doctorwayne, before this slowly dies please define 'house car'. Google and Wikipedia turned up 0.
Jarrell
doctorwayne Show me a house car with an open door.
Show me a house car with an open door.
Sorry, Jarrell, that's an older term for an enclosed freight car. Examples would be boxcar, reefer, stockcar, boarding or tool car from a work train, even, I suppose, enclosed autoracks.
Wayne
EDIT: I googled "railroad house car" and came up with this one (about three pages in)
A New House Car
jacon12 doctorwayne, before this slowly dies please define 'house car'. Google and Wikipedia turned up 0. Jarrell
According to my source "House cars is a term used by railcar builders and the publication Association of American Railroads that broadly captures boxcars, refrigerator and stock cars, as well as other rolling stock of this general shape and construction." My source is Doyle's Standard Catalog of American Flyer Trains. Thus I present to you a whole bunch of housecars, some with doors open.
Let's see some more PA1s, please.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Thanks! Learn something all the time here.
The request is for some more PA1s!
PA1 I think, can't be bothered to walk through to the train room to check.
Show me a run down old structure.
Simon Modelling CB&Q and Wabash See my slowly evolving layout on my picturetrail site http://www.picturetrail.com/simontrains and our videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCrispybake?feature=mhum
This shanty in the scrap yard is rundown. So is the doghouse for "Dawg", the junk yard dog.
SHow us an Alco road switcher, please.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
This thread has turned into one of my favorite threads in the forum. Unfortunately I cannot contribute much to it, as I have built only 4 modules of my Japanese-themed modular layout. Eager to see more of those fantastic pictures coming ...
Wearing my moderator´s hat, I´d like to make a suggestion. This thread is now exceeding 50 pages and becomes a little difficult to handle. Shouldn´t we turn it into a monthly thread - just like Elliot´s Trackside Diner? A fresh start at the beginning of a month would certainly provide a new impetus to it.
How about it?
Sir Madog This thread has turned into one of my favorite threads in the forum. Unfortunately I cannot contribute much to it, as I have built only 4 modules of my Japanese-themed modular layout. Eager to see more of those fantastic pictures coming ... Wearing my moderator´s hat, I´d like to make a suggestion. This thread is now exceeding 50 pages and becomes a little difficult to handle. Shouldn´t we turn it into a monthly thread - just like Elliot´s Trackside Diner? A fresh start at the beginning of a month would certainly provide a new impetus to it. How about it?
I wouldn't neccesarily be against it, but it seems like I've stopped following the Diner thread because I got tired of chasing the month's location around. I doubt that's it though.
-Morgan
Heartland Division CB&Q SHow us an Alco road switcher, please.
A very rare Alco RSD33.
Let's see some 5-axle diesel power.
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If you're having trouble keeping up with the thread, and I can certainly understand why, try checking the 'email me replies to this thread' button when you make a reply. Then all you have to do is check your email, you see the last one from the 'Show Me Something' thread, open that email and click on the blue Show Me Something header and it'll take you right to that post. Takes 2 or 3 quick clicks and you're right to where you need to be.
It has been well over 2 hours so here is another request, no particular person in mind
Show us a Japanese interurban on a bridge!
We have had a long stretch with no reply, so....show me a telephone pole with lines attached. Extra points if one or more have guy wires.
Simon - just for you!
Now show me something from the Civil War era!
Edit: Crandell, you must have been a split second earlier than I was
What was next?
Was it supposed to be telephone poles with wire attached, or civil war era?
How about civil war era with tele-GRAPH poles with wires attached. Telephone had not been invented.
leighant What was next? Was it supposed to be telephone poles with wire attached, or civil war era? How about civil war era with tele-GRAPH poles with wires attached. Telephone had not been invented.
What do you want to see?
Great thread, BTW.
sfb
steamfreightboy leighant: What was next? Was it supposed to be telephone poles with wire attached, or civil war era? How about civil war era with tele-GRAPH poles with wires attached. Telephone had not been invented. What do you want to see? Great thread, BTW. sfb
leighant: What was next? Was it supposed to be telephone poles with wire attached, or civil war era? How about civil war era with tele-GRAPH poles with wires attached. Telephone had not been invented.
What the heck, show me a B&O passenger train. If leighant comes back, honor his request.
Opps, sorry.
the request is for a B&O passenger train!
Well, it's been over two hours: evidently, all of the B&O modellers must be at work or on vacation.
How about a B&O wagontop boxcar (some versions of which were used in express service in passenger trains)?
Show me an industry that uses an overhead crane (the crane needs to be visible).
How is this for an over head crane? Lets see your hot rod running down Main St.
That easy!
Show me grain elevator being worked by a switcher.
Ken
I hate Rust
What do you want to see? If he comes back with a request fill it, if not lets see something humorous
Justin
JLK , how about something humors at a grain elevator?
cudaken JLK , how about something humors at a grain elevator?
Yeah that will be great.
For a contest I made a model of me, shoveling grain out of a box car at the Cargil elevator in MPLS. That was funny, but it paid my college bills. Trouble is I don't have the model anymore nor a picture. I worked the afternoon shift and would stop at my future wife's house at 11:30 PM for supper, all sweaty. I think back and grimice and laugh all at the same time. That is when I decided I did not want to work for a living.
We still need a pic
Ken says..
Will you settle for a road switcher instead of a switcher working a grain elevator?
Please show us a yard tower or interlocking tower.
here is a yard tower. Show me a train rolling past a beach
Show me a high speed modern passenger train
Okay then, no high speed modelers here today.
Show me a steam double headed with a diesel.
Please remember to be as generic in your requests as possible, we want to include all forum members. Be as inclusive as you can, not exclusive.
It's 'Show Me Something', not 'Stump the Forum'