Someone got leaves covered on her

Happy Halloween all. Forgot I had this sneak peak I’ve been sharing around lately. Won’t be too much longer until it’s fully done. Balancing wanting to work on it nonstop with college is tough but I’m working through it.

here’s the subject of my latest work in progress. Really close to being done, hope to have it finished within November

still alive

I'm already seeing centrists and leftists sniping at each other but the blame for this is 100% on the Republicans. This is what they do with power and it is imperative that we work together to keep them as far from it as possible, forever.

What’s y’all’s most infuriating could-have-been preservation story for locomotives? Mine would definitely be the Baltimore & Ohio’s EM-1 Yellowstones 1 was set aside for preservation, sent to the breaker’s by an idiot 1 was offered to a West Virginian city; they ended up rejecting it 💔💔💔

Happy Juneteenth folks

HAPPY 6/11 DAYYYY Didn’t forget this year, ha

"Fake it till you make it" was terrible advice to spread, because now we live in a world of powerful "Fakes who made it" and we're suffering from the consequences.

Many have said it before, so I'll say it again: Let's get this up to a Million Views. Show The Powers That Be that classic Thomas still has a "crown worth fighting for" ⭐ youtu.be/esi1J2Q_WVM?...

Lately this engine has become the sole thing I’ve researched in all my spare time It’s such a fascinating failure of a prototype

If you see this post a monster

Just my luck that the soundtrack CD for this movie of all movies (which the ost is really good btw) is abhorrently expensive online Anyways I bought a copy for 63 bucks, but it’s ok bc 1) I already made the money back so it’s like it never happened 👌 2) it usually goes for around/above 100 bucks

Was just informed it’s the old girl’s birthday today Happy 84th to possibly my favorite thing ever made Still hope I can see her steamed up sometime

On this day in 1992 "All At Sea" premiered This marked the first episode wrote by Britt Alcroft and David Mitton that wasn't an adaptation from the RWS or magazines. As well as the first episode where Thomas' bunker didn't have the red lining Happy 33rd anniversary!

ebay find of the day: A concept so breathtakingly bold, a $1500 HO scale Sunset brass import of a PRR T1 done up in a custom one-off SP "Daylight" scheme. www.ebay.com/itm/20547821...

Celebrating the 80th late but right. Happy 80th, you life-changing trains

Wait did I miss the official date of the 80th anniversary of Thomas

youtu.be/m9SPuiWyQuw?... So this was very unexpected What a way to kick off the 80th

www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebui... Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad just lost their 28-foot (I think) trestle bridge to a fire. If you have a little to spare, please consider donating. If not, spreading the word is just as helpful

Sadly don’t have any motivation to start or resume anything new, but tonight I got a huge boost to rework some parts of 1118. As it stands I love about 80% of it. The firebox, cab size and trailing truck all bother me; all three will be changed. As well as other details here and there

Woohoo another major lostwave solved!!! ...the full song’s decent, I guess youtu.be/YFlzek-QOOs?...

Quick life updates: - got wisdom teeth removed - grades in school are actually going up for once - trying to make progress on a Lego locomotive Need to use the app more, smh Hope y’all are doing well, or alright at the very least

113 years ago today

Happy Trans Visibility Day everyone. I’m not too good with words but I hope each and every one of you knows that you’re loved and valued very much. Don’t let a bunch of lifeless hacks tell you otherwise

Was in San Francisco for the day, knew I had to ride on some of these

Have I got a thread for you guys lol My trip to the California State Railroad Museum

Landed in California for spring break, so you know what that means <3 expect a long thread of many photos next week ❤️

Closer and closer to being able to order parts for it

Me likey

New running gear for my Mikado. BrecklandBricks very recently put new, more detailed valve gear parts up for sale on his website. Saw the perfect opportunity to give 1118 an update

She has some…difficulty staying on the tracks

Redid my first attempt at a real-life steam locomotive, the JNR B20 No. 10 This time I used prototypical diagrams, and added other details. I’m far more satisfied with it

Let’s go I didn’t miss it this year Happy 102nd birthday, you beautiful steamer you

Quite the odd double header: Union Pacific P-8 Class 4-6-2 #2862 and a UP-5 4-12-2 #9087 hauling a short freight train of 17 cars in 1935, picture originally taken by Otto Perry #trains #30s #freight #steam

Went down another train rabbit hole and found my favorite cursed train: the D&H E-7 class. Expreimental high-pressure steamers that overall, were failures. I want to highlight No. 1403 specifically, for its 4-cylinder setup and really weird rod design. Also the rear tender bogie has rods lol

Found a better way to display my lostwave physical media. Key is in the alt text. Lostwave means all of these records contain a certain song (and the overall tracklist) that was completely unknown at one point; lost to time. Very proud of all of them

I’ve got a new all-time favorite railroad now. I’ve been bitten by the B&O bug and it’s not letting go As far as my lego fleet goes, expect to see a good amount of B&O representation (not necessarily the exact pics I chose, but we’ll see :))

Just now, one of my good friends graciously provided me technical drawings of my favorite non-4449 steam locomotive, the NZR’s 1877 K Class. Will definitely make a model of the preserved ‘Washington’ loco eventually.

My thoughts on favouritism…

The Liner The Dreadnought(s) The Battlecruiser The Decoy Context in ALT

Seems we have a birthday today! Happy 80th to 5901!

Found a really interesting unbuilt prototype. If built it would’ve likely been the only 4-10-4 locomotive ever made, and was planned for the Monon Railroad. The first pic gives all the context for it, and the second one is an edit (not mine btw) of what it probably would have looked like

COBI OUT HERE, COMIN IN CLUTCH AND MAKIN UP WHERE LEGO IS LACKIN. GOD BLESS COBI

Long creature

Greatest birthday gift I’ve ever gotten

Obscure album recommendation 1: youtube.com/playlist?lis... I dont know how I found this but I’m glad I did. If anyone’s into hard AOR rock I implore you to check this out