRA boxcars waiting for the paint room.

Please show me more WIP.

 

Guy

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, May 4, 2017 5:20 PM

I've been putting up the fascia boards on the new section of layout.

I am now starting to test fit where the buildings will go in the area (Milo Mills):

More Work in Progress 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 SeeYou190 on Thursday, May 4, 2017 8:28 PM

howmus
More Work in Progress please.

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This little guy has been kicking around my workbench for more than 20 years:

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I really need an Overland Drive chassis for an SW1500 to complete it. I have a serious love for center cab diesels. A Whitcomb is in my future for sure.

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Please show me more old incomplete WIP projects.

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, May 4, 2017 10:07 PM

SeeYou190
Please show me more old incomplete WIP projects.

I have a boatload of them, including this boat and Hulett Loaders!

Show me more on-going projects...

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Saturday, May 6, 2017 1:14 PM

gmpullman

Show me more on-going projects...

It might not be a big project. But, having launched this thread for May, I feel responsible to maintain it going. So there is a Durango Press Fairmount M-14 Speeder. A small project between painting sessions.

An easy one now. Please show me a transition era diesel. 

Guy

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, May 6, 2017 2:12 PM

An Atlas RS-1, re-detailed and painted and lettered for a friend...

How about some more transition-era diesels, please?

Wayne

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, May 6, 2017 6:31 PM

doctorwayne
How about some more transition-era diesels, please?

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Here is an A-B set of STRATTON & GILLETTE RR F3s pulling a string of SGRR boxcars across a bridge.

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The setting is my new cardboard 1:1 model layout. Trying out photo locations now. You might see a bunch of pictures from me on this thread in the next few days.

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Show me some more transition era diesels.

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-Kevin

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, May 7, 2017 12:46 PM

SeeYou190

Show me some more transition era diesels.

.-Kevin

Pictured is an Alco RS 3 Winchester & Western at the mine

EDIT:

More Loco & Less Scenery

Pease show more transition diesels

Bob

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, May 7, 2017 5:27 PM

superbe
Pease show more transition diesels

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Bob, I really like the drag line model in the background. Was that a kit, or did you build it?

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This is a Walthers model awaiting repaint into the STRATTON & GILLETTE high visibility paint scheme.

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It was photographed crossing the newly installed cardboard bridges on the model of my layout. It is pulling a string of custom painted freight cars for free lanced railroads. Pacific Transportation, Prarie Creek & Western, and Allegheny and Crystal Bay are represented in the photograph.

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Show me a freight car that you painted and decalled, prototyped or freelanced.

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-Kevin

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, May 7, 2017 7:34 PM

SeeYou190

 

Bob, I really like the drag line model in the background. Was that a kit, or did you build it?

.-Kevin

It was bought as is off eBay. I believe it was originaly a kit.

Bob 

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, May 7, 2017 8:37 PM

SeeYou190
Bob, I really like the drag line model in the background. Was that a kit, or did you build it?

I think that's a Kibri 10384:

https://www.walthers.com/construction-equipment-menck-crawler-crane-w-dragline-bucket

Ouch! I bought mine when it first came out and it was something like $20. at the time!

SeeYou190
Show me a freight car that you painted and decalled, prototyped or freelanced.

These started life as freight cars and ended up as freight cars. In between they carried troops!

Show more custom painted or lettered cars.

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, May 7, 2017 9:00 PM

OK....  This photo has 8 cars painted and lettered for the SLOW in it...  Will that do???  Whistling

More custom painted and lettered equipment, 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 G Paine on Sunday, May 7, 2017 10:37 PM

U-18B MEC 404, "Kenneth Roberts". It is an Athearn BB kit that was modified into a U-18 by Chucks Chop Shop in the early 1990s (only way to get one on those days). I bought it as an undecorated kit, painted it, and decaled with Accucals (remember those??)

Show me more custom paint and lettering.

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

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, May 7, 2017 10:46 PM

howmus
OK....  This photo has 8 cars painted and lettered for the SLOW in it...  Will that do???...

It certainly will! Thumbs UpThumbs Up

howmus
More custom painted and lettered equipment, please.

Hmmm.  So many from which to choose...how about a pre-Rapido FPA-4...

...and a FPB-4, to go with it...



Paint is SMP Accupaint CNR Green and CNR Yellow, with lettering done with Champ alphabet sets.  The diesels, both powered and with extra weight, are from Model Power, and are extremely good pullers.

I like custom-painted and lettered stuff, so let's see some more, please.

Wayne

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Posted by rogerhensley on Monday, May 8, 2017 5:28 AM

Custom-painted and lettered. As you wish.

More of the same please.

Roger Hensley
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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, May 8, 2017 10:47 AM

rogerhensley
More of the same please.

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Here are a pair of STRATTON & GILLETTE boxcars on the store layout at Gulf Coast Model Railroading in Sarasota, FL.

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SGRR equipment has been scattered on store layout across the USA for years.

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Show me some more freight equipment that you painted and decalled. I like this one.

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-Kevin

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