Welcome to Jarrell’s Show Me Something, the thread where a request for a photo is made and anyone that fulfills that request is in line to make the next request. Please restrict photos to models and not prototypes, unless you are showing the exact prototype of the model you are showing off. Enjoy!
Someone please start us off.
The Pennsy’s Lindberg E6 Atlantic #460 was built in August of 1914. That counts as old to me. Four years before my dad was born…
PRR E6 and PB70 by Edmund, on Flickr
More older than vintage locomotives, please.
Ed
Here’s an old 4-4-0 that doesn’t get out much anymore except to pull a short MOW train from time to time.
Please, show me your largest steamer.
Show me another of your largest locos!
Here’s my biggest On30 locomotive - a 2-6-6-2 built on a Bachmann USRA 2-6-6-2 chassis.
Please show me more articulated locomotives.
A pair of B&O EM-1s round a curve:
BnO_EM1_w1 by Edmund, on Flickr
More articulated power, please. Ed
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Welcome to Jarrell’s Show Me Something, the thread where a request for a photo is made and anyone that fulfills that request is in line to make the next request. Please restrict photos to models and not prototypes, unless you are showing the exact prototype of the model you are showing off. Enjoy!
Someone please start us off.
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Since nothing is happening what’s the biggest turkey on your layout? Got a locomotive or car that just won’t hold the rail? The best progenitor of a massive derailment on my layout is this Lionel 9111.
Got a locomotive that’s gobbled up your cash without delivering the scale rail miles? 
A few years back I bought this Hornby 00 ‘Coronation Scot’ set after being assured that 00 would run on HO trak with no issues:
Coronation-Set by Edmund, on Flickr
Coronation-Scot by Edmund, on Flickr
Sure, it fits between the rails OK but when it comes to points and frogs the wheel flanges are a NO GO!
Coronation_Gauge by Edmund, on Flickr
I suppose I should do the research and see if I can get some RP 25 contour wheels for the set.
More ‘shelf queens’ please. Ed
This is a story that Ed will remember from 2021. I owned a pair of Proto 2000 Santa Fe PA locomotives. One of the two would constantly derail, and I started a thread about the problem in December 2020. It became a long running thread with lots of suggestions and advice, but I could not solve the problem. Then one day in mid-2021, I removed the shell and closely examined the chassis only to discover a power pick up wire wedged between some parts of the chassis preventing the truck from sitting properly on the rails. I had finally solved a 7-year-old problem, but I decided to sell the locos to relieve myself of even the memory of this problem. Here are the pair of problem locos.
More shelf queens, please.
Those are beautiful!
In back of the picture (ignore the PRR 249) is my Lionel 1110 Scout. It’s not pretty enough to be a shelf queen, but the shelf is its primary abode. It actually ran pretty well… until the cat sent it to the floor a couple of times! Now it refuses to run reliably and smoke comes out of it–and it doesn’t have a smoke unit!
Show me either more shelf queens or holiday scenes!
The more I see of your work, the more impressed I am with it and Lego trains generally.
One of the first displays at the train show I recently went to was all Lego trains. There was a N&W J class pulling a string of passenger cars around, and I was impressed. Totally changed my perspective on Lego trains.
I wish that I could have seen it…
Thank you!
LEGO has been voted the #1 toy of all time because of it’s versatility and basic ability to open the door to creativity.
Not made of LEGO but rather Exin Castillos blocks is my ultimate shelf queen: Snow White Castle. The one Disney didn’t build.
And speaking of shelf queens:
She runs but starts smoking as she heats up. What’s the hottest runner in your roundhouse?
She starts smoking as she heats up? I thought that’s how all steam locomotives work!
Jokes aside, vintage locomotives are always interesting to look at. The hobby sure has come a long way!
