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Posted by Lake on Sunday, September 25, 2011 6:14 PM

Least favorite spot.

Future Site of Flatrock Intermodal Yard

And what was done with it.

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Show me gondolas with loads.

Ken G Price   My N-Scale Layout

Digitrax Super Empire Builder Radio System. South Valley Texas Railroad. SVTRR

N-Scale out west. 1996-1998 or so! UP, SP, Missouri Pacific, C&NW.

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Posted by Motley on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:27 PM

 

Show me a night passenger scene.

Michael


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Posted by Grampys Trains on Sunday, September 25, 2011 7:57 PM

Show me a freight train with at least one Pennsy boxcar in it. DJ.

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:32 PM

Okay, so the PRR car is on the siding, but there's a bonus PRR auto rack!

Show me the most interesting mechanical contraption you use to operate your layout.

Lee

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Posted by selector on Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:42 PM

Lee, it's a subjective question, so I will answer with my hand laid turnouts in mind.  They fascinate me, even though I am so familiar with them. 

Show me a scratched scale board and batten building of any kind.

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Posted by leighant on Sunday, September 25, 2011 8:54 PM

This may bhave been up before, but it IS board-and-batten and extremely scratched. 

Show me something you modeled from your home town.

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Sunday, September 25, 2011 10:15 PM

All three of these things are still standing today.  I modeled them as they looked in the 50's.

Hubbard Mill in downtown Mankato.

The CNW Depot.

Red Jacket Trestle.

Show me the thing your guests are most impressed with when they see your layout.

Corey
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Posted by ChadLRyan on Monday, September 26, 2011 4:55 AM

Hey Corey,

I was almost looking forward to moving to Mankato at one time, it is a nice town! I like your models of it!

Sorry time has run out, I'm thinking of farming!    Like this;

Show Me Some of Your Tractors!

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Posted by cudaken on Monday, September 26, 2011 9:09 AM

 Times up

 How about a hopper?

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Posted by leighant on Monday, September 26, 2011 9:54 AM

Tractors being delivered via Santa Fe class FT-T flatcar to Wayne Implement Co.  The platform was built around the plastic top of a raisin box, to resemble a Santa Fe standard heavy-equipment unloading dock.  Limited length of space required the ramp to be placed at the off-strack side of the dock rather than the end, and limited depth required to end of the ramp to be truncated where it met the front of the layout edge.

There aqre hoppers in the background so this is both tractor(s) and hopper(s).  But the hoppers were an afterthought, so

show me a hopper.  (Just watch somebody interpret this as a Z-scale toad or something like that...)

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, September 26, 2011 10:54 AM

A hopper from Rail Shop:

 

Show me a gondola with a load that doesn't exceed the height of the car's sides.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, September 26, 2011 11:17 AM

Loads of structural steel are at the height of the car sides but not over. 

Please show a stock car. 

GARRY

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Posted by cudaken on Monday, September 26, 2011 12:16 PM

 OK, I am a car guy, and the HO slot cars got me into HO trains.

 OK show me another stock car. Whistling

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, September 26, 2011 12:34 PM

Here's one next to a coach that had to be pulled from service.

Show me a view through a tunnel.

 

                          BrentCowboy

Brent

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, September 26, 2011 1:06 PM

Here's a view through a tunnel, even though the track curves to the right just beyond the portal:

 

...and a view through from the opposite side.  When the rest of the "mountain" is installed, there'll be no through view at all:

 

Show me a single load utilising two or more cars.

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Grampys Trains replied on 09-25-2011 8:57 PM
Posted by dominic c on Monday, September 26, 2011 3:11 PM

Grampy

That is a beautiful picture!

Fantastic

Joe C 

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Posted by maxman on Monday, September 26, 2011 3:38 PM

doctorwayne

Show me a single load utilising two or more cars.

Show me a Conrail C32-8

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Monday, September 26, 2011 7:18 PM

Thank you, Joe. DJ.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, September 26, 2011 7:50 PM

Times up on the Show me a Conrail C32-8....

Show me a 4-2-4 Steam loco in SP colors and the name C. P. Huntington on it.........   Hmmmmmm, Maybe not.....

Just show me and old time steam loco.

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 leighant on Monday, September 26, 2011 9:05 PM

"western railroads" diorama for history class I taught

 

Show me something you had on or for your trains when you were five years old.

 

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Posted by simon1966 on Monday, September 26, 2011 9:20 PM

Not sure if I was 5, but I was certainly young.   This is a 40 plus year old Hornby Tank Engine,

Look at those flanges!

Show me your prized possession

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

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Posted by JLK on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 5:25 AM

This car is not perfect but I prize it anyway. Show me something long.

Justin

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Posted by cudaken on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:18 AM

 Bench is long, 60 feet and the train is pretty long. 30 Old Dutch Hoppers pulled by my Big Boy. Ops, look like my Monon F-3's.

 Show me something made with foam. (that should be easy)

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 6:27 AM

The base and the hills are foam.....

Show me a RR Xing

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 7:26 AM

RR crossing

show me an old timey tank car!

Jarrell

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:05 AM

I'm time up'in my own post.  It's anybodies game!

Jarrell

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Posted by fondo on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:10 AM

Show me your static grass applied in your layout!

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Posted by NorthCoast RR on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:24 AM

here is some static grass.

I used my home made applicator ($8.00)...its both fun, and scary to use. It works great though.

Can someone please show me a NRE Genset?

 

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Posted by ClinchValleySD40 on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 10:34 AM

 

 

Show me a weathered coal hopper

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Posted by Motley on Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:16 AM

I think Northcoast got in first. He wants a Genset.

Here's my BNSF Genset

 

We'll go with Larry's request, how about a weathered coal hopper.

Michael


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