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Posted by Motley on Thursday, January 26, 2012 10:55 AM

Mowing the lawn on a summer day.

 

Show me a winter scene.

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, January 26, 2012 6:56 AM

My favorite over the road truck would be this precursor to the pickup truck, a horse and wagon, held steady by the owner at a grade crossing while one of those smelly steam blowing beast rumbles by.

 Show me a summer day.

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, January 26, 2012 12:11 AM

E8 and SW7. DJ.

Show me your favorite over the road truck.

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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:55 PM

Show me your largest engine next to your smallest engine.

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:15 PM

No Maine Central locomotives?

Ok, it's anybodies game!

 

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:12 PM

An animal sign - The Ravanous Lab Beastro on the building behind the crane boom

A closeup:

Show me a Maine Central locomotive

 

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Posted by howmus on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:48 PM

One Grade Crossing....

Shows me signs of an animal or two.

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:24 PM

Heavy?

OK the EM-1 combined weight with tender is a whopping 1,010,700 lb (458.4 t)

I hope it never derails on me, or it's liable to go through the basement floor...LOL

 

Show me a grade crossing.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 3:01 PM

Thanks for the explanation, Lion.

Ok, Show me something heavy.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 10:48 AM

Here there be (Q) Trains. NYCT puts their line letters in circles, on the subway forums we put them in parentheses just because it looks like a circle.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 7:27 AM

Hmmm.... what the heck is a Q train?  Is this something that is area specific geographically?

 

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 6:53 AM

Times up on the sour mash.

This time of the morning I'd settle for the (Q) train. Has anybody seen the (Q) train?

Looks like there is no (Q) Train either. Perhaps these people will have to take a bus.

Show me a Transit Bus.

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:25 PM

Hello, is anybody out there?? If you do not like sour, show me something that you have not posted before....

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 12:43 PM

Slow day for sweetness, how would about 8000 galllons of it brighten up your day?  SHPX 7744 is an old Athearn tank car from my first layout in the early 60s. Delivering corn syrup to Country Kitchen bakery in Greenvale Junction

Show me something sour (maybe even sour mash??Whistling)

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:18 AM

No stills, Ray.  No moonshiners in them thar hills I guess.

Show me something sweet.

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Posted by cowman on Monday, January 23, 2012 7:17 PM

Have seen some inexpensive plastic charm (with a ring at the top of their ears) rabbits that probably could stand in for a 6' 1 1/2" pooka.  And how are you today Mr Howmus?  Might be easier to find a metal charm at a jewelery store.

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Posted by howmus on Monday, January 23, 2012 4:22 PM

The Mascot!  It was supposed to be a 6' tall white rabbit named Harvey, but I couldn't find one....

Show me a still.....

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 23, 2012 4:13 PM

A Cat! We are BIG into CATS.

Show us your layout's mascot

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Posted by twhite on Monday, January 23, 2012 2:14 PM

Jim Pritchard's Great Dane paying homage to the only fire hydrant in Sierra City.

Show me a cat.

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Posted by MisterBeasley on Monday, January 23, 2012 1:27 PM

These are some old mill buildings in Mooseport.  The canal is dug and painted, but there's no "water" yet, and that pink foam has a ways to go, also.

 

Show me an animal.

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Posted by Motley on Monday, January 23, 2012 1:01 PM

A tractor used for working the cornfields.

 

Show me an under construction part of your layout.

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Posted by leighant on Monday, January 23, 2012 11:14 AM

 I want to change the ladder on my open staging yard so it works.  I k now, I know, I've read that you should attach one wire at a time and check it before adding the next wire.  But it seemed so tightly all connected together.  Now there's a short and it's a bear to trace down.

Show me something that WORKS on your railroad.

(ambiguous interpretations allowable.  AmTRIGuous ones even better.)

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Monday, January 23, 2012 9:55 AM

A favorite place on the layout is something that everybody has!

Show me a place that you want to change.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, January 23, 2012 6:56 AM

No  fork lift loading a rail car.!?

show me your favorite spot on your layout!

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Posted by Lake on Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:55 PM

How about three diesels at work.

Show me fork lift loading a rail car.

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Posted by jacon12 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:58 PM

Two RS 3s making their way up grade

 Show me a diesel at work!

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Posted by ns3010 on Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:54 PM

The Lackawanna Cutoff has very few grades, and the track under my under construction bridge is not one one of those grades:

Show me a track ON a grade.

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Posted by leighant on Sunday, January 22, 2012 8:40 PM

Wot????!?!?!?  Nobody has a flat plain (ie prairie, flatlands).  I would even accept a Plywood Pacific as a fulfillent of flat plain.

If the scenery is not flat, how about a track NOT on a grade?

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Posted by leighant on Sunday, January 22, 2012 2:46 PM

Okay, this is a valley AND a cliff face.

And a lousy 40-year-old Polaroid print.

Show me a flat plain.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:10 AM

Time's up on Cliff's face...

Here is 7703 approaching the tunnel at Dyckman Street. Above the fence is *supposed* to be a hill with some overgrowth on it and to the left in this photo is the portal under Fort George, which is about as cliff as we will get on this layout.

Show me a valley.

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