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Show me something - August 2012 Edition

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Tuesday, August 28, 2012 10:36 PM

The Blackwater Cannonball heading up to Butte Creek while the local freight heads downgrade to Blackwater:

Show me a wooden boxcar.

Phil,
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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 9:53 AM

Shayfan, Always like to see your Piker passenger train

Wooden Box PTM 2031 Portland Terminal RR, a MEC subsidiary

Show me something else from a terminal railroad

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

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, August 30, 2012 6:58 AM

No terminal railroads?

Show me something on your layout you'd like to change.

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:40 AM

I would like to conver this passenger platform from low level to high in order to take advantage of some models I have that have high-level doors.

As it is-

How it could be-  I used cork to temporarily raise the platform to make sure it all fit in.  Sure enough, I need to move the platform back slightly so that the body shells don't rub on the platform when they go through a nearyb curve.

Passengers wait by the high level door of an Arrow III.

 

Show me a unique locomotive! 

 

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, August 30, 2012 8:52 PM

I would think the Veranda Turbine is a unique locomotive.

 

Show me a city scene. 

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Posted by P&Slocal on Friday, August 31, 2012 8:41 PM

Although I have nothing to offer due to no work on the railroad, I keep looking at this thread. it seems to be slowly dieing since the switch to the new format. It has been over 24 hours since the last request.

Show me some branchline action.

~Rob S.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Friday, August 31, 2012 9:20 PM

I don't really think so, we see less threads on the first page now (at least for me), & I think we should uncouple August, & throttle notch 8 into September!!! 
just another way to look at it..

Please Show Me Anything to start September, with an emphasis on a City Scene..

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, August 31, 2012 10:00 PM

 More of a town than a city but what the heck.

 

 Show me something you want more of!

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, September 1, 2012 9:24 AM

TREES!  I want more trees!  Especially Super Trees... the very ones I don't like to sit and build.

Show me something else you want more of.

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Posted by Lake on Saturday, September 1, 2012 5:38 PM

I want 10 more of these GATX hoppers.

What do you wish you had not bought so many of.

Ken G Price   My N-Scale Layout

Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR

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Posted by cudaken on Saturday, September 1, 2012 6:22 PM

Lake
What do you wish you had not bought so many of.

 Hum, Kenny G the closes I could get to that is this.

 

 Bought 20 number 4 brass turnouts at a train show for $10.00. Can't say I related I bought them, I have just used 4 of them in 3 years. Brass as got a bad rap I will add, works fine on DCC and stays as clean as my N/S track.

  Far as what I would like more of? Well here is a few items.

 Pearl Beer Cars.

 

 Big Boys.

 

  SOO covered hoppers

 .

 And Irish Wolfhounds and American Eskimos.

 

 Show me something you would like to have more of.

               Ken

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, September 1, 2012 7:31 PM

Excellents posts guys!!

More of... I would like to have a permanent home to build this throughout an entire room, as many of you know, most of my pictures run from one 18 inch diorama & a couple of background tree section stand-ins.. Once & a while a shot on a 2' x 6' switch ladder.  Would like more of a Layout.  -Some Day...

Lets continue with;
Show Me What You Would Like More of...

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Saturday, September 1, 2012 8:11 PM

I want more Electrics.....

And Electric Multiple Units!

Since this is so interesting, continue to show me things you want more of!

 

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, September 1, 2012 10:45 PM

green_elite_cab

I like that line up, I know very little about electrics, but have a respect for them.
I do have a couple of Marlkin pantographs, & I like the interesting mechanism they have, as I am impressed by mechanical things like that.
I also like some BC Rail machines & they had some neat EMD Electrics the GF6C's, & I do not know if there were any produced models of those units...

You have interesting models, thanks for sharing!

Back to Show Me Something you Want more of!!

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, September 2, 2012 11:08 AM

More Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time Time
and more My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents My 2 Cents
so I can do more

Smile, Wink & Grin Smile, Wink & Grin

Show Me Something you Want more of!!

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Posted by Acela026 on Sunday, September 2, 2012 1:00 PM

I want more space! More is better! I would love to do a take off of  Pelle Søeborg's layout as seen in the May or June issue of MRR I believe.  Gotta love UP Big Smile

For now, here is what I'm stuck with, probaly until after I finish college and get my own place.   That'll be another 5 years....

Show me something you have too much of!

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Posted by cudaken on Monday, September 3, 2012 9:26 PM

 Do Bill's count?

 My self I would not mind a few more of theses!

 

 MRC F7 A's. They really got a bad rap!

 Show me something you want more of and cannot find them!

 Ken

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 2:35 PM

Time is up on 'something you want more of and cannot find '.

Show me something with a hole in it.

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 3:56 PM

Here are something with a number of holes in the top to load fuel or oil and holes in the bottom to unload

Show me something blue

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:10 PM

The original big blue, Conrail!

E44A #4456 leads two other  siblings as it passes a pair of E33s.

Show me something Patched for a new railroad

 

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:14 PM

Next Post please!

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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Posted by Lehigh Valley 2089 on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 4:16 PM

................................no one said that it had to be a model!

Show me a locomotive you kitbashed!

The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.

-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.

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Posted by green_elite_cab on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 5:29 PM

One of my first kitbashes, my E60MA.  These are the "modernized" rebuilds of the E60CP/CH.   Incidentally, #610 was actually the last locomotive to pull the Broadway Limited before Amtrak discontinued that train.  

 

Show me a model of a train pulled by 4 locomotives 

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, September 5, 2012 6:55 PM

Lehigh Valley 2089

................................no one said that it had to be a model!

Show me a locomotive you kitbashed!

Hmmm... yes.  The original rules state that the image must be from your or your clubs layout.

Now back to  Show me a model of a train pulled by 4 locomotives .

Please post answer in the new September thread. 

Jarrell 

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