#model-railroading

[olddominionrailways]

Bringing Your LGB Train Layout to Life: A Guide to Essential Accessories

LGB trains, known for their durability and ability to operate outdoors, offer a unique experience for model train enthusiasts. But what truly transforms a basic track layout into a captivating miniature world is the addition of LGB Train Accessories. These accessories breathe life into your creation, allowing you to tell a story and capture the essence of a real-life railway environment. This…

[woodland-scenics]

I completed this diorama for my partner for their birthday! They're a big Twin Peaks fan so I put in some references. Extremely proud of how this turned out!

[alyssa-ai]

It's time to go home, I love the journey on this little regional train that crosses the countryside 😊

[modern-train-enthusiast]

Fulfilled my dream from when I was 10 and got a BR442 yippeee

[welldigger62]

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 😊

[trainsinanime]

I'm experimenting with 3D printing buildings for my model railroad. This tiny factory is only a prototype to test design and strategies for painting, but I think it's coming together really nicely.

[taashi]

Guys I made my first diorama (⁠・⁠∀⁠・⁠)

I worked on it for several monthes (I made the cherry trees a looong time ago by the way, when I just created this account !) The diorama now has its place in my father's model railroad :)

[sharknoseshenanigans1951]

STEAM POWER RAHHHH

I LOVE NEW YORK CENTRAL 4-6-4 HUDSON STEAM LOCOMOTIVES

HERES A COOL VIDEO

AND GIFS

[kornwulf]

I wonder if anyone has ever informed Tumblr about the concept of the "Freelance" in model railroading?

It's basically OCs but for railroads. If you don't have a specific prototype that really does it for you, it's a time honored tradition in the hobby to go off and make up your own, oftentimes with *elaborate* lore. They can run the gamut from extremely serious, plausible, extremely well researched railroads with routes mapped out on Google Earth, to the John Allen school of "that's a fun idea, ship it" (see also: Emma the Organic Switcher)

It's a really fun little corner of the hobby

[whirligig-girl]

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.

[laboitediabolique]

Artwork of the main cast of "Mobile Police Patlabor" by Akemi Takada, commissioned for the KATO 1/150 scale model railroad Patlabor Project, 2019. Scanned from my personal collection.

This is one of the more unusual Akemi Takada Patlabor pieces as she doesn't normally draw any of the Labors in her Patlabor work herself.

[woodland-scenics]

decided to break out my camera & macro lens to take some shots of the diorama. shooting small scale is really difficult when you have to hide the edges of the foam!

[alyssa-ai]

In the last car of the train, alone in the carriage, buried in a book and lulled by the ticking of the train on the rails, time passes so quickly that I have already arrived 😊

[pyro-hairedguy]

My club got this mini layout in a donation and we've been upgrading it for show use. It's actually starting to come together nicely and already good for some photogenic shots.

[kcvulpinestudios]

Just a little scene based on some of my old art depicting a freight train in a cloudy desert scene.

The rain effects in the video came from Sai Kiran on YouTube. Enjoy!!!