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Hollybush Railway @hollybushrailway.bsky.social · 12h

Nights are fair drawing in! This time of year is great for night shoots on the layout. #modelrail #modelrailway #modelrailroad

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tr273.bsky.social @tr273.bsky.social · 12h

Had a fun few days bringing dead and sick locomotives back to life. We have a LMS Patriot (ill for 20+ years) a King Arthur class (eBay) a Midland Compound (eBay) and a LNER J50 (eBay). Lot of fun working on these. #modelrailway #OO #Modeltrains #modeltrain #railway.

An LMS Patriot class locomotive 'Duke of Sutherland' in LMS Maroon, parked on a bit of track.

A Southern rail King Arthur class locomotive in green on a bit of track.

An LMS Midland Compound locomotive in LMS Maroon.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 8h

Is a railbike real? Looks like you'd be in for some monstrously heavy peddling.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 8h

Wealthy people had their own coaches they'd have hooked up to the train, and that lasted quite a while didn't it?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 22h

That's true. I wonder if there's a canonical reference for all the times he died and came back: Died: Replicartered. Reborn: Oma and the Diner of Death and Life. Nearly Died: My Sha're Ow More... 😁

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

If you've never heard of the "skunk trains", they said they combination of gasoline engine and potbelly oil stove meant you could smell them coming long before you could see them. Seems like they still have at least one of them running! www.skunktrain.com/about/

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About the Skunk Train - World-Famous Skunk Train

Since 1885 A Legacy of Rail The Redwood Route has been carrying trains, cargo, and passengers since 1885, through the majestic setting of Mendocino County’s ancient redwood groves. Learn more about ou...

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

I was surprised when I started reading the history of railroads and realized a lot of early passenger cars were just like this. Well, you'd be darn lucky if they were this nice and had what looks like a decent suspension.

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Joel 🥔 @idsensfan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Cooking up some scenery on the Soo Lin West. #trains #hoscale #nmra

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

Stargate watch party - Atlantis, "The Defiant One" Good episode. Good bad guy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwsQ... #scifi

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LIVE Stargate Atlantis Watch Party, The Defiant One, s1e12

YouTube video by Save Stargate Campaign

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

Outstanding! So do they respect the yellow dividers that much or paint over them in real life?

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Steve Sloan Trains @stevesloantrains.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On Sunday, September 27, 2026, SP 2400 was with 2409 leading a local freight leaving "Pleasanton" after being passed by an ACE train at the Niles train club. (Please see alt field for more detail) #trains #railroads #railroading #modelrailroading #HOscale #tcsme #niles

ALCos At The Crossing
On Sunday, September 27, 2026, SP 2400 was with 2409 leading a local freight leaving "Pleasanton" after being passed by an ACE train. This is at the Tri-City Society of Model Engineers (TCSME) model railroad club in the historic Niles depot in Fremont, CA.
My models are both English (Bowser) ALCo C-415s.
The real SP 2400 was an ALCo C-415, SP Class AS415-1. Reportedly: it was built in 1966 builder's number 3458-1. Sold in 1977 to Fundidora Monterrey a steel mill in Monterrey, Mexico with some other C-415s.
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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

I love these things that look like they were put together over a weekend and beer was involved.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

I think you're right and I was reading a comma there where there wasn't one: "The AEC railmotor was the first generally successful railmotor, built for the Victorian Railways." is how I read it.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

That's really close. It would be matching except for the roof could be silver above green.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

So no problem running them as a pair, no issue with one locomotive pushing the other too hard like often happens?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

What a gorgeous set! What locomotive will you pull it with?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

So are 2400 and 2409 a pair of speed matched locomotives of yours, or belong to different people and have to work together at meets?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 30/09/2026

I know I say "wow" a lot but wow.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

V100! Many a railfan's favorite shunter.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Some trains are easy to model because they're built from giant lego bricks to begin with.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

That stepped hood is bothering me, but let's face it this is very good and gets a shout out for having the train phone. Are these kits people are making or is it all custom made and even the decals?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Phew... found an actual model train in the model trains feed. I know Legos are models too but the awards mean scrolling through a few dozen nominees before finding a scale model train post. Where were we? Ah yes, SST and this club always have amazing HO content. Look at that detail!

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Interesting interpretation of the challenge, the track that goes underneath the Big Boy locomotive?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Haven't seen this before... look how the word "MILK" is recessed into the sides.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

A realistic layout, "Road subject to flooding". Very nice but maybe not as impressive as the city scene earlier?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Wait, maybe I vote for this one. Look at that round table! I didn't know lego could do "round"

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

😯ok i vote for this one. how do you vote?

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

This was a good one to remember.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

This wiki article credits the AEC Railmotor made from 1922 to 1925 for Victorian Railways in Australia as the first "generally successful" one of its kind. Do you think they mean in Australia or anywhere in the world? Regardless, how cool is this? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AEC_rai...

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AEC railmotor - Wikipedia

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

I reckon your neck would feel it by the end of the day, but how cool is this little motor trolley? I wonder if you can sit on like a horse so you don't have to bend your neck 90 degrees. Then again you wouldn't want anything coming up behind you unawares.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Another watch party tonight. These are fun and it's interesting to so many people excited about the shows so much they stay *on topic* in the chat (please)😅

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

That legosnow is hard to assemble, one tiny flake at a time.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

One way to deal with having to transship freight from one rail gauge to another: a wagon transporter to piggyback a whole car onto rails of different width.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 29/09/2026

Definitely. Rokuhan in Z scale followed Kato's lead and has very similar controllers. People don't realize that the "analog" controllers are actually digital Pulse-Width Modulation, and have a power curve built in to provide good low speed operations. They design a lot of thought into them.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

Those Kato blue controllers and switches are so nice looking.👍

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

Are you trying to get it to go nice and slow and purpose or was it doing that even with the throttle turned up? Cleaning the track and rolling stock (carefully, following good tutorials) and checking connectivity are the first steps that solve a whole lot of problems and prevent others.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

Definitely worth a look back at last year's

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

going full retro for the steam locomotive

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

oooo nice one w/ classic SP "bloody nose" theme

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

why haven't i ever seen a consist shown in one pic like this before? it seems obvious now. nice train as well.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

Oh good point. It's Stargate so we could also flipside it and ask "seeing which character come back hit you the hardest?" 😁

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 28/09/2026

Starting in a little while! I can't say this is one of my favorites to rewatch, but if you've never seen it or not in a while, it is a really clever #scifi -centric episode like an old 1950's or 60's magazine story. A little painful to watch!

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

That's kind of nice that it's scoped to UK for those of us who like the event videos and don't get enough BR content, and good for you on the savings lol.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

Have to go see that and take it down to the end and back or something. Getting into model trains has made the full-sized ones fascinating to me, and even the stations and track are cool.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

That was a surprise for me as well, along with things like making "consist" a noun meaning "what the trainset consists of". Half the fun of any new hobby is using all the new words.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

It's a brake van. They used to have special cars with an operator who could apply brakes at the right time for the rest of the trainset so slow down as safely as possible. Needless to say, communication could be challenging.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

oh, good point. facepalm.

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Tachyon Eddy @tachyoneddies.com · 26/09/2026

No this is good info and interesting. I've heard people refer to it as metro. How about the silver line out to the airport (correct me on the color there) and other more recent extensions? How's it divided up between metro and these other co's or services? Many questions now. 😁

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