InterurbanEra

Building Models & Making Videos

🚋Chill model making videos & railroad history.🚊


✨I'm one of the few people on planet Earth whose day job is building model railroads for a living! It's very fun. ✨


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InterurbanEra
@InterurbanEra
barabinson
@barabinson asked:

I don’t want to pester too much but I’d love if you could share some resources for a beginner train enthusiast. I’m talking how they work, different models and designs, maybe some global railroad history. Like if someone asked you: “Hey, I want to learn about trains,” what would be the first thing you’d recommend them to read or watch? (Real trains, not models)

BIG PICTURE: Most people with a desire to know about trains want to know:

-What kind of trains am I seeing near me, or what trains have I seen in my life?
-How do locomotives work?
-History of railroad lines & systems
-How to identify types of trains? (locomotives & rolling stock)

Youtube is probably the most fun way to learn about trains, big exciting videos with (hopefully) lush visuals to kindle interest at any age and comprehension level. Here's some of my favorite channels/videos to help you learn efficiently and potentially grow what'll definitely be a lifelong passion.


InterurbanEra
@InterurbanEra

At least for me, the "read more" keeps collapsing and doesn't allow me to read the bottom 2/3rd of the article, so here it is in full for free up on my Patreon


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also the render error is a result of having dynamic embeds below the read more, (ie, iframely type ones that link to other websites and generate previews), it changes the post length and causes an auto readmore to force itself into being.

the easiest way to fix it is to insert a manual read more at a strategic point earlier in the post. this is done with three dashes on their own line, a line break separating them from the paragraphs above and below

so like this

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no spaces after the dashes or you just get a horizontal line

also for people on the "post viewing" side coming across a post with this render error you just gotta open the post up directly so it opens every read more and doesn't try to shorten it live