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Show Me Something - March 2020 Edition

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

Switching grain boxcars at the elevator. 

 

More swtiching, please. 

GARRY

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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 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 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 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 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 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 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.

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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 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 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 12:11 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 Sunday, March 8, 2020 11:53 PM

G Paine
Show me another special or unique car

This is on the store layout at Bllue Ox Trains in Georgia:

Show me a boxcar with a stripe.

-Kevin

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Posted by G Paine on Sunday, March 8, 2020 10:40 PM

This special well car was built in the B&M shops to transport large reduction gears for steam turbine powered ships from the GE plant in Lynn, MA to shipyards up and down the East coast

Show me another special or unique car

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, March 8, 2020 9:50 PM

Unusual railroad equipment. 

Dynamometer car trailing the SD24's. 

 

PLease show another unique or special purpose railroad car. 

GARRY

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, March 8, 2020 5:03 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show another unusual car. 

I'll see Garry's steam generator car:

 IMG_9290_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

    — and raise him a scale test car Wink

 NYC_Scale by Edmund, on Flickr

More unusual railroad equipment, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Sunday, March 8, 2020 1:26 PM

Unusual car: 

Great Northern heater car. It was used on passenger trains with locomotives not equipped with steam generators. This model was made by Rapido, and it simulates steam. . 

 

 

Please show another unusual car. 

GARRY

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:20 PM

gmpullman
Show me any type of unusual or out of the ordinary rail equipment.

Here's a scratchbuilt weed sprayer car, one of two built about 45 years ago...

The sprayer arms are positionable.  The second car was built for a friend, but was stolen a number of years ago.

Wayne

Please show us another unusual car or locomotive.

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, March 8, 2020 12:20 PM

Ed: "Show me any type of unusual or out of the ordinary rail equipment."

NYC RDC with passenger coach in tow.

More unusual equipment or combinations, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, March 8, 2020 11:48 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another nifty train car.

Sperry Rail Service No. 123 fits the bill:

 

 Sperry_123 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me any type of unusual or out of the ordinary rail equipment.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, March 7, 2020 2:28 PM

doctorwayne
Let's continue with the one loco/one car theme, so please show us a locomotive pulling a passenger car from a different owner-railroad.

I am sure you knew this would happen! Here is a nifty GORRE AND DAPHETID combination passenger/caboose being pulled by a STRATTON AND GILLETTE 0-6-0 locomotive.

Show me another nifty train car.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, March 7, 2020 1:11 PM

BRVRR
More of the one-car, one-engine theme.

Here's one locomotive and one car (RPO/baggage/passenger) all rolled into one...

Wayne

Let's continue with the one loco/one car theme, so please show us a locomotive pulling a passenger car from a different owner-railroad.

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, March 6, 2020 7:32 PM

Ed: "Continue with one-car: one-engine, please.

NYC S3 #874 working the team-track in Black River.

More of the one-car, one-engine theme.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, March 6, 2020 2:17 PM

Track fiddler
More of the same please.

In a daily ritual, the diminutive "S-Motor" pulls the observation car off the Century for turning and service. 1

 IMG_6939_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

 IMG_6943_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Continue with one-car:one-engine, please.

 

1: Yes, in reality the motor pulls the entire train to Mott Haven for turning but I'm using my

modeler's licence here.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, March 6, 2020 10:18 AM

More of the same please.

 

 

TF

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, March 6, 2020 9:54 AM

A B&M SW-1 pushing a boxcar into the Greenvale Junction engine house on my layout. B&M kept their SW-1s for many years including long enough for at lest one to get painted in the late 1970s all blue paint scheme

Show me another locomotive with only one or two cars

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 5, 2020 12:42 PM

doctorwayne
Please show us another pairing of one locomotive and car .

An older picture of my 0-4-0 (unpainted still) shoving a tank car down a siding.

Show me another locomotive coupled to one car.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, March 5, 2020 12:34 PM

HO-Velo
More single locos with a single freight car,

Wayne

Please show us another pairing of one locomotive and car .

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