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Show Me Something. January....2014

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Posted by kbkchooch on Sunday, January 19, 2014 11:36 AM

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.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, January 19, 2014 5:45 PM

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

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Monday, January 20, 2014 10:26 AM

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.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:43 AM

Hmmmm, 20 hours...doesn't appear to be very many Atlas Signal Tower photos available for people to postQuestion

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:11 AM

CSX_road_slug

Hmmmm, 20 hours...doesn't appear to be very many Atlas Signal Tower photos available for people to postQuestion

 

Seems like I manage to kill the thread every time I post. Oops - Sign

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 8:35 AM

Here is my Atlas Tower:

Show me an ALCO PA.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:06 PM

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. 

 

 

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Posted by yankee flyer on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 6:17 PM

I guess I didn't geter done in time. Whistling  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

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, January 21, 2014 7:25 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please 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! Big Smile

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 8:46 AM

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.

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:54 PM

A semaphore:

Show me this guy on your layout:

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Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, January 23, 2014 7:46 AM

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!

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Posted by jacon12 on Thursday, January 23, 2014 9:27 AM

Mike, what's your request?

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Posted by mbinsewi on Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:25 PM

OOOps!  I always do that, forget the request part!  OK how about a business train? or business car?

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Thursday, January 23, 2014 2:45 PM

 My fictional PRR Theater car.  This was my first scratchbuilt project, so go easy on me.  Show me another fictional piece of rolling stock.

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Posted by kbkchooch on Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:22 PM

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!

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, January 24, 2014 11:02 AM

Well, 18 Hours and still no trolley. Here's a Conrail SD35 instead. Show me something else Conrail or from one of its predecessors.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, January 25, 2014 10:26 AM

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?

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Posted by Lake on Saturday, January 25, 2014 8:39 PM

I have one of those refineries.

Show me a draw bridge

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Sunday, January 26, 2014 5:40 PM

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.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, January 27, 2014 8:10 AM

The brick building in the back is made of Walther's Modular sections

Show me something yellow.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, January 27, 2014 11:46 AM

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

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Posted by howmus on Monday, January 27, 2014 12:06 PM

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.....

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 yankee flyer on Monday, January 27, 2014 1:29 PM

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

 

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 10:45 AM

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.

GARRY

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 11:44 AM

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.

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Posted by bogp40 on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 12:10 PM

Some Chessie mainline

Show somw "pusher" action

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:49 PM

EMD NW2 pushing a reefer.

Show me a switcher from a Canadian road.

 

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Posted by jacon12 on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 3:23 PM

I guess the Canadian switcher isn't coming by this way.

Show me your best running locomotive.

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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6:24 PM

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.

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