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whirligig-girl · 3 months

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As a lower decker, Ensign Eaurp Guz doesn't have a lot of space for a model railroad. Arguably she could fit like a shelf layout precariously above her tub-bunk, but that's where she keeps some of her model spaceships. So instead, she builds larger scale model engines and runs them on the holodeck. Here's a roughly G gauge model of a Slopspit & Southern Class 80 "Easy"-type 2-6-0 steam engine with decorative smoke baffles. Like most of her models it's built with function in mind, so it's live steam.

Guz's model rockets and spacecrafts are either run in the holodeck, or in certain conditions on shoreleave or staged out of the shuttlebay on actual spaceflights. For example, the Orion Nuclear Pulse Rocket from Guzcomic was planned to make a round trip between Douglas Station and the planet's moon, DbII before it went and exploded itself, and the lunar lander she'd built for the Apollo 11 anniversary was going to actually land on the Moon.

When she can fully recover her models, she keeps them in storage and rotates them in the display above her tub-bunk.

Guz also has plans for a proper model railroad which would replicate a colliery circa 2350 with a late example of a revenue-earning steam locomotive in approximately HO-ish gauge, but it would require having her own quarters.

She's also kicking around plans to make a 1:4800 scale layout which would fit on a microscope slide.

#Eaurp Guz #Slimegirl #Train #Steam Train #Steam locomotive #locomotive #live steam #model railroad #model railway #model train #steam engine #model railroading #railway modelling #Star Trek #Star Trek Lower Decks #hobbies

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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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#choo choo train #gwr king class #Great Western Railway #gwr 6000 class #boys will be boys #model trains #big choo choo #5k #10k #15k #25k

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eulaliasims · 2 months

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Lately my gaming time has been spent on Stardew Valley (this run I'm finally gonna ask Krobus to be my platonic life partner/roommate 🥰), but also I started poking at this project again, which is a neighborhood that will theoretically become a vacation destination for Middleground.

inspo: one | two

#ts2 #eulalia: exteriors #pinterest has recently led me to discover railway and other models for building inspo #I have a bunch saved on my pinterest inspo board if anyone's intrigued (link's in my pinned post)#also my cat Juno is doing well currently on her new meds; thank you to the ppl who've asked after her :)

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woodsmanwife · 5 months

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My beautiful Florida wife is modeling on the railroad tracks. Right behind me, cars were slowing down to watch as she took her dress off. It was the middle of the day, probably a few drivers on their lunch breaks. I hope they enjoyed the show.

The tracks are such a cool spot to take photos.

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primerjohn · 2 months

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I was awestruck by this display. The density of detail between the buildings, people, and ships, is almost overwhelming. This was the last diorama of the series (or the first depending on which way you were coming from). The California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento was worth visiting for this series of dioramas alone.

*Smuggler’s Cove*

This O scale narrow gauge layout, Smuggler’s Cove, built by Michael Flack and the late Geoff Knott in Australia, depicts a fictional New England fishing community modeled after towns in coastal Massachusetts and Maine. Small and large fishing boats and the steamboat Sabino near the Maritime Museum play a prominent role in this coastal diorama. Look for intricate details such as the scratch built lobster traps, floats, and fish crates stacked on the pier. How many seagulls can you spot in Smuggler’s Cove?

*Geoff Knott and Michael Flack*

The late Geoff Knott and Michael Flack were insprred to build Smuggler’s Cove after discovering the history of rum-running along the East Coast of the US, in the carly 1900s, their inspiration for Smuggler’s Cove came after Geoff and Michael traveled to New England and visited Cape Cod, Boothbay Harbor, Bar Harbor, and Kennebunkport, Geoff and Michael helped to popularize O scale models. <Layout furnished by the Australasian Region of the NMRA>.

#miniatures #minipainting #miniature painting #terrain #painting miniatures #terrain inspiration #painting terrain #diorama #scale model railroad #scale model #railroad museum #model railway #model railroad #railroad #railway

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kcvulpinestudios · 5 months

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Unusual Model Train Sets

A long time ago in 2020, I did a thread on Twitter of unusual model train sets. Mainly to showcase some that don't seem real, but are/were. Here's a selection of such trains.

I pity the fool who doesn't have this set.

It's more than meats the eye.

Our secret weapon in defeating Cobra.

I don't see a correlation between Rambo and trains to warrant this set.

Of course. When I think of a hit comedy show about medical personnel during the Korean War, I think a train set would make sense given the context. (Friend of mine said the following:

Though my point still stands just from the episodes I've seen.)

This has the best '80s aesthetic I've seen for a train set.

As someone who launched Hot Wheel cars in front or over trains, I legit think this concept is fun.

Speaking of Hot Wheels...

As someone who still has this set, I can tell you that while it's fun, it's not compatible with HO tracks. A real bummer if you ask me.

I have a soft spot for train sets based on tractor brands (I have relatives who live in Eastern Washington who collect old tractors). The only unusual thing I could find is when they are a passenger set.

Which makes no sense considering what the IP is.

I don't see the connection between auto parts and trains, but the Photoshopped image on the box is cool.

Again, don't see much of a connection, in this case of NASCAR sets. However, if your train is taking a left hand turn every time it goes around the track then it makes sense (I guess). And that is the list of unusual train sets I could find for this post. This is not meant to say they're dumb. I actually find sets like these quite entertaining and fascinating, particularly the TYCO sets of Rambo, GI Joe, A-Team, and Transformers just for how niché they were. And these came out around the time Shining Time Station premiered.

If you know any others, please reblog with the train set that you find unusual or barely has any connection to trains.

#model railroad #railway #railroad #toy train #tyco sets #bachmann trains #lionel trains #A-Team #gi joe #Rambo #transformers #mash 4077 #Hot Wheels #NAPA Auto Parts #John Deere #nascar #science fiction #model trains

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stephiramona · 6 months

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The Tale Of Two Cities according to Heiko and Stephi - Part 445

It's November, and here in Germany, this means that it's getting colder outside. So it's the time of the year you spend more time at home and with your hobbies that you can do inside.

Toy trains could be one of these hobbies. In the photos above, you can see two shops which are only about train miniature models. The first photo shows one in Cologne and the second one shows one in Munich.

When I was a kid, my father and I often crafted and made art. We sometimes even made dioramas. I never played with toy trains, though.

I can imagine what's the fascination with it, but it never caught me. Whenever we pass one of these shops, my husband gets dreamy eyes or a dreamy undertone when talking about train miniature models.

Which is funny, because he doesn't have any. Many people seem to be very fascinated with them.

I wonder if this is a German thing or something international. Does anyone of you have a fascination with miniature models of trains? I'd be happy if you'd share it.

#photographers on tumblr #original photographers #cologne #munich #model railway

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dark0ta · 21 days

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Model railroad museum Taken: 02/23/24

#photography #photographers on tumblr #original photography #color photography #canon eos 2000d #canon t7 #railroad #train #locomotive #model railroad #model railway #model trains #macro #macro photography #minnesota #twin cities

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dduane · 1 month

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#Caturday #“Catzilla Threatens The Town”#model railway #cat

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whirligig-girl · 1 year

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Commission for @trydianth of Entrapta operating tiny trains (since she loves tiny food so much!)

Image ID: Entrapta from She-Ra is grinning and fiddling with some train cars on her model train set. Entrapta is a tan-skinned woman with pink hair in large prehensile tentacle-like pony tails. Her regular hands are on the train layout table but she’s messing with the train cars with her hair. She’s also using her hair to control the model railway’s power transformer, which is hooked up to a First One’s crystal. The train layout contains a yard with three sidings with five freight cars and a purple tank engine. It also contains a loop that goes back and forth between a simplistic diorama of dark purple Dryll castle on the left and of Brightmoon castle on the left, with a small diorama of the Whispering Woods’ dark blue trees in the foreground. There’s a spur track that runs off-screen with the ominous reddish glow of the Fright Zone. A pretty streamlined tan, white, and gold train is coming from that line. On the loop line near Entrapta is seven freight cars and a scary looking military-green diesel with a Horde insignia. End Image ID.

Under the cut are some detail close-ups and artist’s notes.

Flatbed of First Ones Tech, FZR Boxcar, two unnamed vans, a refrigerated Salineas Fisheries boxcar, an unnamed tank wagon, a gondola of snow from the Kingdom of Snows, a Fred Pelhay Coal Co. truck for some reason, a Plumeria Products boxcar, and a Freight Zone Rail Road boxcar with graffiti reading She-Ra was Here.

A Freight Zone Rail locomotive and an old industrial shunter tank engine from Dryll Quarry.

Bright Moon Railway’s cab-forward streamliner, coming from the Fright Zone. Does that make sense? Perhaps not, but I hasten to remind the viewer that this is just Entrapta’s toy model.

I definitely put more detail into this than I intended to! It was going to be a lot simpler, but by the time I got to drawing and then perspective-skewing an actual model railway layout with sidings and switches I realized this was going to take a while. I wasn’t quite sure what to do for the engine visual style. At first the locomotive positioned next to the Dryll tank engine was going to be a big Dryllian steam engine, but I decided it’d be better to show a big scary Horde diesel.

I used steam engines for the good guys and a diesel for the bad guys soley and completely because i am thomas the tank engine-brained because I just like the look of steam engines! There’s no realistic reason why there should be steam traction in Etheria, rather than something entirely magical--but then, steam engines just look better in fantasy settings in my opinion! I can justify it, after-the-fact though: magic is everywhere in Etheria, but it can’t be harnessed by everyone (during the events of the series). Sometimes transportion has to be done through mundane means. And it’s not like we see any big power plants on Etheria, so electricity is out. Entrapta’s one of the only people who uses first one’s tech to power her inventions--otherwise we see no powerplants in Dryll. So. Wood or coal or magic-crystal powered steam engines! Yipee!

Obviously they’re all electric powered in this model, though.

#She-Ra #SPOP #Entrapta #Train #model train #model railway #autism #neurodiversity #commission #model railroading

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mechanicsandmagic · 9 months

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Useful little train appears!

#model trains #railway #steam locomotive #mine #0 gauge #trains #trainspotting #modellbahn #eisenbahn

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kumatajdg · 8 months

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Trojan Makes a Friend (and other stories)

#LEGO #MOC #LEGOtrains #GWR #Trojan #Great Western Railway #Didcot Railway Centre #LEGO show #Steam Engine #Steam Locomotive #Saddletank #Model train

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visual-food · 10 months

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She loved trains and being obedient, and I loved photographing her.

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lord-of-snack-falcons · 4 months

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[1967]

At last, Douglas could tell the others his news. He marched onto the turntable, and told the other engines Oliver’s story. The engines were amazed, but at the same time, apprehensive.

“You got an engine - bound for scrap - all the way here?” Almond gaped, awestruck.

“Well he’s not out of the woods yet.” Duck cautioned.

“Aye,” Douglas interrupted. “I’m feared some murderin’ diesel fra the ither railway’ll come ‘n’ snatch ‘im up, without even the steam tae whistle fer help-”

“Which is why Sir Topham Hatt has to know.” James cut in.

“As taxing as this may be, Douglas,” Gordon began, carefully, “I believe it falls on you to tell him.”

“Is it me speakin’ to the Fat Controller? It’s forward he’d think me, an’ mebbe interferrin’, an we know how he-”

“Well, here he is!” A cheerful, yet commanding voice boomed. “Now what’s this all about?”

#ttte #thomas and friends #thomas the tank engine and friends #railway series #rws #ttte douglas #ttte gordon #ttte james #ttte edward #ttte oc almond #ttte charlie #ttte duck #ttte sir topham hatt #ttte oliver #we are so fucking back #new douglas model woop woop

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primerjohn · 2 months

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Visited the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, and they had a scale model railroad display. I honestly like seeing them to learn what I can for my own craft. This was one of them.

Lime Kiln

The Lime Kiln diorama, based on an actual set of lans in Felton, California, was built by the late Jim Vail. Look for the miniature workers in the kiln, and the detail of the limestones as they are processed. The lime from Felton was used to make cement for the growing city of San Francisco and surrounding Bay Area cities.

West Side Lumber

Located in Tuolumne, a small city in the Sierra Foothills, the West Side Lumber Company once operated an extensive logging operation served by a narrow gauge railroad. This HO scale model by Jim Vail is a foreshortened representation of the sawmill, which was modified to include a small farm scene.

#miniatures #minipainting #terrain #terrain inspiration #diorama #model railroad #model railway #scale model #scale model railroad #railroad museum #modelrail #modelrailways #model

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skettchyartendevours · 4 months

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I've been neglecting to share these, but here's a handful of pictures I took of Rumble while visiting a Railway Expo a few weeks ago :]

#toy photography #transformers #maccadam #rumble #model railway #model trains #out and about

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