Tom (RESIN PRINT COMMS OPEN, DM)

BEHOLD Duncan V3.5, he’s a plain blunt engine Now with correct slidebar, crosshead and eccentrics ;) The shell, new cylinders and water cap pieces are by Westcliff Works, who I HIGHLY recommend buying this kit from and browsing the rest of their range ;) More dets below —>

I made another piece for the RWS 80th Art Collab, tried doing a Peter & Gunvor Edwards style here, enjoy! #RWS80thCollab

Character concepts and redesigns for my storyboard adaptation of "Escape" - - - #ThomasandFriends #therailwayseries #britishrailways #Railways #ChildrensBooks #Literature #characterdesign #illustration #storyboard #animation

If you're worried about ticks, put up an owl box. The animal driving most Lyme disease in the eastern US is the white-footed mouse. Ticks that feed on them are far more likely to come away infected than ticks that feed on other animals. The bigger the local mouse population, the worse the next year's tick year. A single barred owl pair raising chicks can take hundreds of rodents in a breeding season. Owls also don't carry Lyme. The bacterium can't survive their digestive tract, so an owl that eats an infected mouse is a dead end for the disease. Researchers at the Cary Institute, the leading lab on Lyme ecology, have been explicit about this: "Landscapes that support predators have reduced Lyme disease risk." One owl box on its own isn't going to fix a tick year. But a yard with owls, foxes, bobcats, and weasels in it has fewer mice, and a yard with fewer mice has fewer infected ticks. If you have woods or fields nearby, a properly sized barn owl or screech owl box (different species, different boxes) is one of the most useful single things you can do for tick exposure at the landscape scale. Match the box to the owl that lives near you. The mouse is the problem, owls are the solution.

shoutout to the man who asked me about magic railroad at this wedding. cannot escape. ❤️

Forever doomed to be called nothingburger potential men because the publishers got too lost in the TV series sauce 💔

Rickety

🚨 do you understand what happened to Stephen Colbert.. 24 hours after his final Late Show, Colbert hijacked a tiny public access channel in Monroe, Michigan with Jack White, Eminem, Jeff Daniels and Steve Buscemi. Now Paramount - the company that just cancelled his show - is mass-blocking every reupload worldwide via Content ID. And the deeper you dig, the worse it looks: - The finale pulled 6.74M viewers - a weeknight record over 11 years - Eminem cameoed as "Marshall, the fire marshal" to greenlight torching the set - The same day Trump posted an AI video of throwing Colbert into a dumpster, Colbert aired footage of himself burning a real one - Mayday Network and verified journalist Matthew Keys both got blocked globally - for sharing a community access show Paramount cancelled his show to silence him. Instead they handed him a Streisand-effect comeback 10x bigger than the show ever was.

pro-public transit is pro-car. when more people who use public transit, less people have to drive. freeing up the roads and making driving more enjoyable, even in low safe speeds

@the_chairlord It do be happening

The old closed cab is hideous and I'd gladly rewrite history to pretend it never existed. Other than that, my favorite loco on the TR!

Pope Leo XIV on AI: “Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”

@GingerOnRails Idk how to tell you this but Midlander got a FULL body swap lol Tho I agree, her powertrain could’ve maybe been upgraded in such a way to keep her original body, cause man Until she was in her current black livery, she was not a great looker after that rebuild

With all the capabilities we have today, this locomotive could easily be rebuilt to have a less awkward front end.

U.L.P

Alright fellas, show your ages through trains; I'm old enough to remember when these things were racing through Peterborough

After some difficulty I'm updating a few rules! Make sure to take a read if you're considering comissioning me in future! Also! Comissions will close from the 26th of May till the 15th of June as I will take a break myself!

The government is shutting down the nation’s primary bee research lab, right in the middle of the worst honeybee die off in history. 1.6 MILLION colonies lost in under a year. Commercial beekeepers hit with 62% losses. Meanwhile, researchers are discovering that bee venom (melittin) can kill cancer cells (including aggressive breast cancer) often within 60 minutes in lab tests. Bees pollinate $18 BILLION in U.S. crops. And we’re closing the lab? This is insane.🐝

@SortaScouse @TrainMaster_36 ^

@TrainMaster_36 good thing it isn't then, there are many many differences between the railway when you look outside of the locos

The Skarloey does not need to be a carbon copy of the Talyllyn. I understand WHY it is and what the RWS did for the railway, but it feels too.... 'uninspired' to say the least. Sodor is fictional and meant to be in 'our world'; having a carbon copy of the Talyllyn just is odd.

@gpplumtreeworks @Expl_Cookie @NMsTrains I stayed a bit after the 5wdry. And as much as I loved the hustle and festivities, let’s say, on the Awdry etc stuff, the TR normally day to day is just A nice place to be? I have to admit the “Disney style” remark, as someone who’s been to WDW a fair bit, is baffling-

@Expl_Cookie @NMsTrains Also curious. Each time me and the partner have visited, its felt very quiet and peaceful with a good collective of kind volunteers. Admittedly we have never done a gala

The Corris is a better line to visit locally. I’m sorry I love any chance to visit a preserved railway but the Talyllyn felt more like a Disney style attraction to me. Had a far better time whilst riding behind the new(ish) Tattoo and replica coaches, where it was far nicer.

@askhamhall1772 @Expl_Cookie @NMsTrains Well she can’t help be fabulous can she

@Expl_Cookie @NMsTrains Douglas being an absolute princess does it a bit