Like with the Diner, I’m now opening Jarrell’s Show Me Something. Once again if I goof something up, please let me know.
After looking up the April 2025 Show Me, I did manage to find the image with the rules, though!
Someone, please start us off.
Someone, please start us off.
Happy to start this Jarrell Show Me Something.
Some time ago I posted a detailed interior view of a Pullman Standard car that Paulista Railways imported in the 1950s.
The model is by Frateschi.
Show me some more detailed views of passenger cars.
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A rivet counter’s special eh? My favorite passenger car is from the MPC Chessie Steam Special set.
Show me your favorite passenger car(s) please.
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Here are my two favorite cars, both probably varney with flexible diaphragms and automatic couplers. I don’t run them very often because my layout works better with Rivarossi truck-mounted couplers.
Show me a model made in the 1940s or 1950s.
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Glad someone asked! I have a LOT of stuff from this era. This is not even all of it without including all of my unbuilt kits and things from other scales.
More mid-century models please!
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This one was from March but here’s the color version.
A little bit earlier, but not by much. The prewar version of the N5 caboose was brown with red window trim and had Lionel’s box couplers. The postwar models were red with black trim and came with Lionel’s brand new “flying shoe” knuckle couplers with solenoids.
This was Lionel’s top of the line caboose from 1945 through 47. I like it because it’s the only caboose either Lionel or MTH ever produced that even comes close to looking like the type of car the Norfolk and Western used before the merger era began. Which I find somewhat ironic considering how many Y6b’s and Class A’s those two manufacturers cataloged over the years.
Wanna stick with mid century models? I have plenty!
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Poster’s choice? Ok then…
I built this double track level crossing just yesterday. It uses two LEGO re-railer track parts that just came out last year for the crossing itself, with the rest being my design. LEGO rarely releases new track parts, (this and another part last year, a ramp part in 2019, flex-track in 2009 and a short-lived double crossover in 2007) and releases few trains - so three trains coming out this year + two last years and two new track parts means I’m excited for the future!
…Ahem. Sorry for the info-dump.
Show me something new-to-you! (it doesn’t have to be actually new to the world, but newly acquired by you!)
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Just finished some repairs on a mantua sierra 4-6-0 that is new to me. Still needs some paint touch-up. (BTW that delorean runs on HO track!)
Show me something green.
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Green you say?
Green, 100 years old and Easter Bunnies too!
Show me something else green, or old…or a rabbit 
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Well nobody seems to have anything to show so here’s my favorite locomotive.
Show me a road switcher please
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Switchers you say? Well, here you go!
This is a freelanced oil-burning 0-4-0 switcher for my own railroad, Brick Railway Systems.
Show me poster’s choice!
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For my beloved Irish Terrier Coqui, who liked to chew chew on my choo choo. 1979-1989.
Sure, I could replace the reels. But why?
Show me something irreplaceable.
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Something irreplaceable…
Two of our twelve grandchildren
At their first train show I took them to last month… with their new train sweatshirts… standing in front of one of the operating models that were set up at the show
They absolutely loved it! Ages 8 and 6
Let’s continue the irreplaceable theme
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