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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:34 AM

ChadLRyan
Show Me Something with Construction Equipment!

Here ya go Chad - how about this skull cracker?

Show me something with an EMD "SW" series switcher in it

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

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 6:46 AM

Two switchers for the price of one.

Here's both an Alco S1 (Eire) and an EMD SW7 (Lackawanna).

Show me a taxi cab.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:00 PM

Call me a Taxi!

Show me a trestle over water!

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 1:07 PM

Concentric curved trestles over the Blackwater wetland:

Show me an 18T to 22T Shay

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Posted by ARTHILL on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 2:47 PM

I didn't weigh it. If what you wanted was a little two truck shay, we are still looking.

If this works, how about a golf course.

If you think you have it right, your standards are too low. my photos http://s12.photobucket.com/albums/a235/ARTHILL/ Art
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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:05 PM

Art, would you like to request something else?

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:24 PM

I agree, although I would love to see a golf course, I can't remember anyone having one on their layout. Could be a tough one....

Edit: OK here is a prototype golf course (my local course I play all the time).

 

Show me something with pipes.

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Posted by twhite on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:34 PM

Well, the Rio Grande L-131 2-8-8-2's had just about all of the 'pipes' you'd want on a big articulated, LOL!

Show me a chunky little 2-8-0

Tom

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 7:53 PM

Oooo, Ooooo, Ooooo0!  I got one of them!

Show me Kit built freight car.

Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO

We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by cudaken on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 8:18 PM

 Show me a Monon freight train.

I hate Rust

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Posted by Flashwave on Wednesday, August 3, 2011 11:52 PM

EMD BL1 499 leads a Monon train onto 5th Street in Lafeyette on the NWR modular layout. Shot in a livestock Barn at the Fairgrounds during Christmas Gift and Hobby.

Show me a tribute scene. (A scene that is a tribute to some[one/thing])

-Morgan

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:07 AM

Tribute scene:

A few months before my father died it occurred to me that it would be fun to make a model of the two of us fishing.  When I was a teenager, one of my dad's friends gave us his home-built 8' sky-blue rowboat - the Marlene (named after my dad's friend's wife).  It fit nicely on a roof rack on our VW bus and we used it a lot (mostly on Lake Hattie in southern Oregon).

Over a couple of evenings I put together a little model of the Marlene and placed it on the Blackwater wetland on my layout:

 I figured that it would be there for my dad to discover the next time he came to visit.  Unfortunately, he never made it back.  Now it is a tribute to my dad and the important conversations and great times that we shared on the water.

Show me a completed Campbell kit.

Phil,
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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:24 AM

Phil ... I really like your tribute. Very nice fishing scene.

My blue farmhouse in the background was made from a Campbell kit. 

 

 

Please show us a model of a wooden caboose.

GARRY

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 12:44 AM

Wooden Caboose?  I have two in this shot:

The 4-wheel bobber (closest) was built from a brass kit.  Those kits are a lot of fun; they are brass etchings and you get to cut them out, bend, and solder until you have a caboose.  The more distant caboose is from a Keystone craftsman kit (wood kit).

Show me a kitbashed craftsman kit.

Phil,
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Posted by HaroldA on Thursday, August 4, 2011 6:01 AM
One of the best threads ever. I am amazed at how it has grown, how we all are seeing more photos of some really nice looking railroads, and how, almost regardless of the 'show me' request, someone has modeled it. Keep up the great work!!!

There's never time to do it right, but always time to do it over.....

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Posted by 0-6-0 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:42 AM

this is my feed and seed its a craftsman kit from J L Innovative design

show me a circus train

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:29 AM

0-6-0, it looks like circus trains are few and far between.  Sad

 Not saying no one has one on their personal or their clubs layout, just that it seems unlikely someone will post one here any time soon.  Could be wrong.. it's just a hunch.

Would you like to request something else?

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Posted by wm3798 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 10:45 AM

Not so fast, Jarrell!

watch?v=a0XGfUkZYHo

Sort of improvised, but you get the idea!

Now, show me some yard switching!

Lee

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 1:48 PM

 

Lee, I think we all got the idea.  You're a good man.

Now, Lee wants some yard switching!

 

Jarrell

wm3798

Not so fast, Jarrell!

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Sort of improvised, but you get the idea!

Now, show me some yard switching!

Lee

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:33 PM

Here's an H 16-44 taking a box car to the car shop beside the round house.

Show me something greasy!

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Posted by wm3798 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 2:59 PM

A greasy spoon?

Spin me up a turntable... Then I'll be quiet for a bit.  (It's been a sloooooow day at work today!)

Lee

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Posted by Hamltnblue on Thursday, August 4, 2011 3:22 PM

Show me an animated sign.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Thursday, August 4, 2011 5:50 PM

Right now, near a town or a home near you......

There are numerous individuals, trying to digitally record & post an Animated Sign, & upload it to Trains.com! 

( Not me, I'm just trying to find my shopping cart! )

Show Me an Animated Sign.  please...

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Posted by richhotrain on Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:29 PM

ChadLRyan

Right now, near a town or a home near you......

There are numerous individuals, trying to digitally record & post an Animated Sign, & upload it to Trains.com! 

( Not me, I'm just trying to find my shopping cart! )

Show Me an Animated Sign.  please...

Show me something else !

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Thursday, August 4, 2011 7:39 PM

Thank you Rich!!!!!

Hey! I found my shopping cart!!! 

Show Me a 4 or more Locomotive Lashup!

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Posted by Flashwave on Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:00 PM

ChadLRyan

Right now, near a town or a home near you......

There are numerous individuals, trying to digitally record & post an Animated Sign, & upload it to Trains.com! 

( Not me, I'm just trying to find my shopping cart! )

Show Me an Animated Sign.  please...

I'm going to encourage a PUNT! here. I don't have, not really interested in aquiring, anm animated sign. Presonal opinion, the Bar Mills are a bit tacky almost "toylike" looking.

-Morgan

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:21 PM

It's getting a little confusing but I think the request is ...

Show Me a 4 or more Locomotive Lashup! 

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:27 PM

The HOTEL sign is animated:

It lights up H - O -T - E -L.  The E flickers, as if it's wearing out.  This is an old Miller Engineering sign.  It's on the front of the Heartbreak Hotel.

We now return to our regularly scheduled thread, looking for a 4 or more locomotive lashup.

It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse. 

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Posted by Flashwave on Thursday, August 4, 2011 8:49 PM

jacon12

0-6-0, it looks like circus trains are few and far between.  Sad

 Not saying no one has one on their personal or their clubs layout, just that it seems unlikely someone will post one here any time soon.  Could be wrong.. it's just a hunch.

Would you like to request something else?

Jarrell

Cicus trains? CIRCUS TRAINS?! HOW IN THE FARFIGNUTENDED FRED DID I MISS CIRCUS TRAINS?!!!!!

Stioll looking for four locomotives

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, August 4, 2011 9:48 PM

A four locomotive consist. Leading the way are two Sante Fe Dash 8-40CWs and two SD75Ms.

 

Show me large passenger station.

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