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Interurban Era

@interurbanera.bsky.social

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I make chill scale modeling videos + Build custom model railroads for clients https://lnk.bio/InterurbanEra

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · Nov 13

Hello! I'm Interurban Era

Here's what I do:

+ Build model railroad layouts professionally
+ Make modelbuilding videos on Youtube
+ Design paint schemes for vehicles
+ Kitbash models
+ Illustrate
+ Play games
+ Learn about history & share it here

Follow me if that's the kinds of things you enjoy!

A trio of Brass Suydam models of Interuban Electric Railway cars owned by the Southern Pacific in HO scale (1/87) which I'm rebuilding at the moment. They're running on my own model railroad, the Alat California.

An ALCO RS-1 I kitbashed poses in front of Mexican vernacular homes on my layout set near Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico in 1968. Check out the little bicycle on the locomotive's walkway.

Work in progress show of the redwood forest & hand painted backdrop I'm doing for one of my clients. This layout is called Anchor Bay, and is set in Northern California in 1948.

I have my own railroad I've been building models and writing lore for years: the Alta California Railway, which connects Guadalajara with Oakland California from 1927-199X. I model the late 1960s.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 4h

Yeah, build for future growth! Always worth it.

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Steve Sloan Trains @stevesloantrains.bsky.social · 6h

Cotton Belt (SSW) GP9 3642 sat in the sun in Phoenix, AZ on an unknown date in May 1972. I got this, as a slide about 50 years ago, in trade.
(Photographer Unknown, Steve Sloan Collection)

#train #trains #railroads #railroading #southernpacific #emd #trainspotting #film #filmphotography #Kodachrome

Cotton Belt (SSW) 3642 sat in the sun in Phoenix, AZ on an unknown date in May 1972. I got this in trade. I wish I knew who the photographer of this was. I think it is a fellow named "Jerry". If it is yours, please let me know.
SSW 3642 was an EMD GP9, SP Class EF418C-1. Reportedly: it was built in 1957, builders number 24076, as SSW 821, SSW Class Z-17. In 1965 it was renumbered to SSW 3642. It was upgraded in 1975 becoming GP9E SSW 3811 SP Class EF418-CE3. Retired and sold in 1995. Presumed scrapped.
(Photographer Unknown, Steve Sloan Collection)

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 8h

It's undeniably masterful!

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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 10h

Cons: I know bugger all about railway safety

Pros: the accident reports would be *epic*

The Rail Accident Investigation Branch say "We're recruiting Inspectors of Rail Accidents. We're looking for people who are interested in making a significant contribution to railway safety in the United Kingdom to join our team."

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 9h

You could do a British style exhibition layout with the station modeled with full scenery and then have a backdrop hole and unitrak loop/staging behind it

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 11h

Easily the coolest desk I've ever seen in my life, all steam bent plywood in high Art Moderne style.

Check out how the drawers are made!

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 14h

A bizarre lamp made by railroad signal manufacturer US&S

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 14h

Absolutely spectacular potentially functional WWI era battleship model. The hull construction style is fascinating

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 14h

A thread of fun, funky and interesting antique store finds:

The leather phone is ringing, are you picking up the receiver?

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 16h

This is the correct answer

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

I like that idea too. Which Ringling cars have center vestibules?

That or we buy the "moon glow" and make the center car hahhaa

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Triple unit articulated lounge-grill-lounge. Jacobs trucks, vestibules in the grill section.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Jesus...TWO OF THEM?! Time for @angryscooter77.bsky.social and I to design the ultimate double ended solarium for excursions.

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CIHstudios @cihstudios.bsky.social · 1d

It's one of life's iron clad rules - when you show off a train set for the first time, there will be a sudden derailment or some kind of mechanical failure. No exceptions.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Wait, what is your top ten then?

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Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 1d

yeah.

M. Jeffreson @mjeffreson.bsky.social · 1d

Somewhere waaay down the list of "shit im angry at these fascists for" is the general idea of robbing me of the notion that "things were going to keep getting better".

Maybe not fast enough, maybe not evenly, but as sure as water flows downhill, it was going to.

These fucks.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

But whoof the carbon footprint of all that precast concrete that'll immediately need far more maintenance than any fill might over its lifetime.

Like, I see the benefits to smaller critters, but that bridge proposition is insane.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Look: immolation has to be the most painful way to die, and drowning isn't great, but frappé turns you into that pink goo fast food chicken nuggets are made of almost instantaneously. Less suffering, smoother outcome! 🤣

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Better than being burnt alive or trapped in a sinking Tesla!

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

You don't want to sit amongst frozen fruit on long drives?

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

OMG this is nuts. Yes, even my environmentalist self realizes why 37 needs to be rebuilt, but not like this.

Just build a fill/embankment instead and use some of the money to remediate the land back into more wetland. Also make sure the NWP mainline is included in the fill,& then run SMART on it.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Imagine it now: cabin has two metal flip switches:

off/on
Forward/neutral/reverse/frappe

Body is made from Pyrex glass and cast aluminum.

Vehicle can be repaired with one flathead screwdriver and will last a minimum of 75 years.

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

We really need Hamilton Beach to make an EV

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Matti has a Boo-ty 👻 @mrbtx.bsky.social · 1d

shots of the whole Scotsman tour of the States are wild, but this is one of the wildest

The Bankrupt Scotsman

Leaving Altamont Pass in its wake, almost new U23B 2260 leads LNR 4472, the Flying Scotsman east at Valpico, just west of Tracy, California on its return to Lathrop for storage and eventual sale follo...

flic.kr

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

We really need Hamilton Beach to make an EV

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 1d

Watching HGTV and witnessing in horror as this entire family gets more and more sunburned, as they attempt to buy a house in hurricane storm surge, Texas. Ouch!