It’s May and things are starting to warm up on the Maine coast, but model railroading does not stop just becaude summer is approaching! Lets see a lot of good and interesting things this month.
An older photo of my rebuilt (and almost finished) Dragon Products cement plant
Show me an industry that you have rebuilt to (hopefully) make it better
George … Thanks for getting the May “Show Me” thread started. I like your cement plant.
He is my flour mill made from three Walthers flour mill kits. It is hard to fit all 4’ of it in a photo. It wraps around a corner of the layout room.
Please show another industry on your layout.
Boxcar getting spotted at a small warehouse on my old layout.
Show me a tunnel.
Kevin
Here’s one…
Show me a bridge!
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Kind of an unfinished area of my layout but there are bridges, five (make that seven with the two highway bridges in the background), counting the signal bridge!
Amtrak just turned 44 on May First… Show me an Amtrak scene.
Amtrak scene: Here is an old one from the BRVRR.
The Lake Shore Limited westbound on the BRVRR.
Show me another Amtrak scene.
Exiting the tunnel on my old layout.
Show me another Amtrak scene
Kevin
The Amtrak Chaloosa at the Zenith Amtrak depot:
How about a city scene?
Town of Arlee on my old layout.
Show me a highway scene.
Kevin
Here’s a highway scene.
Show me a street scene, please.
Street running, maybe in Texas:
How about a desert scene?
Arizona desert with a small wash…more desert please
How about some old buildings?
Old buildings – my favorite subject! Here’s a shot of the loading dock at the Mineral Ridge Mill:
This miner’s cabin is a replica of a real one in Nevada:
An old, brick hardware store with chipped and faded signs:
Show me some more old buildings!
Here are some old buildings. 3 of the 5 buidings here were on my first or second layout I built in the early 1960s; the 3 on the right. I have done restoration work on all of them.
Show me something you have done restoration work on so it is usable again
Restoration …
My old layout had two curved trestles I had made from Campbell kits. I took them apart, and rebuilt them into a single trestle made longer with the two trestles end-to-end. … Also in the photo is an old United brass CN 2-6-0 is now painted and lettered for CB&Q which had similar looking 2-6-0’s. … The Tyco coal hopper was bright red, and I sprayed a thin layer of mineral red over it. It now is a mineral red hopper with faded lettering.
Please show an assmebled kit
Here’s an assembled Roller Bearing Models Pullman troop sleeper kit. This was an early wood-and-urethane kit from about 1980. Because some troop sleepers were Tuscan to match PRR assigned Pullmans, I painted mine that way.
Please show another assembled kit.
An assembled City Classics kit with scratch built interior
Show me a train with refigerator cars
Can it simply be a single refrigerator car?
How about some more refrigerator car action…