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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 | 30 | (They/She/It) Alt @spitfire-rambles.bsky.social Feel free to DM. I dont bite (mostly).

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · Oct 10

Fascists dont exist in my model railroad.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 1m

A bit more work on the coach. Got the inner handrails and roof clerestory finished.
Last to do but certainly not least is the outer handrails and associated ironwork.

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 25m

Literally me

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 1d

The coach got trucks and underframe along with the other end vestibule.
And this time I went with 4 wheel trucks just like my previous narrow vestibule car.

Coach with 4 wheel trucks, trussrods, and underframe tanks.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 2d

Yep. Mostly all wood.

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 3d

A little bit of work last night but important work nontheless. Found a design for the doors I can live with.
The doors themselves are Bitter Creek castings.
Now to make the other end match.

Unfinished wood coach with a narrow vestibule.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 4d

We went to that one last year.

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

I bought 15lb which worked out to a good thickness for tichy turnbuckles.

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

Trains with fricken laser beams on them. Also a GP35.

GP something or another. Idk its not steam.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

More trains

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

Metro North Open House in New Haven, CT.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

These cars arent for a specific train. Its just all generic coaching stock for the early 20th century.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 5d

Im sorry? Im not understanding your question.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 6d

Last night saw the new baggage cars get a run in.

6 car train of RPO, express mail, and passengers

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 8d

New coach has been started. A 60' labelle 1905 kit with slightly shortened sides because Im turning it into another narrow vestibule car.
Annoyingly, due to the shortening, the windows are now not aligned. Oh well.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 9d

After a week of low energy I finally found the drive to put decals on the baggage cars.

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Forest Litz @prrshepherd.bsky.social · 10d

The locomotive from my last post is now back together and ready for service, now with an added B unit!

Can't wait to bring them to the club for their test/shake down run.

#modeltrain
#modeltrains

A Key Imports Alco PA A and B set is now ready for service!

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 15d

Gods, I have a need

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 15d

Wish I could make myself useful.

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 16d

To check clearances in tunnels and around lineside objects.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearan...

Clearance car - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 16d

Cant recall if Ive posted about this before. This is a Mantua clearance car that I found on ebay a while back.
All I did to it was clean it up, add my usual monofillament trussrods, and paint.
At some point I want to make a more accurate one, if anyone has any turn of the century photos of them.

Mantua clearance car sans trucks in black and green.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17d

Thank you

Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17d

Baggage cars are coming together. Got the black on the letterboard, roof, and underframe.

Two wooden baggage cars fully painted sans lettering

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Forest Litz @prrshepherd.bsky.social · 17d

The newest locomotive project is underway!! Always like to fully tear down a locomotive to give it a full service. Bonus points if anyone can guess the locomotive!

#modeltrain
#modeltrains

A HO locomotive layed out in all its pieces.

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17d

Its obviously another K4

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Tegan 🏳️‍⚧️ @spitfire.bsky.social · 17d

More club fuckery, this time with @charliefrom215.bsky.social's E6, @prrshepherd.bsky.social's RS3, and my B11k.

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