Post Your Favorite or Unique Railroad Item

[Track fiddler]

I best be a good OP and follow-up this evening. I see a lot of neat stuff here.

Kevin... we all have our Railroad worlds we create, but you have your own Road name in your world. That's cool. I do believe I have seen some of your other custom cars in the past. I've never done that, it looks tedious, they look great.

Nittany... the arrival and departure board with cards looks interesting. I must say I know nothing about this. I hope you may care to elaborate

RR Mel... the retirement house was a great idea. It looks like you had fun with that project. I like it. Great scratch build.

ED... the casting of that steamer is really cool. Who would ever paint something like that. Sure looks like you cleaned it up well, looks like it weighs a lot. I really do hope it's not used for a doorstop someday.

Harrison... that is a unique locomotive. I've never seen one like that, the paint job is definitely unlike any other Road I've seen.

Adam... I like those roadside steamers, she's beautiful. I have too many I visit to pick my favorite one, they're all unique in their own way.

This is one of my favorites at Bandana Square which used to be the Northern Pacific passenger car servicing faculty in St Paul.   Thanks for everyone's participation so far.                 

                                     TF

                                               

 

[Erie1951]

RR_Mel

A favorite on my favorite, our retirement home on my layout.

 

 

 

A layout within a layout.

 

 

This is the Perrydice garage with the roof off.

 

 Mel

 

Now that's very cool, Mel. 

[Harrison]

My favorite train is just a P2K GP38-2, D&H #7312. This engine has a personal connection though, as when I was little I remember seeing it parked in Plattsburgh. It was repainted in 2014, but it still serves the Plattsburgh local on my layout. If I get the time I will add the little sticker CP put on the side. It is also the first loco I bought when starting my layout last year.

 

[gmpullman]

Track fiddler

We all have a favorite or unique railroad item, model or prototypical. Probably more than one.

Yes, TF, sometimes it is tough to pick out one favorite.

This NYC Hudson happened to come to mind.

Alco Promotional Paper weight by Edmund, on Flickr

These were produced as a promotion for both Alco and New York Central in 1928 shortly after the No. 5200 Hudson was built for the NYC. There were ads in the public timetables and employee magazines as well as ordering information in the dining car menus.

IMG_7580 by Edmund, on Flickr

NYC_464ad_600 by Edmund, on Flickr

I've seen them sell for a pretty princely sum. I believe the reason I won this auction for a very reasonable amount is 1, it looked a mess and 2, maybe the true collectors thought it was a basket case. I cleaned it up, stripped the paint and buffed the nickel finish.

It looked like this when I first recieved it!

NYC_5200d by Edmund, on Flickr

My kids will probably use it as a door stop when they inherit it 

Cheers, Ed

 

[Lonehawk]

My favorite RR item (image not mine, and not used for profit):

This'll always hold a special place for me, even though she's in mothballs now.

[SeeYou190]

Track fiddler

Stratton and Gillette railroad, custom painted and decaled. Originally an undecorated triple Bay Hopper. Your wife is Mary and you were married in 1988?

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Yes. I made this car in 1988 right after we were married.

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This car was on display on the Scale Rails of Southwest Florida N Scale display layout for years at train shows. Women in the crowd loved it.

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-Kevin

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[RR_Mel]

I would have to say My Layout is my favorite.

 

Next to my wife and family it has to be my Favorite.  After I retired it has become my release from the reality of living.  It constantly brings back memories of the best time period of my growing up, the Fifties.

 

Can’t remember any violence, no graffiti, didn’t have to have intrusion alarms everywhere or a gun to protect us, and . . . . the sound of Southern Pacific articulated steam locomotives was great pulling the 1.2% grade going North.

 

 

Haven’t watched TV or listened to the radio in years, the NEWS is seldom ever GOOD NEWS and model railroading is always GOOD NEWS.

 

 

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Great Kevin!  Down the road there will be a post on WPF of a Mel & Andra 1968 car.

 

 

A favorite on my favorite, our retirement home on my layout.

 

 

 

A layout within a layout.

 

 

This is the Perrydice garage with the roof off.

 

 

 

Mel

 

 

My Model Railroad   

http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

 

Bakersfield, California

 

I'm beginning to realize that aging is not for wimps.

 

[NittanyLion]

Mine is ultra-unique as well.  It lives in the hallway right now until I figure out how to get it mounted on the wall.  My dad and I made it, she did all the lettering herself.

[Track fiddler]

My favorite switchers I see almost everyday.

[Track fiddler]

SeeYou190

 

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-Kevin

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Stratton and Gillette railroad, custom painted and decaled. Originally an undecorated triple Bay Hopper. Your wife is Mary and you were married in 1988?   

[SeeYou190]

I have posted this picture before.

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It is my favorite, and it is absolutely unique!

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-Kevin

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[Track fiddler]

We all have a favorite or unique railroad item, model or prototypical. Probably more than one. Sometimes you wonder if anyone else has the same one or similar.

So post your favorite or unique railroad item. If you have the same one or similar image as someone else,  Post it.

You can elaborate on your favorite or unique item or let someone try to guess it if you wish.

You don't have to guess anything or State what anything is to post.

Here's one of mine.