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Show Me Something. January....2014

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Posted by Motley on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:34 AM

Cheyenne Depot Station. Was kitbashed from the Walthers Milwaukee Station kit.

 

Show me something you got for Christmas.

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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 7:30 AM

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.

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Posted by CSX_road_slug on Wednesday, January 8, 2014 5:58 AM

shayfan84325
Show 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)

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Posted by shayfan84325 on Tuesday, January 7, 2014 10:20 PM

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.

Phil,
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Posted by nvrr49 on Monday, January 6, 2014 10:25 PM

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

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Posted by howmus on Monday, January 6, 2014 4:51 PM

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...

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[edit]  Got beat!  So show something going on in the woods...

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 MisterBeasley on Monday, January 6, 2014 4:47 PM

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. 

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Posted by nvrr49 on Monday, January 6, 2014 4:13 PM

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.

Kent in KC'
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Posted by Jimmy_Braum on Monday, January 6, 2014 1:15 PM

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)

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Posted by bogp40 on Monday, January 6, 2014 11:47 AM

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

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, January 6, 2014 11:10 AM

16 hours, and no British fallen flags, so lets widen the scope to include fallen flags from anywhere in the Commonwealth

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

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:21 PM

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...

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:12 PM

A fallen flag. One of the truly great:

Show me another fallen flag.

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Posted by rdgk1se3019 on Sunday, January 5, 2014 5:02 PM

Another fallen flag.......in the form of a twelve pack.

Show me another fallen flag.

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Posted by saronaterry on Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:55 PM

Terry in NW Wisconsin

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, January 5, 2014 4:09 PM

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

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

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Posted by middleman on Sunday, January 5, 2014 3:56 PM

'Thought there would always be a Santa Fe.

Another fallen flag,please.

Mike

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Posted by UPinCT on Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:59 PM

Show me more Fallen Flags Please

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Posted by howmus on Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:08 PM

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

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Posted by kbkchooch on Sunday, January 5, 2014 12:56 PM

Another fallen flag Crying

Show me another fallen flag!

Karl

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Posted by Motley on Sunday, January 5, 2014 10:03 AM

D&RGW merged with UP in 1989.

 

Show me another fallen flag railroad.

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Posted by nvrr49 on Sunday, January 5, 2014 6:35 AM

A MP bus

Show me more UP of its merged lines.

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Posted by Kyle on Sunday, January 5, 2014 1:40 AM

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.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:38 PM

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

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Posted by nvrr49 on Saturday, January 4, 2014 9:35 PM

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

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:48 PM

NYC Hudson visits Pa. DJ.

Show me another NYC.

 

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Saturday, January 4, 2014 3:36 PM

Back to the topic....

Show me someting New York Central

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, January 4, 2014 12:09 PM

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

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Posted by ALEX WARSHAL on Saturday, January 4, 2014 10:10 AM

 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.

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, January 3, 2014 11:03 AM

Here you go, the end of the family tree:

Show me some Conrail or it's predecessors. 

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