I am continuing with starting out a new month with a commemoration to one of our best who is no longer with us.
-Photograph by Garry Boyd
Please show me another large building.
-Kevin
Living the dream.
SeeYou190Please show me another large building. -Kevin
This is GERN Industries, the largest one on my layout...
...it's just a few inches less than 7' long.
Wayne
More big structures, please.
doctorwayneMore big structures, please.
The right side of the Boothbay Railway Village layout has a 1-1/2% grade which is hidden by a row of buildings; basically, a tunnel of buildings. The lower end has industrial buildings
The middle has commercial buildings
And the top has residential buildings
Show me a small building
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
George - A small building.
A Garden Shed (A Christmas Present from my granddaughter.) The cat on the roof likes it. lol
IMG_2148 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another small building please.
David
To the world you are someone. To someone you are the world
I cannot afford the luxury of a negative thought
D. "Al" Allan by Bear, on Flickr
More buildings , please.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Tomorrow is National Donut Day, please show me a donut shop or bakery. Regards, Peter
HO-Velo Tomorrow is National Donut Day, please show me a donut shop or bakery. Regards, Peter
This bird's eye view of the town center of Willoughby shows a donut shop in the center right of the photo. The large donut on top is based on a California prototype.
Show me any small Ma and Pa type business.
More small businesses please. Regards, Peter
HO-VeloMore small businesses please. Regards, Peter
What could be better than a hobby shop?
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
The above scene is on the Real Rail train club's Lionel display layout.
Show me any small business.
SeeYou190Show me any small business.
Another donut shop. These Tastee Donuts were all over southern Louisiana:
Please show me another small business.
York1 John
I asked my doctor if I gave up delicious food and all alcohol, would I live longer? He said, "No, but it will seem longer."
York1 Please show me another small business.
John-NYBWMore small businesses.
Honest Sam's Used Cars on my layout. Sam looks on while a husband and wife are trying to decide between the sporty coupe and the practical old sedan.
Show me a burger joint
John-NYBWThe Rusty Spike Diner, one of three structures in the FSM Roadside Delights kit.
Great job assembloing that kit. Beautiful.
A hardware store on the Pasdco County Model Engineer's HO scale modular train show layout.
Whoops! Overlapped with another response.
G PaineShow me a burger joint
Here are a couple on the display by the Florida Lego User's Group:
Show me another burger joint!
SeeYou190 Show me another burger joint! -Kevin
Burger King
Please show me another restaurant of any kind or some other place that you can grab a bite or a snack.
[quote user="Lone Wolf and Santa Fe"]Please show me another restaurant of any kind or some other place that you can grab a bite or a snack.
While it still needs a few scenic details, this is Rita's Oasis (named for my late Mother)...
...and I did add some details to the kit...
How about some more eateries, please.
Show more eateries. Regards, Peter
HO-Velo Show more eateries. Regards, Peter
I really like this little kit from DPM. Woodland Scenics also offers it as a Built 'N Ready structure.
I have interior lighting as well as under the roof of the drive-in portion but haven't got around to hooking them up yet.
More Diners, Drive-ins, or Dives.
More diners, drive-ins, or dives. Regards, Peter
HO-Velo More diners, drive-ins, or dives. Regards, Peter
Anyone driving up US Rte 1 in Waldoboro, ME will know Moody's Diner; it's been there for more than 75 years. I added it to the Boothbay Railway village layout using a stock model diner as a stand in for the prototype
Show me a city scene
G PaineShow me a city scene
It is mostly background flats, but it is the best I can do...
Show me another city scene.
SeeYou190 Show me another city scene. -Kevin
Summer in the city: charity car wash at the fire station.
Please show me more city scenes.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me more city scenes.
A seen on one of the layouts at the Model Trains Station.
Please show me another structure of any kind over the tracks.
-Keivn
SeeYou190 Please show me another structure of any kind over the tracks. -Keivn
John-NYBWPlease show another above track station.
Other than the doors and window castings, this one is a scratchbuild...
More train stations, please.
doctorwayneMore train stations, please.
Kevin sent me this nice station kit in N scale. Sorry to say it will be a while before I can get to building it. I'm thinking of changing a few things on it, too. Thanks, Kevin!
Please show me more stations.
Sorry to interupt the flow but a startlng resemblance to the Baltimore Penn Station.
The request was an above track station.
Henry
COB Potomac & Northern
Shenandoah Valley
BigDaddy Sorry to interupt the flow but a startlng resemblance to the Baltimore Penn Station. The request was an above track station.
At one time, the Burlington Station which I posted above was connected to Omaha's Union Station by an above track concourse as seen here:
aerial37.jpg (576×453) (historicomaha.com)
The Missouri River bridge is seen in the background. At its peak, seven different railroads were served by Union Station while the Burlington Station had a single tenant in addition to the CB&Q. I think it was sometime in the 1960s that the connection between the two stations was removed as shown in the photo I posted earlier. I know of no other situation where two major stations are connected like this.
I've thought about building these two stations as a diorama using the Walthers kit for Burlington Station. I'd have to scratchbuild Omaha's Union Station which is the one on the left in the photo. The outside walls are a bit more ornate so it would be quite a challenge. I doubt I'll ever get around to it.
The last request was for an over the track station.
24 hours.
My brass gp20 is pulling a manifest freight.
Show me a brass engine next.
bmtrainmaster24 hours.
Thanks for the bump to the top.
bmtrainmasterShow me a brass engine next.
A couple of brass steam locomotives at the cardboard mock-up of my engine serviceing area.
Show me another servicing facility.
SeeYou190 Show me another servicing facility. -Kevin
John-NYBWAnother servicing facility, please.
Ready-track-night by Edmund, on Flickr
More locomotive or rolling stock service areas, please.
gmpullmanMore locomotive or rolling stock service areas, please
The servicing area at Boothbay Railway Village
Coaling tower
An older photo of the roundhouse and turntable
Ash pits
Show me a passenger car servicing area
G Paine Show me a passenger car servicing area
Dining cars being loaded at the commissary for their next run.
More passenger car servicing.
John-NYBWMore passenger car servicing.
Keeping the brand polished:
ATSF_Pine-King 10-6b by Edmund, on Flickr
More of anything passenger, please.
gmpullman More of anything passenger, please.
John-NYBWMore passenger related pics, please.
An old time passenger train on one of the layouts at the Ogden Union Station Museum in Utah.
Show me another passenger train.
Here is a Metrolink commuter train in push mode with the suicide cab in the lead.
Please show me another passenger train.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me another passenger train.
Another example of a push-pull commuter operation, ala C&NW:
C_NW_PS-bilevels by Edmund, on Flickr
More passenger, please.
gmpullmanMore passenger, please
A short HOn30 passenger train passes the Whitefield engine house on the Boothbay Rauiilway Village layout
Show me a narrow gauge freight train
G PaineShow me a narrow gauge freight train
Bear - A freight train.
IMG_2205 (2) by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another freight train please.
NorthBrit Another freight train please. David
John-NYBWMore freight trains.
A freight train rolls through town.
Kevin - A freight train.
IMG_5148 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A freight train with mostly lumber is nearing the summit of the mountain pass.
More trains please.
Lone Wolf and Santa FeMore trains please.
The end of an SGRR freight in the desert:
Please show me another red caboose at the end of a train.
A little red caboose at the end of an old V&T train somewhere between Carson City and Virginia City.
Please show me any caboose.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me any caboose.
Cutting off the transfer caboose prior to making a pickup at the mill:
Cut the caboose by Edmund, on Flickr
More cabooses, cabins, vans or way cars please.
This sounds good.
More cabooses, cabins, vans or way cars, please.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
Here's a somewhat modified Athearn bay-window caboose....
with another 10 or 12 to be mostly scratchbuilt.
More of the same, please!
doctorwayneMore of the same, please!
Caboose by Bear, on Flickr
JaBearPlease show me projects that have been shoved to one side, that really should be finished!!
This tank car was under construction when it all fell apart back in 2020.
I hope to finish it soon.
Show me another project.
SeeYou190Show me another project.
I started this project over five years ago...
PRR_line4 by Edmund, on Flickr
I had a spare MP54 and thought it would make a neat catenary line car. Haven't made much progress on it lately
This is my inspiration:
PRR_towercar by Edmund, on Flickr
More projects-in-progress, please.
gmpullman More projects-in-progress, please.
Here is one! This is an old Mantua kit that someone built poorly years ago. I started to fix it up and repaint it, I just need to out the v-gear back on, and give the model more paint. It is being painted in a version of a Pennsy scheme.
20230615_170158 by Edwin's Trains, on Flickr
More in-progress projects please!
Missing parts aren't a problem, they are an excuse to use fancy brass details!
-Edwin
I have been working on this , off and on, since 1994.
Maybe I will finish it before I die ???
Mor projects ease.
Rust...... It's a good thing !
I have been working on this 30 foot flatcar for a little while. I got it for cheap, it was a unbuilt kit.
Show me any MDC Roundhouse car next.
bmtrainmaster Show me any MDC Roundhouse car next.
Here's one, an old timer kit!
20230615_224047 by Edwin's Trains, on Flickr
Show more MDC kits please.
More MDC cars please. Regards, Peter
Edwins TrainsShow more MDC kits please.
I believe this Gramps tank car is an MDC Old Timer:
Gramps by Edmund, on Flickr
Anything from Train Miniature?
gmpullmanAnything from Train Miniature?
JaBear Any more Train Miniature offerings? Please.
I keep this one example around as it is identical to one my dad bought for me while we were out and about one day in my childhood.
Baby-Ruth2 by Edmund, on Flickr
Curtiss_Ice-Reefer by Edmund, on Flickr
Let's see another ice-bunker refrigerator car, please.
gmpullmanLet's see another ice-bunker refrigerator car, please.
A couple more ice bunkers at the ice house on Boothbay Railway Village
Show me a coaling tower
G PaineShow me a coaling tower
Topped off and ready to go...
PRR 2-8-0 by Edmund, on Flickr
Mor of anything coal, please.
Ed wants some coal.
IMG_5303 by David Harrison, on Flickr
More coal please
NorthBrit More coal please David
John-NYBWMore coal.
I recently gathered a few Bowser hoppers and 'enhanced' their rather minimalist detailing of the coal loads:
Bowser coal load by Edmund, on Flickr
Bowser coal load-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
I did some to represent coke, as well.
Bowser coal load-1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Coal and coke? Something from the steel industry, please.
gmpullmanSomething from the steel industry, please.
A few years ago I made a tribute to a famous model railroader with some privately owned freight cars for "Huron Steel".
I made a set of a mill gondola and two idler flats.
The gondola is a box stock kit from the Life-Like Proto-2000 line.
The idler flats are limited run resin kits produced by Funaro And Camerlengo. These feature a deck plate with I-beam supports.
All three cars together look great, but the load that I chose looks too short to me.
I have purchased an Airfix turntable kit, and I intend to use one of the side frames from this model as the load for the three Huron Steel freight cars.
Other than these three freight cars, I don't think I have anything else steel related in my collection.
Show me another scene with a freight car that has reporting marks ending in a "X".
SeeYou190freight car that has reporting marks ending in a "X".
An Athearn 3 Union Starch dome tank car with SHPX repoting marks on my layout
Show me another private owned freight car with marks ending in X
G PaineShow me another private owned freight car with marks ending in X
NUTX, the Northern Union Terminal:
Please show me another privately owned freight car with reporting marks ending with an "X".
SeeYou190Please show me another privately owned freight car with reporting marks ending with an "X".
A Trailer-Train TTX flat car:
Rapido_TTX-NH by Edmund, on Flickr
More X private-owner cars, please.
gmpullmanMore X private-owner cars, please.
Carry on with X please.
Cargil has a grain mill on my layout so here is a hopper and a locomotive that I custom made from a undecorated Athearn kit including printing the decals myself.
Please show me more private owner cars or locos.
Two of them private type cars.
I am surprised no gern cars have appeared
more private carsplease.
A pessimist sees a dark tunnel
An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel
A realist sees a frieght train
An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space
NVSRRmore private carsplease.
A couple of N tank cars:
Please show me more private cars.
York1 Please show me more private cars.
John-NYBWMore X cars please.
GE's Incandescent Lamp Department (ILDX) had a dozen or so of these covered hoppers doer transporting silica sand to the glass plants:
GE_ILDX_316 by Edmund, on Flickr
More private-owner cars, please.
Here is a baker's chocolate tank car.
Show me more cars that have unique paint jobs.
bmtrainmasterShow me more cars that have unique paint jobs.
This is the only Stratton And Gillette boxcar painted like this:
Show me any freight car with an interesting paint job.
SeeYou190Show me any freight car with an interesting paint job.
This is the only car on the layout from this railroad. Please forgive the dust and the picture quality. These cars have been parked on a siding for over a year while the layout was remodeled.
Please show me another car with an unusual paint job.
York1Please show me another car with an unusual paint job.
Three Stratton And Gillette freight cars in a row!
This unusual orange tank car was custom painted for Cuda Ken to celebrate his success with quitting smoking:
Please show me another train car with an unusual paint job.
SeeYou190 Please show me another train car with an unusual paint job. -Kevin
Fort worth and denver was a real railroad but they never had this paint scheme.
More unusual paint schemes
It is kind of unusual for a car to have a map of where the car came from but here is one from the City of Prineville Oregon.
Please show me a car or locomotive from a western state.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me a car or locomotive from a western state.
A UP Dome Observation car on the City of Portland:
UP_City-dome-2 by Edmund, on Flickr
More equipment or locos from a western state (or province), please.
PGE, Pacific Great Eastern which would become British Columbia Railway.
Compass points? Show me something with North or Northern in the name, please.
North British Railway
download by David Harrison, on Flickr
Anything else North or Northern.
NorthBritAnything else North or Northern.
The GREAT Northern: (they like Goats)
Builder_1 by Edmund, on Flickr
Let's stick with anything north, please.
Let's head South.
BATMAN Let's head South.
John-NYBW We've done west, north, and south. How about something from the eastern seaboard.
Can't get more eastern seaboard than Maine!
Lets move to the Great Lakes!!
Rick Jesionowski
Rule 1: This is my railroad.
Rule 2: I make the rules.
Rule 3: Illuminating discussion of prototype history, equipment and operating practices is always welcome, but in the event of visitor-perceived anacronisms, detail descrepancies or operating errors, consult RULE 1!
Chicago is on the shore of Lake Michigan. Here is a CNW loco with the Operation Lifesaver logos.
Please show me more from the Great Lakes or something with Operation Livesaver on it.
Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Please show me more from the Great Lakes or something with Operation Livesaver on it.
John-NYBWLet's expand it to anything in the Midwest.
The Illinois Central was the Mainline of Mid-America:
I-C_coach2 by Edmund, on Flickr
More midwest, granger state, roads, please.
gmpullmanMore midwest, granger state, roads, please.
Midwest you say? Nothing says Midwest like the Ohio Southern.
Another Midwestern railroad please.
SeeYou190Another Midwestern railroad please.
I'll consider the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad 'midwest'...
Monon_PS1 by Edmund, on Flickr
This is a 'Show Me' thread — Show me something from Missouri, please.
St. Louis–San Francisco Railway Trailer Train flatcar which formerly had a car rack on it as installed by Tyco but was converted by myself to hold a trailer.
Please show me anything Trailer Train.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me anything Trailer Train.
We had these Ford Cab-overs on some of our equipment at the airport. I hated driving them, they were awful.
Show me another cab-over, please.
BATMANShow me another cab-over
I have a couple. A 1950 Ford on my layout
A Dysart's tractor trailer Dysarts is a real company based near Bangor ME. They also run a truck stop just off I-95. Good food
Show me a cafe with good food
G PaineShow me a cafe with good food
Not exactly a cafe, more a full restaurant, and may or may not have good food, but my wife loves them so much we eat there a lot:
Please show me another restaurant, good or not-so-good food.
York1Not exactly a cafe, more a full restaurant, and may or may not have good food, but my wife loves them so much we eat there a lot.
I didn't realize this when we were doing it, but whenever I went on a road trip with one of the girls we would stop for breakfast at Cracker Barrel. They all have good memories of those trips and the breakfasts.
When we left concerts and headed home we would always stop at either Waffle House, or if there were a lot of us, McDonalds for $100.00 worth of Double Cheeseburgers.
The girls all say that Cracker Barrel, Waffle House, and McD's Double Cheeseburgers always bring back good memories like this day.
York1Please show me another restaurant, good or not-so-good food.
We can join the bikers at Dairy Queen for a bite.
The above scene is on the Orlando N-Trak club's sectional N Scale Display Layout.
Show me an 18 wheeler, please.
An 18 wheeler with a Southern Pacific semi and a Pacific Fruit Express trailer on a country road in the southern California orange groves.
Please show me more trucks.
Lone Wolf and Santa FePlease show me more trucks.
This one is a classic, the Cornerstone Construction pick-up truck from Busch.
Show me another truck.
SeeYou190 Show me another truck. -Kevin
John-NYBWMore trucks. Big, little, or in beween.
I made this truck inspired by the Jim Croce song Speedball Tucker, "Got a broke down rig..." A 1935 Mack and a Walthers trailer with home made decals and a lot of weathering
More old trucks, please
G PaineMore old trucks, please
RH_Culvert by Edmund, on Flickr
Please continue with trucks.
Let's 'keep on Truckin', more trucks please. Regards, Peter
HO-Velo Let's 'keep on Truckin', more trucks please. Regards, Peter
A tanker truck filling up.
Something from the petroleum industry, please.
John-NYBWSomething from the petroleum industry, please.
This propane tanker was running a little hot, so it was dropped off on this siding and is waiting for repair.
Please show me another tank car.
BATMANPlease show me another tank car.
Loaded with 8,000 gallons of genuine Hogtown Phenyl Ester:
Show me another tank car, please.
Well, time has passed and we are into the second happy hour since the last posting.
Please show me something up close.
More close-up please. Regards, Peter
HO-Velo More close-up please. Regards, Peter
This is the closest I have to a close up. The vintage Corvette in the foreground
John-NYBW More close ups.
More close ups.
The shop crew crawl all over the equipment to keep them running.
More close-up again, please.
PC101More close-up again, please.
Peeking through the diner window at a station stop:
Diner_patrons6 by Edmund, on Flickr
More up-close, please.
A couple dancing to a live band inside a club.
Please show me figures (people or animals).
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Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Please show me figures (people or animals).
John-NYBWMore scenes with people, water, or both.
Playground scene on the Real Rail modular Lionel layout:
Show me more people.
People in a boat on the lake in the mountains. People celebrating Oktoberfest on the shore behind them.
Please show me a boat or ship.
A Canal Boat.
IMG_5499 by David Harrison, on Flickr
A boat of any kind please
NorthBrit A boat of any kind please David
More boats, canoes, kayaks & rafts please. Regards, Peter
HO-VeloMore boats, canoes, kayaks & rafts please.
A few boats in Southport Harbor on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
Show me folks having a picnic or cookout
G Paine Show me folks having a picnic or cookout
The dog can't understand why the burgers need to be cooked.
Looks like the lawn could use some Scott's Turf Builder. It's faded badly since I laid it down about 15 years ago. A little TLC is on the to-do list.
More cookouts or picnics please.
I did not have any pictures of cookouts, but here is a forty foot boxcar on an bridge:
Show me another forty foot boxcar.
Oops, sorry I was late for the cookout.
And here is a 40 foot high cube boxcar
More box cars please.
Lone Wolf and Santa FeMore box cars please.
Two Sandy River & Rangley Lakes HOn30 boxcars awating pickup at Whitefield on Boothbay Railway Vuillage layout
And just for fun, a size comparison of boxcars: HO standard gauge, N scale standard gauge, and HOn30
Show me some more boxcars ready for pickup
Lone Wolf and Santa FeOops, sorry I was late for the cookout.
Better late than never, as long as there is still food to go around!
G PaineShow me some more boxcars ready for pickup
One Ohio Southern boxcar ready to go!
Show me another box car please.
SeeYou190Show me another box car please.
Boxcars are sorta like candies...ya can't have just one...
How's about another boxcar or two?
doctorwayne How's about another boxcar or two?
Hey guys,
The July Show Me Something is open.
I always forget about the month change. I usually don't remember until the previous month gets locked out.