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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:32 AM

The Revell chicken coop is just to the right of and behind the farmhouse.

This was a layout built in 2 1/2 Saturdays by a train club built to order for a client  as a fund-raising project.  The hill on the left size of the pic is a base where a 12" to the foot Christmas tree can be placed (just one leg of a 3-legged stand on visible portion).  The client asked for a loop of track, a siding, a station, a watrer tank and a farm.

Show me a multi-customer industrial siding.

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Posted by ARTHILL on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:33 AM

Chicken coop is the white building with the chickens on top. The scythe is modeled after the scythe my Great grandfather left in the oak tree almost a hunderd years ago now. All that is left is the point of the blade sticking out of the now grown tree's trunk

Show me a memory you have modeled.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:52 AM

A coal dealer and lumber a lumber yard, both on the same siding, with the icehouse (in the distance) on the switchback entrance to both:

 

Now show me (and Art) a modelled memory.

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:54 AM

I've named the street to a late friend.

Show me an Alco.

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Posted by nik .n on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 12:31 PM

wedudler

Show me an Alco.

Wolfgang

An Alco FA-2 rounding out the tunnel on the way to the mill on my WIP layout.

Show me a siren, air raid type if you can. ;)

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 1:39 PM

Not an air raid siren, but a warning siren similar to the ones used on the prototype cranes used as inspiration for this model.  (it's on the bottom of the cab in the photo below.)

 

Show me an over-size load on an flat car or gondola.

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Posted by Motley on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:21 PM

Oversized load

 

Show me another flat car load.

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:43 PM

From my D&H Collection

IMG_3637

 

Show me a MOW Critter at work

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Posted by Lake on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 3:45 PM

Pipe load 40" link chain

Show me a refinery bigger then a single Walthers kit.

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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:55 PM

 Kenny G (odd my nick name at work) Looks like time is up.

 How about a big steam engine?

 Cuda Ken

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:28 PM

Here is a Steam Engine I think is big, a nice DM&IR unit! It just has a massiveness to it, about as large in steam as I wanna get, as I like the small fellas, & up into the medium ones like this.... It's just my preference I reckon..

DocWayne;   that is an awesome scene, I will be referencing that a quite a few more times, nice design & execution! Well done

 Art;   Love the 'Sling Blade' yes, umm hmm, they will grow into trees, I reckon, umm huh!

Show Me Something that falls under-  'What-iz-it" like a guess what it is deal....

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:35 PM

OK....  Quick time out here!

As Jarrell has asked many times, please check after you post to be sure someone didn't get in before you did.  Kenny G. did not show a MOW equipment........ Whistling  Also if you post what someone is looking for, please make sure it is actually the item that should be next...

Thanks!

Back to our regularly scheduled program and I think we are looking for, 'What-iz-it" like a guess what it is deal....

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We'll get there sooner or later! 

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Posted by wm3798 on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:41 PM

 

So, What is it?

Show me a fork lift!

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 6:59 PM

wm3798

 

http://www.wmrywesternlines.net/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/Forklift_Bridge_(3).jpg

So, What is it?

Show me a fork lift!

Lee

 

My guess is that it's a chair car, from the golden days of passenger travel, although I'd always assumed them to be a tad more well-appointed. Smile, Wink & Grin

Here's a forklift:

 

Show me some beehive coke ovens.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 8:19 PM

Sorry, if I continued an error, I waited a day cuz, well, I was pretty confused, & the last 5 made sense, & ran with it.  ( I guess I am at fault that i only look back 4 - 5 posts or so before the rush of having & posting 'that' (cool to me) shot!!!)

Oh Geez, I wish I had a photo shot of the beez that were enjoying a mostly empty Cherry Coke can once in the late 80's!!!  It darn near became a hive! They carpeted that thing!

The Show Me Request is for a BeeHive Coke Oven..

I don't have a steel mill or even a sawdust burner (not a coke burner  though).

EDIT!!  Is that a pallet transfer unit from one track to dock, or to another car? Acting much like a track bridge? I like it, & now I want to make one too! I could transport a bunch of things across that form varius boxcars!

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Posted by ns3010 on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 9:28 PM

It would appear that time is up.

Show me your biggest diesel locomotive.

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:17 PM

How about a pair.

 

Show me a long hard climb. As in a long stretch of track on a hill.

 

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:23 PM

One of my 2 USRA 2-6-6-2's struggles up a 2% grade with a long string of boxcars to get over Bare Mountain on the SLOW:

Show me the ruins of an old building.

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

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:25 PM

Hey Brent,

Say, if that is the old CP scheme I like it and appreciate it, however last wek I almost "filled da pants" after I was doing research on Iowa Northern!  The unique thing is they have the old CP scheme-ish on CN GP40W's.. Ha aaa haaa ha.. & now I have to do that.... Geez! I like W's!

Brent asked for: Long hard climb, a long stretch of track on a hill!

EDIT!!! Ray asked for:  

Show me the ruins of an old building.

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:45 PM

Chad, That paint looked beat up a week from brand new back then. Post pic's when done.

Back to ruins from an old building.

 

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Posted by MAbruce on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 5:21 AM

Ruins of a depot and spur.

Show me your very favorite spot on your layout.

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Posted by ollevon on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:17 AM

One of my favorite spots on my layout.  Show me a mistake you made and is still on your layout.

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 6:32 AM

I think the attempted 'pine type' growth on my layout display is really wrong. It is now lke a signature & is not something I should change, although I have been tempted from about the third picture... Oh well, it is one of those 'cactus pines'  or what-not........

The DK Green thingy above the Sand filler - over the short hood of this shot, in other words the only odd vegitation, well, OK, the wurst vegetation right there.... 

Show Me Something with Serious Mechanicalness... (a complex mechanizim thingy!)

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Posted by simon1966 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:04 AM

Hmm,

How about the inter-modal crane on our layout?

or for a seriously complex structure full of mechanical bits, how about the steel mill complex on the K-10 layout seen in the center of this general view?

show me a small vignette, a scene within a scene from your layout.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 8:23 AM

A small vignette..

show me your work bench

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 9:56 AM

Here's part of it:

...and another part of it:

 

Show me a transfer table.

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Posted by dominic c on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:03 PM

Help

I kind of forgot how to post

Do I just click on reply from the last post?

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Posted by ARTHILL on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:12 PM

yes

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 dominic c on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:26 PM

thanks

 

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Posted by dominic c on Wednesday, September 14, 2011 12:30 PM

What are you some kind of neat freak!

Come on- You cleaned up for the pictures Right?

Seriously, I wish mine look like that. Very nice

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