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Show Me Something September 2017

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, September 21, 2017 4:03 AM

doctorwayne
Show me more shop buildings, please.

A little activity at the car shop...

Show me more shop buildings or repair operations.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Thursday, September 21, 2017 9:44 PM

Roundhouse and engine yard under construction.

More roundhouses / engine facilities please.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, September 22, 2017 9:48 AM

That's an impressive looking facility!  Thumbs UpThumbs Up

Here's the backyard of the Erie Northshore's engine shops, apparently at the ends of the earth...

Show me more car- or locomotive shops, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, September 25, 2017 8:59 AM

Bump to page 1. 

To broaden the request.... Please show railroad shops or any industry served by your railroad. . 

GARRY

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, September 25, 2017 9:36 AM

The Dragon Products cement plant on the Boothbay Railway Village layout. end view showing the Aggregate Storage building, bagging plant, maintenance and office buildings

Show me another industry

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

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Monday, September 25, 2017 5:35 PM

Here is Sports Co, a sportswear manufacturing sweat shop where they make tee shirts and sports uniforms.

hi cube box car waits to be loaded with clothes

Please show me another business served by rail.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, September 25, 2017 10:18 PM

CREECHAN'S FINE FUELS, near downtown Dunnville...

Show me another rail-served business, please.

Wayne

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, September 25, 2017 11:27 PM

doctorwayne
Show me another rail-served business, please.

A crew is cutting the banding off a load of scrap steel plate at Jaite's Scrap Yard:

Show me a flat car load...

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, September 25, 2017 11:38 PM

gmpullman
Show me a flat car load...

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Back to the cardboard layout project for this shot... can you believe that thing is still standing?

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A large pipe section on a New Jersey Western flat car:

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Show me another flat car load.

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-Kevin

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 8:57 AM

Kevin wrote: "Show me another flat car load."

Here are a couple of flat car loads, part of a maintenance of way train on the BRVRR.

More flat car loads please.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, September 26, 2017 7:05 PM

My own brand of building materials, "Lumber from Crooked River" on an Oregon Pacific & Eastern bulkhead flatcar.

http://www.trainweb.org/lonewolfsantafe/op16009.jpg

Please show me lumber on or in any style frieght car, or on a truck, or at a mill or lumber yard.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 9:46 AM

Lumber at the lumber yard. 

Please show a locomotive switching some freight cars. 

GARRY

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 10:19 AM

A couple of carloads of produce for National Grocers...

Show me some more switching activity, please.

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Posted by rogerhensley on Thursday, September 28, 2017 5:44 AM

More switching please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, September 28, 2017 12:01 PM

rogerhensley
More switching please.

Getting ready to "make the cut" between two flat cars...

Show me more workers on-the-job.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, September 28, 2017 6:40 PM

Cutting off the road engine...

...and the switch job picking up a cut of cars from the headend for local delivery...

...while the road engine takes water...

Show me some steam power, please.

Wayne

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, September 28, 2017 6:42 PM

GMPullman: I love those flatcar loads. They look outstanding!

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Back to Wayne's request for steam power.

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, September 28, 2017 7:24 PM

SeeYou190
I love those flatcar loads.

Thank you, Kevin. Nothing special on my part. I know the box-beam and crated motors are from Laser-Kits and I'm pretty sure the timber load is also.

http://www.laserkit.com/loads2.htm

They are fun to build!

Regards, Ed

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