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This Old Spot: A Modeler's Visual Library

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Posted by Scottie on Saturday, January 19, 2013 1:31 PM

Does anyone know if their is a model kit available of the Grafton Ohio tower? I am trying to Model Grafton Ohio on my HO layout.

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Sunday, March 27, 2011 10:30 AM

Hello yep Mike that is the yard if you look back at page 3 you will see the same yard. I took a pic of it in Sept 09 and it almost looks like same cars setting there just with snow. I drive past this yard on my way to work and see some movement but not like it used to be. Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, March 27, 2011 7:59 AM

Maryland and Delaware, Cambridge Maryland run around track/team track (I'm standing on the loading dock)

Team Track crane at York, PA.  Recently dismantled.

Junction with the MDDE, NS Delmarva Division at Seaford, Delaware.

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Posted by rs2mike on Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:31 PM

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Hello this is a cool thread so I thought I would add a snow shot for those of you you model snow.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/0-6-0/DSCN2460.jpg

This is the NS yard in Twinsburg Ohio there is about 4-5'' of snow down. Have a nice day Frank

The now almost quiet line behind the chrysler plant.  I have never seen it so quiet down there.

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Posted by rs2mike on Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:31 PM

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Hello this is a cool thread so I thought I would add a snow shot for those of you you model snow.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/0-6-0/DSCN2460.jpg

This is the NS yard in Twinsburg Ohio there is about 4-5'' of snow down. Have a nice day Frank

The now almost quiet line behind the chrysler plant.  I have never seen it so quiet down there.

alco's forever!!!!! Majoring in HO scale Minorig in O scale:)

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Posted by rs2mike on Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:29 PM

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http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/0-6-0/DSCN1987.jpg

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j229/0-6-0/DSCN1986.jpg

Have nice day Frank

AHHH home sweet home.  I know exactly where these are.  I worked at Richner hardware on the square and lived up the street from what is now true value.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, March 26, 2011 4:17 PM

leighant
I have now completed, as I posted earlier, donation of about 1250 photos to the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi library archives, including photos I took over the last 45 years of railroads, local scenes, news events, TV station operations, old houses, buildings, and motion picture production in Corpus Christi and surrounding South Texas towns.  The university has just put on line a sample of about 100 of the photos and a searchable finding guide to all 1250.
I am a bit proud of it and want to show off.  (I will claim I am just "sharing.")
 
 

That was very kind of you to do that...

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Posted by superbe on Saturday, March 26, 2011 4:04 PM

Pictured is a Winchester & Western (short line) Locomotive crossing U.S. 50 West of Winchester, VA. The The W & W was nick named the Weak and Weary due to it's slow speed and wobbly tracks. It is now owned by the Unimin Corp and hauls sand from the Unimin mine in Gore Va. It also shifts cars for CSX.

The W & W is no longer the weak and weary.

 

Happy Railroading

Bob

 

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Posted by leighant on Saturday, March 26, 2011 3:23 PM

I have now completed, as I posted earlier, donation of about 1250 photos to the Texas A&M University Corpus Christi library archives, including photos I took over the last 45 years of railroads, local scenes, news events, TV station operations, old houses, buildings, and motion picture production in Corpus Christi and surrounding South Texas towns.  The university has just put on line a sample of about 100 of the photos and a searchable finding guide to all 1250.

I am a bit proud of it and want to show off.  (I will claim I am just "sharing.")

 

http://rattler.tamucc.edu/dept/special/Anthony.html

 

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:54 PM

Some older vintage shots...

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:51 PM

Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry

I just started my blog site...more stuff to come...

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Saturday, March 26, 2011 2:25 PM

Hello this is a cool thread so I thought I would add a snow shot for those of you you model snow.

This is the NS yard in Twinsburg Ohio there is about 4-5'' of snow down. Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by leighant on Friday, September 10, 2010 11:56 AM

I am in the process of doing sort of the OPPOSITE of this thread.  I have built up a personal library of photos of interesting places to model.  Now I am sorting the two-thousand or so of local and regional interest as a historical photo collection I am donating to a major university archive.  But I am scanning the ones I have any distant expectation of using myself, or wanting to share.  Many I have already uploaded on my railimages account. 

I located a place out-of-state to send these... Cammie G.Henry Research Center. Northwestern State University, Watson Memorial Library · Natchitoches, LA

“This picture taken by Joe Uhrbah, the undersigned May 27, 1949, at Natchitoches Louisiana.  Camera located 50 feet east (struck through out in a different color ink) west (struck through) west of Pavie Street crossing and Texas and Pacific tracks, facing east west.  Joe Uhrbach.”

 

(I can't recall who makes the kit of the little commercial building at right-- or is it a kit at all?  The house at the left side of the street is obviously a kit but has been disguised with asphalt shingles printed in a brick pattern over the scribed sheetwood...)

“This picture taken by Joe Uhrbah, the undersigned May 27, 1949, at Natchitoches Louisiana.  Camera located 375 feet north of Pavie Stret crossing of Texas and Pacific tracks, and looking south.  Joe Uhrbach.”

 

Stamped: Uhrbah’s Photo Service

Phone 4471

Natchitoches, La.

 

I would guess these were taken for possible use as exhibits in a court case, but there are no markings to indicate they were actually used as such.

This is part of my local collection- the Port of Corpus Christi Tule Lake vertical lift bridge for highway and rail traffic, opened circa 1959, photographed by me July 1970, demolished

 

 Tracks at the port barricaded to protect against storm surge in Hurricane Allen, August 1980.  (I call this my watergate picture...)

Most of the photos on my railimages account however are not local historic places, but ones that I have actually used in my modeling, such as this house belonging to a custe cousin that already has made its way into a model of sorts

...if a dollhouse can be considered a model...

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Posted by tstage on Friday, September 10, 2010 11:39 AM

Boy, do I love Victorian-style homes!  Thanks for posting these, Frank.    As soon as I saw them I knew exactly where they were located; just down the road from Sedlak's.

Tom

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, September 10, 2010 9:23 AM

Hello I thought it was time to bring this thread back up front. Here are a couple house's. These are in Twinsburg Ohio the blue one is on RT 14 just off the square and the gray one is on the square.

Have nice day Frank

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Posted by chooch_42 on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 8:25 PM

 Oh, MAN !!! That's a 3 dimensional History book you've come up with !  Is that covered hopper permanently grounded (track/trucks gone)?  LOVE the sign on the ditcher. These machines would be great subjects for SS Ltd, Alloy Forms or Woodland Scenics in Horribly Over sized or Normal scale...or scratch projects in a scale one can SEE (O,G,F). Keep up the inspiration, Thanks !  Bob C.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:37 PM

Some more odds and sods

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:33 PM

Really Cool pix coming up here----

A few more from this fellow---

Any argument carried far enough will end up in Semantics--Hartz's law of rhetoric Emerald. Leemer and Southern The route of the Sceptre Express Barry

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Monday, April 19, 2010 10:52 AM

Hello here are a few more

This is the loco that runs past my house.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:21 PM

Hello here are a few more shots

the forgotten

zoom in on this one and see how bent the rails are

front end

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Sunday, April 18, 2010 3:15 PM

Hello here are few more shots

 

 

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Posted by chooch_42 on Friday, April 16, 2010 10:07 PM

 That little mine car reminds me of my HOn30 MinitrainS  Bob C.

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Friday, April 16, 2010 9:57 PM

    Hello gents, hope these might be of interest, especially maybe to you mine modellers...

2

    I also hope this works!!

 p.s. these are all pictures I took myself on little trips up to the mountains, if you have any requests let me know and I might be able to help

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Thursday, April 15, 2010 9:38 AM

Hello  StFCRR  that's a good shot of that mine head.  You can post photos of anything you think looks cool and  from anywhere not just the U.S. There are folks from all over lets see what's around you. Here is  the old Railway's of America building it's in Cuyahoga falls Ohio it was in MRR in August 1974 pg 28-32.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Sunday, April 11, 2010 8:30 AM

tstage

StFCRR,

That would be great! Thumbs Up

Tom

 

     Here's goes nothing, Tom...it's just an old abandoned mine head left over from the old days, you gotta start somewhere!...if you'd like some of the mine tailings, I could send you some. I hope this picture thing actually works.

mine head

 

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Posted by tstage on Friday, April 9, 2010 12:28 PM

StFCRR,

That would be great! Thumbs Up

Tom

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Posted by St Francis Consolidated RR on Friday, April 9, 2010 12:15 PM

    Would anybody be interested in some pictures of Colorado mining structures and the like? I confess I don't know how to post pictures yet, but maybe this would be a good incentive for me to learn how!!

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Posted by jwhitten on Friday, April 9, 2010 8:39 AM

blownout cylinder
Paris ON---old houses

Two different views of downtown Paris ON

 

 

Oy! I see the offal tower!

 

 

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Posted by cudaken on Friday, April 9, 2010 7:04 AM

  Glad to see this thread come back up. I redid my photo bucket account so I will have to redo my pictures.

         Cuda Ken

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Thursday, April 8, 2010 8:21 PM

Hello are a few more shots.

This was by the station so I took pics of it to.

Have a nice day Frank

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