the announcement everyone has been waiting for... The North Axis Traction Railroad will officially use hot blast lanterns on its non electrically lit cabooses!

a "pagoda style" telephone booth- a recreation of the real public phones used in new york's Chinatown from the 50s to the 70s

I should get an O Scale starter set loop to put around the christmas tree when i get my own place

This composition had eluded me for nearly a decade, but yesterday I was finally able to capture it. A train rolled through just as the Duquesne Incline was crossing over the tracks in #Pittsburgh, creating a picture perfect winter scene. It was worth the hours and hours I've waited over the years.

Great Northern employee that likes rocky a little too much

Iowa

anyone have any experience with the Walthers Trainline Gp15s? Thinking of getting a pair to kitbash/detail and convert to DCC. Only drawback i can see is the radiator air intake isnt see through.

Nebraska Skies

realized the other day that ocean going railcar ferries if designed properly can be feasible and then found out that a terminal railroad on hawaii could actually be feasible then cooked a crazy late 80s/early 90s scheme that basically plays the miami vice soundtrack 24/7

interurban #art

November 2025

i forgot how barbaric the controls of a model t were even though ive driven one, yearning has switched to a model a

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shoutout to op&e 100 for this member of the family❤️‍🔥

railfanning so boring fr

A Car with an I6 i'd like to own 1939 Plymouth, specifically the four door humpback sedan in black

In high school I had REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity on 8 track and I can still hear the fade outs when i listen to it today

秋ですね。がんぼるぞい。 translation: It's autumn.

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Quiete

been trying to figure out how to model an early EMD F3 correctly in HO Scale, The two options are: 1: Just use an Athearn Genesis F2 since the only difference with the F2s and Early F3s were in the prime mover 2: Find a 3 Porthole F3, sand down the big number boards and put brass FT boards on it

im thinking there should be an outline around the diamond, black maybe for ease of painting? we'll ess when i block the colors for final

half done color sketch

I want a Model T Depot Hack so damn bad

Waiter! Waiter! more 2 hour videos on streetcar and interurban systems please! youtu.be/kJt_ySD_de0?...

two things im most jealous of in O scale is 1. The amount of traction still produced/available 2. Operating wig wags

this shit still so good its crazy youtu.be/5B8Oa-QSCLw?...

DOGHILL REAL CONFIRMED???????

Debating if there needs to be a series in between the Round Roofs and The Master Units, maybe a Los Angeles Huntington Standard or Peter Witt

sketch so far, orange body, white diamond, and maroon roof and window frames

photos of the trolley loop on my old layout At one point I had poles set and scenery nearly done but then decided to start over

final image

picked up what will be the first Doghill Municipal Birney car today (less trolley poles)

ooooh boardwalk empire season 4 pisses me off so much. Theres 5 great story lines going on that im very invested in, and then the main story they decided to focus on is "what if the villain this season what racist... against white people"

32/8

i got to experience one of my fellow volunteers get really mad about how hard it is to get around an f unit to start it up and operate it, welcome back 1950

"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace

wow bachmann must be running out of ideas

midcentury midwestern #art

Another Streetcar Roster Update, I'm scrapping the whole upper/lower section of the city so the subways are gone, there'll still be a hilltop neighborhood though to preserve the verticality of the city and the bunker hill style of the south end

thinking of removing the cream from this scheme and having it all orange below the roof line, maybe a maroon stripe at the belt line?

brother i do not have one

dream #art

damn i am sore today, what climbing on and off a highliner and an f unit does to an mf