It's May and things are starting to warm up on the Maine coast, but model railroading does not stop just becaude summer is approaching! Lets see a lot of good and interesting things this month.
An older photo of my rebuilt (and almost finished) Dragon Products cement plant
Show me an industry that you have rebuilt to (hopefully) make it better
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
George ... Thanks for getting the May "Show Me" thread started. I like your cement plant.
He is my flour mill made from three Walthers flour mill kits. It is hard to fit all 4' of it in a photo. It wraps around a corner of the layout room.
Please show another industry on your layout.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Boxcar getting spotted at a small warehouse on my old layout.
Show me a tunnel.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
Here's one...
Show me a bridge!
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Ray Seneca Lake, Ontario, and Western R.R. (S.L.O.&W.) in HO
We'll get there sooner or later!
Link to the April 2015 Edition.
howmusShow me a bridge!
Kind of an unfinished area of my layout but there are bridges, five (make that seven with the two highway bridges in the background), counting the signal bridge!
Amtrak just turned 44 on May First... Show me an Amtrak scene.
Amtrak scene: Here is an old one from the BRVRR.
The Lake Shore Limited westbound on the BRVRR.
Show me another Amtrak scene.
Remember its your railroad
Allan
Track to the BRVRR Website: http://www.brvrr.com/
Exiting the tunnel on my old layout.
Show me another Amtrak scene
The Amtrak Chaloosa at the Zenith Amtrak depot:
How about a city scene?
Town of Arlee on my old layout.
Show me a highway scene.
Here's a highway scene.
Show me a street scene, please.
Street running, maybe in Texas:
How about a desert scene?
Arizona desert with a small wash........more desert please
How about some old buildings?
Old buildings -- my favorite subject! Here's a shot of the loading dock at the Mineral Ridge Mill:
This miner's cabin is a replica of a real one in Nevada:
An old, brick hardware store with chipped and faded signs:
Show me some more old buildings!
Here are some old buildings. 3 of the 5 buidings here were on my first or second layout I built in the early 1960s; the 3 on the right. I have done restoration work on all of them.
Show me something you have done restoration work on so it is usable again
Restoration ...
My old layout had two curved trestles I had made from Campbell kits. I took them apart, and rebuilt them into a single trestle made longer with the two trestles end-to-end. .... Also in the photo is an old United brass CN 2-6-0 is now painted and lettered for CB&Q which had similar looking 2-6-0's. .... The Tyco coal hopper was bright red, and I sprayed a thin layer of mineral red over it. It now is a mineral red hopper with faded lettering.
Please show an assmebled kit
Here's an assembled Roller Bearing Models Pullman troop sleeper kit. This was an early wood-and-urethane kit from about 1980. Because some troop sleepers were Tuscan to match PRR assigned Pullmans, I painted mine that way.
Please show another assembled kit.
An assembled City Classics kit with scratch built interior
Show me a train with refigerator cars
G PaineShow me a train with refigerator cars
Can it simply be a single refrigerator car?
How about some more refrigerator car action...
MR ran an article sometime around 1963 on scratchbuilding one of the new PFE mechanical reefers. I was maybe 17 years old and built one.
As best I can recall, I used wood floor and roof stock, cardboard sides, and stripwood ribs. To do the roof panels, I used aluminum foil and rubbed it against an Athearn plastic roof to get the pattern, then glued the foil to the inner roof. I don't run it, but it's in a display case, probably the earliest intact model I have. Please show another early effort.
As best I can recall, I used wood floor and roof stock, cardboard sides, and stripwood ribs. To do the roof panels, I used aluminum foil and rubbed it against an Athearn plastic roof to get the pattern, then glued the foil to the inner roof.
I don't run it, but it's in a display case, probably the earliest intact model I have.
Please show another early effort.
DRGW Challenger 3704 steps lightly onto the bridge over Irene Wash.
First attempt at making a control panel on my old layout.
Show me another control panel.
chatanugaShow me another control panel.
I'm not including this as an "official" show me something entry but I thought that since control panel came up I would point out this little offering from an ebay seller:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Train-Switchboard-Train-Railroad-Control-Unit-Table-El-Cajon-Train-Yard-/281414015276?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item418595192c
At this price, I estimate that I tossed out about $2,500. worth of panels when I simplified my block wiring after wiring for DCC!
Anything goes on ebay!
Back to our regular programming, control panels, thank you.
Ed
Here's my turntable control panel.
-Bob
more control panels
Life is what happens while you are making other plans!
Control panel:
The BRVRR doesn't have a control panel as such. The main throttles and the DCS 50 are in a drawer under the layout table. Individual sidings are controlled with the Atlas Controllers (yellow switches) mounted on the front of the table. The last two control the under-table steam and diesel sound decoders. The red push-buttons control the street and structure lights. The Atlas slide switches control the cross-over turnouts and several turnouts on the back side of the layout beyond easy arm's reach. Out of the photo at left is a DT400 throttle, and to the right under the table is the cable (LocoNet) connection to my LocoBuffer-USB and home computer. The layout table is mounted on rollers on wall tracks to allow access for maintenance and operation from behind the table when desired.
Show me your locomotive shop(s).
My loco shop was inspired by a visit to Larry's Truck & Electric, and a lot of scrapping goes on there. Here's an example:
John Bruce, what is your Show Me request?
Whoops, sorry. Show me a signal.
JOHN BRUCE III Whoops, sorry. Show me a signal.
Signals: Day
Signals: Night
More signals please...