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I'm so sorry to bother you but I have no other choice but to ask for help in spreading my campaign to get some donations in order to save my family's life, it's not easy to keep asking for help, but my family and I are starving here. I never imagined I would get to this point in my life, and it's harder when I ask people for help, but this is my last chance and my only hope, please don't take it away from me 🙏🙏

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I bought this HO scale WM 4-6-2 Light Pacific as a christmas present to myself, it is so beautiful!!!

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Nickel Plate 765 eases out onto the 140-year-old railroad bridge in Letchworth State Park in western New York State on August 1, 2015.  After its visit to Railfest at the Steamtown National Historic Site in Scranton, Pennsylvania earlier this month, the mighty steam locomotive has now gone back to its Indiana home.  Not to worry, you can still follow it on Twitter!

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I met this beautiful lady today. Pretty interesting history, built by Alco in 1919, started out life as an 0-8-0 switcher and got converted to a 2-8-0 running coal up until the mid 50s!

This site has a lot of info about it!

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btw I'm planning to go to the great scale model train show in timonium, md in february. i know it's pretty unlikely any of my followers are going but if you are, come find me :)

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i may start to slowly switch my focus from N to HO scale, i just love the size and it's slightly cheaper than N scale - i see more steam locos under $100, and a lot of locos from high end brands for not much more than that. diesels are even cheaper, you can get a used bachmann model for like $40. as someone who does not want to spend a lot of money on trains it makes The Hobby much more accessible. (though i still don't have the space for a layout. i think my N scale collection is going to go on a permanent non functional shelf diorama)

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Model railroad museum Taken: 02/23/24

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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.

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Eaurp Guz's roughly 1:30 scale live-steam model of Slaibsgloth Coal Railroad No.32, a ~1.6 meter gauge 2-8-8-2 garratt steam locomotive built on planet Mellanus in (earth-)year 2346 and retired in 2379 (two years ago) for service bringing coal carriages from the coal pits up to the interchange at the Glooiw & North Eastern. It is unusual for a coal burning steam engine to remain in revenue service--the majority that remained in use after the development of Diesel-Hydraulics were decommissioned with nuclear-powered railway electrification in the 2360s, and the ones that remained were mostly converted to oil burning. The Slaibsgloth steam engines meanwhile persisted right up until the closure of the coal mine. Glooiw & North Eastern has acquired the 40 locomotives. Their fates are uncertain but railway preservation groups remain optimistic.

When Guz first came aboard the Cerritos she was overworking herself constantly, which lead to her being so tired that she was leaving residues on the consoles and generally doing sloppier work. It turned out that Guz had been working double shifts, and when Billups found out he put a stop to that. That's when Guz turned to a hobby she'd done a lot of before joining starfleet--model rocketry. Armed with far more advanced tools than she'd had on Mellanus, she made accurate working model replicas of real historical prewarp spacecraft from a variety of planets and would fly them in real space whenever possible.

Eventually, she also found a new appreciation for her childhood love of trains, and her model-making skills and tools translated well to model railroading as well. She has a little shelf layout in storage that she occasionally tinkers with, and she runs large scale model trains on the holodeck. She could run full-scale holographic trains on the holodeck too of course, but it wouldn't be nearly as satisfying. And then there's the 1:5600 scale BM-gauge railroad she's building on a microscope slide! (Bµ gauge is "Byte micrometer" gauge or a track spacing of 256 µm)

Guz eventually wants to build a roughly 1:80 scale modular layout of the Slaibsgloth Coal Mine, with smaller scale electric-powered models of the Slaibsgloth coal-burning steam engines and enough track to wrap around a room and give them a good run, but unless she can rally support for a Cerritos chapter of the Starfleet Rail Transport Modelling Club or she can get her own crew quarters, it's a pipe dream--or maybe something for her retirement.

Replicators and advanced computer aided design tools reduce the amount of time it takes to get modelling projects done by whatever factor is desired. Technically Guz could probably replicate fully assembled working models as long as they fit in the replicator bed, but where's the fun in that? But she's still only got so much time in an off-shift, and doing it 'properly,' scratch-built using machine tools like 'real' modellers on Mellanus, or manually defining all of the geometry in a CAD program like modellers on Earth, would take too much time.

see also: alt versions of the locomotive.

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Hey, just wanted to let you know that I feel confident in speaking for a good majority of the TTTE fandom in saying we do not claim that delusional woman because that was BEYOND fucked up and I'm so unbelievably sorry you had to go through that

Hang in there

haha yeah there's always weirdos out there. does not bother me one bit.

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shout out ttte fandom for being anti genocide u guys rock

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From East Lansing Michigan-

Went with a friend to a model railroad show in East Lansing. No, I don’t have a model set but my son in law is building one.

The whole venue was as large as a football field and there were so many people there that you could hardly move.

It’s amazing the amount of detail that goes into these. The sets in the bottom two pictures are made so they can be taken down after the show.

I had no idea that there was that much interest in model railroads any more. A good day. 😃

Happy Sunday folks 😊

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Lima built  GS-4  “Golden State”  Class  4-8-4   #4433

At Oakland California

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Ubiquitous

Crossing the north/south rail line in Seymour, Indiana, I noticed a headlight. I pulled over and set up for this northbound train, which can be seen with a connector track to the east/west line in town.

The train is on the Louisville & Indiana (former Pennsylvania) with the unseen line being CSX (former Baltimore & Ohio). I was hoping for some spiffy-painted L&I units (which take after the old Pennsy), but instead got yet another dose of the ubiquitous Union Pacific.

One image by Richard Koenig; taken November 15th 2024.

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SP, Pinole, California, 1984 Southern Pacific Railroad passenger train, Daylight, led by steam locomotive no. 4449 in Pinole, California,

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New York Central J1 Hudson steaming alongside the Hudson in a postcard version of a Walter L. Greene painting.