Interurban Era
@interurbanera.bsky.social
I make chill scale modeling videos
+ Build custom model railroads for clients
https://lnk.bio/InterurbanEra
+ 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!
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!
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A NEW AGE FOR RAILWAYS (1979)
November 19, 2025 at 3:03 AM
A NEW AGE FOR RAILWAYS (1979)
TIL about the final "intact" Santa Fe 2-8-2 on earth: ATSF 4076. Lost in a flood in the 50's, Santa Fe wrote off the 176 ton locomotive as it disappeared in a flood when the Kaw River burst its banks in Topeka,KS. Recent amateur archaeology rediscovered the tender in the mud, the locomotive attached
November 19, 2025 at 6:01 AM
TIL about the final "intact" Santa Fe 2-8-2 on earth: ATSF 4076. Lost in a flood in the 50's, Santa Fe wrote off the 176 ton locomotive as it disappeared in a flood when the Kaw River burst its banks in Topeka,KS. Recent amateur archaeology rediscovered the tender in the mud, the locomotive attached
I genuinely hope someone does a tabbycat fursuit named chessie one day. It'd be so cute if done well and accurately to the old advertising art from the 40s.
Can you imagine the railfan/furry crossover fandom with Chessie System?
November 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
I genuinely hope someone does a tabbycat fursuit named chessie one day. It'd be so cute if done well and accurately to the old advertising art from the 40s.
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[monstrous voice]
I vant to ride your TRAINS
I vant to ride your TRAINS
November 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
[monstrous voice]
I vant to ride your TRAINS
I vant to ride your TRAINS
...and Phase 3B very much perfected the look. It should just be *The* branding for AMTK, and it never needs to change. We don't need to reinvent crappier things just so they feel new.
It's clean, timeless, and works.
You could put it on Chargers/Airo/Ventures too
It's clean, timeless, and works.
You could put it on Chargers/Airo/Ventures too
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
...and Phase 3B very much perfected the look. It should just be *The* branding for AMTK, and it never needs to change. We don't need to reinvent crappier things just so they feel new.
It's clean, timeless, and works.
You could put it on Chargers/Airo/Ventures too
It's clean, timeless, and works.
You could put it on Chargers/Airo/Ventures too
Genuinely heartwarming news: the contractor I hired to work on the new workshop wants to model the NdeM/FCP in HO scale too after seeing my layout, which reminded him of his childhood home back near Guadalajara. Model railroading brings people together!
November 18, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Genuinely heartwarming news: the contractor I hired to work on the new workshop wants to model the NdeM/FCP in HO scale too after seeing my layout, which reminded him of his childhood home back near Guadalajara. Model railroading brings people together!
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My grandfather and great grandparents briefly lived in one of these after the 1906 earthquake. People who buy historic buildings only to gut them are a special kind of terrible. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...
S.F. opens enforcement case on property where historic S.F. earthquake shacks were destroyed
Preservationists have long fought a developer’s Noe Valley project, which the city red-tagged only after the buildings were reduced to roofs and frames.
www.sfchronicle.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:34 AM
My grandfather and great grandparents briefly lived in one of these after the 1906 earthquake. People who buy historic buildings only to gut them are a special kind of terrible. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/e...
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November 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
This is one of the best exhibition layouts I've ever seen.
- functional wide variety of custom tram models running well
- extensively scratchbuilt structures
- accurate urban fabric
-incredible functional waterway with wakes(!) that boats and ducks make.
- functional wide variety of custom tram models running well
- extensively scratchbuilt structures
- accurate urban fabric
-incredible functional waterway with wakes(!) that boats and ducks make.
"Welcome to an incredible journey through history with this stunning 1/87 scale model railway diorama, recreating the bustling streets and serene canals of Amsterdam from the 1950s to 1960s"
youtu.be/1w6cZCULHPo?...
youtu.be/1w6cZCULHPo?...
Step Back in Time: Amsterdam’s Iconic Canals & Trams in 1:87 Scale | Historical Model Railway Layout
YouTube video by PILENTUM
youtu.be
November 18, 2025 at 4:34 PM
This is one of the best exhibition layouts I've ever seen.
- functional wide variety of custom tram models running well
- extensively scratchbuilt structures
- accurate urban fabric
-incredible functional waterway with wakes(!) that boats and ducks make.
- functional wide variety of custom tram models running well
- extensively scratchbuilt structures
- accurate urban fabric
-incredible functional waterway with wakes(!) that boats and ducks make.
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Big news this morning from Amtrak...
More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18, a new record for “America’s Railroad” and a 5.1 percent increase over the previous year railfan.com/amtrak-break...
Amtrak Breaks Ridership, Revenue Records
More than 34 million passengers climbed aboard Amtrak trains during Fiscal Year 2025, the railroad announced on November 18.
railfan.com
November 18, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Big news this morning from Amtrak...
Carve this in stone.
Bring back popular names as their corporate image. "Monon", "Nickel Plate", and honestly, even "Santa Fe" fits that sweet spot.
Bring back popular names as their corporate image. "Monon", "Nickel Plate", and honestly, even "Santa Fe" fits that sweet spot.
We need a lot fewer alphabet soup railway names.
November 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Carve this in stone.
Bring back popular names as their corporate image. "Monon", "Nickel Plate", and honestly, even "Santa Fe" fits that sweet spot.
Bring back popular names as their corporate image. "Monon", "Nickel Plate", and honestly, even "Santa Fe" fits that sweet spot.
It'll always be "California Pizza KitChen" in my mind. It carries ZERO gravitas as a railroad corporate image. They learned the WRONG lesson from BNSF.
CPKC is one of the dumbest names of all time. Just let KCS be a CP subsidiary like D&H and Soo. I voted against the name change because it's just so dumb sounding.
November 18, 2025 at 4:25 PM
It'll always be "California Pizza KitChen" in my mind. It carries ZERO gravitas as a railroad corporate image. They learned the WRONG lesson from BNSF.
Ph.5 was a weird dead end, since very few of the pax cars ever got it, and only the P42 looked good in it, but it also didn't match anything else, so why did they bother?
phase v was a mistake i'm so sorry
you could've done so much more
you could've done so much more
November 18, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Ph.5 was a weird dead end, since very few of the pax cars ever got it, and only the P42 looked good in it, but it also didn't match anything else, so why did they bother?
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Feels like this must've been this fan trip from 1970, where the train *did* carry revenue passengers on the New Canaan branch! forum.trains.com/t/new-haven-...
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Feels like this must've been this fan trip from 1970, where the train *did* carry revenue passengers on the New Canaan branch! forum.trains.com/t/new-haven-...
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The pre-Guilford post-bankruptcy era Boston & Maine gave zero fucks about maintaining paint jobs and featured some truly atrocious weathering
November 18, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The pre-Guilford post-bankruptcy era Boston & Maine gave zero fucks about maintaining paint jobs and featured some truly atrocious weathering
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I highly recommend being completely consumed by your passions.
November 18, 2025 at 12:12 AM
I highly recommend being completely consumed by your passions.
I love *checks notes* flawed 19th century pseudoscience we never seem to escape.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I love *checks notes* flawed 19th century pseudoscience we never seem to escape.
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November 17, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Chat, what are some of the ugliest US/Canadian paint schemes of all time that are NOT a heritage/ one-off unit?
Post examples!
Also units that: weathered/faded terribly
Post examples!
Also units that: weathered/faded terribly
November 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Chat, what are some of the ugliest US/Canadian paint schemes of all time that are NOT a heritage/ one-off unit?
Post examples!
Also units that: weathered/faded terribly
Post examples!
Also units that: weathered/faded terribly
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Four more shots of 1/20 scale rolling stock I finished for my client, running on his marvelous layout!
November 2, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Four more shots of 1/20 scale rolling stock I finished for my client, running on his marvelous layout!
Next on the Joy of Kitbashing: Pork Tamales served with pork friend rice. (It was delicious despite not being Instagram ready beautiful) )
November 17, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Next on the Joy of Kitbashing: Pork Tamales served with pork friend rice. (It was delicious despite not being Instagram ready beautiful) )
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Traction cousin to the Robbins cylindrical coach.
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Traction cousin to the Robbins cylindrical coach.
Totally tubular, my dudes!
What a wild way to build that.
What a wild way to build that.
The West Roxbury & Roslindale Street Railway Company operated this wacky streetcar with a perfectly cylindrical interior. Ever seen one of these before @interurbanera.bsky.social?
November 17, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Totally tubular, my dudes!
What a wild way to build that.
What a wild way to build that.
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I understand the benefits perfectly, and they make sense, but platform boarding doors for metro systems are my worst nightmare. Removing the rush of air and unobstructed view of a train arriving in a station is an unimaginable loss of romantic feeling and metaphor from society. Don’t @ me about it.
November 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I understand the benefits perfectly, and they make sense, but platform boarding doors for metro systems are my worst nightmare. Removing the rush of air and unobstructed view of a train arriving in a station is an unimaginable loss of romantic feeling and metaphor from society. Don’t @ me about it.