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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 · 8h

I want variable pitch propellers like modern post war aircraft. Simply changing the pitch can trim or reverse thrust for any climate!

a large airplane is taking off from a dirt runway

ALT: a large airplane is taking off from a dirt runway

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Toadie 🏳️‍⚧️ @toadie2k.bsky.social · 12h

[watching several model rail videos by (relatively*) younger modellers while drinking my morning coffee]
.... Is model railroading a twink-coded hobby now?

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 8h

I think we need to increase the water pressure with larger and larger centrifugal pumps until morale improves.

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 15h

Really like this view of Tokyo Central station looking like an alternate reality Chicago circa 1920.

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daviss @chaddavis.photography · 22h

More from today's initial light rail vehicle roll down the Southwest LRT route. Construction began in 2018 and Metro Transit says passengers will ride in 2027. Over the Kenilworth Channel, leaving W Lake St Station, arriving at W 21st St Station, exiting the Kenilworth tunnel.

light rail train over the Kenilworth Channel

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

I unironically think we should return to #subway tokens for transit.

They can be any price, they don't expire.

There is no technological failure mode for them, sensors can reject counterfeit slugs.

You can give them to people who need them, and if designed well, make nice collectables.

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Rachel Cole @rmartincole.bsky.social · 17h

Cover for U.S. Department of Energy report "The charge of the future: an introduction to electric and hybrid vehicles." The design features an image of two cars with segmented lines.

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Anna @actuallyannalise.bsky.social · 17h

Slides, especially medium and large format slides, feel almost like stained glass windows into a memory.

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Paul Scot August @theretrolounge.bsky.social · 17h

Found it.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 18h

Honestly grateful slides are the standard way to shoot railroad subjects. Archivists in the future will thank you for it.

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Marco Chitti @chittimarco.bsky.social · 21h

Interesting video on the installation of ballast-less tracks on prefab slabs at Roma Termini. A first of its kind in Italy for a surface station.

youtu.be/g4hIzknVchA?...

FAST System Installation - Track Renewal at Roma Temini railway station

YouTube video by Salcef Group

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 18h

(insert inane screed about bikes being ablest before having to use a stepladder to get into your lifted F-350 super duty)

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politicsofcars.bsky.social @politicsofcars.bsky.social · 18h

Or, lean into the collectible aspect, have fare free transit and distribute tokens as challenge coins for riders who want one. Riding late at night or weekends, on holidays, unannounced days could have drops for collectible tokens, special tokens for kids, etc.

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CB&Q Fanatic 🏳️‍⚧️ @cbq-fanatic.bsky.social · 18h

I have several tokens but these two are by far my favorites.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 18h

That makes more sense. The Clipper card here in the bay has full data on you and your payment info, which is suboptimal.

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Ben S @bensh3.bsky.social · 18h

China and Eastern Europe use plastic tokens with RFID capability to tap on the same reader. At the end of the distance-based single trip, the token is deposited into the turnstile to exit. Same functionality as the paper ticket without the waste

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 18h

I love this idea. Make them from brass (or plate them) for hygiene and you've got my vote for a new token system!

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 18h

Main disadvantages of cards are: if you lose it, you have to be somewhat tech savvy to terminate the card and you may lose the balance.

You also have to make a full profile for yourself and share back card info with her another agency that might be hacked at some point and expose your data.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

This idea could be in addition to contactless systems, if you had the ability on hand to do so.

I flatly dislike the idea of tying it directly to a bank card or a battery dependant phone or cruddy app.

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

Chili-ean embassy!

old roadside pics @roadside.xor.blue · 19h

embassy diner, chicopee, massachusetts, 1978

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

Also Euro small distance brain that we'd actually need to be on a train most of a day or evening to get where we need to go. The lady good seats are in the Amtrak Amcal bilevels, nice and squishy!

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 19h

Oooh that'll be so fun. Please tag me in any of your Z scale ideas!

Where'd you want to model?

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 20h

Endlessly deep rabbit hole. Do you already have a layout?

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 21h

Looks like a Chrysler 300 who actually pays to access Sturmfront forums as an SS tier member.