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Show Me Something, June, 2023 Edition

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Posted by John-NYBW on Saturday, June 24, 2023 11:55 AM

SeeYou190

Show me another truck.

-Kevin

 
Getting loaded up at the freight house.
 
 
More trucks. Big, little, or in beween.
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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, June 24, 2023 11:15 AM

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Please show me more trucks.

This one is a classic, the Cornerstone Construction pick-up truck from Busch.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me another truck.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Saturday, June 24, 2023 8:55 AM

An 18 wheeler with a Southern Pacific semi and a Pacific Fruit Express trailer on a country road in the southern California orange groves.

Please show me more trucks.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Saturday, June 24, 2023 5:17 AM

York1
Not exactly a cafe, more a full restaurant, and may or may not have good food, but my wife loves them so much we eat there a lot.

I didn't realize this when we were doing it, but whenever I went on a road trip with one of the girls we would stop for breakfast at Cracker Barrel. They all have good memories of those trips and the breakfasts.

When we left concerts and headed home we would always stop at either Waffle House, or if there were a lot of us, McDonalds for $100.00 worth of Double Cheeseburgers.

The girls all say that Cracker Barrel, Waffle House, and McD's Double Cheeseburgers always bring back good memories like this day.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

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York1
Please show me another restaurant, good or not-so-good food.

We can join the bikers at Dairy Queen for a bite.

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The above scene is on the Orlando N-Trak club's sectional N Scale Display Layout.

Show me an 18 wheeler, please.

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Posted by York1 on Friday, June 23, 2023 5:20 PM

G Paine
Show me a cafe with good food

Not exactly a cafe, more a full restaurant, and may or may not have good food, but my wife loves them so much we eat there a lot:

 

 

Please show me another restaurant, good or not-so-good food.

 

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Posted by G Paine on Friday, June 23, 2023 4:03 PM

BATMAN
Show me another cab-over

I have a couple. A 1950 Ford on my layout

A Dysart's tractor trailer Dysarts is a real company based near Bangor ME. They also run a truck stop just off I-95. Good food

Show me a cafe with good food

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

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Posted by BATMAN on Friday, June 23, 2023 3:21 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Please show me anything Trailer Train.

We had these Ford Cab-overs on some of our equipment at the airport. I hated driving them, they were awful.

 

Show me another cab-over, please.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Friday, June 23, 2023 2:28 PM

St. LouisSan Francisco Railway Trailer Train flatcar which formerly had a car rack on it as installed by Tyco but was converted by myself to hold a trailer.

Please show me anything Trailer Train.

 

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, June 22, 2023 10:25 PM

SeeYou190
Another Midwestern railroad please.

I'll consider the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad 'midwest'...

 Monon_PS1 by Edmund, on Flickr

This is a 'Show Me' thread — Show me something from Missouri, please.

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Thursday, June 22, 2023 8:50 PM

gmpullman
More midwest, granger state, roads, please.

Midwest you say? Nothing says Midwest like the Ohio Southern.

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Another Midwestern railroad please.

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Posted by gmpullman on Thursday, June 22, 2023 4:50 PM

John-NYBW
Let's expand it to anything in the Midwest.

The Illinois Central was the Mainline of Mid-America:

 I-C_coach2 by Edmund, on Flickr

More midwest, granger state, roads, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Thursday, June 22, 2023 3:39 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe

Please show me more from the Great Lakes or something with Operation Livesaver on it.

 
The Milwaukee Road's Hiawatha would certainly count as from the Great Lakes. 
 
 
Let's expand it to anything in the Midwest. 
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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Thursday, June 22, 2023 1:23 PM

Chicago is on the shore of Lake Michigan. Here is a CNW loco with the Operation Lifesaver logos.

Please show me more from the Great Lakes or something with Operation Livesaver on it.

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Posted by dti406 on Thursday, June 22, 2023 12:58 PM

John-NYBW
 
We've done west, north, and south. How about something from the eastern seaboard. 
 

Can't get more eastern seaboard than Maine!

Lets move to the Great Lakes!!

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Posted by John-NYBW on Thursday, June 22, 2023 11:27 AM

BATMAN

Let's head South.

 
A Southern RR boxcar.
 
 
We've done west, north, and south. How about something from the eastern seaboard. 
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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 8:54 PM

Let's head South.

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:29 PM

NorthBrit
Anything  else North or Northern.

The GREAT Northern:   (they like GoatsWink)

 Builder_1 by Edmund, on Flickr

Let's stick with anything north, please.

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Posted by NorthBrit on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 6:23 PM

North British Railway

 

 download by David Harrison, on Flickr

 

Anything  else North or Northern.

 

David

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Posted by BATMAN on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 6:05 PM

PGE, Pacific Great Eastern which would become British Columbia Railway.

Compass points? Show me something with North or Northern in the name, please.

Brent

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Posted by gmpullman on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 3:46 PM

Lone Wolf and Santa Fe
Please show me a car or locomotive from a western state.

A UP Dome Observation car on the City of Portland:

 UP_City-dome-2 by Edmund, on Flickr

More equipment or locos from a western state (or province), please.

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Posted by Lone Wolf and Santa Fe on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 2:13 PM

It is kind of unusual for a car to have a map of where the car came from but here is one from the City of Prineville Oregon.

Please show me a car or locomotive from a western state.

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Posted by bmtrainmaster on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:43 AM

Fort worth and denver was a real railroad but they never had this paint scheme.

More unusual paint schemes 

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Posted by John-NYBW on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 10:04 AM

SeeYou190

Please show me another train car with an unusual paint job.

-Kevin

 
I've always liked this Bangor and Aroostook State of Maine paint scheme.
 
 
More unusual paint schemes, rolling stock or locos.
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Posted by SeeYou190 on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 8:21 AM

York1
Please show me another car with an unusual paint job.

Three Stratton And Gillette freight cars in a row!

This unusual orange tank car was custom painted for Cuda Ken to celebrate his success with quitting smoking:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Please show me another train car with an unusual paint job.

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Posted by York1 on Wednesday, June 21, 2023 7:20 AM

SeeYou190
Show me any freight car with an interesting paint job.

This is the only car on the layout from this railroad.  Please forgive the dust and the picture quality.  These cars have been parked on a siding for over a year while the layout was remodeled.

 

 

Please show me another car with an unusual paint job.

 

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Posted by SeeYou190 on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 10:27 PM

bmtrainmaster
Show me more cars that have unique paint jobs.

This is the only Stratton And Gillette boxcar painted like this:

-Photograph by Kevin Parson

Show me any freight car with an interesting paint job.

-Kevin

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Posted by doctorwayne on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 9:33 PM

bmtrainmaster
Show me more cars that have unique paint jobs.

Wayne

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Posted by bmtrainmaster on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 8:45 PM

Here is a baker's chocolate tank car. 

Show me more cars that have unique paint jobs.

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Posted by gmpullman on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 8:31 PM

John-NYBW
More X cars please.

GE's Incandescent Lamp Department (ILDX) had a dozen or so of these covered hoppers doer transporting silica sand to the glass plants:

 GE_ILDX_316 by Edmund, on Flickr

More private-owner cars, please.

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Posted by John-NYBW on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 7:53 PM

York1

Please show me more private cars.

 
Van Camp's reefer, VCIX. A few years ago I began a thread questioning why a canned food company would need reefers. Somebody looked it up and determined no such car was ever produced.
 
 
More X cars please.

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