rdgk1se3019I believe the last request was .........show me something on your layout you want to redo.
Show me something FOOLISH! Something whimsically foolish that is.
Texas Zepher Show me something FOOLISH! Something whimsically foolish that is.
Show me something under construction.
T-SaxShow me something under construction.
Here is the Clark Avenue Yard section of my layout before the track was laid:
Show me another construction shot
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
This is the west side of the new layout, It will be quite a while before I get back to working on this area.
show more construction area's
Sam
Here is a construction AREA, but not much actual construction shows. (And it's been a while since I've taken this shot, without much progress here.) There IS some hidden staging track laid back behind the export grain elevator mockup, and the false-front mockup of shipside cargo sheds. The offshore oil rig under construction is safety award trophy from a garage sale, not yet rehabilitated for use as a background model.
Cars sitting on blue foam show where future industry spurs are to be laid, after hidden layover and test loop trackage is laid and trouble-shot.
Today is the second of the month. Show me your second something- your second loco or second car or second structure, etc.
The second structure I built on my layout was the turntable. Here it is right after I finished building, weathering, wiring & installing it:
http://i47.tinypic.com/qzetlk.jpg
Here it is as it looks now:
Now, show me your favorite structure on your layout.
Carl
"I could never belong to any club that would have me as a member."
I kinda like this Grain Elevator. Not quite finished but close.
"> Show me a picture of something on your rails that you also have a picture of the real one to go with it. Must have the same #s or name visible.
Show me a picture of something on your rails that you also have a picture of the real one to go with it. Must have the same #s or name visible.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
CB&Q 100 (EMD publicity poster)
Another view
Here is half of the set.
______________________________________________________
Please show a prototypically correct model (with optional prototype picture if you have one).
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
the real SD50
And pics of the model
Show me a structure/ kit or scratchbuilt and your real pics or reference shots
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
(oops re-read, I think you wanted a structure). So if this doesn't fit, go back to a structure/kit or scratchbuilt and reference photos.
Mostly scratchbuilt.
G scale Silver Vista, selectively compressed to match the dimensions of an LGB D&RGW coach. Kind of a pain to do as I made the roof removable.
First the model:
And then a rare color reference shot I used:
Show me a passenger train
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
The Burlington "Pioneer Zephyr" on her historic tour of the west--1935
Show me another passenger train.\
Tom
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
The UP 844 at Cheyenne Depot Station, just arriving from Denver for Cheyenne Frontier Days.
Lets see some more passenger trains.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
NYC Mercury west bound on the BRVRR:
Another passenger train please.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Passenger Trains!
Does anybody have a street car?
The Route of the Broadway Lion The Largest Subway Layout in North Dakota.
Here there be cats. LIONS with CAMERAS
No streetcar... but I do have a model and prototype.
Show me something that needs painting.
Southwest Chief
That model vista car is fantastic. I would be afraid to start a project like that. Ican see myself getting frustrated and crush it.
Here is a photo of the inside of the prototype.
Have fun.
Lee
jacon12 Show me something that needs painting.
Like this?
Show me a structure that handles coal (Mine, tipple, dealer, etc)
Karl
NCE über alles!
Coal Mine near the D&RGW Moffat Line.
Show me something COLD.
Here's another coal photo.
Show me a water feature.
here is a water feature......
show me a train chuging up your steepest grade.
yankee flyer Southwest Chief That model vista car is fantastic. I would be afraid to start a project like that. Ican see myself getting frustrated and crush it. Lee
Thanks Lee.
Nice photo of the remake by Durango & Silverton (D&S). The real car, the one I based my model on, was destroyed in the Alamosa shop fire back in 1950s. Amazing that the D&S would rebuild from scratch this beautiful and unique car.
Here's a great article on the history of the Silver Vista:
http://www.coloradoinfo.com/travel.asp?pageid=19|381|394
Great story. Now on with the thread.
oops my bad
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."-Albert Einstein
http://gearedsteam.blogspot.com/
I'm kick-starting the thread to keep it going. Seems like an earlier request from Micheal got overlooked:
MotleyShow me something COLD.
R.T. Rifunbury's Wholesale Frozen Foods, can't get much colder than THAT
Show me another lineside industry
Just to keep ShowMe from falling off Page 1, an old picture of the plant entrance of Dragon Products cement plant on the Boothbay Railway Village layout
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Kruttschnitt Locomotive Works and Tylick Tool Co. on the Oregon Railway & Navigation Co.
Show me another tall bridge spanning a shear cliff or ledge.
Will.
Stoney Creek Bridge on the CPR line.
Show me another scratch bridge.
Jack W.
A very unfinished scenic area - I did the bridge first for inspiration.
Show me something by the water.
BY the water, but thanks to the bumpers, hopefully not IN the water.
Show me something to prevent accidents.
Hello how about a handrail so you wont fall in the pit.
show me a round house with lights. Have a nice day Frank
The lights are on in the roundhouse at Boothbay Railway Village
SHow me some more locomotive servicing structures, hopefully something we have not seen before
The Cheyenne Roundhouse & Railshop.
Show me an articulated steamer.
Hey
The best I can do is an old picture of my 2-6-6-2. I do think my newer photos will get better.
Anyone have the older late 1800s locos that you could show?
I love all the good photos.
Just for fun I took this photo of the 'oldest' and the 'newest' HO scale locomotives I own.
Show me your 'oldest' diesel.
H16-44 #790 hasn't seen the inside of a diesel shop in a long time.
Shown me an Alco Century.
The Lehigh Valley Railroad, the Route of the Black Diamond Express, John Wilkes and Maple Leaf.
-Jake, modeling the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Here's a Century! A bit dirty too!
Show me a 6-axle Alco!
Here's a six-axle for ya Karl!
I had this one sandblasted and it's now in B&O garb.
Let's see an MU lash-up
A BNSF Dash 8.
Show me a switcher.
kbkchoochShow me a 6-axle Alco!
Sorry neither of the previous posts are ALCOs. Unfortunately I don't have any good pictures of any but here is set of 6-axle ALCO PA/PB pulling train 312 into Gene Autry Oklahoma.
But I will take the themes from the prior two posts. Show me a MU'ed lashed up Switcher.
Boy... talk about topic drift this morning. He was for an Alco (a fish) and you guys gave him an EMD (as stone).
He ask for a switcher and gets a road switcher.
Well enter LION. An mu switcher. Well NYCT does use old passenger cars as work motors and they are MU'd and attached to my switcher is the MONEY CAR and that is *supposed* to be MU'd to another work car.
Oh well, show me your revenue collection train
or else your main corporate headquarters.
ROAR
Not a company headquarters, but the BT&S started to operate the railroad out of the roundhouse when the LVRR took over. The original headquarters were demolished after the buy-out.
Show me a Mikado.
Lehigh Valley 2089Show me a Mikado.
Show me something else with a 13 in the number.
#130 has a small mishap while performing some switching work near the Wysox Lumber Co. (Have quite a few photos that fit the topics).
Show me an interurban car.
HEY... How do you keep the coal in the hopper. In my experience is all falls out.
We bought some of that coal at salvage, and even though the salvage company used magnets to pull (most) of the metal out, the ballast was sure hard on our shear pins!
Now,
Back to your regularly scheduled Interurban.
Time's up on Show me an interurban car.
Show me something from the 'transition' period of railroading.
Fron the Transition era, MEC 671A-B, one of MEC's two F3s with a B unit
Show me a steam loco from the transition rea
The B&O EM-1 4-8-8-4
Show me a mountain.
Looking down from mountain
show me another mountain.
Another mountain
Show me a valley
Not a canyon valley, but the Susquehanna River Valley I guess would count.
Show me a modern day diesel locomotive.
My most modern, an SD 70 M2
Show me some asphalt.
Here's some asphalt Jarrell, one of my earliest attempts (~10 yrs ago):
Show me some more asphalt
More asphalt,
Lets see a road intersection, autos/trucks, rails and trains.
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.
Wow...you folks do fantastic work! I hope that my layout turns out even half as well as yours all have. Truly inspirational material here fellas. Thanks for sharing!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Here is an intersecton, truck and train:
How about a roadway overpass?
Roadway overpass
Show me a passenger train.
Pieces from my Lionel Collection. A 2026 with a 6466W tender, a 6442, 2442 and 6443 passenger cars.
Show me more O gauge equipment.
Motley Roadway overpass
This is one of the rare times I have seen that an overpass that ends against a background makes visual sense. Congratulations! Well done!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled "Show Me."
Time is up on O guage equipment.
Show me something made by Athearn.
Whatever it is, it is now in the MOW service of the LION.
Show me some more MOW
Lots of MOW in N scale: (some is more "company service" than strictly "MOW"
Show me LOTS of something.
leighantShow me LOTS of something.
Show me a lesser known Named Passenger Train.
Although not proto-typical, here is my version of the El Capitan:
How about another named passenger train?
A lesser named passenger train.....
THE APPLE BLOSSOM SPECIAL
Now show another named passenger train, a real one that is...
The brown area is the future location of Crystal Lake.
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
North Coast Limited ...
There must be more. Please show another named passenger train.
The SP Daylight.
And here's a video of the Sante Fe Super Cheif http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCijHZMScCQ
More named passenger trains please.
More Named Passenger Trains You Ask?
How about the Twentieth Century Limited... inspired by the famous 1923 painting by William H. Foster I tried to recreate the famous view in three different eras. 1936, 1938 and 1948. Here's my humble effort...
OK, I know the Early Bird boxcar wasn't around in 1938... I'll fix that in another shoot!
Enjoy! Show me another "Night Shot"
Have FUN, Ed
The BNSF and UP tracks on the mainland end of the Galveston, Texas causeway run past a subdivision of "stilt" beach houses that are hopefully above hurricane tide levels.
Not yet installed on layout....
Show us another night scene.
A warm summer night at Cheyenne Depot Station.
Show me something you rebuilt, or recently improved.
Well, here is something I hope can be called 'Improved'!An Ath BC Rail SD40-2 grows a Plow & Pilot Accessories.
It's a two parter, with notes! That's how I roll...
Please Show Me More Improvement Projects!!!!
How about from this:
To this:
The loco is an Athearn BB kit with a Soundtraxx DSD-100LC decoder and a 1-inch speaker. Not a recent project, but a considerable metamorphosis.
gmpullman/Ed, INSPIRING!!!!!
Chad says...
"Please Show Me More Improvement Projects!!!!"
Well you asked for it !!
First there was asphault
And then the developers
Still a work in progress
Let's See MORE Iimprovement Projects
Thanks, Allan
Positive feedback is what keeps us coming back!
When my handpainted backdrop developed a crack in one area I tried to ignore it. It didn't go away. It bugged me..
I tried not to notice it when a train went by it. Didn't work.
So I decided to 'improve' the area the only way I could think of that didn't require sanding, taping and trying to match the paint again.
Works for me!
Show me more improvement projects.
From this hole in the background
To this Show me some more improvement projects
To this
Show me some more improvement projects
Blasting out and preparing for clearance for intechange, bridge and abutments
Show me another interchange or diamond
From this
to this
But wait, there is more - from here in the same area
to here
More to come on this project in the coming weeks..............
Show me some more improvment projects
OOPS, BobK beat me to it, the request is
Hey that's OK , George; the more the "merrier" A real marked improvement.
Still looking for an interchange or diamond.
No interchange or diamond?
Ok, show me another 'improvement' you made on your layout.
Here is a diamond where the reverse loop crosses a siding.
Lets have a small structure like a tool/equipment shed or small workshop.
As usual. Too late with the wrong photo.
A small structure- but a house. A small two-room rental house.
My prototype town, Galveston, has a residential pattern in the older parts of town with alleys dividing nearly every block. Larger houses are built on the front of the lot, and tiny houses on the back facing the alley. In 19th century, there were servant quarters, later became rental property. This is the N "Dill's Market" kit built as an alley house, built on pier and beam above ground as some precaution against Galveston's periodic storm flooding. I recently learned that Galveston's street and alley pattern was laid out by Gail Borden before he became the milk millionaire.
Show me something you built "not according to kit directions."
I have not one, but two kits that were built "not according to directions." The old familiar WKW New River Mine and their earlier version Coal Flood Loader. I took parts from each and made a hybrid:
Let's see another kitbash or scratchbuild structure
Here's a kitbash of a perennial favorite,, the old Revell barn,,into a barn very similar to the one on my uncles farm.
Show me another kitbashed or scratch built structure.
BRVRR Here is a diamond where the reverse loop crosses a siding. Lets have a small structure like a tool/equipment shed or small workshop.
Karl says Show me another kitbashed or scratch built structure
The auto parts business adjacent to Reggie's junk Yard is made from a very old HO boxcar. ... The shed and the shanty are scratch built.
Please show a baggage car.
Kitbash? Ohhhhh I got one for ya!
Cheyenne Depot Station, kitbashed from the Walthers Milwaukee Station.
Show me another kitbashed structure.
Uh, Micheal..... looks like Garry got his photo in a few minutes ahead of you. He's asking for a baggage car - I'm sure you've got one of those somewhere on your layout?
The Cheyenne Station looks great anyhow,,,
Here is a NYC baggage car.
How about another baggage car?
Sure I got a baggage too.
Show me an observation car.
Michael .... I'm glad to look at photos of your Cheyenne Station anytime you care to post it. Nice!
Okay everybody ..... Where is the requested observation car?
I observe no observations, so how about a couple of sleepers (no comment on the content intended):
Show me a dining car
I got a twin unit dining car, will that do??
Show me an RDC.
The Sleeping-Dining-Baggage-Coach car found on NYCT.
LION does have some RDC cars somewhere, but I guess that does not count here, so we are still looking for an RDC car. (LION has done some intersting things with RDC cars)
BroadwayLionso we are still looking for an RDC car...
OK here are some of mine before I repainted them:
Show me an E-unit
For a freight railroad fan I have an obnoxious amount of E units
show me your favorite custom paint project.
SP&S modeler, 1960's give or take a decade or two for some equipment.
http://www.youtube.com/user/SGTDUPREY?feature=guide
Gary DuPrey
N scale model railroader
Here is my current favorite. Its a P2K loco that started out in ACL livery. I painted, decaled and detailed it earlier this year. The loco has a MRC sound decoder and a Soundtraxx speaker under the shell.
How about another custom paint job?
Show me passengers waiting at the station.
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Passengers waiting at the station for the Apple Blossom special while Joe is washing the windows.
Let's see some swimmers taking a dip.
Looks like we're out of swimmers today!
Ok, show me something made by Kato.
Kato RS2s
These,and a Kato RS2C,are the only 3 engines on the layout without sound.Maybe someday I'll try to shoehorn a speaker in one...but for now,they've got Lokpilot decoders,and run beautifully. How 'bout some Alcos from a northeastern railroad? Mike
These,and a Kato RS2C,are the only 3 engines on the layout without sound.Maybe someday I'll try to shoehorn a speaker in one...but for now,they've got Lokpilot decoders,and run beautifully.
How 'bout some Alcos from a northeastern railroad?
Mike
Alco C420 for the LVRR.
Now let's see a FM Trainmaster.
How about two!
"> How about a 2-10-4?
How about a 2-10-4?
Got lost in the depths of page 2! Let's see, add 2-10-4 gives you 16; divide by 4 and you get 0-4-0
Show me any 8 driver locomotive
This has 8 drivers and not much more.
Show me something on a small branch line.
Alan Jones in Sunny Queensland (Oz)
AlantrainsShow me something on a small branch line.
#153 out of Platte City works late on the White River branch.
Show me something on a small short line.
Gidday, a very short line......
How about about showing me your favourite model railroad "Thing"
Cheers, the Bear.
"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."
Not a locomotive, and obviously a caboose, it is still a unique part of the railroad and my first attempt at kitbashing.
Show me another model railroad "Thing".
"JaBear" Gidday, a very short line...... How about about showing me your favourite model railroad "Thing" Cheers, the Bear.
Nice one "Bear", what kind of grade will that "2 horsepower" pull?
Here's my thing built using instructions in an article in MRR magazine.
Show me another model railroad 'thing'.
Jarrell
jacon12Show me another model railroad 'thing'.
Not a loco, not a car, and not a structure, but self-propelled: It's a coke pusher that I scratchbuilt from plans in a Dean Freytag article in MR sometime in the late '90s. It pushes red-hot coke out of a coke oven 'cell' into a quench car waiting on the other side.
Let's see some more 'things'
The coke pusher looks great.
My coke oven has some scratch built machines on it. My pusher is freelanced and not visible. On the visable side is the chute used to load in the quench car. (Quench car not in picture). The chute travels back and forth and was made to look like one in a photo In Mr. Freytag's book. Above this machine is the machine that travels across the top to dump coal into the ovens to make coke. .... The crane is used to pick up spilled coke and was made from a European kit.
Please show one or more gondolas
bogp40 Nice one "Bear", what kind of grade will that "2 horsepower" pull?
Not a lot Bob, if I can animate it you'll be the first to know how many 40 foot box cars the horses will pull on a 2 1/2% grade though finding somewhere to add the weight could be fun.
Now if Garry doesn't mind a singular gondola, here's an old ( for me) photo.
Could I please see some more favourite railroad "Things or thing" ?
Gidday All, is there fine sunny weather in North America??? If so make the most of it.
Well my cement gon is one of my favourite things as it was my first attempt at a kit bash, but as we've ended up on page two over 12 hours from my last post, and being a greedy Bear, here's three of my favourite "Things".
Being of a somewhat stubborn nature,could I please see some more favourite railroad "Things or thing" ??
I reckon, you could say 'Car Toppers' are some of my favorite 'Things' that I dig, -pun intended!!!
Just a Pause!A moment of Thanks to Jarrel for starting such a Wonderful & Long Lived Thread! One that is a really incredible & Fun Idea, that has let us enjoy & entertain in new ways.... Thanks Jarrel, Great Idea, that I, (for one), really enjoy keeping going!!!
Please Show Me your 'Thing" or other MofW Equipment, or any Equipment, what so ever...!!!
I can only the describe it as a Thing... this... this tunnel thing! Back when I started my present layout I made a temporary tunnel from pieces of scrap lumber. I hope I've improved my scenery skills since then...
Show me another thing on your layout.
The H16-44 that has been re-lettered, re-numbered, and weathered for my railroad. Might make some minor detail changes to make it more unique.
Before:
After:
Please show me a locomotive that is heading to the scrap yard.
Well, it's been over 2 hours so it looks like no one is ready to scrap a loco today.
Below is an old picture of a loco headed TO a scrap yard with "a thing" in tow. Shortly after I got the camera I used this setup to take some videos.
Show a locomotive entering a roundhouse
Bob, I hope sitting IN a roundhouse will do.
If so, show me your favorite locomotive!
Locomotive Favorititus:
Show me some SIGNALS thay you are working on.
Time to move on from signals you are working on.
Show me something found 'mostly' in summertime.
Mostly in summertime...how about fun in a backyard pool:
Show me a caboose
Towards the rear
Show be a sand house
How about a diesel sanding rack....
Show me a rail shop.
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Show me some trees pleases
I hate Rust
Here a photo from my website of a few trees along the town's main street on the BRVRR layout:
How about a small office or shed?
There's a small "city sales" office on the ice dock of an (as yet unfinished) ice plant.
Show me something with a "reefer."
A reefer at Stinson Canning on Boothbay RR Village layout
Show me a local coal dealer (not a mine)
A small operation moving coal
Show another "fuel" distributor
How about "calorie" type fuel?
Show me something rustic. Wilton.
Show me something rustic.
Wilton.
How about a heavyweight passenger car-turned-cabin for a logging camp in the country side?
Show your railroad's "Union Station".
Here's where my 1:87 steel mill workers hang out, the union hall for USW Local 979:
Oh.....you meant the other kind of "union" station? OOOPs my bad!
Still looking for a Union Station...
CSX_road_slugStill looking for a Union Station...
Ok, show me an unusual water tower (for the locomotives not for human drinking water).
Today´s shooting:
Sorry Texas Zepher, but using page 2 as an excuse, will a waterfall do?? From one of the late Hans Hubners' modules.
How about showing your model railroad No:1 ?? Edit: unless De Luxe comes up with a suggestion.
Haha, how about the beauty of passenger trains with interior lighting at night?
A video no still photo's though.
watch?v=QyuNNbZA4V4
how's about an oddball loco (one that never belonged to your road or just a rare loco.)
Gosh, the interior light is soooo green it looks already scary!
Is this oddball enough? The only Alco C430 with AAR trucks to ever wear Conrail blue?
They only had 2 with these trucks, and the other former Reading unit only got a patch job.
Let's see some more oddball or rare engines!
I would KILL for this model! I know the prototype was a failure, but who cares! It would look GREAT in HO! And just imagine a woodburner sound and smoke to it...amazing!
I think no manufacturer has ever made a model of it yet. The model in the photo is a unique model built for the State of California Railroad Museum. By the way interesting info I just read: it was the last Central Pacific steam locomotive that received a name. After it they all only had numbers but no names anymore.
De Luxe, your photo... while interesting, doesn't qualify. It needs to be from your layout or your clubs layout, and since you didn't make a request I guess we're still looking for the last request.
Great looking model though.
De LuxeIt was the last Central Pacific steam locomotive that received a name. After it they all only had numbers but no names anymore.
Does this fit in as an odd ball? It's still in the works, how about an SD40-2T shell, cut down to fit an SD40-2 frame, with a wide cab:
Mike.
My You Tube
Mike: Neat project!
You forgot to mention what we should show you!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
jacon12De Luxe, your photo... while interesting, doesn't qualify. It needs to be from your layout or your clubs layout, and since you didn't make a request I guess we're still looking for the last request.
To be honest I didn´t even realize that this is some kind of game inside this thread! In the beginning I just thought that it´s a thread where people post various photos of their stuff in order to show what´s new in their collection/on their layout and/or how they progress with their model railroader projects/work. Since I felt that my 2 trains that I photographed yesterday were worth of being shown here, I just put the photos inside this thread, like in some sense "that´s my new stuff for April 2013 and I just wanna show you this". But NOW I start to realize that this is a "show me something" game!!! Sorry for that! I´m not into these kind of games, so I leave it to another member to make a new "show me something" request/suggestion. Feel free to delete all my postings in this thread!
hon30critter Mike: Neat project! You forgot to mention what we should show you! Dave
I always forget that part, sorry,
Show me a loco or freight car detail project.
Here is one from the BRVRR. Its not current but it is recent.
I made the antenna(s) on the locomotive with the stanchions from BB Athearn loco handrail parts. The rest is music wire cut and bent to shape.
Absolutely no problem, De Luxe. It happens a lot... well, now and then but it's not a big deal. I'm just glad you chose to participate and hope you will again.
I believe that last request was Show me a loco or freight car detail project.
De Luxe jacon12De Luxe, your photo... while interesting, doesn't qualify. It needs to be from your layout or your clubs layout, and since you didn't make a request I guess we're still looking for the last request. To be honest I didn´t even realize that this is some kind of game inside this thread! In the beginning I just thought that it´s a thread where people post various photos of their stuff in order to show what´s new in their collection/on their layout and/or how they progress with their model railroader projects/work. Since I felt that my 2 trains that I photographed yesterday were worth of being shown here, I just put the photos inside this thread, like in some sense "that´s my new stuff for April 2013 and I just wanna show you this". But NOW I start to realize that this is a "show me something" game!!! Sorry for that! I´m not into these kind of games, so I leave it to another member to make a new "show me something" request/suggestion. Feel free to delete all my postings in this thread!
Here is one i did maybe 20 years ago. An undecorated Athearn BB U30, modified by Chuck's Chop Shop to a U-18B. I added prototype details, painted, and decalled like the prototype. MEC 404 is Independence Class, named Kenneth Roberts after the author who wrote so many historical novels located in Maine during the early days.
SHow me another detailed loco or rolling stock
How about this detailed gondola, model from Exact Rail. Detail inspiration from Pele's new book published by our excellent hosts.
Show me another detailed loco or rolling stock
De Luxe,
There is a weekly thread WPF or Weekly Photo Fun (Dates of the weekend Fri - Sun). It is usually things that folks have been working on during the previous week. This one is sort of a game, restarted each month. If you go to the start of the thread the rules are often there. Some months they don't renew them. Look back over the lists at the end of or near the beginning of a month to find others.
Have fun,
Richard
UPinCTShow me another detailed loco or rolling stock
Here's a Kato SD38-2 where I transplanted the headlight from the cab to the nose, stripped it of its original CNW colors, and painted/decaled it myself for CSX. Also added the K5LA horn and the hood-mounted bell.
Show me something else customized - loco, rolling stock, structure, whatever...
Here's a detailed and weathered Athearn BNSF SD38-2. I added horn, a/c unit, mu cables, snow plow, tank filler caps.
Show me something that a railroad uses at a yard.
At my transloading yard:
How about the conveyor? the forklifts? or even a bigger hammer?
Mike. How about some more things used at a yard. ( I remembered this time ! )
How about some more things used at a yard. ( I remembered this time ! )
How about a cinder conveyor? This particular one is at the Towanda Yard on the Barclay, Towanda & Susquehanna.
Show us some more things used in a yard.
HEY! I got a yellow water tower just like that one!
Still yoking for things in a yard?
Times up, Just to jump start the thread,
Here's a Trains Unlimited (formerly Front Range) GP9, chop nosed, detailed and remotored and decodered
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Show me a switcher, servicing a customer!
Here is an old photo of NYC SW8 #9622, moves a few grain box cars at the Farmer Union Elevator on the BRVRR.
How about another photo of a switcher working a customer?
Switcher spots a flatcar of tractors at the equipment unloading dock. on a spur serving Wayne Implement Co. and Jayco Petroleum (Phillips 66 bulk oil dealer).
Show me something on a spur.
leighantShow me something on a spur.
I was wondering if someone would interpret "spur" that way. Leighant not want argue with LION. (But is that a model spur or a prototype spur?
Here's a few boxcars being set out on a spur:
Show me the most recent thing you've added or changed on your layout
I finally got rid of the pop access holes! Ahhh so much better now.
Before
After
Drop down access bridge
Lets see more things you've changed on your layout.
A few hours short of 2 days and almost falling off page 2 , got to move on...
The quarry on the Boothbay Railway Village layout has changed quite a bit Before
Now, still some work to be done
Show me some more layout improvments
Wow George
That is a great scene!
Derek
Now back to your regularly scheduled request, "Show me some more layout improvements"
UPinCTWow George That is a great scene! Derek Now back to your regularly scheduled request, "Show me some more layout improvements"
Thanks for the complement, The quarry is mostly someone elses work, he is an artist. I did the cement plant partially shown on the right
The improvement I made was to change the main line track, that ran up and down the ramp to the coaling tower, and added an addition to the ramp. I then added another 9" to the benchwork to make space for the new main to run around the coaling tower This is before
This is after
.another view
lets see some more improvements.
Nice work, folks.
Improvements?
Old mountain:
New mountain:
April showers are nearly over; show me May flowers.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
We are 12 pages in; May we start another one??
Closed for spring cleaning. Try here.
http://cs.trains.com/mrr/f/88/t/217382.aspx
Ken do you written plans on building this?
Thanks Roger
Industries1Ken do you written plans on building this?
Gidday Roger, I believe that this is the building that you are referring to here...
https://www.walthers.com/heritage-furniture-background-building-kit-back-wall-11-3-8-x-4-3-4-x-8-15-16-quot-28-4-x-11-8-x-22-3cm