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Jarrell's Show Me Something: August 2019

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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, August 1, 2019 10:49 AM

Harrison: "Show me another local."

The Grafton Turn on its daily local run.

Another local, please.

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Posted by BNSF UP and others modeler on Thursday, August 1, 2019 11:58 AM

BNSF 3764 huals a short local of boxcars bound for SOMEWHERE...


We'll just say there is a bottling plant up ahead and this section of BNSF territory has a lot of legacy in its equipment...Whistling


Show me a modern local, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 1, 2019 4:05 PM

Harrison: Great job starting Show Me Something for August. Thank you!

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Show me a modern local, please.

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I don't know how modern you wanted, but this should fill the bill. It was seen on the store layout at Ready-To-Roll trains in Miami, Florida.

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Show me another SD-40 please.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Saturday, August 3, 2019 4:53 AM

Well, its been over 24 hrs. and no other SDs have surfaced.  So lets take it back in time and "show us some coaling tower scenes"!

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 3, 2019 2:59 PM

mobilman44
So lets take it back in time and "show us some coaling tower scenes"!

Fresh from a rebuild this NYC Mike is backing down for coal:

 IMG_8544_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

More locomotive servicing, please.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Saturday, August 3, 2019 5:28 PM

Here is an ATSF facility during transition........"the diesels have arrived"!

How about some more loco servicing pics...............

 

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by rogerhensley on Sunday, August 4, 2019 5:37 AM

Ok, here's another yard servicing scene.

How about another yard scene.

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Posted by Harrison on Sunday, August 4, 2019 7:47 AM

The D&H transfer crosses though Gemmill yard on the ADK&LC club layout.

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Show me another scene with lots of track.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 4, 2019 8:47 AM

Harrison
Show me another scene with lots of track.

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I hope this is enough track to meet your request. This scene is on the Athens Bend Track groups N-Trak layout.

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Show me a scene with only one track passing through it.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Sunday, August 4, 2019 9:01 AM

More trackwork & turnouts please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 4, 2019 4:45 PM

HO-Velo
More trackwork & turnouts please.

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I hve always liked the trackwork in this scene on the Country Roads portable model railroad layout.

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Only three weeks until the Atlanta Train Show! I am so excited to see this layout again.

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Show me a scene with a wooden structure of any type.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, August 5, 2019 9:17 AM

Wooden structure ..... A covered bridge. 

Please show another wooden structure ..... or show a wooden building....... or show a wooden freight car. 

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, August 5, 2019 1:16 PM

 

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show another wooden structure ..... or show a wooden building.......

A recently completed Laser Kit placed temporarily on the layout:

 Yard_office4 by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show another wooden structure.

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Posted by jacon12 on Monday, August 5, 2019 2:49 PM

A Bar Mills laser kit I built.  Was gonna name it Conley's but I may not..  :)  Another wooden structure please!

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Posted by HO-Velo on Monday, August 5, 2019 4:57 PM

More wooden structures please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 12:03 AM

About as close as I can get to a wooden structure is this one from DPM, built from the mighty styrene pine...

Wayne

More wood, or faux wood structures or rolling stock, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 3:14 AM

doctorwayne
More wood, or faux wood structures or rolling stock, please.

Four out of the five cabooses in this scene are of wood composition, even plywood!

 caboose track by Edmund, on Flickr

Another caboose, please.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 4:50 AM

One of several I built guided by Andy Sperandeo's MR article of many years ago.

How about more cabooses/cabeese?

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 6:12 AM

mobilman44
How about more cabooses/cabeese?

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Here is a STRATTON AND GILLETTE caboose that is very similar to the model Mobilman posted.

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Show me another refrigerated boxcar from any era.

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 9:56 AM

Kevin - "Show me another refrigerated boxcar from any era."

NYC 50' smoothside mechanical reefer #1000.

More reefers please.

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Posted by G Paine on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 10:00 AM

A Swifts reefer unloading at Reilly's Meat Packing on my layout

Show me a bulkhead flatcar

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 12:53 PM

G Paine
...Show me a bulkhead flatcar

This is an Athearn 50' flatcar, with the original floor and underframe removed and replaced with a new subfloor of .060" sheet styrene.  This allowed the car to sit more prototypically-lower on its trucks.  I also added a custom-cast lead weight to improve its tracking abilities...

...then added bulkhead ends from Walther's 53' GSC flatcar.  The wooden deck was added to use-up my supply of scale stripwood...

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Show me an express or baggage car, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 1:49 PM

doctorwayne
Show me an express or baggage car, please.

"How big was that fish that got away, again?"

 Baggage_1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Another look at head-end equipment, please. Bonus for an RPO car.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 2:07 PM

gmpullman
...Another look at head-end equipment, please. Bonus for an RPO car.

Here's an ex-Pennsy RPO, built from an undecorated Walthers kit...

I de-Pennsy-fied it by altering the porthole-style windows in the doors into rectangular ones.  Paint is SMP Accupaint, while the lettering was done with C-D-S dry transfers from an alphabet set.

Wayne

Show me another head-end car, please. 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 6:05 PM

doctorwayne
Show me another head-end car, please. 

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Here is a STRATTON AND GILLETTE Railway Post Office.

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To the other end of the train... Please show me any observation car.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 6, 2019 11:39 PM

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...To the other end of the train... Please show me any observation car.

Here's a model of one of CNR's "Mountain Observations", built for a friend...

Built from a Rivarossi coach, the car's length is very close to that of the real ones.  I used the roof from a Rivarossi RPO.  Paint is from Pollyscale and SMP, with CNR lettering done with C-D-S dry transfers.  The brass handrails at the steps are from SS Ltd.

Wayne

Show me another observation car or business car with a platform, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 12:36 AM

doctorwayne
Show me another observation car or business car with a platform, please. 

The "old man" is looking things over from his vantage point on the PRR 1000:

 IMG_9919_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Another observation or business car, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 6:16 PM

The Grand Valley's business car, Rockhaven, is a shortened Athearn observation car...

Wayne

More business or observation cars, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 7:44 PM

Here is a Kato Business car. ... The prototype for this car is a Burlington business car. Kato painted it for other roads too, but Burlington is the corect one. 

Plase show the rear end of any train. 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 7, 2019 9:24 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show the rear end of any train.

This coach, a rider car on the tail end of a rather long detouring express train, acts as the caboose for the conductor and rear brakeman, but a few railfans are aboard too, in quest of some rare mileage...

There's a narrative and lots more photos of the train to be found HERE.

Wayne

Show me a pusher locomotive on a freight train please - steam or diesel.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 8, 2019 2:36 PM

doctorwayne
Show me a pusher locomotive on a freight train please - steam or diesel.

This Q4b is giving a needed boost to a B&O freight:

 Helper1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another 2-8-2 Mikado.

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, August 9, 2019 10:07 AM

Ed said: "Show me another 2-8-2 Mikado."

NYC Mikado #9519 passes under the Route 32 bridge at the head of a short freight train. This Broadway Limited Imports, NYC/P&LE H-9 2-8-2, #9519 has been on the layout for 15-years. It was s Christmas present from my wife.

Another 2-8-2 please.

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, August 9, 2019 10:23 AM

Allan said another 2-8-2

Here is a PRR L1s with a coal drag! 

Since we now have a B&O, NYC, and PRR we need another road's 2-8-2 to continue the show!

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, August 9, 2019 11:50 AM

I detailed and painted this brass CNR S-2-a for a good friend...

...one of many of his CNR Mikados, along with a host of other wheel arrangments, mostly CNR prototypes.

Show me another Mikado, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, August 9, 2019 12:01 PM

doctorwayne
Show me another Mikado, please.

Back in the early 1970s I used to have a "working relationship" with this particular Mikado:

 4070_fix03 by Edmund, on Flickr

Years later I finally have an HO model of it (with it's pre-1957 number):

 GTW_3734_2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me a locomotive sans-pilot and trailing wheels, i.e. 0-6-0 etc.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, August 9, 2019 2:10 PM

gmpullman

Back in the early 1970s I used to have a "working relationship" with this particular Mikado:

 4070_fix03 by Edmund, on Flickr

Years later I finally have an HO model of it (with it's pre-1957 number):

 GTW_3734_2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Here's another model of your loco, Ed, also owned by the same friend, and also having the same first name as you...

gmpullman

....Show me a locomotive sans-pilot and trailing wheels, i.e. 0-6-0 etc.

 

 
Here's a model of the CNR's 7434, the prototype of which once worked in my hometown.  It was a gift from another friend, and I've modified and painted it to match a photo of the real one...

 
Wayne
 
More steam-powered switchers, please.
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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, August 9, 2019 3:49 PM

doctorwayne
Here's another model of your loco, Ed, also owned by the same friend, and also having the same first name as you...

A remarkable coincidence, Dr. wayne Smile 

Thank you!

Regards, Ed

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, August 9, 2019 4:55 PM

doctorwayne
More steam-powered switchers, please.

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STRATTON AND GILLETTE number 638. Mostly done, still needs detail painting.

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Show me any switcher.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Friday, August 9, 2019 5:14 PM

Here are a couple of Baldwins, alas not steam.  This pic was taken after detailing and adding in decoders......

OK, how about some more switchers?

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, August 9, 2019 5:40 PM

Here is a CB&Q Baldwin switcher. 

Please continue showing switchers. 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, August 9, 2019 11:29 PM

Another model of a CNR switcher...

Originally a Proto "Heritage" model, I was going to get rid of it, as it was a very poor puller.  After removing the flywheel and some electronic stuff, I was able to get enough weight into it, making its performance more than just acceptable.

I stripped all of the undersize piping from it (my guess is that the die cutters were working from blueprints of a real USRA 0-8-0, but were unaware that pipe sizes refer to interior dimensions rather than external ones).  Working from photographs, I re-detailed both loco and tender. 
The locomotive's frame was lengthened at the front end to accommodate CNR's signature drop-down handrails, and those well-recessed air reservoirs are brass tubing, filled with lead.

Wayne

Show me more switchers, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 10, 2019 12:03 AM

doctorwayne
Show me more switchers, please.

This little PRR B8b catches its breath between shifts:

 PRR_B8b_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

More switchers, please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, August 10, 2019 10:31 AM

Ed Asked for more switchers.

An ALCO S-3 and a SW-8 working the team track in Black River.

Let us continue with the switcher motif.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Saturday, August 10, 2019 10:43 AM

More switchers and switching.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by Erie1951 on Saturday, August 10, 2019 11:26 AM

I really like your refueling scene, Peter. Thumbs Up

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 10, 2019 12:14 PM

Erie1951
I really like your refueling scene, Peter.

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Peter's ability to capture realistic atmosphere in his photographs is incredible.

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Everything in his scenes looks like it belongs there and nothing is missing. It is amazing.

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HO-Velo
More switchers and switching.

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Here is a switcher hard at work on the BNSF HO scale layout in the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.

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Show me a freight train.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Saturday, August 10, 2019 1:55 PM

Here is an ABBA set of FTs, hauling a "much too long for the layout" freight......The caboose is on the far end of the layout, behind the green/yellow CNW reefer.

How about some more freights?

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 10, 2019 2:12 PM

mobilman44
How about some more freights?

A pair of B&O Em-1s have this ore drag well in-hand:

 EM1_7600_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

Another freight, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 10, 2019 2:19 PM

gmpullman
Another freight, please.

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Here is a slow moving freight in the countryside.

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Another freight train please.

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Posted by BNSF UP and others modeler on Saturday, August 10, 2019 3:21 PM

BNSF ET44C4 #3764 pulls some well cars out of sight on my local club layout.

Some more dissapearing trains please. Bonus points for BNSF motive power and well cars making up the train.

I'm beginning to realize that Windows 10 and sound decoders have a lot in common. There are so many things you have to change in order to get them to work the way you want.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, August 11, 2019 4:38 AM

BNSF UP and others modeler
Bonus points for BNSF motive power and well cars making up the train.

BNSF and well cars disappearing behind the station:

 IMG_1130 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me a modern six-axle diesel.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 11, 2019 7:47 AM

gmpullman
Show me a modern six-axle diesel.

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Here is some kind of a modern six axle diesel on an expecially dusty area of the BNSF layout in the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.

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Show me any six axle diesel.

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, August 11, 2019 9:44 AM

Kevin: "Show me any six axle diesel."

FP-45s are six axle diesels.

More big diesels, please.

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, August 11, 2019 10:32 AM

Big for their day, a B&M A-A E7 set heading to pick up the train on the Boothbay Railway Village layout.

Show me passenger train

 

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Posted by mobilman44 on Sunday, August 11, 2019 12:51 PM

An Illinois Central passenger train - powered by two BLI E7s - has the chore of mainline testing, taking turns with the Santa Fe F unit consist waiting in the foreground.

How about some more passenger trains?

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 11, 2019 1:05 PM

mobilman44
How about some more passenger trains?

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You have to take my word for it, but there are passenger cars behind this AMTRAK locomotive. This scene is on the portable layout from the Orlando N-Trak Modelers.

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Show me another passenger train.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, August 11, 2019 2:27 PM

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Show me another passenger train.

A cook grabs a breath of cool air:

 PRR_diner by Edmund, on Flickr

Another passenger train, please.

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Posted by chatanuga on Sunday, August 11, 2019 3:37 PM

Video of my Amtrak equipment shortly after I finished adding passengers and window shades to my painted interiors of my Walthers cars.

Show me another streamlined passenger train.

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, August 12, 2019 10:21 AM

Kevin: "Show me another streamlined passenger train."

A pair of Santa Fe E-8s at the head of a 9-car passenger consist, west bound on the BRVRR layout.

Another streamlined passenger train, please.

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Posted by dti406 on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 1:08 PM

Since 24 hours has passed a new topic.

Show me an Interlocking Tower!

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 2:58 PM

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Show me an Interlocking Tower! Rick Jesionowski

 PRR at the end of the day by Edmund, on Flickr

 Leverman_14K2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Another interlocking tower, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:26 PM

gmpullman
Another interlocking tower, please.

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This one is on the in-store layout at Ready-To-Roll Trains in Miami, Florida.

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Show me another Santa Fe Warbonnet.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Tuesday, August 13, 2019 4:32 PM

Approaching on the far main is an F7 ABBA consist pulling the Super Chief, while on the inside main a 4-8-4 is heading up a fast freight.....

Any other warbonnets out there?

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 2:05 PM

Warbonnet color scheme on FM Erie Builts.

Please show any colorful locomotive. 

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 14, 2019 5:47 PM

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Please show any colorful locomotive.

UP 4141 would have to be the candidate for most colorful on my layout.

 UP_4141d by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show another multi-color locomotive.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, August 15, 2019 6:31 PM

Multi-color locomotive ..... GN GP7's should suffice. 

Please show any first generation diesel locomotive. 

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, August 15, 2019 10:49 PM

F3 A-B MEC 671, one of only 2 B units in the MEC roster, shown on my layout. Stewart model with a sound decoder I added

Show me a non-EMD first generation B unit

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, August 16, 2019 1:11 AM

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Show me a non-EMD first generation B unit

Here's a B unit from Schenectady —

 PRR_9616-FA2-sm by Edmund, on Flickr

Another non-EMD B unit, please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, August 17, 2019 11:23 AM

Ed: "Another non-EMD B unit, please."

An ALCO PA/PB/PA lash up at the head of a NYC passenger train.

More B-units of any stripe, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 17, 2019 3:53 PM

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More B-units of any stripe, please.

The PRR, ever so frugal, rostered forty GP9Bs. Here's a pair on the ready track:

 PRR_EMD_GP9b2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 PRR_EMD by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me more EMD GP-type locomotives, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, August 18, 2019 7:57 AM

EMD GP-type. ...

........ CB&Q GP7's 

Please show more EMD GP-type locomotives (I know there are many of you who

have some.  ) 

 

Here is a prototype photo for Ed...... PRR GP9B in a PRR/CB&Q run through consist in Chicago. 

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, August 18, 2019 10:22 AM

Garry: "Please show more EMD GP-type locomotives (I know there are many of you who have some.)" 

Another GP, or two:

More EMD GP types, please.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 18, 2019 1:04 PM

Here's an Athearn geep on an unfinished diorama...

The photo was taken with a 35mm camera fitted with a home-made pinhole attachment.

Show me some SD-model diesels, please.

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Posted by Little Timmy on Sunday, August 18, 2019 2:46 PM

DH&P SD9.

more SD's please.

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Posted by dti406 on Sunday, August 18, 2019 6:50 PM

Little Timmy

more SD's please.

Here are a couple of CP SD40-2's with a grain special.

How about some more SD units!

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 18, 2019 8:40 PM

Here's an Atlas SD35 acting as a helper...

The wide "safety" cab is scratchbuilt, as is the vestibule cab on the Northern.

Show me more six-axle diesels, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, August 18, 2019 10:40 PM

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Show me more six-axle diesels, please.

Six axlas and opposed pistons:

 

 NYC_Erieblt by Edmund, on Flickr

Another scene with six-axle power, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 18, 2019 10:55 PM

gmpullman
...Another scene with six-axle power, please.

As requested...

....more six axle power, please.

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Posted by rogerhensley on Monday, August 19, 2019 5:40 AM

An EMD E Unit following the river around the curve.

More 6 axel power please.

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Posted by Harrison on Monday, August 19, 2019 8:28 AM

D&H PA's.

IMG_9661

More Alcos(bonus for FA and PAs)

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Posted by dti406 on Monday, August 19, 2019 10:02 AM

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More Alcos(bonus for FA and PAs)

 

Alco FA-2's with a covered hopper train from the 50's.

More Alco Cab Units.

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, August 19, 2019 10:59 AM

"More Alco Cab Units."

Pennsy FA2 #9617 in the lead, working a string of gondolas on the BRVRR east bound mainline.

More Alcos, please.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC , Pennsylvania

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, August 19, 2019 2:14 PM

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More Alcos, please.

An A-B set of PA-2s on the GE "More Power for America" train, at speed:

 IMG_5492 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another fast passenger train.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, August 19, 2019 3:44 PM

How about an MLW FPA-4/FPB-4 on a passenger train?  The prototypes were geared for 93 mph...

However, on my layout, the highest posted speed limit is, I think, 40 mph.

Show me more non-EMD locomotives, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 6:49 AM

doctorwayne
Show me more non-EMD locomotives, please.

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Well, I love all my STRATTON AND GILLETTE F units, but I really love my solitary F/M Trainmaster!

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This is a really old picture. It was taken before I had my Canon SLR.

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Show me another picture with something that has wings.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 9:08 AM

Wings on the nose of a Union Pacific streamliner at Union Station. 

Please show a water tower. 

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 10:45 AM

Garry: "Please show a water tower."

The tower at Black River Station.

Another water tower please.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 10:58 AM

Roof top tower might be a stretch.  More watertowers please.  Btw, thanks to Russ and Kevin for the kind comments.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 20, 2019 11:02 PM

HO-Velo
More watertowers please.

Here's an overhead water crane fed from the large steel tank in the background. Both PRR and B&O used these overhead water plugs. Maybe others?

 IMG_9771_fix_w by Edmund, on Flickr

 IMG_9766_fix_w by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me any other device related to water.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:11 AM

Here's a tender, converted for water service in work trains...

Show me a freight car with a load, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 9:11 AM

doctorwayne
Show me a freight car with a load, please.

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Wayne, that is a very neat car. Great picture.

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Here is a nifty DIAMONDBACK AND WESTERN horizontal ribbed hopper car loaded with coal. This was built from a resin Funaro & Camerlengo kit.

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By the way, the covered hopper is loaded also, but you cannot tell in the picture!

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Show me another freight car built from a kit.

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 9:46 AM

2 Sandy River & Rangly Lake RR (SRRL) narrow gauge boxcars (HOn30) also built from Funaro & Camerlengo resin kits at Whitefield on Boothbay Railway Village layout.

Show me some more kit built rolling stock

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 1:12 PM

Here's a flatcar, built from a Tichy kit...

...and the same car with a load of pipe (still needs some wedges to hold the pipes in place)...

Show me another car built from a kit, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 2:55 PM

doctorwayne
Show me another car built from a kit, please.

A Funaro kit-built resin car:

 IMG_9796_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Another kit-built car please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 3:16 PM

gmpullman
Another kit-built car please.

This 6,000 gallon three-compartment tank car was built from an undecorated Tangent kit....

More rolling stock (or locomotives) built from kits, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 4:24 PM

doctorwayne
More rolling stock (or locomotives) built from kits, please.

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This CHICAGO AND SOUTHERN boxcar was built from a CB&T shops kit. I added a completely different AB brake system to it from the scrap box, and a bunch of better details.

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Please show me another kit you built of any type.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 4:57 PM

SeeYou190
Please show me another kit you built of any type. .

Here's a LaserKit New York Central wood caboose:

 IMG_7223_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

 IMG_7251 by Edmund, on Flickr

 caboose track2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Laser-cut wood kits are a pleasure to build Yes

Show me another wood kit, rolling stock, structure or other, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 5:23 PM

Last year I added a small scene on my current layout to include buildings,  structures, and rolling stock from my previous layout which was 1900 era. The depot is made from a FSM kit. There are some Campbell kits buildings as well as others. Wood rolling stock includes passenger cars made from LaBelle kits. I scratch built the coaling tower and other structures. 

 

Please show more scratch built models or show models made from wood kits. 

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Posted by HO-Velo on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 7:09 PM

Very nice Garry.  More of the same please, scratch or wood kit models.  Regards, Peter

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 8:21 PM

Built from a Bowser kit for a NYC K-11...

I added a can motor and NWSL gearbox, and scratchbult the vestibule cab over the original Bowser cab.  The tender is from Tyco/Mantua.

I'll eventually tear it down and re-do it as TH&B's #15 or #16.

Show me something kitbashed, kit- or scratch-built please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 22, 2019 5:52 AM

doctorwayne
Show me something kitbashed, kit- or scratch-built please.

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I built this LITTLE ROCK AND SOUTHERN boxcar from a bunch of stuff in the scrap bin. One of your shared projects was actually the inspiration for this one.

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The underframe is from an Intermountain Rerigerated Boxcar, the ends are leftover from Tichy USRA boxcar kits, and the roof is from a Red Caboose boxcar. I added a scap-box roofwalk and some AB brake details. The sides are completely built up from styrene.

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Show me something else you built that is unique.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Thursday, August 22, 2019 5:58 AM

Here are a couple of diesel fuel storage tanks........

 

How about some more unique kit bash / scratch structures?

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, August 22, 2019 11:56 AM

SeeYou190
....I built this LITTLE ROCK AND SOUTHERN boxcar from a bunch of stuff in the scrap bin. One of your shared projects was actually the inspiration for this one. . The underframe is from an Intermountain Rerigerated Boxcar, the ends are leftover from Tichy USRA boxcar kits, and the roof is from a Red Caboose boxcar. I added a scap-box roofwalk and some AB brake details. The sides are completely built up from styrene....

That's a good-looking car, Kevin, and you've really done a nice job on it.  Thumbs UpThumbs Up

mobilman44
....How about some more unique kit bash / scratch structures?

GERN Industries is the largest customer on my railroad (click-on photos for enlargement)...

It's a kitbash of Walthers ADM grain elevator, with add-on silos, plus their Red Wing Milling structure, along with a sizeable scratchbuilt addition made from .060" sheet styrene (which I buy in 4'x8' sheets).

The warehouse for shipping bagged product in boxcars is also scratchbuilt, using the same material, plus Evergreen corrugated siding and Campbell aluminum roofing...

The tanks for liquid products are all scratchbuilt, with the horizontal ones built using the pastic rolls from office paper, while the vertical ones are heavy cardboard tubes with a wrapper of thin styrene.  The rivets were added using a dress-maker's pounce wheel...

I elevated the silos using legs built-up from .060" sheet styrene, and deliberately made them too short to allow a locomotive to fit under - this sometimes necessitates use of an idler car/cars, enhancing operations - there are several such conditions on the layout, all deliberate and all for the same reasons....

GERN was built as a traffic generator, and has proven very useful in that role.  There are also about 50 GERN modellers/modelers world-wide. 

GERN is based on a fantasy character derived by my brother when we were kids, playing table hockey, and he supplies GERN advertising and other novelties on a "as-it-strikes-him" basis.  Here are a couple of examples...

 

Please show me some more kit-built/kitbashed/scratchbuilt stuff.  It's great to see both the creativity and the skills which you all exhibit.

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Posted by Little Timmy on Friday, August 23, 2019 2:43 PM

Assembled from whatever I could find  ... ( this is why you should never throw anything away.)

More  scratch/ bash   or kit built plese.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Saturday, August 24, 2019 9:20 AM

Here is a model of my Grandmothers home as it was in the 1950s.  It is located in Anna Illinois, with the Illinois Central "racetrack" (back then anyway) right across the side road.  My fondest childhood memories were here, and this is where my love of trains really hit.

The model is a kitbash of two "Barb's Bungalows", with scratchwork done on the base and porches.  The water pump and outhouse (2 holes!) were kits.  

 

How about some more scratch/kitbash/kit items..........

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, August 24, 2019 10:02 AM

mobileman: "How about some more scratch/kit bash/kit items....."

Shocker's Electric, still a work in progress, started life as Walther's Redwing Milling Company.

More scratch/bashed/or kits, please.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Saturday, August 24, 2019 10:34 AM

Yes, more scratched, bashed or kits.   Regards, Peter

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 24, 2019 12:25 PM

This Lackawanna concrete signal tower was built from a laser-cut kit:

 DLnW_tower by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another signal tower or signal device of any kind.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, August 24, 2019 2:33 PM

HO-Velo

Great-looking scene, Peter!  I'm pretty-sure I've seen that place somewhere nearby.

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, August 24, 2019 10:38 PM

gmpullman
Show me another signal tower or signal device of any kind.

Bob the signals man at work near the yard on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me a signals bridge

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, August 25, 2019 3:48 AM

G Paine
Show me a signals bridge

A set of helpers coasts downgrade on the left while another train, also with EMD power, digs in up the grade on the right. Both position-light signals are absolute stop, for opposing traffic, with red lenses instead of the usual yellow. Far to the upper-right the B&O has a clear indication for an eastbound.

 PRR_EF-15_2_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me any other signal, please — classification or marker light, traffic signal, flag or semaphore, even a radio tower beacon.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Sunday, August 25, 2019 5:26 AM

Here is a simple 3 track signal bridge, made by kitbashing two Bachmann double track bridges.  It is not wired, but maybe some day...........

 

 

 

Any more signals out there?

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Posted by Harrison on Sunday, August 25, 2019 7:28 AM

D&H 7312 sits near the south yard signal. I had an operational one on the north end, but the wiring would keep getting messed up.

img_8935

Show me scene with static grass.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, August 25, 2019 9:25 AM

I used static grass in this scene. 

Please show any type of grass. 

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Posted by HO-Velo on Sunday, August 25, 2019 10:38 AM

Thanks Doc Wayne.  More grass.  Regards,  Peter

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Posted by Erie1951 on Sunday, August 25, 2019 12:52 PM

That's a great scene, Peter, but I wish you wouldn't post photos of my front yard. Laugh

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Posted by Little Timmy on Sunday, August 25, 2019 5:29 PM

A base of a diorama i did a while back...

Let's see some " Old Timer" stuff..... anything pre WW II .

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 25, 2019 7:58 PM

Little Timmy
Let's see some " Old Timer" stuff..... anything pre WW II .

Built in September of 1912, this Dominion/Fowler boxcar was last re-weighed in September, 1936....

An Accurail model (one of ten similar cars) I re-did the original plank roof as a metal-sheathed type, a common upgrade to the cars' prototypes.  Custom lettering is from Rail Graphics

Please show me some more pre-WWII stuff please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:28 PM

doctorwayne
Please show me some more pre-WWII stuff please.

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This USRA single sheathed boxcar pre-dates World War 2 by quite a few years.

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Show me something built between 1945 and 1965.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, August 25, 2019 8:36 PM

SeeYou190
Show me something built between 1945 and 1965. .

The "new" Twentieth Century Limited" observation car was built by Pullman Standard in August of 1948:

 Century_2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show more equipment from the 1945-1965 time frame.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Sunday, August 25, 2019 9:20 PM

Sorry Russ, but thanks.  Ed, lovin' the red carpet treatment!  More 45' thru 65'.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, August 25, 2019 11:35 PM

The CNR introduced this paint scheme in 1954...

Please show me another paint scheme introduced between 1945 and 1965.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, August 26, 2019 1:10 AM

doctorwayne
Please show me another paint scheme introduced between 1945 and 1965.

The New York Central rebuilt fifty former box cars into cabooses during the War effort. Five of these were selected in 1946 to wear the Pacemaker vermillion and gray .

 IMG_6920 by Edmund, on Flickr

HO-Velo
Ed, lovin' the red carpet treatment!

Thank you, Peter. Nothin's too good for the folks at the M-R forum Smile

Another 1945 > 1965 era paint style, please.

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Posted by mobilman44 on Monday, August 26, 2019 4:56 AM

A bit different view...........here are 16 Bev-Bel models of the Pullman-Standard "colorful" box cars produced in the 1950s.  They were safely sitting in a plastic container while my current layout was being built.

How about some more "built in the 1950s era" pics.....

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Monday, August 26, 2019 9:12 AM

CB&Q began using its Chinese Red paint scheme in 1959 when EMD delivered new SD24's. This color scheme was used on SD's, GP's and U's thoughout the 1960' s before the Burlington Northern merger and Cascade Green locomotives. 

Please show more colors of the 1945-1965 period. 

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, August 26, 2019 10:14 AM

Garry: "Please show more colors of the 1945-1965 period.

UP Armor Yellow.

More colors from the 1950s-60s.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 12:15 AM

BRVRR
More colors from the 1950s-60s.

Here's an example of B&Os Royal Blue and gray:

 BO_FA by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another Alco product, steam or Diesel.

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:36 AM

Ed:"Show me another Alco product, steam or Diesel."

The King of steam locomotives: NYC Niagara.

More Alcos pf any persuasion, please.

Tags: BRVRR , NYC , Niagara

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 4:53 PM

BRVRR
The King of steam locomotives: NYC Niagara.

 

More Alcos pf any persuasion, please. 

Another Niagara built by Alco (some had Lima-built tenders):

 NYC_6008 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me more Big Steam, a 4-8-4 or larger.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:01 PM

gmpullman
Show me more Big Steam, a 4-8-4 or larger.

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That sounds like a request to see STRATTON AND GILLETTE #893, a big 4-8-4 steam locomotive.

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Show me small steam... 2-6-2 or smaller!

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-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:29 PM

SeeYou190
Show me small steam... 2-6-2 or smaller!

Prairie-type locos weren't all that common up here in Canada, but 2-6-0 Moguls were.  Here's a brass model of an ex-B&M B-15,  somewhat modified with a cab from a Bachmann Consolidation and some added details.  The tender was also altered to increase its capacities....

More small steamers, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 7:54 PM

doctorwayne
More small steamers, please.

This diminutive B8b stops for a little fuel and water between "shifting" duties on the PRR.

 PRR_B8b_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

More small steam, please. Something geared might be a plus Cool

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 9:44 PM

gmpullman
More small steam, please. Something geared might be a plus

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Geared it is. This is from the Atlanta Interlocking Railroaders layout at the Atlanta Train Show last weekend.

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Show me another scene with some logs.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 10:47 PM

More logs and or logging scenes.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, August 27, 2019 11:56 PM

A load of what used to be logs, but on their way to becoming telephone- or power-poles...

Show me another car carrying forest products, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 4:19 AM

doctorwayne
Show me another car carrying forest products, please.

A carload of timbers arrives at the consignee:

 NKP_FLat-1945 by Edmund, on Flickr

More wood products, please. Anyone have wrapped plywood?

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:48 AM

gmpullman
More wood products, please. Anyone have wrapped plywood?

It's not plywood, but this load of lumber is "wrapped" in a boxcar...

It also looks as if the load has shifted in-transit - the unseen side, at a lumber yard, is worse, and they've asked for the car to be turned.  I think that a damage claim is likely to be submitted.

More wood products, please.

Wayne

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 12:14 PM

doctorwayne
More wood products, please.

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How about the legendary Canadian Plywood Forest on the S-Modulators Fun & Disasters portable layout?

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Show me something else that is just a bit silly.

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-Kevin

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 4:46 PM

Kevin .... LOL ... IS that what you do when you are board ? Laugh

Maybe my whimsical scene of 101 Dalamations counts.... (Actually it is 15 Dalmations ) .... LOL ... I did it for grandkids to see.

 

Please show something else silly or whimsical 

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 5:38 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show something else silly or whimsical 

The PRR Camera Car:

 IMG_7954_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Including the six-foot by six-foot view camera!

 

 IMG_7956_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

More whimsy, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, August 28, 2019 9:55 PM

gmpullman
More whimsy, please.

Clearing the site for a new crossing watchman's shanty...

...and with the job finished...

Carry-on with more whimsy, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:35 AM

doctorwayne
Carry-on with more whimsy, please.

"Hey, Charlie, I think the cat's ready to come in..."

 Otis by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another domesticated animal.

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Posted by Southgate on Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:40 AM

 

After a long evening at the Sherline mill, I comandeered a couple guys from the layout to help clean up. Here they contemplate the task at hand...

Another seemingly hopeless situation, anyone?

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Posted by Southgate on Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:44 AM

Oops! Gmpullman slipped his in as I was preparing and posting mine, still on the whimsical side. (note the timing of the posts) Bear with me please! and proceed with domestic crittersEmbarrassed.

 

In Fact, I will. The crowd was pretty sparse at the Golden Spike cerimony, as the first loop on the layout was completed. But id did draw a few unexpected watchers;

More domestic animals, please. Dan

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 29, 2019 6:26 AM

Southgate
But id did draw a few unexpected watchers;

I'm glad to see the goat was invited to the ceremony Big Smile

Cheers, Ed

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 29, 2019 7:17 AM

Southgate
More domestic animals, please. Dan

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A faithful doggy is waiting on the porch for his loving owner to return.

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This scene is on the Country Roads sectional model railroad layout.

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Show me a locomotive with the headlamp lit up.

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-Kevin

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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:06 AM

Kevin: "Show me a locomotive with the headlamp lit up."

PRR F7A/B #9822 and #4121 at the head of a mixed freight consist.

More locomotives, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:16 AM

BRVRR
More locomotives, please.

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Here is STRATTON AND GILLETTE #408 just peeking out from behind a row of trees.

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Show me any other locomotive.

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-Kevin

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Posted by Harrison on Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:41 AM

Through the (then under construction) forest and into PLattsburgh.

IMG_0495

More trains and trees.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, August 29, 2019 12:30 PM

Harrison

More trains and trees.

 
 
Please continue with the trains and trees views.
 
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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, August 29, 2019 2:27 PM

doctorwayne
Please continue with the trains and trees views.

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Here is an N scale RS-3 pulling a freight out of the trees and onto a bridge.

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This scene is on the Orlando N-Trak club's modular layout.

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Show me another steel bridge of any type.

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, August 29, 2019 4:58 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another steel bridge of any type.

The Bascule lift bridge didn't have to be raised for this wood Chris-Craft—

 Bascule1_sm by Edmund, on Flickr

Another steel bridge scene, please.

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Posted by G Paine on Thursday, August 29, 2019 10:50 PM

While we are talking about movable bridges, an old photo of the swing bridge at Southport on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me another bridge

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Posted by mobilman44 on Friday, August 30, 2019 5:45 AM

Here is a simple bridge, crossing a dry cut...........

How about some more bridges?

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, August 30, 2019 7:01 AM

mobilman44
How about some more bridges?

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Here is the end of a train crossing a short bridge.

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Show me a scene with a crate or barrel.

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, August 30, 2019 11:04 AM

SeeYou190
Show me a scene with a crate or barrel.

Jake, here, has a barrel in the back of his wagon:

 Drayage by Edmund, on Flickr

Another scene please with a crate or barrel.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, August 30, 2019 1:00 PM

gmpullman
Another scene please with a crate or barrel.

After a successful day at the local market, some empty chicken crates, heading home in a farmer's pick-up....

Show me some more loaded vehicles, please.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Friday, August 30, 2019 1:21 PM

gmpullman
Jake, here, has a barrel in the back of his wagon:

Ed, Your nice teamster and the Bucyrus hoist are perfect for Labor Day, but that big globe valve lying in the dirt really grabs me.

Regards,  Peter 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, August 30, 2019 3:09 PM

doctorwayne
Show me some more loaded vehicles, please.

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There is a truck loaded with coal getting ready to become an unloaded truck in this scene from the Country Roads Sectional Model Railroad.

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Show me another hopper car.

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-Kevin

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, August 30, 2019 3:20 PM

SeeYou190

Show me another hopper car.

 

How about a bunch of hopper cars!

Show me a covered hopper car?

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 31, 2019 4:10 AM

 

dti406
Show me a covered hopper car?

Here's a pair of Pennsy H30s awaiting a load of cement.

 Cement2 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me a cylindrical or center-flow covered hopper, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 31, 2019 5:58 AM

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Show me a cylindrical or center-flow covered hopper, please.

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Ed, you are up early on a Saturday! That is a beautiful scene with the PRR hoppers.

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I think there are a few of the requested freight cars in this scene on the BNSF layout in the CHiocago Museum Of Science And Industry.

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Show me any hopper car, loaded or empty.

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-Kevin

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Posted by Harrison on Saturday, August 31, 2019 7:54 AM

A D&H train loads hoppers at the Lyon Mt. mine, in a diorama at the Lyon Mt. depot museum.

img_1315

More hoppers, bonus for being loaded/unloaded.

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, August 31, 2019 11:15 AM

An old photo of hoppers being unloaded to the coaling tower on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me another locomotive servicing scene

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 31, 2019 12:10 PM

G Paine
Show me another locomotive servicing scene

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This is the locomotive servicing scene on the Athens Bend Track N-Trak layout:

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Show me a boxcar painted more than one color.

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-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, August 31, 2019 12:49 PM

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Show me a boxcar painted more than one color.

For boxcars on my late-'30s era layout, these modified Dominion/Fowler cars from Accurail are about as colourful as you'll see...

How about some more boxcars with more than one colour, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 31, 2019 1:58 PM

SeeYou190
Ed, you are up early on a Saturday! That is a beautiful scene with the PRR hoppers.

Um, more like "haven't been to bed yet" Indifferent Thank you for the kind words, Kevin Yes


 

doctorwayne
How about some more boxcars with more than one colour, please.

A Baldwin "Sharknose" diesel has just coupled onto a freshly painted Pacemaker box car:

 IMG_3971_fix_sm by Edmund, on Flickr

Another two-toned (or more) boxcar please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, August 31, 2019 2:06 PM

gmpullman
Another two-toned (or more) boxcar please.

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Here is one for the "or more" category. For 1954 the TEHACHAPI APACHE AND HUALAPAI is certainly amongst the most colorful boxcars on Earth!

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Show me something else that is colorful.

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-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, August 31, 2019 3:32 PM

SeeYou190
Show me something else that is colorful.

You want to see colors?

 IMG_2391color by Edmund, on Flickr

More colorful stuff, please Big Smile

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