"There are mysteries I will never understand, but everywhere I look I see proof that for every effect there is a corresponding cause. Even if I can't see it. I find that reassuring."
toying with a new AU, calling it 'Rivets'
ART TRAIN🚂🚋🚋
Share 4 artworks and tag 4 (or more) of your artsy folks!
I haven't done a lot of art but I'll still share the ones I adore making :)
Tagging~
@yakshaspirit.bsky.social
@losercuter.bsky.social
@purplefishbones.bsky.social
@lakendacoda.bsky.social
@valvegearvy.bsky.social and I were talking about how the BR Standards are basically copies of other locomotives, and then I joked about how the A1 was a 'copy' of the Stirling Single and now i have the thought of the HST's being a copy of the Coalbrookdale Locomotive
“I don’t understand escalators” sighed Peter Sam. “What do they do when the basement is filled with steps?”
Sooo yeah. I have Bluesky now. Idk how much I'll use it but just in case Twitter/X does into flames
No rest for the wicked - I’m out at the Aldridge Transport Museum for their ‘Models in the Museum’ event - demonstrating Plas B once more!
Come say hello if you’re in the area!
youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY?...
A nice way to celebrate the 80th Anniversary
Send cha stupid fockin tren to crewe
Stupid fookin' trens
Big Chombas isn't happy
I've got a new video premiering in a few hours! In this video I draw and discuss Neil, along with his boxy colleages that ran the Sodor and Mainland Railway!
youtu.be/zqz39QotYdc?...
believe me. Voicing this in VC is alot funnier than i'd like to admit.
I think I may have been slightly tipsy when recounting the Down the Mine pilot....
Rename your doggo to Swindon works, 1930
NWR Class EM1 electric 2Co+Co2
In the years before Domitia, Bia was often sent up to the quarry if extra help was needed, or if the vertical boiler usually employed was under repair or refused to steam.
#L&P #OCs #leakbeck #portethwaite
This makes so much sense. last Thanksgiving, my Ham was shouting something about cattle trucks.
YO! NEW 80th DROP!
PETER'S HAM HAVE CMOME UP WITH THE SIR HARD TO HAMBLE HAM!
TOTALLY PICKING THIS UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Excursion variant.
B&W Works photo of a 2-6-2 tender engine with an 8 wheel tender. The tender reads LEAKBECK & PORTETHWAITE The Nameplate reads REDCAP
Left hand side view of Redcap in her apple green livery. A tablet/token catcher is visible on her cab side
Cab view of Redcap showing the handle for her tablet catcher
Under side of Redcap, showing the valve gear arrangement, brake rigging, frony and rear pony wheels and everything else under the running board
Loco Legend Works 'Myth' Class; "Redcap"
Styled in preservation to the L&PR's needs, Redcap comes from Scotland, originally built for the Calcots & Dores railway.
She was saved from scrap and floated all the way down to Portethwaite.
Design by @echoesaythglen.bsky.social
#L&P #C&DR #OCs
Not long before my next video is out! Consider this a part two to my Loaned Engines video, where I look at more one-off background characters
youtu.be/RLKQNQAGDwE?...
I figured I should make a bluesky account for #thomasthetankengine related stuff! I've got some interesting projects in the pipeline that I'm hoping to share in due time
In 1934, the PH&E did mass shopping on the MK-4's, and subsequently re-equipped them with coil type feed water heaters instead of the previous bundle.
The coil was a better overall design, with only two coils instead of fifteen bundles. They were easier to wash and service. (Part 3)
The mass rebuilding also introduced a larger sand dome, the installation of Automatic Train Control (ATC), and steam heat lines.
This brought the heavy mike fleet up to dual service standards, and they were seen both powering freight and passengers until retirement in 1958. (Part 4)
Plas Brondanw’s first show of 2025! Come down to the Bournville Narrow Gauge Show and say hello!
linking all big comms here so you can see what you'd get! (outside of the emily and rpg ones) #digitalart #commissions #artwork #art
Puff, the 4-6-0 Bandon tank engine, is travelling through the lush green countryside. In the foreground is a field of shamrocks
Happy Saint Patrick's Day, the day where we celebrate all things green
Been silent for a hot second, I have been cooking up a lot of things all in a short amount of time, expect a flood of equipment in the next few days.
In the meantime, have this second-hand PH&E MT-2.
"Billy wasn't the same when he was built,cheery one he was,but a colliery does things to engine,real shame seeing how he is now." #ThomasAndFriends #TTTE
You should totally go commission @colloquial-kayak.bsky.social . Look at what they did to my boy!! AAAAAA I love him so much
(£30 For somethin like this)