Welcome to a new year, and the first Show Me Something of 2023.
Here is a picture from a departed forum member:
-Photograph by Garry Boyd
Please show me another train that is “coming around the bend”, please.
-Kevin
Kevin - A train coming round the bend
‘Just’
IMG_5190 by David Harrison, on Flickr
Another train coming round the bend.
David
The tail-end of the Congressional Limited negotiates the bend:
Congo_tail by Edmund, on Flickr
Fortunately tracks in curves are not too difficult to find in our model world.
More trains on the curve, please.
I think I posted this not too long ago in the December SMS but its the only shot I have in my archives that meets the request.
The shot was staged because this is on my shortline which is served by a Ten Wheeler and a Doodlebug. Diesels don’t normally run on the line.
More trains on curves please.
NVS SD40-2 and heritage unit upgrade rounding Quarry curve.
More trains on curves please
Shane
A pair of brand-new Nickel Plate Alcos lean into a reverse curve here:
NKP_540-RS3a by Edmund, on Flickr
Shall we stay with trains in curves?
A new york central FA on a curve.
Next show me Penn Central
Not quite what you’d expect:
P-C-754_F7a by Edmund, on Flickr
P-C_F7_754 by Edmund, on Flickr
Rio Grande was trading in these Fs and when P-C got wind of the action they decided the trade-ins were in better shape than some of the Fs they had.
Anything else Penn Central or predecessor roads?
I think this New York Central streamlined steamer qualifies.
Like you, Ed, I have created a world where Pennsy and New York Central co-exist. I don’t have quite the variety of roads that you do but the Erie does operate a coal train over my road through trackage rights.
How about anything PC, predecessor, or successor.
How about all three, all rolled in to one?
CR_GP9_7105 by Edmund, on Flickr
The faded Pennsylvania showing through with the C-R emblem plastered over the scratched-out P-C.
More Consolidated Rail and predecessors, please.
There were several areas where they coexisted and I share your interest in running both. Cleveland was one of these areas with PRR trains even having trackage rights over the NYC and vice-versa. Even the LE&P was jointly owned by PRR and NYC. All in the name of fun operating possibilities [:)]
I think this is correct… the New York Central:
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
The above scene was photographed on the Atlanta Interlocking Model Railroaders modular HO scale train show layout.
Show me a picture of another locomotive pulling a brown (boxcar red) box car.
-Kevin
Another NYC pulling a brown/red boxcar.
Another photo the same if you will.
From that other railroad…
PRR H10 2-8-0 by Edmund, on Flickr
More common XM box cars, any flavor, please.
I wasn’t sure what the definition of an XM boxcar was so I pulled this off a Trains webpage
XM – Boxcar for general service equipped with side or side and end doors
I think these two would qualify.
How about a 50 foot boxcar, any color.
Here’s a white “Leaky Valley” fifty footer:
L-V_X58_7106 by Edmund, on Flickr
More fifty footers, please.
A Stratton And Gillette 50 foot boxcar in gray.
-Photograph by Kevin Parson
Show me another fifty foot boxcar, please.
-Kevin
Ship it on the Frisco!
Show another freight car with a slogan on it.
