Show Me Something - August 2016

Two trains passing … Actually three of them.

Please show some more trains passing.

A meet along Roaring Creek.

More meets, please.

A Metroliner meets an Amtrak F40PH, meets the tail end of the Hickory Creek private car, meets a Florida-bound Superliner train! Lots going on!

Show me more trains passing or meeting.

[8][8] Strangers in the Night.[8][8]

Please show me more trains passing or meeting.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]

Sandy River & Rangley Lakes 2 footer mixed train passes the end of standard gauge MEC freight

Show me another narrow gauge train

#486 drifts down the 2% grade with a train of empty gons.

Show me your favorite piece of rolling stock.

Mike

middleman wrote :

‘‘Show me your favorite piece of rolling stock.’’

Here it is.

Let us continue with the same request.

Show me your favorite piece of rolling stock.

This is my favorite, a flat car converted to a TOFC.

More favorite rolling stock, please.

Favorite Rolling Stock… I have many, but the Combine and the Coach in my Milk Run Train are very special to me. They were part of a 4 car set given to me about 30 or so years ago by my FIL. They are made by Pocher and he had them for about 20 years before he gave them to me. They have been repainted and decaled for the SLOW and have recieved new trucks and Kadee couplers. A third one can be found in the lower left of the photo. That one I could not get to stop derailing and so sits semi-permanently on the RIP track… The fourth one was not runnable at all and became the “temporary” frieght house at Hopewell Junction.

More “special” favorite rolling stock please.

73

WE 597. Custom decaled hopper that had me win second place in a NMRA division bring and brag.

Let’s see anyone else’s rolling stock that has won them an award, or continue the “special favorite rolling stock”. Either one.

No awards here but my favourite piece of rolling stock is usually the one I’ve just finished, in this case finally decaled.

As it’s a bit slow, please show me your favourite model railroading “thing”.
Cheers, the Bear.[:)]

Oh, so difficult to choose just one thing…

I never tire of seeing these huge, Hulett ore unloaders, though. I can’t wait to get the other two built so I can paint and weather them. I used to watch these working in Cleveland, Ohio. Especially fascinating at night with all the lights moving—like a ballet of dinosaurs!

Show me a train of coal or iron ore…

Real iron ore from, where else, Ironville, Pa.

Show me some coal, please.

There’s some in the truck…

Show me a coal drag…

73

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My current project is a new observation car with a full interior.

More projects you are working on.

Mel

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

My Model Railroad
http://melvineperry.blogspot.com/

I wonder if these are the seats?

RR_Mel might have another source, but these look pretty similar. I have some in blue and gray and they look pretty sharp and don’t cost an arm and a foot…

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Precision-Scale-HO-33312-2-Passenger-Car-Seats-Light-Blue-LW-HW-/381685496441?hash=item58de3a7a79:g:6bcAAOSw5dNWpBXy

Regards, Ed

Same project further along.

Ed & Dave those seats are Precision Scale in blue, a little grey Acrylic and I’m in business. The added tables and bar are sheet Styrene by Mel.


Notice the glasses, that’s 1mm Fiber Optic cable. The slopy painted figures are my doings, I’m getting a bit shaky in my old age.

Mel

Modeling the early to mid 1950s SP in HO scale since 1951

My Model

Thank you Mel and Ed. You guys made my day.

Now back our scheduled forum. The last request was Show me a coal drag.

BNSF SD70MAC is at the rear end. Prototypical for 2003, on a unfinished diorama.

BNSF coal

Show me more coal or gravel loads.

Some loads of crushed limestone at the Dragon Products roack crusher, getting ready for transport to the cement plant on the Boothbay Railway Village layout

Show me some more rockey loads