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I love when I see examples of 3D printed #modelrailroad structures especially when they were originally at a different scale. This locomotive shed started as an HO scale model, and comfortably scaled up to 1:29 G scale!

Yea I got enchanted by the 40th and Shafter yard. I really looking at local history by visiting various former locations. I just gotta build this yard. It's so wild that the Bay Area had effective Interurban transit in 1940. People often don't know how long electric lines existed out here.

Sweet! That's the railroad I'm modeling for my garden railroad!

The end of the Key system and the Sacramento Northern's passenger service is my villain arc. It is exactly why I have a garden railroad. I am building #modeltrains 100% out of spite.

The past ten years of consumer level 3D printing have been astonishing. It's why I'm so excited for G scale modeling despite it's niche position in #modelrailroad culture.

Uhm where did you get that dare fanny pack? #askingforafriend #imthefriend

That's so good. Captured that era of illustration perfectly.

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ICE is already yanking non-white people at random for no reason whatsoever, and you think they somehow wouldn't do the exact same with thousands of voting lines in key swing states because it'd be illegal?

Yeah. Thankfully the used market for G scale is generally pretty good if sparse. Most hoppers (other than AML) go for $50-$70 used. But that's still more $$ than 3D printing them. I typically can print 2 and 1/4 of them for one spool of ASA ($25) and hardware is another $20.

While Bachmann released a new catalog today, you wouldn't notice much "Large scale #trains" other than $230 hoppers. Meanwhile in a year you'd see a dozen or so high quality models from just 2 makers, 512 Designs and RandyMower. #3DPrinting makes obscure #modeltrains scales thrive.

Fan of old timey western #trains ? Well modeler "swright3" has uploaded a gorgeous 1:20.3 Fn3 Combine that would look great next to your LGB D&RGW wood coaches. Yet another lovely example of #3Dprinting making #modeltrains more accessible. cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...

Lego boxcab ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

The Thiel presidency. Oligarchs should get credit not the puppet.

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I'm reminded every single time I look in the Discover tab and see the most brainrot takes. I'm glad I stick to my self curated feeds.

Well please let me know when you complete that project! I'd love one of those.

Yea, it would be great to have a consolidated source of train-related 3D print models. I spend a lot of time searching via yeggi, and then manually scraping printables, cults3d and thingiverse and still some stuff falls through the cracks. It would also be helpful to track what is and isn't made yet

The newest #modeltrains releases in G Scale aren't from major manufacturers, but 3D printed designs. Not 1 but 2 different SD9 models have been released online for free, by 512 Designs and BAGRS president Roger Nicholson. Further proof that 3D printing is the future of garden #trains scales.

wow, @4allout.bsky.social sounds like he's just another brainrot Wehraboo who glazes nazi general memoirs and has the historical intelligence of Grok with Elon settings set to full cringe. At this point it's not worth taking pseudo-intellectual fake "historian" dipshits like this seriously.

It's Friday. That means you can start thinking about running #trains tonight. Just think about a weekend where you just watch this #modeltrain roll back and forth across a tiny garden bridge.

New #modeltrain day. As my usual M.O. I got a worn out #train and need to print new siderods, new trailing truck, new trailing wheels and redo the entire main shell to look like the Southern Pacific A6 Atlantics.

Gotta love some convincing ground cover for your garden railway. The combo of low growing plants and consistent trackside elements like service line poles goes a long way. #modeltrains

My toxic #modeltrain trait is finding 3D printed #trains and pairing them with a Southern Pacific equivalent that still operated in 1941. Printable Railroads released a 1:22.5 scale 4-4-0 Jupiter that would require only *some* mods to become a Class E-23 of which only 3 remained on the roster.

The best part of #trains and #modeltrains is when the real trains look like models and the models look like real trains.

Clearly they didn't learn anything from Child's Play 2.

Hey O Scale folks out there, is there a common piece of rolling stock, locomotive or other aspect of your scale that is historically expensive and not budget friendly as new? Seems like this Atlas offering is a rare win for rolling stock compared to Lionel #modeltrains #trains #modelrailroading

I believe it's in Oregon.

When garden railroads go for realism, they go hardddd. Chehalis Western Garden Railroad dropped this construction site image and I'm still enamored with all the weathering and detail. #modeltrains #trains #modelrailroading

Yeah. Clarkson is so insufferable off camera (and sometimes on!) Yet May is pretty much exactly who he is everywhere, and the way Hammond interacts with his daughter is so wholesome and earnest. I didn't really care about Hammond a decade ago, but I like him now nearly as much as May.

Dang, I really wish I went to this. Totally missed out on seeing Dana Terrace. It looks like it was a solid convention.

Nah. It makes a difference. Oligarchy existed before 2016 and failed to get things done before. Doomerism like that hands them the future.