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Jarrell's Show Me Something, September 2021 Edition

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Jarrell's Show Me Something, September 2021 Edition
Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 1:41 AM

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I hope no one is bothered that I opened both the Diner and Show Me Something in September. Judging by forum traffic, I might have the only connection right now.

This was the previous request:

PC101
More of "your smallest engine" please.

This little 0-4-0 saddle tank steam engine is the smallest locomotive on the STRATTON AND GILLETTE roster:

Please show me another of your smallest locomotives.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 6:18 AM

Kevin   Another smallest locomotive.

 

0.4.0  locomotives rule when running steam engines on 'Sovereign Street'.

 

 

More smallest locomotives.

 

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Posted by PC101 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 8:38 AM

NorthBrit asks ''More smallest locomotives''.

My smallest Steamer, I thinkHmm. The tiny ones are hard to keep track of. Sometimes I can blow their whistle to find them.  PRR #2790, 0-6-0 dropping of a load of coal at Oly's coal yard.

Show more ''smallest Engines'' please.

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 11:39 AM

PC101: "Show more "smallest Engines."

The most famous small steam engine. Thomas the Tank Engine on an excursion run on the BRVRR years ago.

In case Thomas isn't right for this thread: This little three-truck Shay belongs to my oldest grandson. Its a fussy little thing, but kinda cool.

More small engines, steam or diesel.

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Posted by PC101 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 2:26 PM

[BRVRR would like to see more small engines.]

I have this small Shay and still in the raw yet.

Show more small Locos. please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 4:01 PM

PC101
Show more small Locos. please.

This diminutive B6b from the mighty PRR may be one of my smallest locomotives:

 PRR_B8b_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

More of anything small, please.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Wednesday, September 1, 2021 9:13 PM

One small Pennsy steamer deserves another. Here's my Minitrix B6. Show me more small locos.

Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.

www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, September 2, 2021 3:00 AM

GP-9_Man11786
Show me more small locos.

This one was a donation from one of my father's co-workers, but it never ran well, unable to pull even its own shadow...

However, I didn't want to get completely rid of it, so parked it behind the Lowbanks car shop...perhaps a project for the employees in their spare time.

Wayne

Please show us another derelict car or locomotive, or perhaps a structure that's seen better days.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Thursday, September 2, 2021 6:55 AM

doctorwayne

 Please show us another derelict car or locomotive,  

 

Derelict locomotives here.

 

 

Anymore derelict locomotives?

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 3:48 PM

Whoops, double post.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 3:48 PM

NorthBrit
Anymore derelict locomotives?

Here is a derelict locomotive in a public park as modeled by the North Georgia Modu-Rail group.

Show me anything in derelict condition.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, September 2, 2021 9:50 PM

SeeYou190
Show me anything in derelict condition.

Lots of derelict equipment in this scene on the Sebring Ohio Model RR Club:

 IMG_1518 by Edmund, on Flickr

There's a Niagara under the crane, too young to die! Please show another 4-8-4.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, September 2, 2021 10:08 PM

gmpullman
There's a Niagara under the crane, too young to die! Please show another 4-8-4.

OK, here is SGRR number 1837.

Please show another 4-8-4.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, September 3, 2021 2:52 AM

SeeYou190
Please show another 4-8-4.

This one was originally a Santa Fe locomotive, with a huge eight-axle tender.  I shortened the tender, then used part of a covered hopper to change it into a centipede-type.  The centipede bed used the cut-up and re-assembled original sideframes, with a homemade overlay of styrene, traced from a photo ad in MR for a brass Niagara...

It went to a friend in Wisconsin some years ago.

Wayne

Another Niagara, please, or perhaps a Mexican Nigara

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, September 3, 2021 6:48 AM

doctorwayne
Another Niagara, please, or perhaps a Mexican Nigara

A Niagara at speed, just beginning to make her stride —

 NYC_6008 by Edmund, on Flickr

Any other engine with a four-wheel trailing truck, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, September 3, 2021 7:26 AM

gmpullman
Any other engine with a four-wheel trailing truck, please.

A 4-6-4 leaving the engine house.

Please show me any other engine with a four-wheel leading truck.

-Kevin

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, September 3, 2021 10:47 AM

SeeYou190
Please show me any other engine with a four-wheel leading truck. -Kevin

 

Please show your newest thing that rides the rails.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, September 3, 2021 11:58 AM

BATMAN
 Please show your newest thing that rides the rails

 

Two North British Railway 6 wheeled carriages

Seen here on a Troop Train heading south with troops bound for France.

 

 

Next - A small carriage

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, September 3, 2021 9:10 PM

NorthBrit
Next - A small carriage

One of Thomas' friends is pulling some small carriages. I love outdoor railroading in Florida on a beautiful day.

Show me any train car less than 40 feet (12 meters) in length.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, September 4, 2021 11:06 AM

-Kevin: "Show me any train car less than 40 feet (12 meters) in length."

This little IMCO hopper car is 36-feet long, between couper faces.

More small train cars please.

Tags: BRVRR , IMCO

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, September 4, 2021 11:35 AM

Here is small.

 

Please show me a car or MOW high railer with a hoist, crane, or other lifting devices.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, September 4, 2021 11:56 AM

BRVRR
More small train cars please.

Some years ago, I picked up two of these MDC tender kits for a very reasonable price, and already had the bodyshell (but no cast metal underframe) of another one, acquired much earlier.
I decided to make them into MoW water cars - one each for a couple of fellow modellers, and one for myself.  They're supposedly equipped with a gasoline-powered pump in what was formerly the coal bunker, now completely covered and equipped with a door.

This one's for a friend's freelanced late '20s-era layout...

...this one for another friend's '50s-era CNR layout...

...and the bodyshell-only one, with lots of lead-weights added, for my own EG&E late '30s layout...

While mine is more-or-less the same as the other two, one of the carshop's employees suggested that if the coal bunker were slightly modified, it could double, in the winter, as a covered tender for MoW equipment that was coal-powered (mostly cranes and rotary plows).  
In theory, the pump would be temporarily removed, and the coal bunker loaded from any coaling tower, with the roof keeping the coal both dry and not frozen into a solid block. 

It's probably an improbable scenario, but I liked the idea of making it look just a bit unique, no matter how far-fetched it might be...

Wayne

Please show us your somewhat whimsical rolling stock creations.

EDIT:  Sorry, but the slowness of this site contributed to delaying my offering, so let's carry on with

BATMAN
Please show me a car or MOW high railer with a hoist, crane, or other lifting devices.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Sunday, September 5, 2021 7:46 AM

Batman  -   A Crane.

 

Next -  A loading dock

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, September 5, 2021 10:42 AM

doctorwayne
Some years ago, I picked up these MDC tender kits for a very reasonable price. I decided to make them into MoW water cars - one each for a couple of fellow modellers, and one for myself. 

Great work on the water tanks Wayne.

I am doing something very similar for my work train. I bought this small vanderbilt tender to be the water tank for the train. I was going to mount a pump on the deck and say the oil tank was for diesel fuel for the generator in the following train car.

NorthBrit
Next -  A loading dock

A gondola is being pushed into position next to the concrete loading dock.

Another loading dock please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, September 5, 2021 12:08 PM

-Kevin: "Another loading dock please.
The loading dock at the Black River team tracks.

More team track photos please.

Tags: BRVRR , Santa Fe

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, September 5, 2021 1:04 PM

BRVRR
More team track photos please.

Here's the team track in Dunnville...

...and the one in Mount Forest...

...and the one in Elfrida...

...and the even-more cramped one in South Cayuga...

Given the torpid responses of both this Forum and my photobucket account, it's a wonder if I can get a photo quick enough to reply to the latest request in this thread.

Wayne

Show us some more team tracks or industries where loading or unloading is taking place.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, September 5, 2021 11:56 PM

doctorwayne
Show us some more team tracks or industries where loading or unloading is taking place.

Hopper cars getting loaded with limestone. This scene is on the Orlando N-Track group's sectional N scale train layout.

More loading scenes please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, September 6, 2021 12:26 AM

SeeYou190
More loading scenes please.

I made these photos yesterday to reply to Brent's request for a mobile crane. Couldn't reply since all I got was a 504 error or some such. Well, the fellows are still doing some unloading.

 Track_Crew by Edmund, on Flickr

More loading/unloading, please.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Monday, September 6, 2021 5:02 AM

Ed -  More loading/unloading

About to untie the tarp from the Holt  wagon at Clarence Dock Goods Yard

 

 

Next. Any scene of your choice

 

David

 

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Posted by rogerhensley on Monday, September 6, 2021 5:27 AM

Any scene? Ah, yes.

More scenes please.

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