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Show Me Something - March 2020 Edition

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Posted by BRVRR on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 10:27 AM

TinplateToddler: "More blue, please!"

More blue, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:09 PM

BRVRR
More blue, please.

HOFFENTOTH BROS. Coal & Ice Company uses blue on all of their delivery vehicles...

Wayne

Show me some composite (constructed of wood & metal, even if it's rendered in plastic) rolling stock, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 12:56 PM

doctorwayne
Show me some composite (constructed of wood & metal, even if it's rendered in plastic) rolling stock, please.

This refrigerated boxcar in meat hauling service should do the trick. This one is a resin kit by Funaro And Camerlengo.

Show me another forty foot long freight car.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 2:35 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another forty foot long freight car.

This L-3 has a string of forty-foot Pacemaker LCL box cars in tow:

 

 NYC_L3_3144_sm_sepia2 by Edmund, on Flickr

More forty-footers, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 4:41 PM

gmpullman
More forty-footers, please.

One insulated forty foot plug door boxcar:

Show me another forty foot freight car.

-Kevin

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Posted by L. Zhou on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:07 PM

A forty-foot Hood's express reefer. 

More forty-foot freight cars please. 

"No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow." -Lin Yutang

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Posted by SouthPenn on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:17 PM

A string of 40' boxcars, mostly Accurail.

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More 40' freight cars please.

 

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, March 18, 2020 11:26 PM

SouthPenn
More 40' freight cars please.

Here's a doublesheathed 40'er from Train Miniature, modified into a taller car to match a real car in a photo...

....many of which were later rebuilt as steel-sided cars.

Wayne

Show me a house car (boxcar or reefer) that's 34' or 36' or 38' long.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:12 AM

doctorwayne
Show me a house car (boxcar or reefer) that's 34' or 36' or 38' long.

This BLACKHAWK VALLEY boxcar is 36 feet long. This is one of the first Westerfield kits that I assembled.

Show me anything less than 60 feet long.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 19, 2020 12:45 AM

SeeYou190
Show me anything less than 60 feet long.

PRR G39 ore cars are only 25 feet over pulling faces:

 

 PRR_Ore-dock3 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Show me more less than sixty foot cars.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:24 AM

gmpullman
Show me more less than sixty foot cars.

Here's a four-pack of 34' Tyco reefers...they were originally 40'ers, but shrunk when I washed them prior to painting...

Here's one on its own...

Wayne

Show me more less than sixty foot cars, please.

 

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Posted by BRVRR on Thursday, March 19, 2020 11:51 AM

The eastbound Santa Fe GP-30 has a string of less than sixty foot cars in tow.

More 40-50 foot cars, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 19, 2020 1:37 PM

BRVRR
More 40-50 foot cars, please.

Here is a fifty footer and two forty footers.

Show me another scene with both longer and shorter foot freight cars.

-Kevin

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Posted by chatanuga on Thursday, March 19, 2020 7:11 PM

An 89-foot long piggyback flat and a short Front Runner on a Conrail piggyback train.

Show me more long and short.

Kevin

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Posted by ckape on Thursday, March 19, 2020 8:38 PM

There aren't a whole lot of locomotives longer than a DM&IR Yellowstone, nor a lot of cars shorter than a DM&IR iron ore car.

Show me something else long and short

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, March 19, 2020 9:00 PM

ckape
Show me something else long and short

A bevy of PRR I1Sa "Hippos" some with long tenders and some with short.

 PRR_I1x4b by Edmund, on Flickr

 

More long & short, please

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 19, 2020 10:18 PM

gmpullman
More long & short, please

Here is a short GARFIELD CENTRAL two bay hopper car with a coal load, and a long STRATTON AND GILLETTE gondola loaded with coiled steel wire.

Show me something else short and something longer.

-Kevin

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Posted by tbdanny on Friday, March 20, 2020 1:27 AM

Something short and longer (and short again):

Show me something backwoods.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, March 20, 2020 2:02 AM

tbdanny
Show me something backwoods.

How about a still? You sure can't get more backwoods than that!

Show me another blue automobile.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, March 20, 2020 2:09 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another blue automobile.

 

 Troop-Sleeper2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Another blue auto, please.

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, March 20, 2020 2:42 PM

A blue pickup with a blue welding machine

Show me a green vehicle

George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, March 20, 2020 3:17 PM

G Paine
Show me a green vehicle

There is a fancy green convertable parked outside of Wills Place. This scene is on the Country Roads portable HO scale sectional layout.

Show me anything green with rubber tires.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, March 20, 2020 4:03 PM

SeeYou190
Show me anything green with rubber tires.

Railway Express green:

 Tractor_makin-time by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show me another semi tractor-trailer.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, March 20, 2020 5:08 PM

gmpullman
Please show me another semi tractor-trailer.

Here is an 14 wheeler flatbed rig motoring along.

Show me another tractor trailer.

-Kevin

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, March 20, 2020 6:03 PM

Kevin: "Show me another tractor trailer."

Breckler Farms grain trucks at the Farmers Union Elevator.

More big trucks please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, March 20, 2020 10:42 PM

BRVRR
More big trucks please.

Here is a big log truck doing some heavy hauling.

Show me any sort of truck that you like.

-Kevin

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Posted by Little Timmy on Friday, March 20, 2020 10:53 PM

How about a 1923 Mack truck .... loaded with Black powder barrel's and Dynamite crate's !

let's see more trucks ....( extra point's for anything pre- 1950's )

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

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, March 21, 2020 12:15 AM

Little Timmy
let's see more trucks ....( extra point's for anything pre- 1950's )

I'll take those extra points, in bright yellow please. This scene is on the First Coast Modelers On30 portable sectional layout.

Show me any truck.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, March 21, 2020 4:23 AM

SeeYou190
Show me any truck.

The New York Central signal maintainer's Metro van:

 IMG_6793 by Edmund, on Flickr

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Another truck of any type, please.

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Saturday, March 21, 2020 8:43 AM

gmpullman

Another truck of any type, please.

One of my first weathering attempts

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