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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 07/09/2026
flaire redid our house and now it looks very coole
flaire and i's house (which was built by flaire) but Cooler :)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
completely unrelated to all my recent Doom And Gloom:tm:, i wanna share some screenshots from a friends' minecraft server i've been on for a couple days now
It's me! Stonery! (flowery's face drawn into the side of a quarry, this was done by me because i was bored lol)a cool ass bridge that flaire (flusteredev) builtThe bottom of the quarry, which has a cherry blossom tree and the Enchanting Stonehenge (this area was built by zara (synthwavespirit))Me and flaire's house!!! (built by flaire, i've just kinda been helping extract resources for it occasionally)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
and one last detail shot of my work: the coupler(s).
The Couplerthe coupler (again, but from a different angle)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
the gangways were like 99% made by @useydess.bsky.social and i touched them up a tiny bit
gangway sidegangway front and top
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
oh yeah and the ladder up to the roof on both ends and the lights
the ladder
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
these parts were made entirely by @flusterco.nekoweb.org
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
oh yeah, closeup of the candy wrapper logo because i spent like 6 hours on this (counting having to restart from scratch because i did it wrong at first)
"shoreline route" candy wrapper logo
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 05/09/2026
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 01/09/2026
trying to get in the swing of things with Krita... oh my god i had no idea how much i NEEDED brushes with texture to them this would've taken like 9 millennia in pdn LOL
Well, there is a man here.
(Fan art of the forgotten man, behind the tree)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 15/06/2026
well, we have a winner!!! i think this was probably the best outcome ngl i also refined it a little more, since the original concept kinda just.. didn't line up with anything on the cars??? which looked really odd. but hey now it's more good now
IndyGo livery, specifically the proposed "Indy Star (alt)" livery but refined a little. It's primarily blue, with yellow stripes accenting white stripes, and the Indianapolis flag's star-in-a-ball on the cab car and locomotive
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 14/06/2026
strawpoll.com/05ZdzMx6En6 I have a Poll... which i would like some Answers on . . . this is for deciding on a livery to put on my fictional commuter railroad, IndyGo, which has no relation to the IRL bus company in the same region with the same name.. it's just a good name
a large list consisting of 18 hypothetical paint schemes for a fictional indianapolis-centric commuter railroad
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 20/04/2026
ok whatever i'll give you a hint at what my time has ACTUALLY been going into
a 3d model of a Nathan P3 in blender
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 30/03/2026
in the meantime, have an entry from my dream journal
a screenshot of a message on discord, from Brooke, saying "half life 3 gordon gets killed by a combine harvestor", featuring a stock photo of a combine harvester harvesting wheat, with gordon freeman from the half-life series poorly edited in
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 30/03/2026
hai i've been gone from bluesky for like 3 months oops in those three months i've: 1. worked on an album, concept art for the album cover seen below 2. completely started from scratch (and finished!) NICTD single level dual cab EMUs for gmod :3 (logos on these drawn by me, btw!!!)
a crude drawing of Brooke holding a piece of track, which is needed to complete a route on a layout. there are four trains, one F7A, one 4-4-4, both of which are orange, and an Acela meeting an AEM-7, both of which are blue. in the background is more of the layout to the left, and a door to leave the room on the righta screenshot showing two Nippon Sharyo built EMUs in the game Garry's Mod, both are floating. the top one's rear is facing away from the camera with its end of train lights on and is in a full-silver livery, while the bottom one's rear is facing towards the camera, and has its headlights on, this one being in the orange-stripe livery
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 17/01/2026
🔶 progress report: yea kinda
A pair of basic, muted color drawings of a brown haired white wolf. 

The top one has a few sentences with arrows pointed at the wolf, saying “should be wearing it’s glasses. isn’t.”, “moron”, “has been needing a haircut for the past 4 years”, and “woke up from a nightmare about school for the fifteenth time this year (it’s January 14th)”

The bottom one has an annoyed expression, and is saying “There’s nothing that pisses me off more… than people who don’t tell you the whole deal.”

In the bottom right, there is a simplistic doodle of three characters. A cat, labeled as “F”, a wolf, labeled “B”, and a dog, labeled “M”. There is a heart between the cat and wolf, and a heart between the wolf and dog.

In the bottom left, there is a logo which has a large “BN”, which stands for “Brooke’s Nook”

The background is a photo of train tracks, which we took while on the south shore
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 23/11/2025
🔶 Hell yeah
CPKC’s Holiday Train, passing Pine Road near Lydick, IndianaCPKC’s Holiday Train, passing Pine Road near Lydick, Indiana
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 16/10/2025
🔶 finally getting back into model railroading: this time with N scale, because HO is too big to fit anywhere i don't have much yet, but this loop and the RDC pair are a nice start
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 19/09/2025
🔶 had a realization
Top left: Identifying an electric passenger route? Lemme show you something interesting.

Top right: The two types of electric passenger routes are interurban and light rail, based on if the majority of their railcars have toilets. South Shore? Interurban. TTC? Light rail. Sacramento Northern? Interurban. Pittsburgh Railways? Light Rail.

Bottom left: Pacific Electric? Interurban. Key System? Light rail. LA's A Line, despite being almost 58 miles long, is a light rail.
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 25/06/2025
only like 25 minutes into the 25th but it counts
Art of Generi looking at a Generic Glass of Beer, with big text that points at them that reads "21 ->". Generic seemingly saying "? Hmmmm..."

At the bottom of the image is a pile of dust with Generi's face on it, that reads "our bones upon hearing it's June 25th"
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 25/06/2025
🔶 completely absent minded creature(s) #makeaterriblecomicday2025
Masque (left half) and Generi (right half) where the top halves are them drawn normally, but the bottom half is poorly drawn
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 24/06/2025
🔶 for context: i was doing an extremely janky test of an inverter sounds e2 i'm working on
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 24/06/2025
🔶 i love shots of w.i.p. builds like this because like. dude what even is that
a screenshot from Garry's Mod of a work in progress recreation of an electric multiple unit operated by South Shore Line
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 02/06/2025
realizing (again) that i can post my gmod trains here, check it out: all of these units are in one dupe that just selects an accurate horn/decal/ptc set-up for whatever running number it lands on
CSS 2003 & 2004 on a coal train passing sandstone on the gmod map Sunset Gulch 2CSS 2006 and 2000 coupled nose-to-nose in a build shed on Gulch 2A rear-ish shot of CSS 2008, showing the Indiana bicentennial stickerA closer shot of CSS 2004, showing the differently weighted font and taller nose logo compared to the rest
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 02/06/2025
one of those joke "pride month -> demon" images, but it changes to "EMD" instead of "demon", with a demolished EMD locomotive at the bottom
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 24/04/2025
hi-rail
a photo we took of a hi-rail truck, running on the South Shore Line
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 13/04/2025
happy neil day to all that celebrate
the classic Neil Banging Out The Tunes - April 13, 2006 image, but it's Emby from WolfSpace instead
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 11/04/2025
Me and fluster’ve been watching mlp occasionally over the past year and i’ve been making increasingly stupid edits/drawings of things that’ve happened, such as:
At the top, a screenshot of a message from Fluster, saying: “another mark to the ‘pinkie brings a bomb to a government building’ tally”

The rest of the image has pinkie pie, holding a bomb, saying “hey twilight check it out”

Twilight, shocked, asks: “PINKIE, WHY IN EQUESTRIA DO YOU HAVE A BOMB.”
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 13/02/2025
while me and @drawggo.bsky.social were having a conversation about intrusive thoughts, she had this idea pop in her head (image made by her lol)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 21/12/2024
i had a vision
an edit of the "another 20 trillion dollars to xyz" image but it's festive, and says "another five golden rings to my true love" as a reference to the song "twelve days of christmas"
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 25/11/2024
oh yeah, also this list does not include advertisement units (mainly because i'd have to spend like an entire day researching all the ones that they got) but i WILL make an exception for the Operation Lifesaver One and mention it here
a photo of a South Shore Line train, showing car number 13, with an Operation Lifesaver advertisement on the Chicago half of the car
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 25/11/2024
oh yeah i forgot i made this account specifically to have somewhere to talk about the south shore i made this chart last night because a friend of mine was struggling to remember what the stripes on Ph3 looked like (and i kinda went overboard (oops))
A chart showing paint schemes applied to the Nippon Sharyo built Single Level Dual Cab EMUs. From top to bottom, on the left column:

Blank (never like this, afaik)
Phase 1 (as delivered)
Phase 1 (RTA) (as delivered)
Phase 1 (NICTD)
Phase 1 (NICTD, late) note: some retained the earlier white NICTD logo, but the ownership plate removal was (practically) consistent
Phase 2 (nictd, for 1992 dedication day(?)) note: some retained the late NICTD Ph1 orange logo, most were whited out though. also possibly only a small handful got this one? unsure. trailer cars were built in this livery
Phase 3, Single Cab cars were delivered in this livery
Phase 4 (early)
Phase 4 (late) note: as far as i'm aware, "early" and "late" are just really inconsistent, as some early Ph4 cars are done up like the late ones, whereas some late ones are done up like the early ones. There might be a method to the madness, but i have yet to discover it so far.


From top to bottom, on the right column:

Note for Ph1 units painted/modified after their "as delivered" looks: they were WILDLY inconsistent. like. so much so that i genuinely cannot even fathom writing down every single tiny variation they might've had. so this list is "non-exhaustive" because of them and them alone i'm not gonna lie.

another note for Ph1 units: later on, the maroon would fade to a sorta pinkish red, causing this: which can easily be mistaken as "Oops! All Orange"
this sometimes would compound with the south shore logo on the end fading too, which would then look like this:
rather interestingly, the ends of the carbody would usually be in better condition than the sides in terms of how faded they were.

note for Ph3 units: sometimes the NICTD logo was just. Gone. Missing, even. I have yet to figure out why this was the case

note for Ph4 units: sometimes (very inconsistently) they will have a white outline to their South Shore Line logos (sometimes on both the sides and ends, sometimes only the ends, sometimes neither.)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 24/11/2024
oh yeah, i couldn't get a photo of it because we were getting off the train, but one of the cars on the ride home had its center doors BOLTED SHUT (see attached image for a rather sleepy attempt at drawing it) ...seems NICTD's having a hell of a time keeping the 80s cars running
Artist interpretation of what we saw, it's a drawing of the inside of the train, specifically the "DOORS DO NOT OPEN" sign bolted to the center doors
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 23/11/2024
They he go
Photo of the previously mentioned train, now departing the station
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 23/11/2024
it just didn’t feel like it
Photo of a passenger train with a door problem (one side isnt opening)
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 23/11/2024
A photo from onboard a train, looking out the window at a tree
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[brooke's nook] @brookesnook.nekoweb.org · 01/11/2024
i don't really have anything to say about this, i just wanna show off a few of my gmod builds (details on the CDSF units were done by @flusterco.neocities.org , btw :3)
CDSF 6130, an SD70ACe painted in a pride livery with CDSF 7264, an AC4400CW behind it on an intermodal consist on a bridgeCDSF 6625 and 6616, both SD40R-2s rebuilt from SD40s lead a coil train down the middle of a streetCDSF 7206, an AC4400CW, on an autorack train passing a crossing. There's a cliff behind it, with a track going up that cliff, which has two Holbrook Junction locomotives (HJ-2 and HJ-3 (numbers not pictured)) leading a coal train.
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