Drain hose from washer popping loose and draining into the house? 0/10. Would not recommend.

Anyone want to start a new band? Specifically a duo named after this old soap?

My #1 goal for all of what I do is to make OUR lives hopefully a bit more joyful. Are there "serious" topics about the model railroading hobby? Sure. Mostly centered around inclusiveness of gender/race/economic status. The key is inspiring people to enjoy the hobby at a level they wanna enjoy it!

Timonium train show this coming weekend. Hoping to pick up some new tools and maybe a freight car kit or two. #ModelRailroading

Check out this super weathering technique for modelers.

A bittersweet farewell to our 2000-series! 🚇   Today, we removed the final one from Greenbelt Rail Yard. These trains were first introduced in the early 1980s, operated nearly 200M miles, and carried more than 775M passengers.   Now, we’re making way for our 8000-series! 👋

Our next show is this Saturday in Newport News. One Love Reggae Music Festival!! Come forward!

Our next shows…

Back from @supernovaska.bsky.social . What a great weekend!

Reminder, that if you want an HO scale model of the first 4-2-0 built, the Experiment of the Mohawk & Hudson, you can get a 3D printed kit on my shop here: 3dptrain.com/products/183...

Next at Supernova, Eastern Standard Time

16 years ago today, CSX 8201, CSX 8509, and CSX 8803 were heading west through St. Denis, MD on their way to Jessup, MD to pick up a transfer run to Baltimore. 8201 was L&N 3573 built in 1974, 8509 was ex Seaboard built in 1983, and 8804 was originally Conrail 6373, built in 1977. My photo.

Oh, hi there. It’s your friendly neighborhood EST here to say a) it’s Bandcamp Friday so we’d love your support there (easternstandardtime.bandcamp.com naturally) and b) we’re playing Froggy Daze festival in Narrowsburg, NY tomorrow and Supernova in Virginia next weekend. Very excite.

For over 25 years I drew train pictures for the screensaver program Traffic but I stopped drawing about a year ago to finish school. Suddenly, today, I started up again. Here are some CM&StP 28’ boxcars in 1880s-1900s versions. Scale is 10px=1 meter.

Barbecue time.

This is my plea: stop using colourised photos in the news and in books. Don’t encourage ‘fun’ distortions of historical images that could produce confusion, for the sake of clicks/likes. Accept historical images with all their flaws and gaps: they don’t need ‘correction’, they need interpretation.

No film gets historians right, but that's only because no audience wants to watch someone quietly work their way through a cardboard box of old papers, in total silence, for eight straight hours.

Saturday’s #ModelRailroading. The Ma&Pa boxcar (rear) is ready for paint. The Milwaukee Road boxcar (gray, 2nd from back) needed sill steps (since added) but is now ready for paint & I finished the brake rigging on the Union Line and CRR of NJ boxcars (3rd & 4th from back, respectively). Progress.

It’s 1775, & Swedish-German chemist Carl Wilhelm Scheele has made a discovery that will go on to delight, entertain and, um, kill a lot of people. Scheele is by any measure a remarkable scientist. A better world might celebrate Scheele’s legacy for what it was. Instead, it gently ridicules it. 1/

Finished rigging the brakes on the Ma&Pa boxcar. Now I just need to find some weights that fit within all the baffles I used to hold the body square and I can get this thing looking like a freight car. #ModelRailroading

About 2 years ago the AC in my car stopped working. It’s an old car and I’m broke so I decided to lump it. I made elaborate travel plans around no AC. Even borrowed other cars when I had long drives on hot days. Today I accidentally bumped the button and the vents start delivering cold air. Huh.

I know language changes over time but I think it’s kind of neat when you notice it changing. No one (including me) seems to pronounce robot “row-but” anymore. It’s become “row-baht.” Or how people used to place the stress on the K instead of the G in the acronym EKG. Can you think of others?

This explains a lot about some of the model railroaders I know.

My scratchbuilt ballast hopper build is close to completion, and I'm very happy with the results. Aside from trucks and couplers, the brake wheel is the only commercial part. #hoscale #bsmrguk #modeltrains #modelrailway #modelrailroad #modelrailways #tmrguk #scratchbuilt #scalemodelling #scalemodel

For months I’ve just started new #ModelRailroading projects whenever an active project hits a wall because of lack of parts, tools, etc. In the last week a bunch of supplies showed up so I spent time today pushing old stuff forward.

Last night I got to expand my TotC freight by 3 cars.

Hey #DC #music people, I’ll be playing a free show with @duniabest.bsky.social, @ladyhatchet.bsky.social & @jamesdmcdonald.bsky.social on August 8th 7pm at MarketSW by the Wharf. Come check out some live, original #reggae, #ska & #soul.

Time for some light Saturday afternoon reading.

Have a nice weekend 🍻 The Pioneers - Reggae Fever

The Toronto Circus Riot broke out on this day 170 years ago — sparked by a brawl between angry clowns and firefighters at a Victorian brothel. Here's my annual thread about one of the strangest stories in Canadian history...

Update on the CNJ boxcar kitbash. The kit’s original roof core was wrong for the prototype so I scaled a new one off a prototype drawing in Blender and 3D printed the new part. Photo shows a test fit. It’ll need some clean up before I can use it but pretty happy with the result. #ModelRailroading

Went hunting for new arch bar trucks. Ended up buying a new boxcar kit too because, who doesn’t need another boxcar? Actually it was because the kit was on sale at 3dptrain, and who can resist the Milwaukee Road? #ModelRailroading

Working oriented strand board is awful in general, but especially with power tools. I’ve been picking splinters out of odd places for days.

Hey #ModelRailroad folks: anyone have a good source for N scale queen posts? I’m building a Chicago & Alton boxcar with truss rod ends (see pic) and the posts on the prototype look more like something from a different scale than any of the beefy parts sold for HO underframes. Ideas?

New birds added during my Europe trip: European Goldfinch European Greenfinch Barn Swallow Carrion Crow White Wagtail Eurasian Blackcap Common Chiffchaff Common Chaffinch Grey Heron Eurasian Collared Dove Egyptian Goose Eurasian Magpie Common Cuckoo

Back from the @estmusic.bsky.social tour of Europe. It was amazing. So many good shows and nice times. Feeling tired but really grateful music has allowed me so many cool opportunities.

Headed to the airport in a few minutes to start this tour. Excited! Can’t wait to see some old friends and make some new ones, play fun shows, eat good food, and enjoy the places music takes me.

Been watching a lot of 70s TV reruns as background noise and I had forgotten how much we all drank milk basically all the time.

ALWAYS shame institutions that use AI imagery, especially when they focus on telling truthful stories. In this case Railtown1897 ran an awful pic of a fake dad eating a pretzel on an AI train, yecch. Here's what I said below: 👇

Hugely long shot but if there are any experts here in the geography of late 18th-century Vienna, please get in touch! I am trying to roughly locate an address but I only have a few details and maps are proving a bit gnarly for a total outsider 🙃 #18c #vienna

Great thread.

Randomly remembered the time that my circle of friends, who gathered weekly for dinners, began a garlic escalation. First someone added 2 cloves instead of 1. Then another added 3. We eventually reached our collective tipping point when A. proudly placed before us a dish with 12 cloves.

Hit another #ModelRailroading backlog waiting for parts to arrive so, yes, gentle reader, I started building another freight car. Starting with a LaBelle 34’ boxcar I’ll make a Wabash RR car from the 50451-50945 range. When new in 1885 they had a striking white livery and were assigned to the 1/3

I don’t model traction, but I’m totally tempted to build a shelf-style point to point mini layout just to build and run this. I mean, just look at those driver’s cabins! #ModelRailroading

Semester is done yet I’m busier than I’ve been for months. So much happening.

Just sent off one track for an upcoming compilation. Another will be finished this week. Then it’s off to Europe for the rest of the month. 😀🎶🎶🖤🤍🖤🤍

It’s June and that means tour!The first show on our upcoming European tour will be at Eldorado in Nordenham, Germany, June 19! 7:00pm doors, 7:30pm music, gratis entry!

Longshot, but do any one of my followers have a spare Atlas Erie-Lackawanna 1930 H-16-44 they'd like to sell or trade for my EL 1934? #modelrailroad #trains www.walthers.com/fm-h16-44-la...