Building Models & Making Videos
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🚋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. ✨
► Go ahead and PLEASE comment on posts, I want to start great conversations on here!
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.
Check out the beautiful period 1950 map I produced and learn about the history of the railroad here:
I'm so excited to show off a project 9(!) years in the making, the first SD45 painted in the Mexico68 paint scheme for my Alta California Railway.
I did that Tom Fawell inspired watercolor of the SD45 back in 2015 not long after I began working on the ALTA concept for the first time. Over the years a lot of refinement and changes were made to the railroad, its story, and the paint schemes.
The color scheme was directly inspired by the striking work done by a design firm for the Mexico olympics, the Magenta + Orange was used in some of the stadium decoration and wayfinding signage. Since the ALTA played a large part in transporting people and materials to the games, it was natural for the railroad to draw inspiration from it for the next generation of motive power on the railroad.
Now all that's left to do is final detailing, handrails and glass in the cab.