Jimgress
@jimgress.bsky.social
I will not shut up about mass transit
Yea I got enchanted by the 40th and Shafter yard. I really looking at local history by visiting various former locations. I just gotta build this yard. It's so wild that the Bay Area had effective Interurban transit in 1940. People often don't know how long electric lines existed out here.
February 13, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Yea I got enchanted by the 40th and Shafter yard. I really looking at local history by visiting various former locations. I just gotta build this yard. It's so wild that the Bay Area had effective Interurban transit in 1940. People often don't know how long electric lines existed out here.
Sweet! That's the railroad I'm modeling for my garden railroad!
February 13, 2026 at 8:18 AM
Sweet! That's the railroad I'm modeling for my garden railroad!
The end of the Key system and the Sacramento Northern's passenger service is my villain arc. It is exactly why I have a garden railroad. I am building #modeltrains 100% out of spite.
California deserves an interurban electric that connects downtown Sacramento with downtown Oakland or SF transbay terminal via the (now) much larger towns of the East Bay... Oh wait we ripped it up like morons in 1955.
Sacramento deserves a regional rail system. What would it take to build it?
February 6, 2026 at 10:45 PM
The end of the Key system and the Sacramento Northern's passenger service is my villain arc. It is exactly why I have a garden railroad. I am building #modeltrains 100% out of spite.
The past ten years of consumer level 3D printing have been astonishing. It's why I'm so excited for G scale modeling despite it's niche position in #modelrailroad culture.
N-scale color printing is primarily a matter of high dimensional precision. Things have to fit together. Did you guess the prototype? The model is exact, but the paint scheme is not, that is just a test bed to train my color printing skills
February 6, 2026 at 9:12 PM
The past ten years of consumer level 3D printing have been astonishing. It's why I'm so excited for G scale modeling despite it's niche position in #modelrailroad culture.
Uhm where did you get that dare fanny pack? #askingforafriend #imthefriend
February 1, 2026 at 8:19 AM
Uhm where did you get that dare fanny pack? #askingforafriend #imthefriend
That's so good. Captured that era of illustration perfectly.
January 31, 2026 at 9:17 PM
That's so good. Captured that era of illustration perfectly.
ICE is already yanking non-white people at random for no reason whatsoever, and you think they somehow wouldn't do the exact same with thousands of voting lines in key swing states because it'd be illegal?
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January 29, 2026 at 10:44 PM
ICE is already yanking non-white people at random for no reason whatsoever, and you think they somehow wouldn't do the exact same with thousands of voting lines in key swing states because it'd be illegal?
Yeah. Thankfully the used market for G scale is generally pretty good if sparse. Most hoppers (other than AML) go for $50-$70 used. But that's still more $$ than 3D printing them. I typically can print 2 and 1/4 of them for one spool of ASA ($25) and hardware is another $20.
January 29, 2026 at 7:37 PM
Yeah. Thankfully the used market for G scale is generally pretty good if sparse. Most hoppers (other than AML) go for $50-$70 used. But that's still more $$ than 3D printing them. I typically can print 2 and 1/4 of them for one spool of ASA ($25) and hardware is another $20.
While Bachmann released a new catalog today, you wouldn't notice much "Large scale #trains" other than $230 hoppers. Meanwhile in a year you'd see a dozen or so high quality models from just 2 makers, 512 Designs and RandyMower. #3DPrinting makes obscure #modeltrains scales thrive.
January 29, 2026 at 6:21 PM
While Bachmann released a new catalog today, you wouldn't notice much "Large scale #trains" other than $230 hoppers. Meanwhile in a year you'd see a dozen or so high quality models from just 2 makers, 512 Designs and RandyMower. #3DPrinting makes obscure #modeltrains scales thrive.
Fan of old timey western #trains ? Well modeler "swright3" has uploaded a gorgeous 1:20.3 Fn3 Combine that would look great next to your LGB D&RGW wood coaches. Yet another lovely example of #3Dprinting making #modeltrains more accessible. cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
January 29, 2026 at 6:05 PM
Fan of old timey western #trains ? Well modeler "swright3" has uploaded a gorgeous 1:20.3 Fn3 Combine that would look great next to your LGB D&RGW wood coaches. Yet another lovely example of #3Dprinting making #modeltrains more accessible. cults3d.com/en/3d-model/...
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January 24, 2026 at 8:05 PM
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The Thiel presidency. Oligarchs should get credit not the puppet.
January 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The Thiel presidency. Oligarchs should get credit not the puppet.
I'm reminded every single time I look in the Discover tab and see the most brainrot takes. I'm glad I stick to my self curated feeds.
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January 20, 2026 at 10:10 AM
I'm reminded every single time I look in the Discover tab and see the most brainrot takes. I'm glad I stick to my self curated feeds.
Well please let me know when you complete that project! I'd love one of those.
January 19, 2026 at 9:20 PM
Well please let me know when you complete that project! I'd love one of those.
Yea, it would be great to have a consolidated source of train-related 3D print models. I spend a lot of time searching via yeggi, and then manually scraping printables, cults3d and thingiverse and still some stuff falls through the cracks. It would also be helpful to track what is and isn't made yet
January 19, 2026 at 4:50 PM
Yea, it would be great to have a consolidated source of train-related 3D print models. I spend a lot of time searching via yeggi, and then manually scraping printables, cults3d and thingiverse and still some stuff falls through the cracks. It would also be helpful to track what is and isn't made yet
The newest #modeltrains releases in G Scale aren't from major manufacturers, but 3D printed designs. Not 1 but 2 different SD9 models have been released online for free, by 512 Designs and BAGRS president Roger Nicholson. Further proof that 3D printing is the future of garden #trains scales.
January 19, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The newest #modeltrains releases in G Scale aren't from major manufacturers, but 3D printed designs. Not 1 but 2 different SD9 models have been released online for free, by 512 Designs and BAGRS president Roger Nicholson. Further proof that 3D printing is the future of garden #trains scales.
wow, @4allout.bsky.social sounds like he's just another brainrot Wehraboo who glazes nazi general memoirs and has the historical intelligence of Grok with Elon settings set to full cringe. At this point it's not worth taking pseudo-intellectual fake "historian" dipshits like this seriously.
January 19, 2026 at 3:57 PM
wow, @4allout.bsky.social sounds like he's just another brainrot Wehraboo who glazes nazi general memoirs and has the historical intelligence of Grok with Elon settings set to full cringe. At this point it's not worth taking pseudo-intellectual fake "historian" dipshits like this seriously.
It's Friday. That means you can start thinking about running #trains tonight. Just think about a weekend where you just watch this #modeltrain roll back and forth across a tiny garden bridge.
January 16, 2026 at 8:43 PM
It's Friday. That means you can start thinking about running #trains tonight. Just think about a weekend where you just watch this #modeltrain roll back and forth across a tiny garden bridge.
New #modeltrain day. As my usual M.O. I got a worn out #train and need to print new siderods, new trailing truck, new trailing wheels and redo the entire main shell to look like the Southern Pacific A6 Atlantics.
January 16, 2026 at 6:45 PM
New #modeltrain day. As my usual M.O. I got a worn out #train and need to print new siderods, new trailing truck, new trailing wheels and redo the entire main shell to look like the Southern Pacific A6 Atlantics.
Gotta love some convincing ground cover for your garden railway. The combo of low growing plants and consistent trackside elements like service line poles goes a long way. #modeltrains
January 13, 2026 at 6:55 PM
Gotta love some convincing ground cover for your garden railway. The combo of low growing plants and consistent trackside elements like service line poles goes a long way. #modeltrains
My toxic #modeltrain trait is finding 3D printed #trains and pairing them with a Southern Pacific equivalent that still operated in 1941. Printable Railroads released a 1:22.5 scale 4-4-0 Jupiter that would require only *some* mods to become a Class E-23 of which only 3 remained on the roster.
January 13, 2026 at 6:21 PM
My toxic #modeltrain trait is finding 3D printed #trains and pairing them with a Southern Pacific equivalent that still operated in 1941. Printable Railroads released a 1:22.5 scale 4-4-0 Jupiter that would require only *some* mods to become a Class E-23 of which only 3 remained on the roster.
The best part of #trains and #modeltrains is when the real trains look like models and the models look like real trains.
January 12, 2026 at 3:36 AM
The best part of #trains and #modeltrains is when the real trains look like models and the models look like real trains.
Clearly they didn't learn anything from Child's Play 2.
January 11, 2026 at 1:58 AM
Clearly they didn't learn anything from Child's Play 2.
Hey O Scale folks out there, is there a common piece of rolling stock, locomotive or other aspect of your scale that is historically expensive and not budget friendly as new? Seems like this Atlas offering is a rare win for rolling stock compared to Lionel #modeltrains #trains #modelrailroading
January 8, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Hey O Scale folks out there, is there a common piece of rolling stock, locomotive or other aspect of your scale that is historically expensive and not budget friendly as new? Seems like this Atlas offering is a rare win for rolling stock compared to Lionel #modeltrains #trains #modelrailroading
I believe it's in Oregon.
January 7, 2026 at 12:10 AM
I believe it's in Oregon.