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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, January 9, 2012 6:29 AM

The nearest thing I have to a forest here in the background.

 Show me some barrels, wooden or metal.

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, January 9, 2012 8:00 AM

Here are a few barrels behind the general store. Another photo from my website.

Show me a windmill.

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by ollevon on Monday, January 9, 2012 8:27 AM

Here is a windmill.

Show me a ball field

 

 

 

 

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Monday, January 9, 2012 10:00 AM

A pasture was our ball field when I was a kid. DJ.

Show me a water tank.

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Posted by fondo on Monday, January 9, 2012 10:16 AM

Show me your fuel facility!

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Posted by wedudler on Monday, January 9, 2012 11:58 AM

At my old Westport:

Show me a coaling tower

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Posted by howmus on Monday, January 9, 2012 2:52 PM

One coaling tower coming up!

Show me water facilities.

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

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Posted by cowman on Monday, January 9, 2012 6:53 PM

Howmus, nice chopper/blower.  Do you have a belt to hitch it to the JD?

DJ, if I remember correctly, sliding into base is not recommended.

Nice photos everyone.

Richard

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Posted by howmus on Monday, January 9, 2012 7:20 PM

cowman

Howmus, nice chopper/blower.  Do you have a belt to hitch it to the JD?

Richard

Thank you sir!  Yep, belt goes from tractor to blower, properly crossed and everything.....Smile, Wink & Grin

Looking for Watering Facilities.

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

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, January 9, 2012 7:33 PM

time is up on the water facilities, show me five.

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Posted by secondhandmodeler on Monday, January 9, 2012 8:49 PM

Five buildings in downtown Wells that need detailing. 

Please show me a church.

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:47 AM

No churches?  We must be a bunch of heathern chil'ren.

Show me nine.

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Posted by wedudler on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 11:43 AM

My church / school house

Show me another church  Smile

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:07 PM

A wedding is in progress at the church in the fishng village on the Boothbay RR Village layout

Show me a rural general store

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

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 12:43 PM

Rural General Store:

Show me something set in the 1950s.

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 1:58 PM

My dad built this model of our old church about 1950 to raise awareness for the building fund.  Built from plywood with "hardware cloth" for the window muntins.  Aprroximately O scale.

The new church was built- and torn down 20 years ago,.  The old church- 3 congregations later- still exists.  Model was in church "history room."  I need to find a new home for it.  Might be useful on an outdoor railroad.

The prototype church in Houston (50 feet from a real railroad line that is still active) and an N scale rendition...as it would have appeared in 1950s in a small town.

Show me something with a story about your DAD.

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Posted by el-capitan on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 2:18 PM

My dad's Cab Forward (in the background). It fits better on my southwest railroad than on his michigan railroad so it's residing at my house for a while.

show me something with a story about your mom. 

 

 Check out the Deming Sub by clicking on the pics:

Deming Sub Deming Sub

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:22 PM

This old Lionel along with tender and a few cars was bought for me in 1953 by my mother.  My folks had divorced and I was living with my Grandmother for a while until things got sorted out.

She wanted me to have something to do.

 

It still runs on a shelf around the room in the computer room

 

Show me something about a brother or sister

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Posted by howmus on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:42 PM

My oldest sister is a Deacon in the Episcopal Church and ran, for many years, a boarding house for foreign students attending high School in South Bend, Indiana.  So since the Layout is set in 1925, here I have her running a Bed and Breakfast in Hopewell Junction.  You can see her sitting on the porch reading the Bible.....

Show me something about a son or daughter (your children).

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

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 5:41 PM

Here is a 1996 photo of me with my [now 16yr-old] daughter.  She loved hanging out with Daddy in the train room, especially after the layout was completed and trains were running!

Show me a pic with anybody's kids [under 15] operating, or simply admiring, trains

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

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 7:27 PM

Here is my grandson Nathan, watching trains go by on the backside (south side) of the BRVRR layout:

Show me something you got from your wife, or significant other, for your railroad.

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, January 10, 2012 10:18 PM

Gift from my wife several years ago. A brass 2-4-4-2 made by Oriental Limited.

Please show a branch line train.

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Posted by BroadwayLion on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 10:24 AM

Here is a branch line. Well a branch anyway.

On NYCT it is a "branch line" aka the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. On my railroad it is actually on the main line between Dyckman Street and Botanic Garden. (Now don't get out your map. That will not work here.)

Show me a line with a branch on it.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, January 11, 2012 9:16 PM

No line with a branch on it!

Show me your favorite diesel locomotive.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, January 12, 2012 5:45 AM

jacon12

Show me your favorite diesel locomotive.

It's in there somewhere (LOL)

Show me your favorite part of your layout

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Posted by wedudler on Thursday, January 12, 2012 6:06 AM

Show me a narrow gauge train

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Posted by Anonymous on Thursday, January 12, 2012 7:39 AM

It may not look like a narrow gauge train, but it is! Japanese trains (not the bullet trains) run on 3`6" track.

Show me another narrow gauge train!

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:10 AM

Just for yucks, here is the 2 foot gage Thomas (it's a model of the prototype, after all) along with one of Boothbay RR Village's Henchel locomotives.

And just to keep things "legal", a photo comparing 3 boxcars - HO scale standard gage Yellow), N scale standard gage (white), and HOn30 (boxcar red).

There is cold rain/sleet/snow coming down this morning on the Maine coast Storm, so show something warm - a desert scene Paradise

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Thursday, January 12, 2012 2:05 PM

A warm desert scene:

Show me something with the letter "N"

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Thursday, January 12, 2012 3:05 PM

Here's a couple of N's. DJ.

Show me a letter P.

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