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Posted by cv_acr on Monday, August 15, 2011 1:09 PM

Another one from the club. These ~20' drop bottom gondolas were built for hauling nickel-copper ore in the Sudbury, Ontario area.

Let's see some sort of unique (or at least unusual or interesting) industrial operation.

Looks like Garry got there a few seconds first. Heavyweight passenger car it is.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, August 15, 2011 3:17 PM

Here's one!

Show me Blue Sky.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 15, 2011 3:47 PM

Blue sky..

show me a highway beside the tracks.

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Posted by Motley on Monday, August 15, 2011 3:49 PM

How about a highway over the tracks...

 

Show me a scene at dusk

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Posted by ARTHILL on Monday, August 15, 2011 4:01 PM

I have had such a good time with dusk, here are two.

Show me a Zypher

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, August 15, 2011 4:33 PM

Here's a Zephyr.... The Kansas City Zephyr

 

 

Please show an outhouse. 

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Posted by howmus on Monday, August 15, 2011 4:40 PM

I know.....  I've already put something on this page, but I just can't resist this one!  Here is a pair of outhouses, his and hers, the way they had them at one time....  One appears to be in use as well.  Albert the handyman has been spoken to by the Reverend Miller about closing the door when he uses it, but it is a hot day, and, well, you know how those places have an odor.....

Show me a sign you made.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Monday, August 15, 2011 6:50 PM

Feed mill signs. DJ.

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Posted by tbdanny on Monday, August 15, 2011 6:55 PM

An EMD F7 hauling a passenger train on my old N scale layout:

Show me something...unexpected.

EDIT: I just realised that was a bit unclear.  I meant show me a scene on your layout where someone is caught off-guard.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 15, 2011 7:57 PM

unexpected

show me something yellow

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Posted by twhite on Monday, August 15, 2011 8:32 PM

Jarrell: 

Is  "Grande Gold" close enough? Big Smile

Tom

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Posted by wm3798 on Monday, August 15, 2011 9:18 PM

Here's an N Scale Kato Mike I weathered for a client.

Show me a road side attraction!

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Posted by Motley on Monday, August 15, 2011 9:29 PM

Tom, that sure is a good looking D&RGW train!

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Monday, August 15, 2011 9:39 PM

Road side attraction?

How about this?  Mmm strawberries...not much of an attraction though, and the roadside isn't finished yet Embarrassed

 

Show me some Amtrak

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Monday, August 15, 2011 10:26 PM

I have an Amtrak shot...

 

Show Me Some other Commuter Train!

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, August 15, 2011 10:43 PM

From the early days of GO Transit:

 

Show me something under wire.

 

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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 8:15 AM

 Been well over 2 hours Doc.

 Show me something that has coal in the picture.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:38 AM

Blackwood Coal Co. DJ.

Show me a small pond or lake.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 9:51 AM

Well, here's a view out over an inlet of Lake Erie:  not that small itself, but my scene is only a couple of inches deep. Smile, Wink & Grin

 

Show me an oversize load.

 

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Posted by superbe on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:00 AM

doctorwayne

 Show me something under wire.

 

Dr. Wayne,

Wayne, you have stirred up my curiousity as to what you had in mind  by under wire. Since no one replied I thought you might tell us.

Any women on the forum would have an answer but it wouldn't be train related.

Happy RailRoading and Thanks.

Bob

 

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Posted by Motley on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:23 AM

Here's an oversized load...

 

Show me a staging yard.

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Posted by ARTHILL on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:24 AM

I assume the something electric meant under an overhead wire system, like a street car. If I am wrong, here is a lot of wire under. This was for my DC era, it is since gone but was fun to make.

So I ask for nothing new.

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:58 AM

Here is a staging yard.  Visible but used to stage freight trains that are supposed to be gone somewhere else.  The layout is unfinished so the cars are just posed, not part of trains being staged.

 On the blue foam in right corner wiill run the "SNEAK CONNECTION" where on show-the-non-operators night, trains can run a continuous oval instead of going into staging

 

 Yes, it is visible and even scenicked.  But since it is not operated like a marshalling, switching or terminal yard, it serves as staging.

Though visible, it will be behind a 3 track "Port Terminal switching yard" and a 5-track trunkling railroad switching yard, in a place where the bporototype had several railroads with yards side by side.  So it is masquerading as "another one of the yards," to be ignored by operators,  Just part of the scener.  Since it is impersonating an unrelated but nearby yard, I name it Demara Yard after the Great Impersonator of the 1960-something movie of that title.

Show me a railroad with some connection to outer space.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 1:41 PM

Mom's Robot Oil is a product featured on Futurama, so that's the connection:

This is the rail-served loading dock door of a warehouse at the back of my layout.

Show me a gondola with a scrap-metal load.

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

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:03 PM

Scrap being delivered to the steel mill. 

Please show a horse or some horses. 

 

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:08 PM

1925...  Still some teamsters driving the real thing. 

Show me a team track.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:45 PM

superbe

 

Wayne, you have stirred up my curiousity as to what you had in mind  by under wire. Since no one replied I thought you might tell us.

 

 

I was thinking of an interurban, but a trolley, streetcar, or heavy electric would have worked, too.

Wayne

 

The team track at Dunnville, at right, along the edge of the layout:

 

Show me a steam loco switching an industry.

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Posted by jalajoie on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 2:50 PM

Doctorwane, I love everything about this photo, track arrangement  and building.

Do you mind if I save it for future reference for my modules.

Jack W.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 3:20 PM

jalajoie

Doctorwane, I love everything about this photo, track arrangement  and building.

Do you mind if I save it for future reference for my modules.

Thanks for your kind words, jalajoie, and by all means save it if you wish.  If, for any reason, you post it somewhere, I would, of course, appreciate a word of credit.

Wayne

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, August 16, 2011 4:40 PM

Steam loco switching the Publoic Export Grain Elevator on the north side of the Port of Corpus  Christi, modeled on a 2x4 foot double-sided layout built ca.1975 for ladyfriend's kids.

Show me something railroady involved with COTTON.

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