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Jarrell's Show Me Something, May 2023 Edition

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Posted by BATMAN on Thursday, May 25, 2023 10:52 AM

 

Show me a boxcar with its doors open, please.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Thursday, May 25, 2023 1:42 PM

Double doors open to reveal a car load of lumber from the mills in Oregon going to be used to build houses in California.

Please show me more box cars with open doors.

Modeling a fictional version of California set in the 1990s Lone Wolf and Santa Fe Railroad
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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, May 25, 2023 1:52 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Please show me more box cars with open doors.

This C&IM boxcar is being moved to the cleanout track to have dunnage removed:

 CIM_XM_40-b by Edmund, on Flickr

More cars with doors open, please.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Thursday, May 25, 2023 7:57 PM

gmpullman

More cars with doors open, please.

Chicago & Illinois Midland, always did seem to have an open door or two.....Smile, Wink & Grin

 
 
Here's a couple of other favorites, for "Good Ol' Dave"  Wink
 
 
 
 
  Cheers
 
 
More open doors of any, on your model railroad please
 
 
 
TF
 
 
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Posted by HO-Velo on Thursday, May 25, 2023 11:31 PM

More open doors.  Regards, Peter

 

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Posted by John-NYBW on Friday, May 26, 2023 10:33 AM

HO-Velo

More open doors.  Regards, Peter

An open service bay door

More open doors

 

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Posted by York1 on Friday, May 26, 2023 10:52 AM

John-NYBW
More open doors

 

An open loading dock door:

 

 

Please show me another open door.

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, May 26, 2023 11:30 AM

Open door at the elevator.

Show me an open window please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, May 26, 2023 1:24 PM

BATMAN
Show me an open window please.

I think the top half of a Dutch door counts as a window. Judges?

 Conductor Dutch Door by Edmund, on Flickr

 PRR conductor by Edmund, on Flickr

More open windows, please.

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Posted by HO-Velo on Friday, May 26, 2023 5:37 PM

More open windows.  Regards, Peter

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Posted by Little Timmy on Friday, May 26, 2023 7:59 PM

It's hard to see, but both sides of the windshield are open. I had to "hack" two trucks apart to do it.

More open  anything please.

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Friday, May 26, 2023 11:27 PM

Little Timmy
More open  anything please.

An open baggage door:

 REA_Siding-handtruck by Edmund, on Flickr

Let's have more of anything open, please.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Saturday, May 27, 2023 12:11 AM

gmpullman

Let's have more of anything open, please.

Yes
 
Let's have anything open please
 
 
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Posted by NorthBrit on Saturday, May 27, 2023 6:09 AM

TF  --  Anything open.

 

 IMG_2584 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

Anything open please.

 

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Posted by BATMAN on Saturday, May 27, 2023 9:51 AM

I see an open window on 2850.

 

I also see a phone booth. Please show me anything related to communications. 

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Posted by York1 on Saturday, May 27, 2023 10:19 AM

BATMAN
Please show me anything related to communications.

 

Please show me more of anything related to communications.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Saturday, May 27, 2023 11:40 AM

York1
 

Please show me more of anything related to communications.

 
The red post behind the pedestrian is a fire department call box.
 
 
More communications.
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Posted by NorthBrit on Saturday, May 27, 2023 12:00 PM

John-NYBW
More communications.
 

 
 
Post Office Telephones man and motorcycle sidecar.  
 
 IMG_2189 by David Harrison, on Flickr
 
More Communications
 
David

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Posted by gmpullman on Sunday, May 28, 2023 2:19 PM

NorthBrit
More Communications

The guy on the left is using the 'squawk box' to talk with the yard master:

 GP7 Fuel by Edmund, on Flickr

Anything else communications-related, please.

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Posted by thomas81z on Sunday, May 28, 2023 3:57 PM

love this keep it coming

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Posted by gmpullman on Monday, May 29, 2023 2:16 PM

thomas81z
love this keep it coming

One if by land:

 PRR_Brakeman_tone by Edmund, on Flickr

Communicating with a hand lantern and communicating a 'complete' train with a pair of marker lamps.

 

Please show the end of another train.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 11:42 AM

SeeYou190
Show me another loaded flat car. -Kevin

Here's a flatcar with a load of sheet steel...

...and note how the longer sheets are held down, so that the shorter ones won't be allowed to move...

The model is based on a real car, at the steel plant where I worked, which was loaded with sheet steel that was restrained from sliding in-transit.

Show us another loaded flatcar, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 4:03 PM

doctorwayne

Show us another loaded flatcar, please.

Wayne

 
A piggyback flat.
 
 
A loaded flat or gondola, please.
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Posted by Little Timmy on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 7:01 PM

How about both at the same time.

More flats or gons please.

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 8:05 PM

Little Timmy
How about both at the same time. More flats or gons please.

...more flats and gons...comin' up!

Wayne

More rolling stock with loads, please.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 4:28 AM

Wayne -  Rolling Stock with loads.

Wooden Pit Props  heading south to France.

 

 IMG_5610 by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

More loaded freight please.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 9:24 AM

NorthBrit
More loaded freight please

A 70 ton capacity pulpwood car

A Boston & Maine well car used to deliver ships turbine reduction gears from the factory in MA to shipyards

I built both cars for the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me a boxcar with an interesting name

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 11:18 AM

G Paine
Show me a boxcar with an interesting name

The Upp Stayers & Eastern:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

I am guessing the layout was in the attic.

More intersting road names please.

-Kevin

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 1:45 PM

SeeYou190

More intersting road names please.

-Kevin

 
How about the Susquehanna, aka The Susie-Q.
 
 
More interesting or offbeat roadnames on rolling stock. 
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Posted by doctorwayne on Wednesday, May 31, 2023 4:45 PM

John-NYBW
More interesting or offbeat roadnames on rolling stock.

I don't know if it could be considered as interesting, but the lettering was a combination of respect for Six Nations (which are not too far from here) and also a reference to the beginning of WWII, as my layout is set in the late '30s...

Wayne

I have several more made-up roadnames, but I'll leave it to someone else to offer something more interesting.

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