NYMR-Pacific

My favorite little travel buddy!!!

FYI an absolute LIFE SAVER for making decals, or developing your own freelance railroad is to use the fonts available from "Rail Fonts" one of the oldest digital type foundries around.

Saved my bacon multiple times doing various projects.

www.railfonts.com

Beautiful shot ….Polar express, Germany ❄️⚜️🤍⚜️❄️⚜️

Anyone want American Flyer?

2219

Based on SSL single level emu's

I should really start posting here more.
Seems pretty chill.

(W.I.P)

A traction engine.

National Coal Board locomotive.

Loco spotters.

Talyllyn no.1

Some loose sketches from a number of years ago.

A colored postcard of Chicago Great Western's Red Bird train, a train of all red heavyweight passenger cars pulled by a steam locomotive with much of the piping hidden behind cladding, what CGW referred to as English styling

The Chicago Great Western's Blue Bird train, three McKeen motor cars that had their engines removed and noses blunted, with an EMC gas-electric powerplant installed in the front unit.

The Chicago & Northwestern's Minnesota 400 train, with lightweight passenger cars pulled by a streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive

Rochester, MN, was located on secondary lines of the Chicago & North Western and the Chicago Great Western but managed to get multiple name trains with unique equipment: the CGW Red Bird, the CGW Blue Bird, and the CNW Minnesota 400.

(W.I.P)
To me, the SD70's are the Eevee's of the railroad world with the sheer number of variants you can find.

I need to both get back into drawing more & upload here more often.
I don't know how y'all maintain both Twitter & Bluesky accounts so easily.

I love it when your doing research for a fictional railroad & a real life event lines up perfectly with what you want to add.

Working on a fictional railroad is both fun & absolute pain.

Really gotta start posting more here this year

Its been a while since I posted anything here

Her.

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Oh, the wonderful things you can do when your drawing/writing about the full history of a fictional railroad company.

That looks absolutely beautiful

W.I.P Chinese SY locomotive

SY locomotives are cool.
(W.I.P)

I may or may not be getting ideas from these adorable little Rebel's.

Been updating my fictional shortline railroad recently, & one major thing I wanted to do was make an official logo.

Technically, there is already one in use, but its slightly outdated once NI&W takes over IARail & expands their system into Iowa, so this one is an in-canon replacement for it.

EMD inspired loco drawings

Front facing loco sketches

Which is also to say that "Roster Shots" are still an invaluable documentary format for historical & modelmaking research.
Plus people get real obsessive with the format. Just ask older photogs about "rods down" steam locomotive portraiture.

NI&W/NW-I Railroad, known as 'The Independent Road'

W.I.P/Mk1 logo for my fictional railroad. I sorta want to make a more 'simplified version' as the official logo though.

There's not much on this one already, but it still seems rather overkill for something meant to be purposefully simple while still somewhat eye catching.

2-10-2

First post & IDK so...
Track plans.