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Jarrell's Show Me Something, April 2022 Edition

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, April 24, 2022 1:01 PM

John-NYBW
Show a section of your layout you have rebuilt or is otherwise under construction.

This was a track realignment behind the new roundhouse where a stub-siding was reconfigured into a through siding:

 RH_new_TO4 by Edmund, on Flickr

 RH_new_TO2 by Edmund, on Flickr

 RHsw1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Then there's always the cleanup:

 RH_pits by Edmund, on Flickr

More changes, modifications or additions to your layout, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Sunday, April 24, 2022 7:25 AM

Here is a section of the layout I had to rebuild because of frequent derailments.

Originally there was an Atlas #8 curved turnout at the Apex of this curve. My Ribbonrail gauge indicated the inside curve was 30" and my full length passenger cars would often derail trying to take the inside curve. It's still about a 30" radius at the apex, but because there are much broader easements leading to it, they are able to negotiate the turn. 

A Peco #7 curved turnout, which actually has broader radii than the Atlas #8, was moved to the right as shown below.

You can see where the outside curve originally was located and has since been rerouted. The passenger station is just to the right of this photo.

I'm not going to reballast this section or rebuild the grade crossing until I've done enough operating sessions that I have confidence the derailment problem has been resolved, but the early testing has been promising.

Show a section of your layout you have rebuilt or is otherwise under construction. 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Sunday, April 24, 2022 4:40 AM

Kevin  -  At a loading dock.

 

 IMG_4918 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

Next -  Anything you like

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, April 22, 2022 1:47 PM

NorthBrit
More freight at a loading dock, platform or ramp.

Loading dock:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

This scene is on the Suncoast S-Scalers train show layout.

Please show me more freight at a loading dock, platform, or ramp.

-Kevin

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Posted by NorthBrit on Friday, April 22, 2022 1:34 PM

Kevin -  Freight car at a loading dock.

 

 IMG_2117 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

More freight at a loading dock, platform or ramp.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Friday, April 22, 2022 12:59 PM

HO-Velo
Show me more double-door or door-and-half boxcars please.

The World-Famous UTAH BELT:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me a freight car at a loading dock, platform, or ramp.

-Kevin

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Posted by HO-Velo on Friday, April 22, 2022 11:49 AM

Show me more double-door or door-and-half boxcars please.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by doctorwayne on Friday, April 22, 2022 3:15 AM

gmpullman
More double-doors, please.

Here's an old Athearn car, re-worked to better match an Espee prototype...

While I have quite a few doubledoor boxcars, I'm a big fan of door-and-a-half cars, too.  Here are a few...

 

 

...this one has two doors on each side, but only one on each side would be in-use at any given time...

Wayne

More double-door or door-and-a-half cars, please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:58 PM

PC101
Show us another double door box car please.

Here['s a Pennsy X42 that was intended to replace the B60b baggage car fleet:

 PRR_X-42fini by Edmund, on Flickr

More double-doors, please.

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Posted by PC101 on Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:51 PM

SeeYou190
 

Show me another double door boxcar please.

-Kevin

 

A big double door box car.

Show us another double door box car please.

PC101, bob

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, April 21, 2022 9:35 PM

gmpullman
More rural, please.

Out in the rural parts:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me another double door boxcar please.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:42 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another rural scene.

From the NAPM:

 B&O FAs by NAPM Model Railroad Club, on Flickr

More rural, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, April 21, 2022 11:22 AM

dti406
Passing a farm on the NYC!

Rick: Great to see you over here in Show Me Something.

dti406
We've had lots of city scenes, how about another rural scene!

Fruit stand by the railroad tracks:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

The above scene was photographed on the Kentucky Railroad Museum's HO scale display layout.

Show me another rural scene.

-Kevin

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Posted by dti406 on Thursday, April 21, 2022 10:31 AM

SeeYou190

Another rural scene please.

-Kevin

Passing a farm on the NYC!

We've had lots of city scenes, how about another rural scene!

Rick Jesionowski

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 11:19 PM

NorthBrit
Another Rural Scene please

Here is an 0-6-0 moving an RPO to another location for service.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Another rural scene please.

-Kevin

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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 1:23 PM

Kevin  -  A Rural Scene.

 

 IMG_5328 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

Another Rural Scene please

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, April 20, 2022 12:46 PM

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Here is a pasture:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Please show me a rural scene.

-Kevin

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, April 19, 2022 12:17 AM

Track fiddler
More stone, brick or masonry of any kind please.

Here is a stone wall.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me another stone structure.

-Kevin

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Posted by Track fiddler on Monday, April 18, 2022 10:35 PM

gmpullman

More stone or masonry of any type, please.

 
Thanks Ed. 
Interesting.  I'm a little baffled on how to get self-leveling plaster to curve in the mold,  maybe weighted while it's still a bit green???   Excellent!
 
Neat billboard, quite fitting for the era your modeling. There's no way like the American waySmile
 
 
 Bridge #5 has plenty of stone.
 
 
 
More stone, brick or masonry of any kind please.
 
 
 
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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, April 18, 2022 9:55 PM

Thank you, TF! Smile Your work is superb as well and especially so being in N which is like microsurgery to me...

Track fiddler
More stone structures of your choice please.

This cut stone retaining wall was made in a curve. I learned how to set the mold on blocks and weight it so the plaster would cure and give me a radiused piece.

 PRR_X30-a by Edmund, on Flickr

More stone or masonry of any type, please.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Monday, April 18, 2022 8:38 PM

gmpullman

More stone structures of any kind, please.

Nice stone landscaping and signal tower EdYes
 
 
 
Stone culvert bridge #7, start to finish phases.
 
 
 
More stone structures of your choice please.
 
 
 
 
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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, April 18, 2022 2:30 PM

HO-Velo
Show me another stone wall.

A stone retaining wall keeps this signal tower on high —

 PRR_SG_tower by Edmund, on Flickr

More stone structures of any kind, please.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Monday, April 18, 2022 12:04 PM

Show me another stone wall.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, April 18, 2022 10:48 AM

NorthBrit

Another stone wall please 

David 

Another stone wall. 

Let's keep it going. Another stone wall please.

Rich

 

 

 

 

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Posted by NorthBrit on Monday, April 18, 2022 10:10 AM

Kevin - A stone wall.

 

Not much can be seen, but here we are-

 

 IMG_2129 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

Another stone wall please

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Monday, April 18, 2022 8:46 AM

gmpullman
Show me articulated steam, simple or compound, please.

Here is one, NORFOLK AND WESTERN flavor.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

The above scene is one the North Georgia Modu-Rail group's modular HO scale layout.

Show me a wall made of stone.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, April 17, 2022 7:17 PM

John-NYBW
I don't have any better ideas so let's stick with the concrete theme.

Double-headed B&O EM-1s pass under a concrete highway overpass:

 BnO_EM1_a1 by Edmund, on Flickr

 

 BnO_EM1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Show me articulated steam, simple or compound, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Sunday, April 17, 2022 5:03 PM

SeeYou190

Still more concrete or cement, please.

-Kevin

 

Here's my concrete coaling tower. The routes east of here are fully dieselized so steam only operates westward. Steamers back out of the turntable to be pointed in the correct direction. That means when they return, they also back onto the turntable.

I don't have any better ideas so let's stick with the concrete theme.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Sunday, April 17, 2022 12:44 AM

gmpullman
More concrete or cement, please.

One concrete coaling tower:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

The above sceneis on the shop layout at Dana's Railroad Supply in Spring Hill, Florida.

Still more concrete or cement, please.

-Kevin

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Posted by gmpullman on Saturday, April 16, 2022 3:27 PM

HO-Velo
Show more concrete structures or items.

The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad made use of poured concrete signal towers:

 DLnW_tower by Edmund, on Flickr

More concrete or cement, please.

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