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Show Me Something - March 2020 Edition

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, March 9, 2020 12:11 AM

SeeYou190
Show me a boxcar with a stripe.

How about multiple stripes...

When I backdated my layout, it was too modern, so a friend now has it.

Wayne

I doubt that I have another striped boxcar, but I wouldn't mind seeing one from someone else.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, March 9, 2020 12:22 AM

doctorwayne
I doubt that I have another striped boxcar, but I wouldn't mind seeing one from someone else.

My TURTLE CREEK CENTRAL fifty footer is my favorite striped boxcar.

Show me anything with a stripe.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, March 9, 2020 12:41 AM

SeeYou190
Show me anything with a stripe.

While the Erie Northshore currently doesn't own any freight cars, all of its locomotives have stripes, even those that are too modern and have moved on to other owners...

...the tenders on these are too short for stripes, but at least the runningboards got yellow striping...

...even the track superintendent's inspection car has stripes...

Wayne

Let's continue on with stripes, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, March 9, 2020 1:31 AM

doctorwayne
Let's continue on with stripes, please.

Masking tape must have been on sale when the U.A. Turbotrains were painted:

 Turbo_PC52-Amtrak50 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Let's see more stripes, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, March 9, 2020 1:32 AM

gmpullman
Let's see more stripes, please.

RIDGE TERMINAL LINES "EAGLE EXPRESS" special service boxcar is another of my all-time favorite fictitious paint schemes.

Show me something else with a stripe.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, March 9, 2020 2:54 AM

SeeYou190
Show me something else with a stripe.

Old New York central M-10 has a stripe or two —

 NYC_M-10_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show another something with stripes.

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, March 9, 2020 9:53 AM

Ed: "Please show another something with stripes."

Pennsylvania E8 Passenger Locos.

More things with stripes, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, March 9, 2020 1:07 PM

BRVRR
More things with stripes, please.

Lots of stripes here...

Wayne

Please continue with the stripes.

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Posted by Daves_Trains on Monday, March 9, 2020 6:38 PM

doctorwayne
Wayne

Please continue with the stripes.

 

Two Santa Fe zebra stripes switch the local industries.

 GP9 and S4 Zebra Stripes by Daves Trains, on Flickr

How about some pictures of switching industries.

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, March 9, 2020 6:49 PM

Daves_Trains
How about some pictures of switching industries.

A couple carloads of clean, steel wire are pulled out of the mill:

 NKP_switcher by Edmund, on Flickr

More industrial switching, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, March 9, 2020 9:53 PM

gmpullman
More industrial switching, please.

Here is the BNSF working the Steel Mill on the HO layout at the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.

Show me some more switching.

-Kevin

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 10:51 AM

Switching grain boxcars at the elevator. 

 

More swtiching, please. 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:20 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
More swtiching, please.

Here you go Garry, a little 0-4-0 tank steam engine moving a boxcar to a loading dock.

Show me scene with railroad track that has wooden ties.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:24 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
More switching, please.

Here's Grand Valley's 37, shoving a carload of Anthracite past Wagner's lumberyard, to be spotted at Hoffentoth's coal yard on the end of the siding...

Here's the locale, as viewed at an earlier date, from the air....

(Aerial photography courtesy of Secord Air Services)

Wayne

Please show us some more switching activity.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 4:57 PM

doctorwayne
Please show us some more switching activity.

Loads out, empties in — repeat:

 IMG_7347_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

 Brakeman by Edmund, on Flickr

Another switching scene, please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 5:02 PM

Ed: "Another switching scene, please."

A busy day at the team tracks.

More switching scenes, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, March 10, 2020 11:28 PM

BRVRR
More switching scenes, please.

Another one of STRATTON AND GILLETTE's 0-4-0 steam powered small switcher engines. This one is moving a CAROLINA MIDLAND gondola car to the freight house.

I am going to try this again:

Show me scene with railroad track that has wooden ties.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 9:58 AM

My apologies for interrupting your request, Kevin.  You must have posted while I was looking for the photo which turned out to be inappropriate for your request.

I assume that you're looking for ties actually made from wood - I've never been all that impressed with hand-laid track on wooden ties, so I'll have to pass.

Wayne

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 12:53 PM

SeeYou190
I am going to try this again: Show me scene with railroad track that has wooden ties.

I have a stretch of former double-track that has been reduced to single track with passing sidings:

 Track_joint by Edmund, on Flickr

For the abandoned portions of the track I used real wood ties.

 Track_joint1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me more detailed track-work, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 1:26 PM

doctorwayne
My apologies for interrupting your request, Kevin. You must have posted while I was looking for the photo which turned out to be inappropriate for your request.

No appology is ever needed. Simultaneous double responses are part of the fun of Show Me Something. Never an issue.

gmpullman
Show me more detailed track-work, please.

While this scene is no where near as well detailed as what Ed provided, it is getting there. This is also the first picture taken of my layout benchwork test project taken on a tripod without a flash. Lighting was from an 8 foot flourescent tube with "Cool White" bulbs and an 8 second exposure at f/22.

I paint each of my ties individually to force texture in the images. That is about as intense as my track detailing will get.

The 1/2" Homasote cut on 45 degree bevel for roadbed is a winner. This has given a better ballast profile than using cork roadbed.

This section was also double track mainline, but one track has been removed, and the mailine was re-routed a few miles south, so this is now a section of local trackage.

Show me some more gray ballast.

-Kevin

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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 3:52 PM

Finally, move-in ready.

Show me something else move-in ready.

Brent

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, March 11, 2020 5:11 PM

BATMAN
Show me something else move-in ready.

 

 RH_fini0 by Edmund, on Flickr

Before the gang arrived...

 Roundhouse1 by Edmund, on Flickr

    — and after the house-warming party Whistling

More "move-in ready", please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, March 12, 2020 9:23 AM

Brent and Ed .... Your roundhouses are fantastic!

This bridge might qualify as "move in ready" . It is a wood truss bridge as it looked on my work table when it was completed and ready to move in on the layout. It goes to a corner of my layout which is 1900 era instead of 1962 era as is the rest of my layout. 

Please show anther completed building or structure ready to be used on the layout. 

 

 

GARRY

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 12, 2020 12:51 PM

Brent and Ed .... Your roundhouses are fantastic!

Thank you, Garry Smile

 

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show anther completed building or structure ready to be used on the layout. 

This is the site of a new chemical plant.

 Chem_pave1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Here I am checking the layout of the structures —

 Chem_pave-tar3 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Slowly, more details are being applied.

 Harshaw_shipping1 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Show me another recent structure on your layout.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, March 14, 2020 12:57 AM

gmpullman
...Show me another recent structure on your layout.

This one's so recent that I put it together only this evening, and, as you can see, it's not even finished....

It's a replacement for the retired boxcar which was previously here, and will be joined, at various locales around the layout, with similar small structures owned by the railroad.

Wayne

Please show us another work-in-progress, or even one that's been stalled for a while....maybe it'll get you off yer duff, and back at it.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, March 14, 2020 1:10 AM

doctorwayne
Please show us another work-in-progress, or even one that's been stalled for a while....maybe it'll get you off yer duff, and back at it.

This is the TOFC car that I am building for Sheldon. WIth me getting ready for the next steps of the remodel, not much is going on.

Please show me another trailer on a flat car (TOFC).

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, March 14, 2020 3:07 AM

SeeYou190
Please show me another trailer on a flat car (TOFC).

.

Tying 'em down and checking the seals:

 

 Tructrain1 by Edmund, on Flickr

More TOFC, Please.

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Posted by chatanuga on Saturday, March 14, 2020 3:41 PM

Rear of a Conrail TOFC train.

Show me more intermodal/TOFC/COFC, please.

Kevin

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, March 14, 2020 4:41 PM

chatanuga
Show me more intermodal/TOFC/COFC, please.

I posted this STRATTON AND GILLETTE TOFC car in the diner. It needs a new home, but this might be the train car no one wants.

Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  Sad  

Show me another TOFC.

-Kevin

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Posted by NVSRR on Saturday, March 14, 2020 9:36 PM

How about one where the trailor is the car:

 

More TOFC/intermodal

A pessimist sees a dark tunnel

An optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel

A realist sees a frieght train

An engineer sees three idiots standing on the tracks stairing blankly in space

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