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This Old Spot: A Modeler's Visual Library

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Tuesday, April 6, 2010 7:11 PM

Hello here are some bridge shots.

here is a station this is in Bedford Ohio

not to sure what this building is

cool house

down the tracks

have a nice day Frank

 

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:04 PM

chooch_42
Could this be a 19th Century Photo Shoppe ?

Hey Bob C,

You are more preceptive than you thought. Those old guys could do more than color enhancing. After researching the Winchester & Western a liitle more I found that the W&W was mainly a freight RR and never had passenger cars but used rail buses instead as pictured below.

The history of this RR leaves out the details of the two previous owners prior to Unimin Corp., but that's a story for another time. It gives new meaning to the addage "truth is stranger than fiction".

Bob

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 6:10 PM

Wonderful postcard there!!

Some things we came across on a recent hunt--

Wonderful old victorian house with a small carriage house in back---Woodstock ON

Some back alley walls----

And a remnant of a church----that's right --a remnant

Church removed to make way for a retirement center----

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Posted by chooch_42 on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 5:32 PM

Thanks for posting this beautiful scene, so artistically enhanced before real color film ! Could this be a 19th Century Photo Shoppe ? Will try to find this on Google Maps for my own amusement. A great Postcard...thanks, again Bob C.

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Posted by superbe on Tuesday, November 24, 2009 1:12 PM

tstage
that would give members a library of examples to draw upon for modeling purposes

 

I realize that this thread applies to structures but, I found this postcard to be too appealing not to post. It certainly is an old spot.

Shawnee Springs is named after the Shawnee Indian tribe that frequented it and they considered it sacred ground. Many believed that whom ever drank from it would return after death. The spring is located at Cross Junction, VA.

 

The train is for real and the local short line, Winchester & Western, still uses the right of way today.

Bob

 

 

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, November 20, 2009 11:08 AM

Hello Tom yes that's the one. That was the Corbett family farm it's been there for a 100 years or so. I have lived within 2 miles of the farm for 30 years of my 38. I am hoping my little girl can do the same. Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by tstage on Friday, November 20, 2009 10:33 AM

Frank,

That's the one that's on SR 91, yes?  I agree.  I hope that they can preserve it.

Tom

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Friday, November 20, 2009 10:26 AM

Hello this was the last working dairy farm in Twinsburg. Hopefully we can save it from the developers they sold the farm last year.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by PASMITH on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:53 PM
Yes, this is Cades Cove. On this particular trip I saw one of these cantilever barns for the first time. There were a number of others in the area. I will be using this design for a barn I intend to build for my 1900's logging town in northern California. This maybe a barn particular to the Amish because I saw similar ones in PA. As a matter of interest, I was visiting Richard Stoving (an old friend of mine from high school) last year in Wellsboro Pa and he had one in his back yard. Rich is an officer at the New York York Central Historical Society. Peter Smith, Memphis
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Posted by Geared Steam on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:12 AM

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Posted by Geared Steam on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 9:50 AM

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A cantilever barn in the mountains of eastern TN. Peter Smith, Memphis

 

Peter

Is that at Cades Cove?

 Below is the engine house for the J.Neils/St.Regis paper company locos at Libby MT. It has been moved from the original site to the grounds of the Heritage Museum.

 

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Posted by dansapo on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 12:55 AM

E49th & Hamilton Cleveland Ohio looking west

To the right is the old Cleveland Twist Drill bldg-to the rear left is the old Brownhoist Crane and looking straight down the tracks is downtown Cleveland  They(NS) still use the tracks-saw a sd40-2 and gp38-2 dropping off cars.How those tracks can support a locomotive  is amazing.

Pretty much the same shot just looking at the old roll up door that went into Cleveland Twist Drill

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by PASMITH on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:59 AM
A cantilever barn in the mountains of eastern TN. Peter Smith, Memphis
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Posted by blownout cylinder on Tuesday, October 27, 2009 9:36 AM

KenCSX: When I was in Grade7, we took a trip to Detroit to see the process that Ford used to deal with the steelmills they had--I have in my archives a bunch of pix that I took from the catwalks near the furnaces at the River Rouge complex--the furnaces were closed that time--so I got away with some good interior shotsWhistling

Downtown Brussell ON

Old  feedstore in Woodstock ON

Things are not always so neat and clean---

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Posted by tstage on Friday, October 23, 2009 10:55 PM

As promised, a few pics of the inside of the Bucyrus (OH) T&OC Station:

Each first floor window has a smaller stain-glassed window above it

Unique light fixture

Two very unusual fan designs.  Although I really like both of these, I'm particularly fond of the ceiling fan with the exposed belt drive.  I would love to have one of those in my house - i.e. if my ceilings were 10' or higher. Smile  Sorry about the overexposure in the second fan pic.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, October 22, 2009 2:59 PM

OK, how 'bout some waterfront property in beautiful Detroit, MI:

 

...along with a few bridges:

 

And just a little ways upriver, an old gas tower:

The oxide red building in the background is part of Rouge Steel (recently acquired by Severstahl), which was once a part of the Ford Motor Company's River Rouge complex - where only raw materials were purchased, everything else (including the steel, glass and rubber) was manufactured on-site.

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:43 AM

Thanks for reminding this little oneSmile---one thing that sometimes will 'spruce' up a scene are details---some I fell over recently

Above entrance is on a house---this house is/was not associated with any church or such but the entrance does kind of go with that

Landscaping around a house--this one full of Dahlias---

Wall of windows anyone??

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Posted by tstage on Thursday, October 22, 2009 7:19 AM

Time to bring this thread back up on page 1.  I took a trip with the New York Central System Historical Society (NYCSHS) to Bucyrus, OH back in May 2008.  Below is the passenger platform and station for the Toledo & Ohio Central RR.

I'm particularly fond of Victorian houses and architecture.  The inside upper windows on the first floor have stain-glass in them.  All but one is original.  (Boy!  They just don't build 'em this way anymore, do they? Sad)

They are renovating the entire station and work so far looks terrific.  I will post a few interior photos later on tonight.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Thursday, October 8, 2009 7:36 PM

A couple of puzzlers---

there is a lot of corrugated panels around that one.

and then there was this restaurant

---which overhangs the Thames R in London ON

There is a studio of sorts

right beside a one lane only underpass

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Posted by steemtrayn on Thursday, October 8, 2009 12:19 AM

A classic gas station, Washington, NJ.

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Posted by cudaken on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 10:32 PM

 Today I was killing some time and poking around in my Train pictures files and came across a few that seem to fit this posting. They came off the Internet so I cannot give you the when, where or how of them. But, still fit well here.

 

 The mine, sure looks like Walther's mine, does it not?

 Bad side of the tracks.

 The yard.

                     Hope you can get some ideas from them.

               Cuda Ken

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Posted by Seamonster on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:13 PM
I thought I'd re-post the picture of the old service station in Boissevain, Manitoba here too.

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Posted by Seamonster on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 3:09 PM
Here's a couple of pictures of a signalman's shack from the Ft. la Reine Museum and Pioneer Village in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba. They've got some restored railway stuff there including a caboose and a private coach.

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Tuesday, October 6, 2009 11:29 AM

Hello this is the popcorn shop in Chagrin Falls Ohio. This building sits right next to a water fall. The first pic is the front.

This is the right side looking over the bridge.

This is the back from the bottom of the falls looking up.

and this is the inside when you walk in this the first thing you see.

Have a nice day Frank

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, October 5, 2009 8:56 PM

Another view of the hoisthouses

A blue sign----remember these around cars/locomotives on tracks being dealt with please---

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Monday, October 5, 2009 8:47 PM

I've left my pictures in a sort of semi coherent chronological order---well--sort of---kind of---well---

Glencoe N. ON----capacity over one million bushels --- can load up to 25 carloads a pop----more in season

Semi modern/post modern VIA station/flag stop in Strathroy ON

The 2 hoisthouses at the Sifto Salt mines at Goderich harbour, Goderich ON.

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Posted by Seamonster on Monday, October 5, 2009 11:57 AM
When I went to add more pictures to this thread, I discovered that due to my ignorance I had been creating sub-folders in Photobucket and had hit the limit of 5 sub-folders and couldn't add any more. Reading their help files I have determined that the best way out of this is to create new folders and group the pictures better. While I am doing this the links in this thread for my pictures will be broken. I will re-establish the links once I have re-organized the photos and I will add some more.

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Posted by blownout cylinder on Sunday, September 27, 2009 9:48 PM

A couple of building ideas that I came across in my files--

Rowhousing developed from old storefronts--Paris ON

In Cambridge ON--part of old millsite being converted into condo units--

Then we came across this house tucked in the valley wall---not far from old mill site

Wonder how many find space for buildings on their layouts by sticking buildings into valley walls---Whistling

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Posted by spidge on Friday, September 25, 2009 11:18 PM

These two structures are to the east side of the Sunkist building with the tin structure first the the cement and brick structure just north of the tuin building.

citrus_industry_011

citrus_industry_026

citrus_industry_020

citrus_industry_017

citrus_industry_022

 

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Posted by spidge on Friday, September 25, 2009 11:13 PM

I have a few more if its OK.

This next set of structures are adjascent one another in Higland CA. The rails have been removed quite some time ago. The first structure is obveous but I am not sure of the tin nor the concrete and brick structure.

I will use two posts.

citrus_industry_008

citrus_industry_015

citrus_industry_002

 

John

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