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Show Me Something....June 2013

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, June 6, 2013 3:21 PM

The Dragon Products cement storage and batch plant on my layout. This is presently under rebuild to provide better rail access to the plant and better operational possibilites

Show me an ice house with icing platform

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

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Posted by bing&kathy on Thursday, June 6, 2013 8:13 PM

BATMAN

Moosehead Beer holding down freshly caulked track. An easy reach for the thirsty modeler!

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Show me a Beer (or spirits) car.

Obviously a B-E-E-R  R-U-N extra!  How many gallons per tank car?

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Bing  (RIPRR The Route of the Buzzards)

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Posted by jacon12 on Friday, June 7, 2013 6:24 AM

Time is up on the Beer/spirits car.

Show me something green in color.

 

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Posted by leighant on Friday, June 7, 2013 9:15 AM

Green Linde boxtank, a very minor modification (side sill, end access door) / repaint of an R-T-R car.

Is it a boxcar or is it a tankcar? YES, both.

Show me something that is both "this" and "that."

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Friday, June 7, 2013 7:03 PM

leighant
Show me something that is both "this" and "that."

How about a "torpedo boat" GP9?  The B&O used these over the road as both passenger units and freight locos.

Now show me something that is neither of the above.

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

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Posted by kbkchooch on Friday, June 7, 2013 9:10 PM

The lowly switcher, neither a road engine, nor a passenger unit!

Show me a combine!

Karl

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Posted by ChadLRyan on Saturday, June 8, 2013 9:53 AM

Customized Kibri Combine...




Please Show Me a Passenger Combine, Consist, or Cars!

Hey, Thanks for Looking & Playing, in one of the coolest threads!!!

Chad L Ryan
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Posted by Texas Zepher on Saturday, June 8, 2013 8:52 PM

ChadLRyan
Please Show Me a Passenger Combine, Consist, or Cars!

How about a work shot of the conversion of a Bachmann combined into a Santa Fe Combined 28xx class.   Since they were used on Mixed trains they were called Cabbage (Caboose Baggage).

Or maybe one of a Rivarossi Coach into a Santa Fe cabbage 26xx class.

Show Me (having spent 4 years in Missouri) something I won't believe unless I see it.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Sunday, June 9, 2013 2:03 PM

Texas Zepher
Show Me (having spent 4 years in Missouri) something I won't believe unless I see it.

Well I guess that is a dud show me.

Here is another Show me something that is both "this" and "that."

A Box car that is also a Tank car.

Show me a Most of this and a slightly that.

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, June 9, 2013 8:06 PM

Well here goes nothing.

Here is mostly darkness and a slight amount of light

 

Show me a mine opening, not just a structure

 

Bob

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Posted by Motley on Monday, June 10, 2013 4:02 PM

A Mine opening. You can see there on the right side, the conveyor going into the mountain.

Show me another mine.

Michael


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Posted by twhite on Monday, June 10, 2013 6:05 PM

The Kentucky Mine in Sierra City--the prototype is actually about five miles east of the town toward Yuba Pass, but I fudged a little and put it downtown, lol!

Show me another gold mine

Tom

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Posted by jacon12 on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:57 AM

Evidently there's no gold in them thar hills!

Show me something you've expanded!

 

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:30 PM

During the rebuilding of the Greenvale section of my layout, the benchwork has expanded by about 8 feet, with more to come as the project progresses

Show me your benchwork that is being modified

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

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 6:43 PM

jacon12
Show me something you've expanded!

My Walthers blast furnace.

Before:

 

...and AFTER (150% of original size):

Show me the smallest train, structure or land form on your layout

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

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Posted by oregon shay on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 8:13 PM
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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:53 PM

I'll go for the small train. A doodlebug is a one-car passenger trains moving on the branch line.

Please show a kit-bashed or scratch built building. 

GARRY

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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 7:46 AM

The tool shed in the photo was kit-bashed from a Bachmann steam whistle. It was shortened and narrowed.

Show me another kit-bashed or scratch built small building.

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Posted by leighant on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 11:10 AM

I once (no, not every time, just once) attempted to scratchbuild a small N scale structure with "everything" that would be in a real building.  All framing members, double-hung windows, individual board siding and floor, non-working water, gas, electrical and sewer connections, everything a nitpicker would ask for.

Decided to make it the United Farm Workers' Nit Picker's Local 257 union hall.

Show me something you made for somebody ELSE's layout. 

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 5:01 PM

I guess we didn't make something for somebody else's layout.  Ok, show me something you decaled in the last 6 months.

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Posted by kbkchooch on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:37 PM

1 pic, 4 engines, all painted & decalled very recently

Show me something SOMEONE ELSE built on your layout. (I don't mean a structure as built by so & so company. Something some other person built, and please, credit the builder if you can)

)

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Posted by jalajoie on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 8:59 PM

A member of the club built this grain loading tower.

Show me something you built yourself for someone else layout.

Jack W.

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Posted by Texas Zepher on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:08 PM

jalajoie

Isn't that where we got stuck just a couple of "show me"s earlier?    The problem is one would have to go to their layout to get a photo of it.

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Posted by jalajoie on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:24 PM

Texas Zepher

jalajoie

Isn't that where we got stuck just a couple of "show me"s earlier?    The problem is one would have to go to their layout to get a photo of it.

This make sense. Then show me a craftsman kit you built on your own layout.

Jack W.

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:25 PM

My good friend Gene built the 'section foreman's house' seen here on my layout.  I've learned a good bit of what I know about model building from him. Sorry,  I forget the mfg of the wooden laser kit.

Show me something else someone else built on your layout.

 

 

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Posted by superbe on Wednesday, June 12, 2013 9:57 PM

The request is for something else someone else built on your layout.

Well, just look at the picture and take your pick Big Smile

 

A neighbor had a tree service plant several very large trees in his yard and I pointed out to him if he had planted smaller trees they would take root faster and grow quite rapidly. He replied that he knew that but he didn’t have the time to wait.

I’m in that position with my layout. I don’t have the time left to build what I need for the layout so almost everything is RTR.

Let's honor Jarrell's request and show something else someone else built on your layout

Bob

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Posted by Southwest Chief on Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:12 AM

John of J. S. Woodcrafts built this custom Chama style oil dock for my G scale layout:

Show me something you painted

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Posted by ho modern modeler on Thursday, June 13, 2013 7:51 AM

Southwest Chief

Show me something you painted

I stripped and repainted one of my Amtrak Northwest F59PHI's, wasn't sure how to paint the headlight beams until I saw Cody Grivno's video on weathering with acrylic paints and Isopropyl Alchohol. Thanks, Cody!!

 

Show me another custom paint job, loco or rolling stock....

Mine doesn't move.......it's at the station!!!

 

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Thursday, June 13, 2013 11:56 AM

ho modern modeler
Show me another custom paint job, loco or rolling stock....

This Kato SD38-2 was originally a C&NW unit:

Show me a kitbashed building

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

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, June 13, 2013 1:50 PM

This is an to progress photo of a large backdrop building I made from leftover parts from other buildings. There are 4 buildings in front, a trough representng a street, and another 4 buildings in back. My main line runs underneath it between Sheepscott and through a view block into Greenvale Junction.

It is done and on my layout now; I just have to add some details behind the upstairs windows and figure out how to light it.

SHow me another kitbash

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

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