one of us! One of us!
13.03.2026 02:06
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one of us! One of us!
The full thing is available to listen on Internet Archive. Very contemporary for the 60's, and rather ironic in the modern day knowing the Northern Pacific only had 6 more years of existence beyond this album's release!
Fun fact: on their 100th anniversary in 1964, the Northern Pacific Railway celebrated by commissioning a 40 minute long opera about their many achievements, which they called "A Thousand Miles of Mountains". Here's a brief selection from it! It's a fun listen.
A pair of U25C’s and some F units await shop time at Livingston, MT. Photo credit Roger Lalonde
Long story short I should have an actual model railroad by the summer but it’s gonna be kinda wacky. I’ll post pictures when I actually start building it
Been hung up on a yard since I want one but also want a roundhouse of some caliber. I think it’s doable with the track plan I have in mind but it might be a little tight. The yards not gonna be big (only 3 tracks prolly) but it should be enough to be fun. Also trying to save space for MOW equipment
Three U25C’s and a dynamometer car sail past the camera at Connell, WA, on their maiden voyage. Photo credit Bruce Butler
I’m modeling the Northern Pacific in Washington almost exclusively because I can run lots (and I mean LOTS) of U25C/U28C’s. I don’t really run passenger but I do want the option to run them if necessary so I’m trying to avoid 18” radius curves
Getting to the end of the planning stage of my HO scale layout and getting dangerously close to the “making it” part, which is kind of scary. Hardest part right now is trying to finish a track plan that I like and will support the running I want to do
Nocturnal scene of the depot at Guadalajara, Mexico with two passenger trains.
The Alta California Railway meets Nacionales De Mexico at Guadalajara, commissioned by @interurbanera.bsky.social . (Not gonna lie, this has to be one of the best things I've ever done)
If any of you model railroad guys want a portrait of your finest (or grubbiest) motive power, drop us a line!
After 9 yeareals, it's finally my turn to post the "a thousand cereals" clip, seeing as how I'm the idiot who made it.
shameful admission my gf got me into overwatch again....
NEW POST!
Making models when money is tight: A guide to maximizing joy and not wasting money on unnecessary tools/ materials.
www.patreon.com/posts/making...
TYCO would probably post some absolute bangers
TRAINS/TRNAPR91.GIF
made a new pinned post that includes my linktree because it was starting to get kind of cluttered otherwise. I also have an artstation now! Go check it out, it's not complete but it does have some cool stuff I've made on it
doggard.artstation.com
My OC's, Ike and Vivian
An EMD SD7
The cab of a GE Shovelnose
Five GE C30-7's in various paint jobs
Hi! My name is Doggard. I'm a light rail train operator by day and a hard surface 3D artist by night. I research railroad equipment and technical data, too! Check out my portfolio and my blog to see the stuff I make.
linktr.ee/doggard
I see the vision
bunker c burning gas turbine fired pizza
An orthographic Blender screenshot of my OC, Vivian.
anyways. rant over, ai bad, you know how it is. have a texture test i did a week ago as a treat
"but what if I don't have any music experience??" then learn? or get someone else to help you? i revel in the beauty of learning and doing something new. yeah i'm gonna make something that sucks at first. you have to make a few crayon houses before you can paint starry night
i would rather listen to a low quality piano midi or someone's first attempt at music than a computer hallucination. imperfection and edge is what creates art. it's ok to not be perfect but it isn't ok to steal
It gets worse when you see entire channels and accounts on music sharing sites like spotify and youtube that post nothing but AI generated music tagged as "oldies for easy listening to" with an AI generated picture of some mid century art masquerading as real music
I was looking at stock library music a few weeks ago (mostly out of curiosity) and I was appalled by how much music available to aspiring game devs and upstart youtubers is AI generated. To find anything at all that wasn't slop took some serious work that SHOULD be unnecessary.
I really strongly dislike all forms of AI, but the one that's drawing the most ire right now (to me) is AI music. Trying to find any kind of music from a sound library or from any royalty free place now is borderline impossible because literally everything made after ~2024 is AI generated (🧵)
I used to live near a Trader Joe’s with a massive mural of a pair of SD70M’s in UP paint labeled “Trader Joes Express”! I need to start collecting TJ’s train art pictures since it’s apparently a common thing
A Siemens S700 LRV basks in the sunlight.
was a nice day today
A Green Line trolley stands by at signal E26LB while an oncoming Orange Line train moves across the interlocking to the opposite platform.
Interlocking E26 is a fun place to photograph the trolley. A lot happens here (it’s where the Green and Orange lines end) and so stuff moves through here a lot
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mr. i’s monotonous moving day
today I bought a couch. Somehow it feels like i passed a threshold and I’m officially an adult
