80080 Hammersmith Running Round Por Nigel Por Flickr: Over The Weekend Of 3rd, 4th, 5th May The Midland

We love making up fantasy railways. Wizard towers need rail access too. How else do they get all those reagents?

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

Western Region Day at the ELR por David Barker

i think i have an new favorite gadgetbahn

7029 - Barton-under-Needwood por Andrew Edkins Por Flickr: 7029 “Clun Castle” pictured at Barton-under-Needwood hauling the Shakespeare express.

Would you still love your transmission if it was a worm gear?

Every time somebody at work mentions needing some sort of electric insulator with high thermal conductivity, I chime in to suggest making it out of 💎 SOLID DIAMOND 💎 to the point where they've started preempting me to say that they're not buying a hundred thousand dollars worth of 💎 SOLID DIAMOND 💎 as soon as they see me start to perk up

I hate debugging problems caused by changing coefficients. I am being outsmarted by a quantity.

I used to be mad about "whole language" reading approaches in theory but now I work with school-age kids and I am mad about it in practice.

Happy electric motor noises :)

BRIO car ferry for my ~7yo cousin, so he can muck about with toy trains in the tub. Hopefully it prints nicely.