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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, April 27, 2012 7:20 AM

Times up on the longest single-span bridge.

Show me something with the number 20.

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Posted by wedudler on Friday, April 27, 2012 3:54 AM

shayfan84325

Hey Wolfgang,

I'd like to know the source for your harp switchstand. 

650-2052   Scale Structures Limited 650-2052 Switch stand Harp  $3.19

Wolfgang

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Thursday, April 26, 2012 6:43 PM

Hey Wolfgang,

I'd like to know the source for your harp switchstand. 

I tried to find a truss rod bridge, but my search only turned up guitars.  So here's a truss bridge; hope it will do:

Show me your longest single-span bridge.

Phil,
I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.

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Posted by wedudler on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 2:25 PM

The spur at Silver Creek

Show me a truss rod bridge

Wolfgang

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Posted by narrow gauge nuclear on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 11:36 AM

Pulling forward to back up to water tower at Naturita/Nucla junction.  Leased C-19 working on the PUP.

Paradox Uravan and Placerville.

Show me a harp switch stand

Richard

Richard

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Posted by cudaken on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:58 AM

 Two bridges crossing some tracks heading to the mine.

 So me a water tower,

 Ken

 

I hate Rust

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 10:19 AM

The swing bridge across the harbor mouth of the fishing village on the Boothbay RRVillage layout

Show me a bridge going somewhere, but NOT over water...

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

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Posted by Stourbridge Lion on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:29 AM

Bridge to nowhere Smile, Wink & Grin

Show me a bridge to somewhere

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 9:17 AM

Alco's have fans. DJ.

Show me a bridge.

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Posted by leighant on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 7:59 PM

Atlas N-scale #2393 originally with Railroad Express roadname, stripped, painted and lettered for Santa Fe with rooftop car numbers, round-grid running boards made in Photoshop and printed out on paper, external mechanism for ventilating fan wheel power cutoff cobbled from scraps.

Show me something with a fan.

EDIT Comeon- surely somebody has something with a fan- after 2 hours!

  • a cooling tower
  • a reefer
  • a diesel with dynamic brakes
  • a fantrip with a fan riding
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Posted by Packer on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:57 PM

I really like that weathering job I put on an athearn RTR reffer. My only gripe is that I have only 1 (well 2 if you count my white one)...

Show me a not-stock (weathered, modified, kitbashed, scratchbuilt, craftsman kit, etc.) reffer.

Vincent

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2. An end to the limited-production and other crap that makes models harder to get and more expensive.

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 6:46 PM

Observation car...Silver Vista.  Although not sure if this really qualifies as an observation.  Thought an observation was typically an end car.

So if this doesn't qualify...show me an observation.

If it does qualify, show me something you are proud of.

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 5:00 PM

Summer volleyball in the country park

Please show an observation car.

GARRY

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Posted by Motley on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 2:01 PM

Mountain grade...

 

Show me some summer fun.

Michael


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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 8:27 AM

Here is NYC #874 doing a little switching:

Show us a mountain grade.

Remember its your railroad

Allan

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, April 23, 2012 9:42 PM

Central of Georgia RS 3 pulling a train into the yard

 

 Show me some more yard work!

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Posted by howmus on Monday, April 23, 2012 4:07 PM

USRA Mallet 2-6-6-2 #326 struggles up a 2% grade on the SLOW with a long string of boxcars.

Show me some yard work!

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 wm3798 on Monday, April 23, 2012 2:36 PM

It's March of 1954, and the RS3s are starting to show up in herds at Elkins, but there's still a few venerable old 2-8-0 Consolidations around to handle the coal streaming up the Black Fork Grade...

Show me some heavy duty mainline action...

Lee

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Monday, April 23, 2012 1:59 PM

A trio of GP7's crossing Hammer Creek. DJ.

Show me a multiple steam lash up.

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Posted by Mark Watson on Monday, April 23, 2012 11:40 AM

I took this photo last weekend in 1897 of the old time hustle and bustle in Laurel Gulch on Rick Brodzinsky's JACALAR

 

 

Switching from old time to modern, show me a 3+ unit head end lash-up!

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, April 23, 2012 9:26 AM

From the fishing village on teh Boothbay RR Village layout: A bit hard to see, but the pickup truck is the WS Hall & Duke http://woodlandscenics.woodlandscenics.com/show/Item/AS5521/page/1

Show me something with horses

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

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Posted by mcfunkeymonkey on Monday, April 23, 2012 7:41 AM

Since there was no "show me" requested, I'll throw in another pickup, with Lucky getting a ride through late 1940's N scale Alameda:

And show me another "dog gone" scene.

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Posted by GAPPLEG on Monday, April 23, 2012 7:14 AM

 

Truck fleet for my ficticious TMI railroad

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, April 23, 2012 6:48 AM

Looks like we have a shortage of railfan parks.

Show me pickup truck, no matter the brand..  Big Smile

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Posted by wm3798 on Sunday, April 22, 2012 10:40 PM

I was busy all weekend, so I missed the request for the helix...  Better late than never!  If the loaded hopper off in the distance isn't adequate for the current request, I'll follow up the HO auto racks with some N scale ones...

Show me a rail fan park.

Lee

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Posted by Packer on Sunday, April 22, 2012 5:37 PM

I happen to like Open autoracks and this it one of my favorite things I've done. The hard part was finding the cars (a total of 36 life-like chevy citations). I would have loved to have 36 Busch/Herpa mustangs, but the fox body ones are hard too find.

Show me something with a load.

Vincent

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Sunday, April 22, 2012 4:45 PM

Ultimate? Well perhaps not, I've really liked this photo, due to the efforts I put into the build. It 'will be' a BC Rail -8, built to their -9 specs, (as in, it didn't really exist, the -8's were Draper Tapers, carbody units). I think I modeled it well, tried & learned new things, & put quite an effort into it, & that is why I like the photo. OK enough Sappiness!

Since we are on on the topic;
Please Show Me One of Your Favorite Modelling Projects!!! 

PS: George, thanks for mentioning "Show Me" in WPF, Ive seen new contributions & that was a good call, Thanks!
Jarrell, what a wonderful idea the "Show Me" thread is, I really enjoy contributing, & having fun here, Thank You!!

 

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Posted by IVRW on Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:48 PM

Here is some scenery:

On a logging railroad, it is quite hard to avoid trees.

This was part of an "Ultimate Photo" that I staged, trying to put as much scenery, prototypical action, interest, mini-scenes, and notes of my accomplishments into one photo as possible.

Seen here, you have No. 3 switching the loaded log cars out from Camp 2, while recently bought No. 9441 from the AT&SF brings in a new cut of cars for Camp 3 at the upper left (logs through the trees).

During all this, the yarder operator takes a break, the photographer stands on a take car of water for the yarder, a flatbed truck heads into the woods to check on the felling, and Chief Engineer John Gardiner steps down from No. 9441, as she slows down in the work area, to go over to the conductor on No. 3 to belay the instruction of the log cars going to Camp 3.

These are both my locomotives, I modified the cars in the foreground from their factory state to take rested logs, the 4 disconnects behind No. 9441 are all kit built with a scratch built draw bar in the middle to hold their length, allowing the same rest-on-top philosophy required for an operationally oriented logging railroad, and the Camp 3 Log Deck (upper left) and work car behind No. 3 are both completely scratch built.

Show me another Ultimate Photo.

~G4

19 Years old, modeling the Cowlitz, Chehalis, and Cascade Railroad of Western Washington in 1927 in 6X6 feet.

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Posted by Mark Watson on Saturday, April 21, 2012 10:24 PM

Here's a flag on the American. 

Show me some scenery.

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, April 21, 2012 9:08 PM

Snake Eye Bennett's place is a bit detailed

 Show me a flag.

Jarrell

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