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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 8:12 AM

An empty gon being moved into Reggie's Junk Yard for another laod of scrap metal. 

Please show more rail served industries. 

 

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 8:44 AM

Garry asked for more rail served industries.

NYC ALCO S3 #874 switching. The reefer is destined for the team track where produce dealers await. The grain box car will be spotted on the Redwing Milling Co. siding.

More rail-served industries please.

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:38 AM

Dragon Products silos and batch plant on my layout

Show me more rail served industries

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 12:19 PM

Sunkist packing house surrounded by orange groves

Palm trees line the streets of Highland California

Plesae show me more industries.

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Posted by peahrens on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 2:29 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Plesae show me more industries.

Here's an oil refinery.

 IMG_4576 (2) by Paul Ahrens, on Flickr

Please show some loco servicing facilities.

Paul

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Posted by JOHN C TARANTO on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 8:16 PM

Paul says...Please show some loco servicing facilities.

Diesel locomotion is still relatively a new idea on the Dutchtown & Geismar, so the maintenance crews hurriedly set up this refuling station.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:27 AM

Steam locomotives need water...

...and sand, too...

This one needs to top-up the fuel supply before leaving town...

More locomotive servicing, please.

Wayne

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Posted by SouthPenn on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 8:46 AM

A little late but here is my trestle. It is the tail of a wye. The little stubs at the bottom of the bents are the remains of the original trestle.  

Back to locomotive maintenance.

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Posted by Mister Mikado on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:23 PM

WOW.

Spectacular, South Penn.  Post more photos when the landscape's in.

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, August 17, 2017 2:25 PM

It has been a while. The roundhouse and servicing area at Boohbay Railway Village

SHow me a coaling tower

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:52 PM

G Paine
SHow me a coaling tower

 IMG_6018_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

More coaling towers, please...

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, August 19, 2017 4:49 PM

We have been stuck on coaling towers for a couple of days, so something else. My GE 70 tonner Belfast and Moosehaed Lake 52

Show one or more GE diesels

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Posted by superbe on Saturday, August 19, 2017 8:23 PM

G Paine

Show one or more GE diesels 

A pair of GP 15-1....

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DSC00748.jpgPlease show more GE diesels

Bob

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Posted by JOHN C TARANTO on Saturday, August 19, 2017 9:13 PM
G Paine
SHow me a coaling tower

More coaling towers, please...

These are the coaling towers on my layout.  They are part of the Bachmann Spectrum line of structure kits.  I replaced the original coal chutes with detail kits made by Tichy.

Two coaling towers...."will that be regular or Ethyl?"  Freight or Passenger grade.

I'd like to see more coaling towers.

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Posted by ckape on Saturday, August 19, 2017 10:58 PM

I think technically we're still on GE diesels, so here's a pair Minnesota Commercial Dash 8s that I finally got all detailed and wired up and running

Show me something custom painted

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Posted by tbdanny on Sunday, August 20, 2017 1:54 AM

Bradford Valley Lumber Co No. 11, custom painted for my freelanced logging line:

Show me something narrow-gauge.

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, August 20, 2017 9:36 AM

2 HOn30 28' boxcars on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me boxcars

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 20, 2017 10:06 AM

G Paine
Show me boxcars

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George, This is one of my all time favorites. It is a 50' STRATTON & GILLETTE boxcar with a DF loader system installed. This is the only car I have painted in this scheme. I painted it about 20 years ago when I first switched to HO scale. It is built out of a Like-Like Proto 2000 kit. I am not sure, but it might be the oldest HO scale SGRR car in my collection.

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Hope you enjoy!

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Show me one of your favorite freight cars!

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-Kevin

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Living the dream.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:12 PM

JOHN C TARANTO
I'd like to see more coaling towers. 

An ex-PRR coaling tower. It is being refurbished and repurposed to load coal cars at the Tuscarora coal mine. The C&O is parked there because I ran out of room for them in the engine yard. I need to stop buying stuff.

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Posted by JOHN C TARANTO on Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:18 PM

Sorry, guys.  I did not realize that the topic had changed from "coaling towers".  I'll try to be more observant.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Sunday, August 20, 2017 2:23 PM

I am always late because in need new pictures.

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Posted by SouthPenn on Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:12 PM

Boxcars.

 More box cars please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 20, 2017 4:26 PM

I built eight of these, starting with Athearn Blue Box cars which I found on the "used" table at a nearby hobbyshop....

All got new ends (Tichy), new floors and underframes - some came with none (Central Valley), new trucks (Proto National B-1s), new roofs (Des Plaines Hobbies), new ladders, roofwalks, grabirons, etc.

All had the car eaves lowered by removing the original roof above the eaves, then cementing the new roof in place, then removing that with the eaves attached and sanding down the cars' sides by about 6" (HO).

Here's an under-construction picture...

Show me more of your favourite freight cars, please.

Wayne

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Posted by dti406 on Sunday, August 20, 2017 7:01 PM

I have so many I don't know what to choose, so here goes!

Rail Yard Models Kit of the PC X79 Boxcar, 60' Car made by Thrall and financed by Kelloggs to transport cereal from Battle Creek, MI all over the country. I added all the brake lines and rodding etc, as it was not included with the kit but shown on the drawings.

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A couple of in progress shots.

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Posted by superbe on Sunday, August 20, 2017 8:11 PM

The last request was for more cars. My favorite is the Old German beer car. When I was in high school most of my friends were a year a head of me and when they came home from college they introduced me to Old German.

Please show more cars.

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Posted by Mister Mikado on Sunday, August 20, 2017 8:45 PM

Ya can't fool us, Dr. Wayne--that's a prototype photo, right?

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 20, 2017 9:45 PM

Mister Mikado

Ya can't fool us, Dr. Wayne--that's a prototype photo, right?

 
The first time that I posted in the "Show Me" thread, it was a photo of a real train, as I didn't realise that it was supposed to be limited to models.  I quickly removed the photo and replaced it with a more suitable one.
I won't be removing that one, though, so thank you very much for your kind comment.
 
Here's another of my favourite freight cars, one of four built from these...
 
 
...Tyco r-t-r reefers.

I decided, after the original modifications, that they still weren't quite ready-to-run, and changed them into these...
 
 
...then these...
 
 
...and ended up with these...
 
 
The radial roofs were almost an afterthought (actually a correction of a mistake)...
 
 
...but I'm pleased with the end result...
 
 
Please show me some more of your favourite freight cars.
 
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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, August 21, 2017 2:44 AM

doctorwayne
Please show me some more of your favourite freight cars.

This is like choosing my "favorite" grandchild... how can you pick just one???

Well, I guess this could be considered a "freight" car?

 IMG_6717 by Edmund, on Flickr

This big, hot "Thermos Bottle" was a retirement gift from a good friend. That makes it a favorite Cool

More of your favorites, please— car, locomotive OR structure!

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Monday, August 21, 2017 2:50 PM

My favorite place to grab a beer and watch football on the big screen TV.

 Bikers outside of a west side bar on 5th street

plenty of actionSitting on the pool table in the barBusy Monday night at the bar

Please show me more of your favorite things.

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Posted by JOHN C TARANTO on Monday, August 21, 2017 3:55 PM

Please show me more of your favorite things.

I couldn't come up with a new photo with a particular "favorite thing", so here's a photo of my yard.  Watching trains is my favorite thing!

Show me one of your favorite things.

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