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Jarrell's Show Me Something! April, 2020

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Posted by Little Timmy on Friday, April 10, 2020 11:21 PM

This got "modified" .... just a little.

And, this one got a "bit of bashing".

Not exactly sure what this was "supposed" to look like.... but it looks like this now.

Can't remember what I did here...

More "modified anything please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, April 11, 2020 12:04 PM

Timmy: "More modified anything please."

Shockers Electric. Bashed from Walthers Redwing Flour Mill. Reduced the height and foot print. Still a work in progress.

More More modified structures, locos or cars, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, April 11, 2020 12:27 PM

BRVRR
More More modified structures, locos or cars, please.

A fairly simple stretch-job on this signal tower.

 MG_tower by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me another tower, watchman's shanty or anything railroad signal-related, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, April 11, 2020 3:14 PM

gmpullman
Show me another tower, watchman's shanty or anything railroad signal-related, please.

I scratchbuilt a couple of these...

...and several of these...

...for the crossing watchmen at various locales around the layout.  Strip and siding materials from Evergreen, with doors and windows from Tichy and Grandt Line.

Wayne

Please show us some more railroad-owned lineside structures.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, April 12, 2020 2:16 PM

doctorwayne
Please show us some more railroad-owned lineside structures.

In the background is the yard office/crew shanty between the caboose tracks.

 caboose track by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show anything related to locomotive fueling.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Sunday, April 12, 2020 4:07 PM

More locomotive fueling scenes please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, April 13, 2020 4:37 PM

HO-Velo
More locomotive fueling scenes please.

Coaling-up at the Lowbanks tower...

Wayne

Show us some more refueling scenes, please.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Monday, April 13, 2020 10:54 PM

The coaling tower on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me a turntable

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

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, April 13, 2020 11:13 PM

G Paine
Show me a turntable

A turntable it is!

 Q2_on_TT5 by Edmund, on Flickr

Another turntable, please Headphones

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Posted by doctorwayne on Monday, April 13, 2020 11:55 PM

gmpullman
Another turntable, please

This one was scratchbuilt, using a block of wood, a couple of Atlas through-girder bridges off the "used" table at my former LHS, and a beater shaft from an old electric mixer....

The handrails use stanchions from Athearn diesels, while the ring rail is cut from a piece of Atlas flex track, with the pit floor the cut-out plywood, with pit walls made from 1/8" Masonite....

Total cost was my time and a couple of bucks, as pretty-much everything else was stuff that I had on-hand, not being used or intended for anything in particular.
Table rotation is manual, with indexing by the Mark II eyeball method.

Wayne

Show me another turntable, please.

 

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Posted by tbdanny on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 2:02 PM

This turntable was originally built from a Kitwood Hill Miniatures kit.  About a year ago I replaced the original motor with a stepper motor, and added Arduino-controlled indexing.

Please show me more turntables.

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Posted by middleman on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 4:50 PM

Another turntable - also by Kitwood Hill Models(David Popp is going to build a Kitwood Hill turntable in future episodes of MRVP Underground).

Please show me a wye.

Mike

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, April 14, 2020 7:57 PM

middleman
Please show me a wye.

Here's the wye at Airline Junction, formerly part of the Erie Northshore Interurban line....

Much of the line was wiped-out in the late '20s by storms along the Lake's shoreline, but some monied interests resurrected it, with a new route and lot of new track, and as a steam-powered road, which continues to thrive.

Wayne

Please show us another wye.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 8:01 AM

doctorwayne
Please show us another wye.

Not a typical arrangement. The tracks meet behind the red building. This is on the Athens Bend Track Group's portable layout.

Show me a double door boxcar.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 12:22 PM

SeeYou190
Show me a double door boxcar.

I have a whole bunch of these...

...probably my favourite freight car offered by Walthers.

Wayne

Show me another double-door or door-and-a-half boxcar, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:49 PM

doctorwayne
Show me another double-door or door-and-a-half boxcar, please.

This is a one-fo-a-kind PRR X30 box car built in 1931 specifically to haul American LaFrance fire equipment. This 74' 6" car also has end doors.

 PRR_X30-a by Edmund, on Flickr

Another double-door box car, please.

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Posted by Wolf359 on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 3:47 PM

gmpullman

 

 
doctorwayne
Show me another double-door or door-and-a-half boxcar, please.

 

This is a one-fo-a-kind PRR X30 box car built in 1931 specifically to haul American LaFrance fire equipment. This 74' 6" car also has end doors.

 PRR_X30-a by Edmund, on Flickr

Another double-door box car, please.

 

Wow! That's a big one. Is that a commercially available car, or a custom build?

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Posted by Track fiddler on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:01 PM

gmpullman

 

Another double-door box car, please.

 

 

How about a Stratton & Gillette wagon top one?

A depressed center heavyweight flatcar please, preferably with a load.

 

 

TF

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, April 15, 2020 4:20 PM

Wolf359
Wow! That's a big one. Is that a commercially available car, or a custom build?

Hi, Wolf. They were imported by Crown Custom, sometimes known as Railworks, and are brass models.

I watched for almost a year before one was available at a "decent" price.

There are some photos of the car in service here. (Scroll down)

Good Luck, Ed

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Posted by Wolf359 on Thursday, April 16, 2020 1:17 PM

gmpullman

 

 
Wolf359
Wow! That's a big one. Is that a commercially available car, or a custom build?

 

Hi, Wolf. They were imported by Crown Custom, sometimes known as Railworks, and are brass models.

I watched for almost a year before one was available at a "decent" price.

There are some photos of the car in service here. (Scroll down)

Good Luck, Ed

 

Thank you for the info Ed. I didn't recall ever seeing anything like that out there, so I was just curious as to where they came from. Carry on everyone.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, April 16, 2020 6:55 PM

Track fiddler
   ...A depressed center heavyweight flatcar please, preferably with a load.

Here's an oldish (mid-'50s) Authenticast depressed centre flatcar, with a load of processing machinery for GERN Industries...

Wayne

Please show us some livestock cars.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, April 16, 2020 7:46 PM

Livestock cars. 

 

Please show more livestock cars. 

GARRY

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:07 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show more livestock cars.

This is one of three identical STRATTON AND GILLETTE stock cars. They are built from Central Valley kits.

Show me another model of a freight car built from a kit.

-Kevin

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, April 16, 2020 8:15 PM

That's sweet Wayne!  I never have seen the four-axle ones, only the six and that's all I have.  I do remember some unique ones where separate axle trucks went out beyond the other axles on the outside ends of the cars.

I would like to get my hands on a few of those and if anyone can show a picture of those, that would be cool.

 

Forgive my Interruption and back to our regularly scheduled program.

 

 

TF

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Posted by Little Timmy on Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:41 PM

Built from an Eastern Car Works kit.

( modified quite a bit, just to make it roll. )

Please show me a kit YOU built , that had to be "fixed/ modifyed/ or altered in some way.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, April 16, 2020 11:46 PM

Little Timmy
Please show me a kit YOU built , that had to be "fixed/ modifyed/ or altered in some way.

This covered hopper was built from a Funaro And Camerlengo kit for a "Carbon Black" hopper car, but I wanted a more general service car. I replace the roof hatches with resin castings for square hatches and completely scratch built new release doors for the bottom of the car.

Show me something else you built yourself.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, April 17, 2020 3:39 AM

SeeYou190
Show me something else you built yourself. -

This New York Central caboose is a wood kit from American Model Builders:

 NYC_19186 by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show another wood-sided car.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, April 17, 2020 10:45 AM

Ed: ... The NYC caboose is very nice. 

My previous layout modeled the 1900 era. I saved many of the wooden passneger cars and freight cars. 

The baggage car in this picture is an example. It was a Labelle kit which I put together many years ago. I recently added a 1900 era scene to my layout which is mostly 1960 era. This photo is from that. 

 

Please show another car made of wood. 

GARRY

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, April 17, 2020 11:37 AM

Heartland Division CB&Q
...Please show another car made of wood.

This "wood" express horse car is built on a Rivarossi coach, using the underbody, ends and roof, with new sides of Evergreen car siding.  It's based on a photo of the real one, and is almost dead-on for length...

The 8907 turned out so well that I decided to continue making similar head-end cars using cheap and readily available plastic passenger cars.

This one was formerly an Athearn Pullman, and also replicates its prototype...

...as does this former Athearn coach...

I have several more freelanced versions for my own railroads, and plans to create several more based on photos of real cars.

Wayne

Show us some more kit-built cars where you've wandered somewhat from the directions, please.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, April 18, 2020 11:40 AM

24 Hours and a bump top the top. Time for some weekend fun.

Here is a boxcar with the letter "A" for the ALLEGHENY AND LAKE ERIE.

Show me a "B".

-Kevin

Living the dream.

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