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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:14 PM

Various MOW cars

Flanger

25 ton crane & tender

Tool flat

and THE BIG HOOK

Calling the gearheads out there, we have seen shays, and heislers, show me a climax

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Posted by ARTHILL on Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:33 PM

Here is my Climax pulling a huge chuck of Chysochola out of the Quarry. It was so big we put it on two flat cars and then laid track so the engine coudl ride one wheel on each track and pull the two flat cars side by side. We got it out. It was the largerst single gemstone ever extracted. At least in my world.

Show me a forest,

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:38 PM

Show me a pedestrian bridge.

Rich

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:58 PM

Show me a pedestrian bridge.

Rich

 

WHAT????

Soy un Pardador, Siesta maine......

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:38 PM

Rich, I didn't mean that in a mean way, I was making a joke, a funny ha hah..  Sometimes (well, All the dang time) I let out a post, without thinking of how it could be taken, & that one, wellsome may thing I was being mean, not, was just funnin' with you..

Art,  that is an impressive haul, & that you can bridge track, & still be 'in gauge' like that, I hope you paid your union stewards well...... Ah Hemmmm..

Hey, I found this stone on a dig, not too long ago.. It has some irredecent veins in it, but getting brittle over time.  Looks li,e Fools Gold Veins.. It's an X-FIle, & I don't let natural light hit it, (EVER!!!- cuz all Hell would break loose!!!)

Oh Yeah, Siesta!!!   Bye...

Please repeat, Show Me a better Pedestrian Bridge.....

 

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Posted by richhotrain on Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:01 PM

Chad, no offense taken.

Nobody gots a pedestrian bridge???   Crying

Rich

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, August 8, 2011 6:26 AM

Geez, let's make this easier.

Show me a C&NW boxcar or a pedestrian bridge.

Rich

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 8, 2011 8:31 AM

I don't know guys but I think you're going to have to get a little more generic in order to keep things moving and allow the MOST members to participate.   There are times I get the feeling that the thread should have been named 'Stump The Forum'.  But, that's just a little nagging feeling and maybe it'll go away with time.  Wink

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, August 8, 2011 9:07 AM

jacon12

I don't know guys but I think you're going to have to get a little more generic in order to keep things moving and allow the MOST members to participate.   There are times I get the feeling that the thread should have been named 'Stump The Forum'.  But, that's just a little nagging feeling and maybe it'll go away with time.  Wink

Jarrell

This ought to do it.

Show me the favorite part of your layout.

Rich

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 8, 2011 9:13 AM

 

Yeaaaa... Rich, if that don't do it, it won't get done!

Ok, the man wants you to show your favorite part of your railroad!

Jarrell

richhotrain

 

 jacon12:

 

I don't know guys but I think you're going to have to get a little more generic in order to keep things moving and allow the MOST members to participate.   There are times I get the feeling that the thread should have been named 'Stump The Forum'.  But, that's just a little nagging feeling and maybe it'll go away with time.  Wink

Jarrell

 

 

This ought to do it.

Show me the favorite part of your layout.

Rich

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Posted by MAbruce on Monday, August 8, 2011 9:33 AM

jacon12

Ok, the man wants you to show your favorite part of your railroad!

 

Here it is - My pond and the trestle:

 

Show me your LEAST favorite part of your layout.

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Posted by ARTHILL on Monday, August 8, 2011 9:57 AM

Least favorite. The bridge is OK, but the cliff is plaster cloth and the first thing I tried. The falls is a pic that does not work and the backdrop is just vivid blue. This may be the next project, if I can get myself to start it.

show me a grassy  knoll.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Monday, August 8, 2011 10:14 AM

Does this count as a grassy knoll?  DJ.

Please show me an early Alco diesel.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 8, 2011 12:41 PM

Not the earliest by far, but the earliest I own..

an RS-3

Show me an old wooden fence.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, August 8, 2011 1:06 PM

An old New England style Double Post farm fence:

Show me an Aermotor pump.

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Posted by cv_acr on Monday, August 8, 2011 1:19 PM

howmus
Show me an Aermotor pump.

A what?

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Posted by howmus on Monday, August 8, 2011 1:41 PM

cv_acr

 

 howmus:
Show me an Aermotor pump.

 

A what?

One of these thingies.....  Every Farm had one way back when!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n13h30aP-5g

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Posted by Flashwave on Monday, August 8, 2011 1:42 PM

cv_acr

 howmus:
Show me an Aermotor pump.

A what?


For those of us who live on Planet Earth ( :P ) , and Aermotor Pump is a Wind-driven (air=aer) device that pumps (motor) up water. Looks like this:

(Me likey Google)
EDIT: looks like Ray beat me.)

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 8, 2011 2:16 PM

 

The thing most people call a windmill.

Jarrell

cv_acr

 

 howmus:
Show me an Aermotor pump.

 

A what?

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, August 8, 2011 2:20 PM

You may see a windmill in a photo I posted in this thread 4 days ago if that counts. 

Otherwise, I bet someone else has one. 

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 8, 2011 2:40 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q

You may see a windmill in a photo I posted in this thread 4 days ago if that counts.

Otherwise, I bet someone else has one.

 

Oppps, well.... that's gonna happen.  Flashwave, you want to request something else or let it stand?

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Posted by Flashwave on Monday, August 8, 2011 2:45 PM

jacon12

 Heartland Division CB&Q:

You may see a windmill in a photo I posted in this thread 4 days ago if that counts.

Otherwise, I bet someone else has one.

 

 

Oppps, well.... that's gonna happen.  Flashwave, you want to request something else or let it stand?

Jarrell

I'd love to see if anyone has windvanes on their layouts, since a windmill is technically something different, but I doubt the peeps with wind thingies are gonna get on here anytime quickly. (I'm pretty sure TWhite has one, but he's a good 4 hours behind me) so let's keep the ball rolling.

Show me something Working for a Second (or third) hand owner.

And if you have a windmill/vane/widget Post that too, but not with a request on it, just bragging rights. Stick out tongue 

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Posted by howmus on Monday, August 8, 2011 4:47 PM

Flashwave

 

 

 

I'd love to see if anyone has windvanes on their layouts, since a windmill is technically something different, but I doubt the peeps with wind thingies are gonna get on here anytime quickly. (I'm pretty sure TWhite has one, but he's a good 4 hours behind me) so let's keep the ball rolling.

Show me something Working for a Second (or third) hand owner.

And if you have a windmill/vane/widget Post that too, but not with a request on it, just bragging rights. Stick out tongue 

Sheesh....  I thought that would be an easy one.  Anyone modeling the 1950 or earlier and has any farms on the layout absolutely should have them.  Rural electrifictaion didn't come along until the 1930's in most placers and if you had 20 cows, hand pumping the water was a real chore, and how you gonna cool the milk???  We had one attached to the old Milkhouse on the farm where I was a boy into the late 1950's.  Windstorm finally took it down so dad removed both the Aeromotor and the Milkhouse...  Hadn't been working since the mid 1930's, but it was there.  I have 3 of them on my layout.  Here is one:

Now back to our regularly scheduled program.....  Looking for a Second (or third) Hand something.

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Posted by ARTHILL on Monday, August 8, 2011 5:07 PM

We did not have a windmill on our family farm, BUT, this may work as second or third hand. The model is of Great Grandma's egg candleing house. The original stood on that sight for over 130 years. However, before it was her egg house, it was the bedroom on the original shack that was build in 1850 and my grandfather was borm  in that room. A run down building still stands on that spot, however it is now a tool shed and it was the original brooder house. That is a lot of history for a 8 x 20 foot piece of southern Minnesota ground. The model shows Great Grandma at the age of 100 coming out for dinner after getting the eggs ready for market.

Show me a model of one of your memories.

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Posted by twhite on Monday, August 8, 2011 5:31 PM

One of my VERY fond memories:  Lowell, the little gray Maine Coon who died about 4 years ago from kidney failure.  He's the one that taught Spooky, my other Maine Coon, how to steal a caboose. 

Tom

show me an EMD E-2.  Or if that's impossible, an EMD E-5 or 6

Oh, PS:  Flash, windvanes are WAY too 'contemporary' for my setting, LOL!

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, August 8, 2011 5:35 PM

twhite

One of my VERY fond memories:  Lowell, the little gray Maine Coon who died about 4 years ago from kidney failure.  He's the one that taught Spooky, my other Maine Coon, how to steal a caboose. 

http://i299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub/DSC02346-1.jpg

Tom

From one cat lover to another, that little gray Maine Coon was knock down gorgeous!

Thanks for sharing the memories.

RIch

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, August 8, 2011 5:42 PM

I need to hijack the thread for a moment to show you Gracie.  She loves trains too.

Rich

OK, where were we?

Oh yeah, show me an EMD E-2.  Or if that's impossible, an EMD E-5 or 6.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, August 8, 2011 6:06 PM

E5 .... 

Please show another wood caboose. 

 

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Posted by tbdanny on Monday, August 8, 2011 6:37 PM

Here we go, built from a LaBelle resin kit:

Show me something...foreign. (I.e. not from North America.)

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Posted by twhite on Monday, August 8, 2011 6:42 PM

I knew you'd come through for me, Garry Bow

Okay, wooden caboose.  Wooden cabeese are the only kind I"ve GOT, LOL!  

Oops, tbdanny beat me to it! 

Okay, something foreign (Swiss Crocodile, anyone?)

PS:  Rich--Gorgeous 'train-cat' BTW.

Tom

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