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Show Me Something - March 2020 Edition

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, March 14, 2020 10:15 PM

NVSRR
More TOFC/intermodal

STRATTON AND GILLETTE Comet Freight expedited TOFC service flat car, circa 1954.

Show me another "special service" paint scheme.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, March 15, 2020 2:19 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another "special service" paint scheme.

    — For Fast freight service you won't regret,

            Call your agent at Stratton & Gillette!

 S&G_Service by Edmund, on Flickr

The car is loaded and it's time for a break.

Show more unique paint work, please.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, March 15, 2020 3:11 PM

I did this one-off on a Train Miniature boxcar, for a fund raising auction...

Wayne

Please show us another Train Miniature (or Train Miniature of Illinois or Walthers version thereof) freight car.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:06 PM

doctorwayne
Please show us another Train Miniature (or Train Miniature of Illinois or Walthers version thereof) freight car.

I have an entire special train of Train Miniature billboard refrigerated boxcars. KING PACKING is one of them.

Show me another refrigerated boxcar.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, March 15, 2020 4:56 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another refrigerated boxcar.

From Train Miniature, a youthful memory:

 Baby-Ruth by Edmund, on Flickr

 Curtiss_Ice-Reefer by Edmund, on Flickr

Another refrigerator car, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, March 15, 2020 6:14 PM

gmpullman
From Train Miniature, a youthful memory. Another refrigerator car, please.

I also have a youthful memory in a refrigerated boxcar. There are five Tyco cars that just remind me of Christmas morning, the BABY RUTH, OLD DUTCH CLEANSER, HEINZ 57, OSCAR MAYER, and this one, the RALSTON PURINA refrigerated boxcar. I have all of the others also, all equipped with body mounted Kadee couplers and Kadee trucks and wheels so I can run them when I am feeling nostalgic.

Show me another memorable freight car and please share the memory attached to it.

-Kevin

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Posted by L. Zhou on Sunday, March 15, 2020 6:33 PM

A early 1980's Tyco Virginian hopper

 

First piece of rolling stock I ever got, around eight years ago, my father bought it from the flea market for around five dollars, already Kadee equipped. The original wheels didn't roll well, swapped them out with plastic Bachmann ones later on. 

Show me another memorable freight car, please.

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Monday, March 16, 2020 11:13 AM

Zhou: I pick up the VIRGINIAN hoppers whenever I run across them at train shows. I have about 15 of them now. I try to renumber them as I get them.

The Nickel Plate Road hopper here is one of a set of seven sequentially numbered cars I picked up in 2014 or so. I made the coal loads for it/them. The "how-to" is on my website.

More 'special' cars please.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, March 16, 2020 1:47 PM

BRVRR
More 'special' cars please.

This one is a Varney metal boxcar, from my first HO trains in 1955.  It was originally painted in NYC's red & grey PaceMaker scheme, but I later painted over that, making it into a CPR boxcar.
I decided to update the details a bit, so stripped-off all of the paint, relocating the grabirons and new ladders to more prototypical positions.  I also replaced the cast metal roofwalk with individual styrene "boards", revised the door tracks' position and added better-detailed doors, along with some more appropriate underbody details.

Some new paint and dry transfer lettering from C-D-S helps it to fit in better with more recent boxcar models...

Wayne

Some more "special" cars, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, March 16, 2020 5:19 PM

doctorwayne
Some more "special" cars, please.

A little about this roadname. My wife was born and raised in Gary, Indiana, then she moved to Chicago. Then, quite fortunately, she moved South to Florida, where we met.

Show me another loaded gondola car.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, March 16, 2020 7:37 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another loaded gondola car.

This one has a load, but only a partial one...

...as it takes a while to generate enough metal scrap from modelling to make a full load.

Wayne

More loaded open cars, please.

 

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Posted by HO-Velo on Monday, March 16, 2020 7:43 PM

More loaded open top cars please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by NVSRR on Monday, March 16, 2020 8:34 PM

Here is two.  The open top loaded car is in the background.  

two MOW cars loaded with odds and ends.

 

More loaded cars please

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Monday, March 16, 2020 8:57 PM

NVSRR

More loaded cars please

A centerbeam flat with wrapped loads of gypsum

More loaded rolling stock

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, March 16, 2020 9:24 PM

PennCentral99
More loaded rolling stock

Here is a flat car loaded with a pair of brand new bearing blocks.

Show me another loaded freight car.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, March 16, 2020 11:01 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another loaded freight car.

Coiled rolled steel moving out after the other cover is set in place:

 Coiled_steel by Edmund, on Flickr

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More loads, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 12:40 AM

Here are some loads of structural steel at the rolling mill.

Please show more loaded feight cars. 

GARRY

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Posted by "JaBear" on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 2:02 AM

Tarp by Bear, on Flickr

May as well keep the theme going, more loaded freight cars, please.

"One difference between pessimists and optimists is that while pessimists are more often right, optimists have far more fun."

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 4:00 AM

May as well keep the theme going, more loaded freight cars, please.

Activity at the team track:

 Team_track by Edmund, on Flickr

More loads, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 1:48 PM

gmpullman
More loads, please.

A load of four red tractors on a flat car. This was seen on the Southern O Scalers portable modular layout.

Show me something else red.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:15 PM

SeeYou190
Show me something else red.

The famous red carpet of the 20th Century Limited:

 Century_Sandy by Edmund, on Flickr

It is St. Patrick's Day —

      How about something GREEN?

 

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Posted by chatanuga on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 6:59 PM

green Burlington Northern autorack.

Show me more green, please.

Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 7:39 PM

chatanuga
Show me more green, please.

Green it is —

 

 BnO_I18e by Edmund, on Flickr

Green means GO!

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Posted by Little Timmy on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 9:25 PM

green you say ?

OK...

More Green anything please.

Rust...... It's a good thing !

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 10:47 PM

Little Timmy
More Green anything please.

The North Georgia Tinplate Trackers has this fancy green handcar on their portable train show layout.

Show me something Blue.

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Posted by Little Timmy on Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:00 PM

Blue you say ?

OK.

Any more Blue stuff ? Let's see it !

Rust...... It's a good thing !

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 1:00 AM

Little Timmy
Any more Blue stuff ? Let's see it !

Here is a CSX locomotive in blue. This scene is on the Athens Bend Track N-trak modular layout.

Show me something else blue.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:20 AM

SeeYou190
Show me something else blue.

When I think of Blue I think of B&O:

 BnO_E9-1456-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

More blue would be great —

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Posted by "JaBear" on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:57 AM

More great blue....Wink

Sir Nigel Gresley by Bear, on Flickr

More blue please...

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Posted by Tinplate Toddler on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:41 AM

Something blue!

More blue, please!

Happy times!

Ulrich (aka The Tin Man)

"You´re never too old for a happy childhood!"

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