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Jarrell's Show Me Something: January 2021

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:10 PM

NorthBrit
Anymore signal towers?

Sure!

 TowerA-1 by Edmund, on Flickr

 Leverman_14K2 by Edmund, on Flickr

More signal-related scenes, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, January 7, 2021 2:52 PM

gmpullman
More signal-related scenes, please.

This signal tower is on the Atlanta Interlocking Model Railroaders modular train show layout.

Show me a signal.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, January 7, 2021 6:01 PM

SeeYou190
Show me a signal.

Or two...

 EMD_Demo by Edmund, on Flickr

 

Another signal of any type, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:00 PM

gmpullman
Another signal of any type, please.

A train has gone by this signal.

Show me another signal.

-Kevin

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, January 8, 2021 4:12 AM

Another signal.

UK Style.

 

More signals.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, January 8, 2021 9:56 AM

NorthBrit
More signals.

Time to go old school, a ball signal on thre narrow gauge (HOn30) section of the Boothbay Railway Vilage layout (just a work in progress pic)

Show me a signal bridge

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Posted by dti406 on Friday, January 8, 2021 10:48 AM

G Paine

Show me a signal bridge

 

 
Signal bridge over the mainlines at the Strongsville Model Railroad Club!
 
 
Show me a Contilevered Signal Bridge.
 
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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, January 8, 2021 3:46 PM

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Show me a Contilevered Signal Bridge.

This is a style used on the New York Central's Hudson Division:

 Beeliner_1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show another RDC, Gas Electric "doodlebug" or other self-propelled rail car.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, January 9, 2021 2:33 AM

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Please show another RDC, Gas Electric "doodlebug" or other self-propelled rail car.

A single RDC crosses a bridge with some crops in the background. This scene is on the BNSF HO scale layout at the Chicago Museum Of Science And Industry.

Show me another train near a farming field.

-Kevin

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Posted by Ringo58 on Saturday, January 9, 2021 8:54 AM

SeeYou190

 

 
Show me another train near a farming field.

-Kevin

 

From the same layout, a farmers field in the background of a grain elevator being serviced by a GATX MP15. I think the same field in kevins picture, the bridge is behind the elevator. This layout has definitely gotten grayer since the first time I saw it when I was 8. Still a jaw dropping layout. In the background of the layout, New York Central 999, the first train to reach 100mph. 

 

Sorry for the poor picture quality, I screen shotted this off a video in my snapchat album, heres an arerial of the field, both the bridge and grain elevator are visable. This layout truly needs to be seen to belive. This isnt even half of the layout!

Please show me a train modeled after a prototype

EDIT: upon closer inspection, the bridge in kevins photo is above the barn, not behind the elevator

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, January 9, 2021 9:31 AM

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Please show me a train modeled after a prototype

I am not much for prototypical model railroading, but this train from the Kentucky Railroad Museum's HO scale layout looks like it qualifies.

Please show me another open top hopper car coupled to a locomotive.

-Kevin

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Posted by Ringo58 on Saturday, January 9, 2021 10:53 AM

CNW SD7 with a SOO 3bay hopper and an ATSF flat car

Please show me a high hood alco unit

 

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Posted by chatanuga on Saturday, January 9, 2021 1:15 PM

RS11 on a piggyback train.

Show me more Eastern US railroading.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, January 9, 2021 2:26 PM

chatanuga
Show me more Eastern US railroading.

The New York, New Haven and Hartford qualifies as eastern:

 N-H_RS11_1414a by Edmund, on Flickr

More lines in the east (of anywhere) please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, January 9, 2021 10:36 PM

Ed - "More lines in the east (of anywhere) please."

Nothing is more eastern than the New York Central and the Pennsylvania RR.

 

More eastern lines please.

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Posted by G Paine on Saturday, January 9, 2021 10:45 PM

BRVRR
More eastern lines please.

Maine Central is about as far East as one can go without running into Canada. A pair of MEC GP38s on my layout

Show me something from a Southeastern railroad

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

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Posted by rogerhensley on Sunday, January 10, 2021 6:10 AM

Ah, another East Coast loco...

Please, another one, if  you will.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, January 10, 2021 10:41 AM

rogerhensley
Ah, another East Coast loco. Please, another one, if  you will.

This BOSTON AND MAINE locomotive was photographed on the Orlando N-Trak group's sectional layout.

Show me a scene featuring a wooden fence.

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, January 10, 2021 3:37 PM

SeeYou190
Show me a scene featuring a wooden fence.

There's a bit of a wood-rail fence in this scene:

 IMG_2578_fix by Edmund, on Flickr

Another look at a wooden fence, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, January 10, 2021 5:12 PM

gmpullman
Another look at a wooden fence, please.

There are two different styles of wooden fence in this scene.

Show me a block or stone wall.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, January 10, 2021 6:58 PM

SeeYou190
Show me a block or stone wall.

There is a stone wall behind this PRR DD1:

 PRR_DD1-fini by Edmund, on Flickr

Please show more cut-stone structures — tunnel portal, building, wall or your choice.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, January 11, 2021 1:45 PM

gmpullman
Please show more cut-stone structures — tunnel portal, building, wall or your choice.

Here is that same Trainmaster on a bridge with a cut stone abutment.

Show me a streamlined (or semi-streamlined) steam locomotive.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Monday, January 11, 2021 2:22 PM

A Sreamlined locomotive.    LMS  6220  'Coronation'.

 

 

Next  -   Any steam locomotive.

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Monday, January 11, 2021 5:54 PM

 

Show me some scratch-made lighting.......Please.Cowboy

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, January 11, 2021 6:21 PM

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Show me some scratch-made lighting.......Please.Cowboy

Just a simple light fixture on a pole (needs a little distress-work).

 PRR_SG_tower-10-15 by Edmund, on Flickr

More lighting examples, please.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 5:11 AM

More lighting.

 

 

Next  -  The oldest locomotive you have.

 

David

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Posted by Heartland Division CB&Q on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 9:51 AM

Oldest locomotive ....... mine is from the 1920's. 

Looking at the top shelf of above my work table, you can barely see a black object. It is the remains of a live steam locomotvie built by my grandfather in the 1920's.

The lower shelves have some old HO from the 1950's. 

My oldest HO locomtive is this Tenshodo NYC Hudson. My father brought it to me from Japan when I was a teenager in the 1950's.

Please show your oldest locomtive. 

GARRY

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Posted by HO-Velo on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 10:24 AM

My oldest is 1982, and a pup compared to Garry's locos.  Garry, that's really neat having your grandfather's loco, not to mention running the one your father gave you in the 50s.  More oldest Locos please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by BigDaddy on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 10:54 AM

Geez Garry there isn't even a loose drill bit on the work bench.  All the post cards are level.

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Posted by NVSRR on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 7:34 PM

1500. a GP38 (only one with a plow) is the oldest in the HO fleet that is running. but:

That is the oldest on the layout.  sits in the locomotive shop.  An old 1956 Varney that was my Grandfathers. not DCC equipped.  Nor even has a lightbulb in it.  even better, spent most of its life in that very building where it sits now. Maybe someday it will be run and pull a train again..  This one does run

 

Lets see more oldest locos in the fleet

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