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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

To whom it may be of interest. The insides of a SEGA MegaDrive

Lots and lots of capacitors. YM2612 and Z80 visible in the background.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Infinitely more pleasing to look at.

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trainlover16.bsky.social @trainlover16.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Also, here’s Standard Class 4 Tank Number 80151.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

This week, I have mostly been rendering Blenkinsop Rack Locomotives.

Salamanca on some tracks in what looks to be a PS2 render

Salamanca looking away from camera, probably moody. Also with a PS2 low poly vibe to the background.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Project Century update: Done nothing. Had the morbs. Will probably hyperfocus on some random evening and a bunch of new vehicles will appear.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Putting all this effort into Project Century is fun and all, but will people really play Transport Fever in 1800 with very primitive steam engines?

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I have finally updated my BETA version of Project Century. Want to play the mod before everyone else? Get on my Patron and support this absolutely bonkers idea!

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Project Century BETA Update | Steve Emfore

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

Four more enhanced Transport Fever screenshots, featuring my models. This is how TpF2 looks in my head when I play 😁 I'm not claiming any effort here btw. I know this is lazy but I'm just having fun.. already spent hours making the mods as it is. Original screenshots to follow.

Forrester 2-2-0 entering a very TpF2 looking platform.

Where is that guy walking to?

A Pennsylvania Q2 in the sunset... If the sun is there though I'm not sure what's lighting this side of the locomotive...

A Crampton and a Sturrock early in the morning. Lighting makes more sense this time.

My Nelson model at sea. This actually looks really nice. Not the very TpF2 town in the distance!

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

So I messed up my version control with Project Century and kinda broke the mod. Was going to release a new Patron BETA today but looks like I'm spending my time bug fixing. May have one for tonight but it's looking flakey.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Introduce yourself with five gigs you've been to: OMD Reunion OMD Metroland Ultravox Midge Ure Howard Jones Yeah that sounds about right

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I realise that this may lose me favour or followers, and I respect that. I had a staunch anti-ai standpoint until recently, but I think I need to learn acceptance and learn to use this technology as a tool to aid in creativity than something to pretend doesn't exist.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

There are many opinions about image manipulation technology, mostly to do with consent, training data and human involvement. Despite that, I have fed one of these models some of my own TpF2 screenshots featuring my own 3D models to see what happened. Feel free to hate this. These are the results:

Original TpF2 screenshot featuring my Stirling Single mod

A generative models reinterpretation of the same screenshot

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The next addition to Project Century is this tiny little engine from 1814, Blucher.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Want to know what is in Project Century as of right now? Here's a little vehicle list. It is expanding quickly. My older models are getting either extensively reworked or just remade from scratch entirely. www.patreon.com/posts/148350...

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Project Century - Current vehicle list | Steve Emfore

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Why do the national rail links have the most random pictures.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

New screenshots of Project Century engines and rolling stock. Still very WIP but it's coming along

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

*walks into garden centre* Hey you got any of them retro plants that always face you and are wafer thin?

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Blenkinsop's Salamanca locomotive cogs it's way into TpF2. I can't currently figure out a way to make it mesh to a rack on the rail, but I'm experimenting.

Salamanca locomotive in Transport Fever 2

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

If you are a paid member on Patreon, you will find yourself with a link to Project Century BETA. This BETA is now playable and will be updated regularly. Consider this an advertisement.

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Project Century is now in early BETA testing | Steve Emfore

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Vikram Bath @vikrambath.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

King of England on a checkerboard pattern tile floor

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

I have uploaded my first animation reel! I hope you have enjoyed the models this year, and I hope you look forward to playing with them in 2026, be it in TpF2 or TpF3! Have a good Crimmas!

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Steve Emfore's Locomotive 3D Animation Reel [2025]

YouTube video by Steve Emfore

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Animate-me-if-you-can This is a test animation of my Catch Me Who Can model, testing out wheel-motion tracking, lighting and camera movements.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

One of these will be my next 3D model. Help me decide!

0-6-0 from the S&DR with some cursed motion.

Another 0-6-0 from the S&D that gives strong Hackworth energy

Lancashire Witch/Pride of Newcastle. Standard Stephenson 0-4-0.

Invicta. The next engine after Rocket to leave the factory.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Project Century is firmly underway. I have spent time adding a new track type, the plateway, and two new Trevithick locomotive models.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Things are moving, literally, with the Project Century mod. If you want to learn more about what has been going on, have a read of my post over on Patreon (post available for all).

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Project Century - First Game Test | Steve Emfore

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Behold, a very crunchy render of my WIP model of the Locomotion Replica

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

In 1851, the Semmering Trials were held in Austria. Lesser known than the Rainhill Trials, the Semmering Trials advanced the development of articulated locomotives. This was the early stages of the articulated locomotive, and like any early locomotives, these were wacky designs.

A 4-4-0+0-6-0. Yes that's right. The tender is powered also, with six coupled wheels because why not.

This is an... Uh... It's kind of like a double Fairlie but with a tender and some weird jackshaft drive.

A Mallet type tank engine but also with some added weirdness and outside frames... For some reason.

No this is not one of those exaggerated Victorian depictions. This engine had an oval boiler and tiny weeny driving wheels.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Lumo has shown us that a blue train can work. There's potential with this design right up to the first door. If they had just tkept the lining horizontal from then on, and keep colours blocked, it would be SO much better and even good. Would hark back to NSE and even the APT a little 2/10

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Branding and logo for Great British Railways unveiled

The new red, white and blue branding mirrors the colours of the Union Flag, and will start to appear from next year.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

Please let this be a mockup because this looks awful

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Being deep into early railway history means I see a photo of a locomotive from like the 1890s and my brain goes "oh yeah it's one of the new ones" because my sense of an old engine has been shifted dramatically.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

The fact this many engines from 1829 still exist is crazy. 2 of the 3 competitors of the Rainhill Trials 2 sequencial engines in Rocket and Invicta And whatever was going on at Foster and Rastrick There's also Stourbridge Lion in America but it's missing some bits.

Sans Periel locomotive that competed in the Rainhill Trials in 1829

Invicta locomotive, the direct successor to Rocket, as in it was the literal next engine to be built.

The Agenoria, also built in 1829, by Rastrick. It's notable for it's FUNNEL

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Just make it like Rocket, ok? Don't over complicate the motion. J and C Carmichael:

0-2-4 locomotive with vertical cylinders powering the wheels through a bell crank and also outside framed cranks on the wheels. It's just a mess.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you see this, post a monster. I took it literally.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

A group of Midland engines is called a Derby This is a Derby of engines

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

The fact that railway historians can look at this thing and be like "Yeah that seems about right" says a LOT about how batshit crazy the early days of steam was.

Hackworth (or Hawthorn, not sure) 0-6-0 long engine. This has a reverse flue so the fireman is at the front getting pushed along in his own little tender.

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Steam Road vehicle but it's Flintstones

A steam road vehicle but it's powered by RUNNING

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Steve Emfore @steve-emfore.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Killingworth Locomotive but with extra steps and, what looks like, inside coupling rods. Plus a chain driven tender for extra omph

Stephenson and Dodd's locomotive, dated 1815.

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