This swithback on the lead into Dragon Products was frustrating because it limited the number of cars that could be switched into the plant
With an RS-11, 2 cement hoppers fouled the points
Even a 44 tonner could just make clearance with 2 hoppers
So about 7 months ago, I cut off that end of the layout and started a rebuild with a better lead into the plant and a much needed passing siding (to the left out of the picture)
Show me something that did not work well and you fixed
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
Well here is a bridge I scratchbuilt. I decided to go with a heavier girder but forgot to make the math adjustment, so had to build another one.
The second scratchbuild after a redo of the math. (good practice)
Show me a kit by Labelle.
Brent
"All of the world's problems are the result of the difference between how we think and how the world works."
A LaBelle kit
Show me another wood kit!
Kent in KCnvrr49.blogspot.com
Kent in KC'nvrr49.blogspot.com
Here's a wood kit!
Show me something scratch built!
Karl
NCE über alles!
All of the sructures in this photo are scratch built.
Show me something else scratch built.
Jim in Costa Rica
Modeling freelance Northern California late 1930s
My scratchbuilt (LGB scaled) Silver Vista:
Show me a passenger train
Matt from Anaheim, CA and Bayfield, COClick Here for my model train photo website
The observation car on the east-bound Blackwater Cannonball:
Show me a Ford.
Phil, I'm not a rocket scientist; they are my students.
I 'think' it's a Ford...
Show me a Chevrolet.
There is a Chevrolet on the right:
Show me a sports car.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
How about this one. Picture must have been taken back in the summer.
Who has a Dodge?? Bob
Who has a Dodge??
Bob
Don't Ever Give Up
Two Trucks Sit in the JB Scrapyard waiting for duty.
Show me Something Norfolk Southern.
(My Model Railroad, My Rules)
These are the opinions of an under 35 , from the east end of, and modeling, the same section of the Wheeling and Lake Erie railway. As well as a freelanced road (Austinville and Dynamite City railroad).
Almost a day, no NS and we dropped onto page 2; so I will back up to another request that was not filled for a Dodge - a Dodge Coronet 400 (bronze) next to a Plymouth GTX
Show me something C&O, Chessie System or in that family of RR
Here you go, the end of the family tree:
Show me some Conrail or it's predecessors.
Modeling the Pennsylvania Railroad in N Scale.
www.prr-nscale.blogspot.com
Here is my Bachmann 2-8-0 and a custom painted Harriman car, with NYC and PRR boxcars in the backround. Sorry I couldn't get the picture to work. Show me some more New York Central.
My Layout Photos- http://s1293.photobucket.com/user/ajwarshal/library/
Alex, I see you have a Photobucket account, but maybe used the "direct" (http) link instead of the IMG link. If you edit your post and replace the original link with the IMG link, your photo should show
Back to the topic....
Show me someting New York Central
NYC Hudson visits Pa. DJ.
Show me another NYC.
An old Red Ball kit from a blog post I did four years ago that had several old craftsman kits in it... http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2009/04/41809.html
Lets make this easy. Show me something Santa Fe
Santa Fe # 90 , a 3-unit FM Erie-built set.
Please show the Union Pacific or any of the roads now merged into UP.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
I find this new software frustrating because it is hard to navigate, and some of the photos and post are cut off on the right side.
Last request: Show me somethingUnion Pacific or any of the railroads now merged into UP.
A MP bus
Show me more UP of its merged lines.
D&RGW merged with UP in 1989.
Show me another fallen flag railroad.
Michael
CEO- Mile-HI-RailroadPrototype: D&RGW Moffat Line 1989
Another fallen flag
Show me another fallen flag!
Old & Weary 4-8-2 #402 glides through Hopewell Junction on the SLOW:
Show me more Fallen Flags!
Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Show me more Fallen Flags Please
'Thought there would always be a Santa Fe.
Another fallen flag,please.
Mike
Maine Central and Boston & Maine got sucked into Guilford which later morphed into Pan Am
Delaware & Hudson also got sucked into Gullford, but later escaped
Show me more fallen flags
This is fun! Keep going on the fallen flags theme, please. Terry in NW Wisconsin
This is fun! Keep going on the fallen flags theme, please.
Terry in NW Wisconsin
Queenbogey715 is my Youtube channel
Another fallen flag.......in the form of a twelve pack.
Show me another fallen flag.
Dennis Blank Jr.
CEO,COO,CFO,CMO,Bossman,Slavedriver,Engineer,Trackforeman,Grunt. Birdsboro & Reading Railroad
A fallen flag. One of the truly great:
Here's a very recently fallen flag from right here in the Palmetto State. Plumeting natural gas prices and the cost of modernization led South Carolina Electric and Gas to shut down the Canady's Steam Plant. It was Hampton & Brnachville's only customer.
The real H&B 44 is currently at the South Carolina Railroad Museum in Winsboro, where it's being restored to operating condition. It has on left South Carolina once since 1927 to be used in an episode of NBC's show "Revolution." Let's make this interesting, show me a British fallen flag i.e London & Northeaster, Great western etc...
16 hours, and no British fallen flags, so lets widen the scope to include fallen flags from anywhere in the Commonwealth
These different RR and paint, may have "fallen", however quite a few of these GP40s and dash 2s are running the rails in CSX paint.
Show me an active unit that ran under different paint from a fallen flag
Modeling B&O- Chessie Bob K. www.ssmrc.org
An 0-8-0 wearing it's ex USARMY TRANSPORTATION CORPS livery, hauls a work train up a semi abandoned grade to retreive two long lost and forgotten PRR coaches for use on a new shortline. The locomotive is now owned by the J&B scrap company to switch their massive scrap yard, and coal company. The J&B owner is also the president of the Dynamite city mining company.
Show me something completely scratchbuilt. (Like the abandoned shed is in this photo is)
I used Bar Mills shingles, otherwise the latest complete building I designed and 3d pritned. More pictures, construction picts, and design drawings here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-house-3d-printed-down-on-farm-5.html
SHOW ME SOMETHING SCRATCH BUILT.
An old-time New Yorker saw this photo on my computer screen, and looked at me quizzicly:
He recognized the equipment, but not the station, and asked where it was. When I told him "in my family room" he was kind of shocked. I made my own latex molds and then did Hydrocal castings for the platforms, walls and stairs. This picture is so old it was taken with a film camera.
Show me something going on in the woods...
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
Workshop and Engine House at the Quarry on the SLOW... The first photo shows it with one side of the roof off...
Inside detail:
More scratch built items, please...
73
[edit] Got beat! So show something going on in the woods...
Since we had a request for something in the woods, and something scratch built, so here is both
Log slab siding cabin for my logging company office. 3d printed walls. More picts and some construction drawings here: http://nvrr49.blogspot.com/2013/08/log-slab-siding-cabin-update.html
SHOW us a Kitbash
I modify most of my kits to make them fit my needs. This one started out to be a boat shop:
But it ended up being a small factory (I think maybe a winery, but haven't decided yet):
Show me another kitbash.
shayfan84325Show me another kitbash
Here is a Sylvan Scale Models lake freighter, sold as an early 1900's model but upgraded to resemble a typical lake boat launched in the late postwar period. I used a mix of PVC pipe and stryrene shapes to make the forward house, and for the stack I used a piece of PVC compressed from a perfectly-round to an oval shape. I also added an extra 1"-thick plank under the hull to make it look like it is empty, i.e. floating higher off the surface of the water.
Let's see another kitbash
-Ken in Maryland (B&O modeler, former CSX modeler)
I think my General Industries building might qualify as a kit bash:
The building front is Walther's Fireproof Storage & Transfer Background Building. I mounted it diagonally on a corner of the layout and built side walls and a roof from black foam-core to give the building some depth and provide stability. I mounted a water tank from the scrap box, on the roof to give it more definition and lighted the interior. The signs and logo were made on my home computer. The gondola load, a Scene Masters item, was hand painted with Testor's paints to give the area some color. The dunnage was made from a scrap piece of balsa and a few bits of basswood. The figures came from Woodland Scenics, Bachmann and Life-Like.
Cheyenne Depot Station. Was kitbashed from the Walthers Milwaukee Station kit.
Show me something you got for Christmas.
I got a Bachmann RS-3 in the NYC paint scheme on my 4x8 layout. This one is for all the starters and people who don't have enough room. Show me a 4x8 layout, or a layout smaller than a full room layout.
Here's where I plan to build my switching layout. it's 5x3. Yes I know an odd table size, but I got the table for free, and you can't beat free right?
Show me another Under construction layout.
Here's anudder fallen flag!
Show me anudder fallen flag!
Looks like time ran out on the constrruction request, and now it's fallen flags.
Here is my fallen flag. .... CB&Q !
Please show another fallen flag photo or show a construction photo. Either one.
Here's a fallen flag.
Show me a photo with you in it.
Here I am in the "dream, plan" part. The build part? Well maybe after another glass.
Show me a train buddy. As in son, daughter, grandchild, pal, furry or otherwise, or even your favourite stuffed friend.
My nephew, Arie, and me - running trains:
show ow me a theater.
shayfan84325 My nephew, Arie, and me - running trains: show ow me a theater.
Beautiful bridge, how long did that take?
No theaters?
Show me something you haven't shown in this thread before!
My grand daughter "Bella" at her first show/ open house Spent the entire time "wide- eyed" w/ so much to see. http://www.ssmrc.org/
Show me more 'lil ones enjoying/ running trains
Jimmy_Braum shayfan84325 My nephew, Arie, and me - running trains: show ow me a theater. Beautiful bridge, how long did that take?
Thanks for the complement. I spent an entire Utah winter building the trestle and associated truss bridge. It's actually two concentric curved trestles with a 1.5% grade on each. They are part of a two turn helix that carries the track up to the upper terrace of my layout. Here are a couple mor pictures:
And now back to our regular programming. I think we're looking for kids enjoying trains.
If still looking for a Theatre, here you go:
If this works, show me a Big Boy...otherwise back to kids enjoying trains.
Southwest Chief If this works, show me a Big Boy...otherwise back to kids enjoying trains.
Fellow club member running his Winter themed layout with his grandson looking on.
Show me more kids with trains!
Granddaughter #2 at 3 years old working my Inglenook Timesaver. She was operating the throttle under "Papa's" supervision.
More kids with trains...
Christmas and the Polar Express:
My grandson Nathan running the Lionel Polar Express under the Christmas tree 4-years ago. He still loves to get very close to the track and watch the train roll by. The joy is still there today.
Wow, 12 hours and still no kid pix? I guess Jarrell needs to step in and pick another topic!
CSX_road_slug Wow, 12 hours and still no kid pix? I guess Jarrell needs to step in and pick another topic!
Wait a minute ken,,,you have kids, you have a camera and you have trains. Where's your pic???
Times up for kids!
Show me the tallest structure on your layout.
kbkchoochWait a minute ken,,,you have kids, you have a camera and you have trains. Where's your pic???
Karl, I'm guessing they are supposed to be under 12...(?) My youngest is 15, no grandkids yet.
jacon12Show me the tallest structure on your layout.
That would be my blast furnace, it is 150% the size of the Walthers kit:
Show me another tall structure
The tallest structure on my layout is Walther's Red Wing Milling (background).
Show me the highest point on your main line.
Since it has been 24 with no reply....here's my new idea:
Let me see another shot you took that looks real
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f251/emt49/lumbermill.jpg
night time at the lumber yard
show us a town on your layout
Here is my town. Show me some Accurail kits made up.
Time's up for Accurail kits.
Show me something "concrete".
The auto bridge is concrete.
Please show me something made from wood. Could be real wood or "fake" .
Here's my New Rail Model A-Frame Cabin, the very first wood kit I put together. Show me something brick.
Brick, the Cheyenne Steam Shops.
Show me something made of concrete.
MotleyShow me something made of concrete
Concrete silos of a concrete wholesaler:
Show me a building made of steel or aluminum
This little machine shop is sheathed in corrugated steel:
show me a convertible.
Dodge & Plymouth convertibles
Show me a hotrod
Reggie is working on his hot rod in the lower left of this photo.
Please show TOFC ( piggy back ) trailer.
" show TOFC ( piggy back ) trailer" should have been an easy one but I guess not.
Show me rusty rails.
Here we go, Atlas Code 80 track painted Floquil Rail Brown. Show me a river.
The Monongahela river on the Mid Mon Valley Model railroad club layout
Show me another river.
Well, almost a whole day without a river. Here's a PRR N5 cabin car, show me another caboose.
Caboose track.
Show me a yard scene.
Old 0-6-0 #135 doing some switching at Hopewell Junction on the SLOW.
Show me a switching locomotive.
Southern Rwy switcher working the coal mine.
Show me another switcher!
A PRR B6 that so ehow ended up in northern South Carolina. show me a road switcher.
Moving cars at the plastics plant.
Mike. Lets keep the switching moves going.
Mike.
Lets keep the switching moves going.
My You Tube
Seem to be out of switchers, so..
Show me your largest steam locomotive.
Here is the model of the largest prototype I have(HO):
OR...
Here is the largest model of a prototype I have(On3):
Show me a scale other than HO.
The G Scale Christmas layout I set up at work. Show me something neither HO nor N.
My only O scale steam loco
Show me something you received as a gift.
This brass 2-4-4-2 was a present from my wife back when I modled the 1900 era. In the photo, it is posed on the branch line of my current layout. It is not converted to DCC, and spends most of its time on a display shelf.
Please show an assembled kit.
First kit loco I ever built. (With Dad's help, for I was only 12)
40 years ago Dad brought this kit home, and over a few weeks, little by little it went together. I gave it a total reworking in 2007 2 years before Dad passed. He was so glad that I had kept it and had refurbished it.
Show me something with some sendimental story to it.
I just finished restoring this Atlas ranch style house. It has sentmential value to me because I originally built it for one of my first two layouts in the early 1960s
Show me something you built a long time ago and restored for use on a later layout
Well, 16 hours. Nothing old that's been restored. But I have something in a similer vein. This Atlas signal tower has appeared on 2 of my last three layouts and will appear again on my new layout. Show me your Atlas Signal Tower.
Hmmmm, 20 hours...doesn't appear to be very many Atlas Signal Tower photos available for people to post
CSX_road_slug Hmmmm, 20 hours...doesn't appear to be very many Atlas Signal Tower photos available for people to post
Seems like I manage to kill the thread every time I post.
Here is my Atlas Tower:
Show me an ALCO PA.
I was hoping to see somebody else's Alco PA, but after waiting all day, here are some Katy PA's in an older photo.
Please show something you accomplished recently on your layout or with a loco or rolling stock.
I guess I didn't geter done in time. PA1 A&B the second motive power I bought back in ought 7. I may be slow but that isn't all bad.
Have a good day
Lee
Heartland Division CB&QPlease show something you accomplished recently on your layout
Since Lee [yankee flyer] didn't pick a new topic, I'll assume it's still the one that Garry suggested.
Here is something I just finished building this weekend: A by-product refinery to process the gases emitted by my coke ovens. I started with a Walthers North Island Refinery kit, then attached ~18" of half-inch diameter Evergreen tubing to carry the coke gases to the refining facility (the brown pipe on the left).
...then, I configured some additional piping to take the finished liquids from the refinery. Two pipes go to a tank car loading platform, the other two empty into the gray storage tank:
I shot these photos quickly just to get them on this thread, the whole trainroom is still a construction zone as you all can see! That's why normally you'll only see me posting pics of my previous layout. So....let's see some pictures of "under construction" areas of your layout!
In my case, that would be the whole layout. The small platform will hold my MRC Tech 4 and also give me a place to put my beer while running trains. Show me something a semaphore.
A semaphore:
Show me this guy on your layout:
There he is, talking with some guy that just pulled up in the red car.
and there he is again! still standing around, BS'in as usual! Mike.
and there he is again! still standing around, BS'in as usual!
Mike, what's your request?
OOOps! I always do that, forget the request part! OK how about a business train? or business car?
My fictional PRR Theater car. This was my first scratchbuilt project, so go easy on me. Show me another fictional piece of rolling stock.
Jimmy_Braum This was my first scratchbuilt project, so go easy on me. Show me another fictional piece of rolling stock.
Now we all know the Athearn Hustler,,,on the edge of reality,,but what about a cabless B unit?
Show me a Trolley!
Well, 18 Hours and still no trolley. Here's a Conrail SD35 instead. Show me something else Conrail or from one of its predecessors.
I try not to post twice on the same page but to keep things moving after nearly a day....
Here is another Conrail loco:
Show me a steel mill or a refinery?
I have one of those refineries.
Show me a draw bridge
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.
Its almost been a full day and no draw bridge. Here is a Walthers Cornerstone Modular Building.Show me anothers Walthers Cornerstone Modular or just Walthers Cornerstone.
The brick building in the back is made of Walther's Modular sections
Show me something yellow.
Yellow U-18B MEC 404 on a part of my layout that I tore out about 9 months ago for improvments
SHow me a part of your layout that has been torn out for a rebuild
Ooo, oooo, oooo.... Me, I gots lots of spots like that...
Here is an area that was part of a very badly thought out logging operation on gthe SLOW. Decided it just was not going to do what I wanted to do and this scene was sacrificed for a working Limestone Quarry.
Here it is being redone:
Show me a before and after.....
Have not been doing much on the layout because of health issues.Giving a little leway I can post before and after.
Here is before, 4' X 12' and can see that my impire should be bigger. Extended 3 times and Im' up to close to 30' in the after shot. The town will be at the far end with boat ramp. Haven't though about the meadow yet.
Anyone have some Great Northern shots?
have fun.
Lee .. I hope your health issues improve and you are OK.
Great Northern ore train. ....... Next request: ..... Please show a train on your main line.
Heartland Division CB&Q.... Please show a train on your main line.
Here's one from the old layout, a CSX merchandiser passing thru the town of East Minister:
Show me some more main line action.
Some Chessie mainline
Show somw "pusher" action
EMD NW2 pushing a reefer.
Show me a switcher from a Canadian road.
Guy
Modeling CNR in the 50's
I guess the Canadian switcher isn't coming by this way.
Show me your best running locomotive.
PRR T1 5542 pokes her nose out of the tunnel on the club layout. Broadway limited engine, and runs perfectly. Show me a custom painted locomotive.
How about i add another hustler to this. show me something on a bridge
Here are a couple of my 'custom painted' locos:
Both units are Proto2000 models and both were in Atlantic Coast Line livery when they started out. I painted them and applied Microscale decals. The A-unit antenna was made from the handrail stanchions from an Athearn BB SD-40-2 and a couple of pieces of music wire. I installed an MRC sound decoder and a 1-inch Soundtraxx speaker. The B-unit is equipped with Lenz decoder without sound. The locos have been speed matched with Decoder Pro and handle our 8-car Pennsy consist without problems.
How about another 'custom painted' loco?
It's not prize winner, but my first custom painting and detailing of a locomotive. It is a Walthers Trainline GP9m that I added some details to make it look more Canadian and I lettered it for the Turtle Creek Central.
Show me something that was inspired by something in Model Railroader.
Lone Geep
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This device for keeping cars from rolling. Was in MR a couple of years ago, I believe.
Show me something else inspired by Model Railroader magazine.
This portion of my present layout started as a bedroom layout in my previous house based on an MR article in the September 1992 issues titled "A Track Plan to Share a Family Room or Bedroom". I did is as a mirror image to the original track plan and never built the 'wings'. WHne I moved, I incorporated the layout into my new plans, and extended it to the right. Now I am rebuilding it, calling it the Greenvale Indistrial Area Rebuild'
This is an overall picture of the layout before I started the rebuild
Show me something else MR inspired
Forty years ago I needed N scale ground throws. The Alexander ground throws that were used on HO layouts were ubiquitous in the pages of MR:
Looking at them, I mimicked their principle of operation in my scratch-built brass ground throws:
I refined my design a few years ago when I began making them for my current HO layout:
...but the inspiration can still be traced to the pages of MR.
Show me a Volkswagen
Here's a couple of bugs. DJ.
Show me a convertible.
Here you go, not one but two fallen flags. N&W and PRR.
Since it's the last day of month and this thread is nearly at an end, show me one of either a caboose, observation car, or a FRED.
Here's 4 observation cars.
Show me the end of a frieght train.
The end of a freight train.
Show me a grade crossing.
Allan, I sent you a PM. :)
Guy wants a grade crossing!
Here's a grade crossing, probably not quite what you had in mind though...
Probably too close to February to expect any more on this thread, so how about:
Show me a grade crossing with a train going thru it [or near it] to start off the February 'Show Me' thread!