This page is a work - in - progress, with new items introduced at irregular, intervals. Right now, we don't have photos for all items, and keep adding some when we can and we haven't developed the all the links to the other sites. But please bear with us, and come back again soon.

 

Show Me Lines frequently produces cars for clubs, hobby shops and private individuals. While many are exclusive items, available only from the club or shop, sometimes we are authorized to share these cars with our customers. Interchange is a collection some of our custom work. Where the club or individual has a web site, we've tried to include links. Please visit those sites to see the actual venue of these interesting cars.

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The Southern Kansas City Model Railroad Club is new and will participate in the Greater Kansas City Expo show as it's first outside activity. The layout is not much yet but members and money will change that. At the show they will be offering a new car for HO fans. It will carry the logo they have adopted and the car number is the zip code of one of the members - 6 car numbers in all.

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Blue Ridge Route

A couple of years ago, George Allen, of Charlottesville, VA, commissioned a custom decorated version of the Central of Missouri Blue Bird, to be outfitted in the livery of his Blue Ridge Route. He reports that the increased visibility of that "flagship" train served to spur the growth of the line, generating the need for boxcars and other rolling stock. The slogan for the Blue Ridge Route is "through the heart of the Blue Ridge," so we've developed an attractive design incorporating the slogan in a vignette of Virginia's beautiful mountains to balance the more traditional logo- look for it on future cars.

             Coachill Railroad

Ken Bechelli, a model railroader in Kamloops, BC, named his railroad after his neighborhood. The fictitious line serves British Columbia, acting as a bridge line between the Canadian National and BCRail. It is also known as the Summit Route. Ken is sharing two of his Tuscan Red boxcars, which carry the Coachill logo and slogan, "The Summit Route."

Kansas City Western

Originally, the Kansas City Western was a model railroad owned by Chris Price, of Desoto, KS. It served eastern Kansas, and was a hypothetical subsidiary of the Santa Fe. Recently, Show Me Lines acquired the line, and is now operating it as a subsidiary of the Central of Missouri.

Mid-Continent Railway

Located in North Freedom, WI, the Mid-Continent Railway Museum is a historical society and museum. It operates excursion trains on a regular basis, and has an extensive collection of vintage locomotives and rolling stock, including one of the last operating EMC gas electric "Doodlebugs," a combine formerly owned by the Great Northern.

Show Me Lines has printed five cars for Mid-Continent:
a 40' boxcar with the Museum's lantern logo and "Scenic Quartzite Lake Route" design,
a special reefer for Ruhland's Beer, which was brewed in Baraboo, WI.
a 40' boxcar with the Museum's Route Map
a standard cupola caboose with the Lantern Logo
a 34' offset hopper

 

The cars are available from the Mid-Continent Railway Gift Shop.

 Missouri, Texas & Western

A large model layout designed primarily for prototypical operations is at the heart of this club, located in Mexico, MO.  Look for their website on the Internet.

Rio Grande Valley

An active club in Albuquerque, NM, the Rio Grande Valley sets up their layout and operates throughout the New Mexico State Fair each September.  Show Me Lines has produced three cars for the club, a colorful red and yellow 50' MDC boxcar in 1996, a green Accurail Centerflow hopper in 1997, and an orange 40' quad hopper from Athearn for 1998.

Central of Missouri

The Central of Missouri is the Show Me Model Rairoad Company "home" line, and provides the reporting marks for many of our collectible and commemorative limited editions. However, we also offer a selection of cars and locomotives which are plausibly "prototypical" for this fictitious line, which serves Missouri and adjoining states.