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Posted by ollevon on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:07 PM

This is wet.       Show me a farm.

 

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Posted by richhotrain on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 4:10 PM

ollevon

This is wet.       Show me a farm.http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee460/Sam_Novello/Contestphotos008-1.jpg?t=1324687079

 

Awesome, simply awesome.

Rich

Alton Junction

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:04 PM

Farm at the top of Bare Mountain:

Show me a silo.

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 BroadwayLion on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 5:10 PM

Show me a silo.

With or without the missile.

The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.

Here there be cats.                                LIONS with CAMERAS

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Posted by Lake on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 6:07 PM

Lion. Good one!

Ken G Price   My N-Scale Layout

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Posted by UncBob on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 6:15 PM

Dairy Farm with silo

 

 

 

51% share holder in the ME&O ( Wife owns the other 49% )

ME&O

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Posted by ollevon on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 6:41 PM

Very nice dairy farm, UncBob but, what is your request?

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:07 PM

Time!

IMG_3576

 

Show me where this car should go next...

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 8:49 PM

Ahhhh we call that "Colorado Cool-Aid".

I imagine it's empty, coming out of the Rockies through the Moffat Tunnel Line, and into Golden, CO.

 

Show me where the car goes next, after leaving Golden with a load.

Michael


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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:34 AM

Motley

Show me where the car goes next, after leaving Golden with a load.

Obviously it goes here, to R.T. Rifenberry & Sons beverages distribution center.

Show me a string of reefers

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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Posted by leighant on Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:32 AM

Here is a string of reefers just sitting...

left to right:

Santa Fe SFRD 8155 40’ iced

SFRD 7359 RR-38 Atlas #2393 REX repainted & heavily modified

SFRB-6135 RR-57 XI rebuilt from a Bachmann car (actually not a reefer but an insulated boxcar-- which makes it sort of an honorary reefer.  Hence the door only painted inb reefer orange.)

RR-54 Santa Fe's 1st mechanical reefer SFRD 3175 Bachmann

In observance of end-of-the-year news wrapups, show me the modeling highlight of your 2011.

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:16 AM

" .......  the modeling highlight of your 2011"

I completed Reggie's Junk Yard in the begining of the year. (My Union Station project is not complete, yet, and I will not name it.)

 

Please show another 2011 accomplishment on your layout.

GARRY

HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR

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Posted by twhite on Thursday, December 29, 2011 10:44 AM

I revamped the helper engine terminal at Deer Creek in 2011. 

Current project:  Getting rid of all that pink and white foam behind the Deer Creek viaduct.

Let's see more 2011 projects.

Tom

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:29 AM

twhite

Let's see more 2011 projects.

I don't have any recent photos, but here is a diagram of my new layout.  I started the benchwork in Nov 2010, did all the tracklaying from July 2011 thru Dec 2011.  So it's now a Plywood Central - fully functional trackwork but zero scenery or structures. 

The tracks outlined in blue and green are all new, the brown track on the center peninsula is leftover from the previous layout.  BTW - the tracks behind the pink line [top and right sides] are staging, visible only from directly overhead.

Show us some more of your 2011 mrr projects

-Ken in Maryland  (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)

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Posted by wedudler on Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:51 AM

This tunnel for my H0n3 Silver Valley RR was a lot of fun.

Show me another 2011 project.

Wolfgang

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, December 29, 2011 11:59 AM

I also built a scrap yard, at Stoney Creek. DJ.

More projects from 2011, please.

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Posted by howmus on Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:15 PM

Biggest and most involved project for 2011 was the engine house/workshop on Bare Mountain:

Somebody else show your 2011 project!

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 wedudler on Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:27 PM

A Grandt Line kit, it was fun to built.

http://www.westportterminal.de/Narrow_gauge_roster/D&RGW_06092_1200.jpg

Show me another 2011 project

Wolfgang

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:30 PM

Well, thanks to a very generous gift from some of the forum members, I was able to get back into model railroading. I started to build a mini-modular layout, loosely based on the Eizan Dentetsu Line from Kyoto to Kurama in Japan.

Here are some pics:

2012 will see some more modules to be built. I´ll have to put up a shelf for storage before I´ll be able to continue.

Show me more 2011 MRRing projects.

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:02 PM

My corn and soy bean fields.  For some reason they are a fan(family)  favorite.  Maybe it's because our city is surrounded by both!

Let's see some more 2011 progress.

Corey
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Posted by Lake on Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:41 PM

Completed the overpass crossing above the South Valley yard.

Show me another 2011 accomplishment on your layout.

Ken G Price   My N-Scale Layout

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Posted by ollevon on Thursday, December 29, 2011 3:50 PM

This is my latest project, this 8' X 6' section is over my helix. Lets see more 2011 projects

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, December 29, 2011 4:32 PM

Most of my 2011 projects were about locomotives and rolling stock

I completed GP7 MEC 672 with details to match the prototype including steam generator and bell on short hood

B&M coaches 4806 and 4625; and B&M diner 84 the Mountaneer


 

I also updated an old Tyco reefer to Kadee couplers and better trucks. I published how-to on the forum

Replacing Trucks w/ Truck Mounted Couplers on Freight Cars
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/t/194011.aspx
Installing a Kadee #5 Coupler Box and Coupler
http://cs.trains.com/TRCCS/forums/p/194274/2121353.aspx#2121353
Show me what else someone did in 2011

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:24 PM

Mostly I worked on the Hudson Coal Mine area..

Show me another 2011 project.

Jarrell

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, December 29, 2011 5:57 PM

My 2011 project was the new extension room. Will probably go well into 2012.

 

Let's see more 2011 projects.

Michael


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Posted by steamfreightboy on Thursday, December 29, 2011 6:46 PM
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Posted by selector on Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:00 PM

Shucks, I have not been following this thread for a week or so, and look what I'm missing!  Lots of magnificent modelling!

My only substantial modelling was with this outdoors diorama.  It actually got my appetite up for more, and I have ordered the Code 83 track for a new layout construction project.  Stay tuned for 2012! Stick out tongue

Crandell

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Posted by steamage on Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:05 PM

Casted up some domes and put them on this Athearn chemical tank car.  I know the tank Is a bit of a larger  than wine cars have but it was an easy conversion. 

 

More 2011 projects plese

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Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Thursday, December 29, 2011 8:47 PM

My daughter & I turned Byron Henderson's "Alameda Belt Line" into "Alameda Belt-in-a-Box":

  

 

We thought we'd be done over the summer, then before 2012, but now it looks like we'll need a little bit more time.
[more photos here]

Show me more 2011 projects!

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Posted by wm3798 on Thursday, December 29, 2011 9:33 PM

The big accomplishment in 2011 was the installation of the main yard.  It's big enough to handle over 100 cars, and processes around 25 to 30 trains in an ops session.

Lee

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