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Show Me Something........December 2014

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Show Me Something........December 2014
Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, November 30, 2014 9:13 PM

Brent

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, December 1, 2014 7:05 AM

My 2004 Christmas present from my wife:

This BLI 2-8-2 has performed flawlessly on the BRVRR for 10-years.

Show me another treasure from a year gone by.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC , BLI

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by yankee flyer on Monday, December 1, 2014 7:46 AM

My first train was a wind up. Almost 70 years ago. My SW8 was the first loco I bought when I started again about 7 years ago.

Hows that for a hiatis?

Keep up the treasures.

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Posted by BATMAN on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 11:53 AM

Okay, to give the thread a bump, here is a new stock car that was one of three my sister gave me for Christmas that year. It's next to an older, seen many miles stock car.

Show me something new, next to something old.

Brent

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, December 2, 2014 3:50 PM

The 3 buildings on the right are from a couple of my original layouts and are over 50 years old. I have done some restoration work on them. Many of the vehicles are new within the past couple of years.

Show me a winter scene

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

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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, December 4, 2014 7:35 AM

The thread has fallen to the second page.

Someone out there must have a photo of a winter scene. If not, George, can you change your request?

 

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Thursday, December 4, 2014 8:13 AM

Here's a winter scen on my N Scale "John Galt Line" portable layout.

Show me your favorite locomotive.

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Posted by Motley on Thursday, December 4, 2014 11:26 AM

My favorite locomotive. A Walthers proto D&RGW SD45.

Michael


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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Friday, December 5, 2014 1:22 PM

Alosmt falling off the page.

Here's Kittanning Point Station. Show me another passenger station.

 

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Posted by Grampys Trains on Friday, December 5, 2014 1:32 PM

Stoney Creek station.

Show me a freight depot.

 

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Posted by howmus on Friday, December 5, 2014 10:35 PM

OK, Here is the "temporary" freight station at the Hopewell Yard....  The old freight station burned down about 25 years earlier and they put this in place temporarily until they had the funds to build a new one.....

Made from an old Pocher Combine car that I just couldn't get to stay on the track...  So it ended up doing a different duty.  It originally came from a group of Pocher Overland cars my FIL gave me when I got back into the hobby about 40 yerars ago.  He wasn't going to use them anymore since he got them 20 years before that.......  Two of the other three are used in the Milk Run Train on the layout, and the other is permanantly in place on the RIP track awaiting repairs that will never be completed.

Show me something on your railroad you were given by someone important in your life!

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 Capt. Grimek on Saturday, December 6, 2014 12:44 AM

Who is John Galt?

Sorry, impossible to resist GP9 ;-)

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, December 6, 2014 3:50 AM

Capt. Grimek
Who is John Galt?

Ain't he the guy from Athearn Shrugged?

Or was it that other model railroad supplier... Big Smile

Ed

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Posted by bogp40 on Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:37 AM

My EM1, a present from my kids last Christmas

Show me another gift or sentimental piece

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, December 6, 2014 10:24 AM

My 2005 Christmas gift from my wife:

A BLI NYC Hudson, #5335.

Show me another gift or sentimental piece.

Tags: Hudson , BRVRR , NYC

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Posted by P&Slocal on Saturday, December 6, 2014 11:29 AM

My 2011 Christmas present from my wife.  40' Lehigh Valley box car from Bachmann Silver Series

She was going to get me a steam locomotive until she saw the prices and then said maybe later. Big Smile

Show me another gift or sentimental piece.

Robert H. Shilling II

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Saturday, December 6, 2014 1:51 PM

This GP9 is a gift from my son.

 

Show me another gift you received from a member of your family.  

Guy

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Posted by jacon12 on Saturday, December 6, 2014 2:41 PM

Virtually all of the buildings you see here in the town of Carolton, that are not kits I built such as the ice plant, were gifts over the years from my wife and daughter.

I should have named the town Woodland after Woodland Scenics Co. but that was already taken by a place across the aisle!  Big Smile

Show me another gift, please!

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Posted by twhite on Saturday, December 6, 2014 5:59 PM

My 25th birthday present from 1965.  I'll be 75 this next wednesday and both myself and this locomotive (Akane M-4 2-8-8-4) are still running.  Actually, we've both been rebuilt a couple of times, lol!

Tom

Show me another Christmas gift or birthday present.

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Posted by bogp40 on Saturday, December 6, 2014 6:02 PM

twhite

My 25th birthday present from 1965.  I'll be 75 this next wednesday and both myself and this locomotive (Akane M-4 2-8-8-4) are still running.  Actually, we've both been rebuilt a couple of times, lol!

Tom

 

 

Tom, very nice and still running the rails. That engine is older than some of the members here.

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Posted by tedtedderson on Saturday, December 6, 2014 8:06 PM

This is a gift from last Christmas. 

Show more gifts.

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, December 7, 2014 5:06 PM

It has been almost a day, and we seem to have run out of gifts. My last gift was a decoder which can not be photographed because it's inside.

Show me something red or green or red and green

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Posted by gandydancer19 on Sunday, December 7, 2014 5:58 PM

Here is a green bridge being painted with red primer, then silver.

Show me something else Red or Green, or Red and Green.

Elmer.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, December 7, 2014 10:56 PM

Red and green and in between

looks really neat

If you know what I mean...

We have the red & green Grand Trunk maple leaf; red & green GN goat; red & green Texaco trim; red & green REA truck; red and green autos (even a red and green scheme in the Chevy convertible) and I didn't notice until now, red window in the green outhouse back in the cemetery!

That GN goat has me thinking...

Show me another railroad herald with an animal image. 

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Posted by ACY Tom on Sunday, December 7, 2014 11:04 PM

Ed GMP:

I can't tell from here, but does that PRR engine (I1s?) have a Brunswick green boiler, red cab roof and tender deck, and a red N6b cabin car behind?

Tom

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Posted by bogp40 on Sunday, December 7, 2014 11:11 PM

This one is "Purr-fect

Show me more animal heralds

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, December 8, 2014 1:38 AM

By gosh, Tom! Even I missed that one! Not to mention the Toludine Red number plate Wink

Good Eye! Ed

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Posted by GP-9_Man11786 on Monday, December 8, 2014 2:10 PM

Before this falls off the page, still looking for a railroad logo with an animal in it. We've got Chessie and Great Northern, I believe Canadian National once had a logo with a beaver in it.

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Posted by superbe on Monday, December 8, 2014 3:50 PM

Not an animal but not human either

Lets see another animal, fish, bird, you get the idea  Big Smile

Bob

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Posted by Guy Papillon on Monday, December 8, 2014 5:58 PM

GP-9

The logo with a beaver was a Canadian Pacific logo. Canadian National had a Maple Leaf.

 

Guy

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