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Jarrell's Show Me Something, April 2022 Edition

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Jarrell's Show Me Something, April 2022 Edition
Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:42 PM

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, March 31, 2022 10:56 PM

Here it is April First, but I am not really in the mood for an April Fools Joke right now.

Instead, here is something not normally shared, the inside of a model mountain:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

OK, show me the "business part" of a layout. The wiring, benchwork, underside of scenery, etc.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, April 1, 2022 12:50 AM

Thank you for the April kickoff of Show Me Something, Kevin!

SeeYou190
OK, show me the "business part" of a layout. The wiring, benchwork, underside of scenery, etc.

Twenty-two years ago...

 HO_2000_0002 by Edmund, on Flickr

More recently:

 

 Coal-View_4-22 by Edmund, on Flickr

More of the "ugly underbelly" please.

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, April 1, 2022 10:17 AM

Early days.

 

More layout guts, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, April 1, 2022 11:12 AM

BATMAN
More layout guts, please.

One of my favorite parts of layout building is landscape forming with cardboard webbing.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me more of what makes the layout work.

-Kevin

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Posted by Track fiddler on Friday, April 1, 2022 11:30 AM

SeeYou190

Show me more of what makes the layout work.

Nice benchwork Ed, Brent and Kevin (Spiderman)Laugh

 

Love working with wood and foam.

 

More layout guts please

 

 

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Posted by John-NYBW on Friday, April 1, 2022 12:14 PM

A couple photos showing various stages of completion along one wall of my shortline railroad.

First, going from completed scene to the right to bare resin paper on the left. 

I'm using a variation of a technique described by Howard Zane a number or years ago. I shape my mountains using basket weaved cardboard strips, then cover it with red resin paper. Rather than coat the red resin paper with white glue, I mix a slow setting joint compound that gives me plenty of working time. I sprinkle on some ground cover while it is still wet. Eventually puff ball trees will cover the hillside with Super Trees in the front.

The next photo shows a section where benchwork and track have yet to be laid.

I'm building a switchback to a saw mill at the top of the grade. Two legs still need completion before the scenery can be filled in. 

More pictures of the "bones" of the layout please. 

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Posted by BRVRR on Friday, April 1, 2022 2:36 PM

John: "More pictures of the "bones" of the layout please."

The begining of "Pasture Corner" hills and rock cut.

Consturction complete.

Pasture Corner today:

More layout pieces and parts please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, April 1, 2022 4:34 PM

BRVRR
More layout pieces and parts please.

This view goes way back!

 HO_early by Edmund, on Flickr

More recent:

 Union Station by Edmund, on Flickr

More benchwork, early construction or "in-progress" scenes, please.

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, April 1, 2022 4:49 PM

Where the RH and TT go. I wanted to be able to remove it to work on it and be able to take it out in one piece if we move.

 

 

More creation shots, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, April 1, 2022 11:01 PM

BATMAN
More creation shots, please.

Here is the roadbed being installed on the sub-roadbed:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me a piece of railroad equipment that is gray and at least one additional colour.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Saturday, April 2, 2022 8:31 AM

Now let's see a piece of railroad equipment that is tri-colored.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, April 2, 2022 11:36 AM

John-NYBW
Now let's see a piece of railroad equipment that is tri-colored.

Here's gray with maroon and yellow:

 EL_7381-pit by Edmund, on Flickr

More tri-colored equipment, please. Ed

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, April 2, 2022 2:32 PM

I have something similar.

 

More tri-coloured, please.

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Posted by BRVRR on Saturday, April 2, 2022 6:51 PM

Batman: "More tri-coloured, please."

More tri-colored equipment please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Saturday, April 2, 2022 7:42 PM

BRVRR asked for "More tri-colored equipment please."

This is my favorite piece of rolling stock.

Let's see more tri-colored equipment.

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, April 2, 2022 8:37 PM

John-NYBW
Let's see more tri-colored equipment.

Red White & Blue...

 EL_3638b by Edmund, on Flickr

Carry on with three or more colors on your equipment, please.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, April 3, 2022 12:00 AM

gmpullman
Red White & Blue.

gmpullman
Carry on with three or more colors on your equipment, please.

Red, White, and Blue again. An E unit decorated for the bicentennial:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

More three colors on equipment please.

-Kevin

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Posted by John-NYBW on Sunday, April 3, 2022 6:34 AM

SeeYou190

More three colors on equipment please.

-Kevin

 

Nothing says Red, White, and Blue better than a Bangor and Aroostook State of Maine boxcar here on the interchange track with the Lehigh and Hudson River RR.

I started the tri-colored theme and so I'm going to end it.

How about a branchline or shortline passenger or mixed train. 

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, April 3, 2022 3:21 PM

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How about a branchline or shortline passenger or mixed train.   

My New York central gas-electric is in branchline duty:

 NYC_M-10_tone2 by Edmund, on Flickr

More branch line locals or mixed freights please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Sunday, April 3, 2022 4:15 PM

A short mixed train on Erie Northshore tracks...

...heading for Lowbanks.

Wayne

More locals or mixed freight, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Sunday, April 3, 2022 6:57 PM

doctorwayne

More locals or mixed freight, please.

 

A Munsee Valley Ten Wheeler leads a short mixed train over the Mill Creek Gorge. 

Any kind of branch or short line train, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, April 3, 2022 9:21 PM

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Any kind of branch or short line train, please.

To be completely honest, I am not exactly sure what is meant by "branch line" or "short line", but here is a short train:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

More branch line and short lines please.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Monday, April 4, 2022 6:08 AM

Kevin- More branch lines and short lines.

 

The Leeds, Scarcroft and Wetherby line was a branch line.   Should have been a through line bur The Great War intervened in the building.

 

https://flic.kr/p/2n9fJGE

 

More branch or short lines please.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:06 AM

NorthBrit
More branch or short lines please.

This might be a stretch, but I am going to assume the MOONLIGHT EXPRESS is a shortline.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

The above scene is on the First Coast Model Railroader's modular On30 layout.

Show me the basics. I want to see a 40 foot steel boxcar painted boxcar red.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:26 AM

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Show me the basics. I want to see a 40 foot steel boxcar painted boxcar red.

 NYC_XM by Edmund, on Flickr

More of the same — Another ubiquitous 40 foot XM boxcar in oxide red, please.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 4:51 AM

Good morning

gmpullman

More of the same — Another ubiquitous 40 foot XM boxcar in oxide red, please.

 
How about these two beauties a kind and rather generous friend gifted me at separate times.  For those not paying attention the 40 is on the leftWhistling...Wink

They're my favorite boxcars you knowStick out tongue

 

More 40 footers in oxide red or a Mill of some kind please.

 

 

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Posted by mobilman44 on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 6:01 AM

Originally posted here in error.....my apologies!

ENJOY  !

 

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Posted by rogerhensley on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 6:37 AM

Here is a red boxcar just coming into sight near the city.

More red boxcars if you will...

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Posted by John-NYBW on Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8:33 AM

rogerhensley

More red boxcars if you will...

 

Here are two spotted at River City Textiles. The one on the right is a wagon top lettered for my home road.

More of those basic oxide red boxcars, please.

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