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Jerrell's Show Me Something, July 2020

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Posted by dti406 on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 11:12 AM

SeeYou190

 Show me your caboose!

-Kevin

 

Before the Jade Green the NYC painted their bay window cabooses in mineral red paint.

Need another caboose!

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Posted by Wolf359 on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 11:54 AM

SeeYou190

Cheating here to get this thread moving again after our delay. This STRATTON AND GILLETTE caboose will be red when it is finally completed and painted, but it is not red right now.

Show me your caboose!

-Kevin

 

If I may go slightly off topic for a moment, that's a pretty cool drover's caboose. What make is it?

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 12:54 PM

Wolf359
...that's a pretty cool drover's caboose. What make is it?

It looks like a Model Die Casting caboose, with a cupola from an Athearn steel caboose, while the roof looks similar to those on boxcars from Red Caboose.

Rather apt, if that's the case.

Here's a somewhat re-worked bay window caboose, from Athearn...

Wayne

Show me a  passenger car, specifically a combine, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:24 PM

doctorwayne
Show me a  passenger car, specifically a combine, please.

A combine is a rare beast, indeed. Especially one with an RPO apartment.

 IMG_9785_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

On the PRR this is a MPB70.

Please show another combine.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 1:55 PM

gmpullman
Please show another combine.

Combines are among my favourite passenger cars, and this is one of them...

It was originally a Rivarossi diner, but with a relatively short railroad, wasn't needed as such, so I shortened it and made a few other adjustments.

Here's another one, still "in progress"...

Wayne

More combines, please.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Wednesday, July 15, 2020 10:38 PM

Wayne... Nice work with your kit-bash combines !

Here is a Baggage / Dorm for the Empire Builder. 

 

Please show a slogan on railroad equipment. 

GARRY

HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR

EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, July 16, 2020 5:34 AM

Heartland Division CB&Q
Please show a slogan on railroad equipment.

Something from the Union Pacific:

 IMG_6006_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Another railroad car with a slogan, please.

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Posted by dti406 on Thursday, July 16, 2020 8:23 AM

gmpullman

 Another railroad car with a slogan, please.

 

 
One of my favorite slogans!
 
 
Show me another railroad car with a slogan.
 
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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Thursday, July 16, 2020 8:40 AM

Slogans on a Burlington reefer and on a Schlitz reefer.

 

More slogans, please. 

GARRY

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:13 AM

Wolf359

 

 
SeeYou190

Cheating here to get this thread moving again after our delay. This STRATTON AND GILLETTE caboose will be red when it is finally completed and painted, but it is not red right now.

Show me your caboose!

-Kevin

 

 

 

If I may go slightly off topic for a moment, that's a pretty cool drover's caboose. What make is it?

 

Thanks for the compliment Wolf.

That is a "Scrap-Box-Special" of my own creation just made of junk I had lying around.

The body is a Model Die Casting Overland Old Time Combine. The floor and coupla are from an Athearn Steel Caboose. The roof is from an Intermountain Boxcar kit that received a Viking Roof from DesPlaines Hobbies.

I am very happy with the way it turned out.

Garry requested:

Heartland Division CB&Q
More slogans, please. 

ROUTE OF THE GHOST TRAIN!

... All Aboard ...!

I don't think anyone here gets how darned funny that slogan is supposed to be. I have posted this car several times before... no responses at all. I think I dove down so far into the depths of Nerd-dom for this joke that I cannot recover.

VINDICATORS FOREVER! Alan Rails, AKA "Ghost Train":

His parents were run over and killed by a radioactive train. As a result he has the superpower to summon a ghost train by saying the magical phrase and blowing the radioactive steam whistle he wears around his neck.

That is too funny.

Show me another slogan please.

-Kevin

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Posted by Wolf359 on Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:19 AM

SeeYou190

 

Thanks for the compliment Wolf.

That is a "Scrap-Box-Special" of my own creation just made of junk I had lying around.

The body is a Model Die Casting Overland Old Time Combine. The floor and coupla are from an Athearn Steel Caboose. The roof is from an Intermountain Boxcar kit that received a Viking Roof from DesPlaines Hobbies.

I am very happy with the way it turned out.

 

You did a very nice job on it. It looks like it always was that design. I would never have guessed that it was pieced together from scraps. Please post photos when it's done, I look forward to seeing it painted and decalled. Keep up the good work.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, July 16, 2020 10:30 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another slogan please.

"We Have The Connections —"

 DTI_PS by Edmund, on Flickr

Let's see yet another slogan or billboard reefer, please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:44 PM

gmpullman
Let's see yet another slogan or billboard reefer, please.

I used to have lots of cars with slogans, but when I back-dated my layout, many of them were too modern to use, and were either sold-off or re-painted and re-lettered.  Here's one, of dozens I once owned, which likely would have originated early in WWII...just a year or two after my layout's current timeframe...

Wayne

Since slogans on frieght cars have always been popular, please show us some more.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, July 17, 2020 1:06 AM

doctorwayne
Since slogans on frieght cars have always been popular, please show us some more.

"Mainline Of The Midwest"

Please show me another slogan.

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Friday, July 17, 2020 9:02 AM

Burington had two slogans on its paint sceme for switchers and road switchers. The "Everywhere West" slogan appeared on most CB&Q freight cars in the 1940's and 1950's. 

Here are both slogans on SD7's. 

 

Please show another slogan.  There are many of them 

 

GARRY

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, July 17, 2020 12:07 PM

Heartland Division CB&Q
 

 Please show another slogan.  There are many of them.

 

The Nickle Plate Road, had all their repainted cabooses with the High Speed Freight Slogan, also one boxcar.

More Slogans Please!

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, July 17, 2020 1:31 PM

dti406
More Slogans Please!

LOYALTY

More slogans please.

-Kevin

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, July 17, 2020 2:28 PM

Kevin: "More slogans please."

More of the same please.

Remember its your railroad

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, July 17, 2020 6:29 PM

BRVRR
More of the same please.

"The LULU CITY Line":

Show me another slogan.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, July 18, 2020 1:32 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another slogan.

Wayne

Show me another privately-owned or leased car, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, July 18, 2020 3:55 AM

doctorwayne
Show me another privately-owned or leased car, please.

A covered hopper from the Incandescent Lamp department of GE for hauling silica sand:

 GE_ILDX_316 by Edmund, on Flickr

More private-owner cars, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, July 18, 2020 8:21 AM

gmpullman
More private-owner cars, please.

This tank car belongs to the LOUISIANA/GULF corporation.

Show me another tank car please.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Saturday, July 18, 2020 3:27 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another tank car please.

One tank car, comin' up...

Wayne

Please continue with the tank cars, folks.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, July 18, 2020 4:08 PM

doctorwayne
Please continue with the tank cars, folks.

Here is a blue tank car as seen on the Kentucky Trainpark Museum's HO scale layout.

Show me another tank car.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, July 18, 2020 4:36 PM

SeeYou190
Show me another tank car.

Here's a chilly one    (–195 °C)  —

 IMG_7688_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Another tank car please.

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Posted by BATMAN on Sunday, July 19, 2020 12:31 AM

Here's a MOW train with a tank car, goin out to fill water barrels on trestles.

Please show me a pre 1900 freight car.

Brent

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, July 19, 2020 5:37 AM

BATMAN
Please show me a pre 1900 freight car.

I believe these all-wood ore hoppers might fit the pre-1900 period:

 Ore-hopper_wood by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Another pre-1900 car or locomotive, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, July 19, 2020 2:09 PM

gmpullman
Another pre-1900 car or locomotive, please.

Here is STRATTON AND GILLETTE number 1:

Show me boxcar on a customer's siding or loading dock.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, July 19, 2020 2:22 PM

SeeYou190
Show me boxcar on a customer's siding or loading dock.

Here's a much-modifed Train Miniature boxcar at the Elfrida Stove Works...

Wayne

Please show us some more freight cars at industries.

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Posted by BRVRR on Sunday, July 19, 2020 3:46 PM

Wayne: "Please show us some more freight cars at industries."

A Northern Pacific grain boxcar is spotted at the old Redwing Flour Mill.

How about a Team Track Scene?

Remember its your railroad

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