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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️

@spitfire.bsky.social
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I make tiny trains. Follower of the Iron Horse and spawn of a Chaos God. Discord-Spitfire2865 | 31 | (They/She/It) Alt @spitfire-rambles.bsky.social Feel free to DM.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The portable boiler got a coat of paint. Went with a deep green with red wheels. The smokestack would be removed for transit so Ill have to secure it somewhere on the flatcar. Anyone have any idea how these would be strapped down to the deck? Ropes? Chain?
Portable boiler in green with red wheels.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The open vestibule combine hasnt been forgotten about. I finally added the gold striping to the sides as well as painted the clerestory.
Coach with roof in placeRoof with clerestory side painted 'wine'.Coach without roof.
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Steph the Chee @amoistcat.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Steph the Chee @amoistcat.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Getting the house worked on
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why are you trans? Wrong answers only. Covid Vaccine side effect.
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Motorman Reymond @beatlewolf.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Clearly a bridge too far on the Miscreant Valley Railroad as SP No. 20, “Bizzie”, hovers above the eventual Taupin Creek. Close to laying the golden spike on the MVRy mainline, just have to… construct a bridge now. #hotrains #modeltrains
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I bought a new toy. A PIKO ICE 3! And within 2 hours of getting it, I had already installed a decoder. Unfortunately, I need to get replacements for the traction tires as the originals dried out.
ICE 3 bistro power carBistro car with body removed. Installed decoder, speaker, and keepalive. One traction tire just fell apart on me while the other 3 are dry and cracking.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
On the bench is a portable boiler thatll end up as a flatcar load. Any suggestions on color?
Portable Boiler shown in primer.
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Hacksworth Sidings (Jay) @hacksworthsidings.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I can’t wait for the day I die and my models get put on an auction site, with my usual modelling style you’d think “oh these were made by a dedicated grandad in the 60s and 70s” but they’re actually made by a transfem furry in the 21st century
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Some small updates to one of my cabooses. I backdated it with archbar trucks and K brake. Ive also added resistors to the wheelsets so she will trip the block detection at the club. Now she represents (roughly) a caboose from 1905-1915.
NYC&HR caboose 3457Showing its soft underbelly. See resistors on the axles with conductive paint bonding them to the wheels.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A train of gondolas and flats.
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Bron Hebog & Minffordd @bronhebog.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“On an exhibition layout it’s important to strive to always have trains moving.”Discuss.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
A slow reefer train passes by.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Steamtown special.
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Feels real bad, man, to learn YET ANOTHER modeler I respected not only turned to using AI slop in their media, but then also issued a non-apology about it. 🤢 It literally takes no effort to not to use it in an analog hobby that's meant to be built with your own hands and eyes.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Bought an old Pullman Company ashtray recently. Putting it to good use too.
Pullman Company ashtray
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
My review of the new Bachmann 60' open vestibule coaches. Pros: Nice detail, crisp molding, interior, and rolls decently. Cons: Coupler sticks out too far due to the fallplate being added to the end beam. In conclusion, theyre $50. What do you expect? Im just happy to see this era being recognized.
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SpotGideon @shepf.art · 16/09/2026
Japanese N Scale modelers remain on another level: mounting an LCD flat inside a car and using an angled mirror to display a thin strip that replicates the destination sign 🤯 youtu.be/fNhMzonEr7E?...
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Have another video of the Midland 483 class, this time crossing the viaduct.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The new MR 483 class runs beautifully. Sadly she is very weak and can only manage 4 cars. Ignore the Reading coaches, was the only contemporary passenger stock to hand.
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
straight up triplexing my shit
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Quick cardboard mockup for the open-air carbarn for Esquina on the ALTA. I found some Mexican prototypes I want to build, and this will really capture the flavor of the region versus the large concrete building I had planned.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Finally finished the decals on the new 50' RPO baggage car. While the prototype for this model is Ma&Pa, I have a photo of a similar looking RPO the Central did have.
RPO baggage #2398 RPO baggage #2398 
Other side
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Quick test before I did any work to her.
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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Happy Labor Day! Here's some tools to make your hobby more enjoyable. youtu.be/Li8Gs1qeU1Y
youtu.be
4 great tools to help you fix model trains
YouTube video by Interurban Era
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
New toy came in. A Rapido UK Midland 483 Class in wonderful full crimson lake. As is my way, Ive already added scale couplers, lamps, crew, and coal load. Friday hopefully I can break her in properly.
Choo chooCrew and coalLamps! Signaled as an express passenger. Rear coupler added while retaining NEM compatability which will be necessary with the Evolution coaches coming.
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Bron Hebog & Minffordd @bronhebog.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Picking up the empty mineral wagons from Minffordd Yard - part of the job for the crew of the daily freight train on the Cambrian Coast.
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Stuart Jones @owenthesignal.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekIforIntegers On the third day of this week’s theme, a LSWR T3 locomotive in all its Edwardian elegance. No. 563 at the Swanage Railway #Steam #Railway #trains #Photography #LSWR
The cab of T3 locomotive no.563 in the sun between showers in its first outing since restoration in Oct 2023. The sun catches the brass work of the red number plate and splashes tops. The locomotive is in Drummond livery, a bright mid-green lined with reddish brown with a fine black-white-black edge to the green panels. A gentle plume of white steam arising from the  Green safety valve
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DoubleM Models @doublem-models.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The greatest era 1 gathering! 🎉🎉
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Bron Hebog & Minffordd @bronhebog.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Here’s Britomart starting a short train of empty slate waggons out of Minffordd Yard before coasting along the Mineral Line and then getting a little tap on the regulator. You can get some nice effects when DCC locos are ‘driven’. Am I changing anyone’s mind here?
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Decals have begun on the 50' RPO baggage.
Side 1Side B
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Finished this today for a client, a GHQ Loco Master N scale Milwaukee F-7 Hiawatha Hudson kit running on a modern Bachmann N scale Hudson chassis with DCC. All cast resin, white metal and brass etch. I don’t normally do commissioned work in N, but this was a really fun and unique project!
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I finally got to visit fellow club member and friend Dave Mcleods superb Otter Creek and Ripton On30 layout today, what an absolute treat! My singular On30 loco also came along with me for a few photos! Videos and more below👇
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Did some airbrushing the other day.
Combine painted redBaggage car painted red
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I bought a new project....
Reading P-5 camelback atlantic
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Another baggage car is on the bench.
Choo chooBelly rubs
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Combine is coming together. Got trucks mounted, handrails added, and truss rods secured. Next step is painting.
Combine begging for belly rubsCloseup of the end undersideEnd handrails are a little unevenRoof in place
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Combine is coming together. Got trucks mounted, handrails added, and truss rods secured. Next step is painting.
Combine begging for belly rubsCloseup of the end undersideEnd handrails are a little unevenRoof in place
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
First build of my HO scale Porter 0-6-0 fireless kit is done! I couldn’t be more pleased with how this has come out. It is the most accurate Porter fireless model ever produced down to the notches on the reverser. All that remains is to write instructions. The first kits will ship in September!
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
With Bachmann teasing the new coaches, I need to get back to the open vestibule combine. I got a little more work done, starting with the end railings. Not pictured is the roof which got its round ends finished.
The coach end of the combine with railings. Baggage end with railings.
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Rene Gourley @renegourley.cosocial.ca.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026
#hobbyStreak 9. Painted a couple of trunks and added foliage to two test trees. #modelRailway #modelRailroad
Two twisted wire trees with ground foam foliage
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
get gripped idiot
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Bron Hebog & Minffordd @bronhebog.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
First experiments using the Consist function on the NEC Powercab system. Mary Ann & Moelwyn charging the bank out of the depths of Minffordd Yard making a right cacophony! More practice required until we achieve operating ‘consistency’.
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Arlo @arlostrains.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
WIP Alta War Emergency gondola from a Tichy kit half decaled. The O scale version will come eventually
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Sly 🐺 @slywolfy.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Finished the crates and added them to the mine flatcar model
A model of a small flatcar carrying a minecart, a stack of various crates, and a set of ties
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Ensey_Cat @nothingcoolcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
C32-8CDH with a simple test train. Had to make sure the darn thing even ran. It was an adventure
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Ensey_Cat @nothingcoolcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
More cursed diesel E60 content
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Ensey_Cat @nothingcoolcat.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Back on my BS, here's a (still wip) C32-8CDH
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
AmSteam running on the NECHS layout.
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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Come to Strasburg! Im at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania, running on the NECHS layout.
My T motor pulling a mail train on the NECHS layout at the RRMofPA
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