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Very Short Line RR Pictures from somewhere in the Mid West. Rate Topic: ***** 2 Votes

#181 User is offline   timmuir 

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Posted 22 October 2022 - 02:36 PM

How much is the rent in that three story cracker box? Looks great, Randy.

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Posted 24 October 2022 - 10:31 AM

I don't know. Half of it has to be taken up by stairs.
https://i.imgur.com/up1RmlL.jpg
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Posted 24 October 2022 - 06:52 PM

That's where a spiral staircase would come in handy.

Hey, I stumbled upon this the other day and thought it might be of interest to you as a possible subject for a model.

Attached Image: Grain Elevator.jpg

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Posted 25 October 2022 - 07:16 AM

View Posttimmuir, on 24 October 2022 - 06:52 PM, said:

That's where a spiral staircase would come in handy.

Hey, I stumbled upon this the other day and thought it might be of interest to you as a possible subject for a model.

Attachment Grain Elevator.jpg



There is something odd about that photo - it feels like a model or maybe photoshopped. Uncanny valley maybe.

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Posted 25 October 2022 - 10:59 AM

Tim,
Do you know where that picture was taken?
Looks like something I maybe could do. You want a new one and I want an old one. Hmm.
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Posted 26 October 2022 - 07:41 AM

So if Larry, the guy standing in the door, is six foot tall, give or take, does that mean the elevator is only four Larrys, or 24 feet, wide?
https://i.imgur.com/dD58CqLh.jpg
How quaint.
Yeah I need one of these.

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Posted 26 October 2022 - 01:09 PM

View Poststeved, on 26 October 2022 - 07:41 AM, said:

So if Larry, the guy standing in the door, is six foot tall, give or take, does that mean the elevator is only four Larrys, or 24 feet, wide?
https://i.imgur.com/dD58CqLh.jpg
How quaint.
Yeah I need one of these.

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LOL.. Yep, I used Larry as a quick an' dirty gauge to judge the height, too. He never would have guessed his image would have been used in such a fashion. But, I am thinking that maybe Larry is more like 5'-6" tall. The siding looks like 3" to the weather clapboards, so that would make him about that tall...

I don't have any info on the photo. And I regret not noting where I got it, something I usually do. I will go through my history and see if I can find it again. It may have come from The Historical Society of Missouri, since I was there not long ago and the image resides in the folder where the other material from THSOM is. I'll let you know.

-- Edit: I found it. It's located here, and the photo is from St. Charles, Missouri, 1887. ( I had fade-corrected the image in PSP.)

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Posted 26 October 2022 - 06:22 PM

38 parrots.
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Posted 27 October 2022 - 05:42 AM

View Poststeved, on 21 October 2022 - 01:44 PM, said:

Thank you Tim.

Found this little nugget from the bowels of Wichita Falls on r/TIL.
https://i.imgur.com/ZoYKp52.jpg
Had to have one.
https://en.wikipedia...lest_skyscraper
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I thought it looked familiar. Here is a link to a short video made by Tom Scott, who is British, about the building.

My link

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Posted 27 October 2022 - 06:49 AM

View Postkeystoneaholic, on 27 October 2022 - 05:42 AM, said:

I thought it looked familiar. Here is a link to a short video made by Tom Scott, who is British, about the building.

My link

Ahh, thank you, Rob, that was really enlightening and interesting. It makes me appreciate this model all the more.

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