ART TRAIN🚂🚋🚋 Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) of your artsy folks! I haven't done a lot of art but I'll still share the ones I adore making :) Tagging~ @yakshaspirit.bsky.social @losercuter.bsky.social @purplefishbones.bsky.social @lakendacoda.bsky.social

@valvegearvy.bsky.social and I were talking about how the BR Standards are basically copies of other locomotives, and then I joked about how the A1 was a 'copy' of the Stirling Single and now i have the thought of the HST's being a copy of the Coalbrookdale Locomotive

“I don’t understand escalators” sighed Peter Sam. “What do they do when the basement is filled with steps?”

Sooo yeah. I have Bluesky now. Idk how much I'll use it but just in case Twitter/X does into flames

No rest for the wicked - I’m out at the Aldridge Transport Museum for their ‘Models in the Museum’ event - demonstrating Plas B once more! Come say hello if you’re in the area!

A nice way to celebrate the 80th Anniversary

Stupid fookin' trens Big Chombas isn't happy

I've got a new video premiering in a few hours! In this video I draw and discuss Neil, along with his boxy colleages that ran the Sodor and Mainland Railway! youtu.be/zqz39QotYdc?...

I think I may have been slightly tipsy when recounting the Down the Mine pilot....

NWR Class EM1 electric 2Co+Co2

In the years before Domitia, Bia was often sent up to the quarry if extra help was needed, or if the vertical boiler usually employed was under repair or refused to steam. #L&P #OCs #leakbeck #portethwaite

YO! NEW 80th DROP! PETER'S HAM HAVE CMOME UP WITH THE SIR HARD TO HAMBLE HAM! TOTALLY PICKING THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Excursion variant.

Loco Legend Works 'Myth' Class; "Redcap" Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway. She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite. Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social #L&P #C&DR #OCs

Not long before my next video is out! Consider this a part two to my Loaned Engines video, where I look at more one-off background characters youtu.be/RLKQNQAGDwE?...

I figured I should make a bluesky account for #thomasthetankengine related stuff! I've got some interesting projects in the pipeline that I'm hoping to share in due time

In 1934, the PH&E did mass shopping on the MK-4's, and subsequently re-equipped them with coil type feed water heaters instead of the previous bundle. The coil was a better overall design, with only two coils instead of fifteen bundles. They were easier to wash and service. (Part 3)

The mass rebuilding also introduced a larger sand dome, the installation of Automatic Train Control (ATC), and steam heat lines. This brought the heavy mike fleet up to dual service standards, and they were seen both powering freight and passengers until retirement in 1958. (Part 4)

Plas Brondanw’s first show of 2025! Come down to the Bournville Narrow Gauge Show and say hello!

linking all big comms here so you can see what you'd get! (outside of the emily and rpg ones) #digitalart #commissions #artwork #art

Happy Saint Patrick's Day, the day where we celebrate all things green

Been silent for a hot second, I have been cooking up a lot of things all in a short amount of time, expect a flood of equipment in the next few days. In the meantime, have this second-hand PH&E MT-2.

"Billy wasn't the same when he was built,cheery one he was,but a colliery does things to engine,real shame seeing how he is now." #ThomasAndFriends #TTTE

You should totally go commission @colloquial-kayak.bsky.social . Look at what they did to my boy!! AAAAAA I love him so much (£30 For somethin like this)

i was let go from my job with no notice. i'd be very grateful for anything in the mean time. if you cannot afford to donate, please share. love you all.

He looked over at Thomas. He no longer felt proud of himself. Instead, he felt rather ashamed. "Poor little guy. Now I feel very bad for him." "I'll never be so rude and vindictive to him again." #ThomasAndFriends #TTTE #Trainz

A Rose Among Her Thorns

I think my best interaction with @southern3118.bsky.social was when he suddenly DM'd me at 2 am on Discord and started asking me about how the Lord Nelsons had 'high sided' tenders like a meth head trying to get his next fix. This man never asks about UK locos. It was surprising to say the least.

THE GANG IN THEIR FINAL FORM! So yeah, here's the 8 engines of the TDC! Note that all have chime whistles as per company standard. Also, 4 and 5 are basically the same, baring names, 4 is "Luna" and 5 is "Pippy"

First snippet of what's to come, anybody got a guess what this fine gentleman is?

Fun fact: Awdry never introduced a D11 into the Railway Series because he feared what the Sodor equivalent of ‘Bailie MacWheeble’ would be.

Thank you everyone for your support! And again, Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year everyone! As a little treat, here's the titles for the rest of Season 1, with some screenshots to go with! (1/4)

True statement that often makes me feel terribly sad ashamed of the world we live in. 😪🙏

Been back in the trainz 22 and reshade mines. Credit: LegotheMano, TidmouthMPD, Rem, Gianoart_06, @lightandcoal.bsky.social , JJ9E, @crasson.bsky.social , @bunnybenny.bsky.social, @the-chairlord.bsky.social and the IOS team.

If I want to see something that Rupert Murdoch had wiped his arse with, I'd be his 7th wife, not buy this sh*t.

Can confirm. It's great and I still have it tucked away!

C&DR No.151 "Foxglove". Built and modified by Anstis Works for the purposes of the fledgling railway company. It arrived with an order of bogie'd tenders (pictured) to go behind the railway's first batch of 'Myth' locomotives. Foxglove would become the basis for LLW's 'Fable' class of 2-6-4Ts.

Business as usual at Pitkethley Junction, save for an unusual interloper! Almost evading the camera completely, then Haymarket resident No. 60098 ‘Spion Kop’ can just be seen heading an up express; possibly on a diversion…?

Man, Astro's so cool 😔

it's cold.

“Talking about your next visit already?” Thomas teased, as he pulled in. “Whatever would Baxter say?” “Probably a lot of things you can't say around a new-build.” Stepney laughed. “But you never know - I might try and bring him with next time.”

'ASTRAIOS' was rarely seen on passenger traffic, as they were thought to be too heavy to continue past Hardbrooke. Quarry trains were how it earned its keep, and on the rare chance they did take passengers, they would hand it over to another engine half-way. #L&P #OCs #leakbeck #portethwaite

Things are going great for “Shell on Wheels.” (That’s my way of saying it might come out when I said it would) A lot of awesome people contributed some terrific things this week. Thank you! I can’t wait to tell you more about them once the episode is released. #enterprisingengines