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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 07:57:29 No.11718269 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>11718304 >>11719582 >>11721726 >>11724859

/Model Railway General/ aka /Train/

Lust provoking image edition (100% real no fake)

>what's your scale
>what's your region
>what's your era
>what are you working on
>whatever else you want to talk about
>what

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 08:44:44 No.11718304 Report

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>>11718269
Maybe this wouldn’t be needed if the 14 day shit wasn’t in effect

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 11:21:49 No.11718364 Report

Quoted By: >>11718424

So my D51 has 4 different number plate options, and I can't really decide which one to put on. Is there any method to this? Or is it literally just "choose the one you like"?

Anyway I can choose between 352, 453, 611, 829, incase anybody feels strongly about one of them, or has a suggestion... I believe only 453 survives irl.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 13:44:07 No.11718424 Report

Quoted By: >>11718433 >>11719066

>>11718364
People will often pick a plate based on if they are modelling a particular region like Hokkaido to have the train be accurate to what they are modelling. Otherwise yeah, pick one you like.
Based on my Google Fu, 453 is preserved in a park in Chiba.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/s9wxHwtN9zNx3RZ49?g_st=ac

Also a couple of the driving wheels for 611 are preserved.
I found a bit of history on a Wikimedia commons page with the photo of one of the wheels that I machine translated.
>This car body was completed at Hitachi Kasado Plant on March 27, 1941. Its serial number is 1442 and its body number is 611. It was assigned to the Nagoya Bureau on April 9 and then stationed in Kofu District, after which it was transferred to Tsuruga, Fukui, Hamamatsu, Shizuoka, Niitsu, and Goryokaku Districts. It was scrapped and dismantled in Takikawa District, but its main and third driving wheels are preserved. The third driving wheel is on display in front of Sakamachi Station in Murakami City, Niigata Prefecture. The image shows the main driving wheel, which is on display at the Koda Town Local History Museum in Shimizu, Fukamizō, Koda Town, Nukata District.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_driving_wheel_of_JNR_Class_D51_%28D51_611%29_%2821032009071%29.jpg

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Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 13:59:10 No.11718433 Report

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>>11718424
>People will often pick a plate based on if they are modelling a particular region like Hokkaido to have the train be accurate to what they are modelling.
Ah right, makes sense. I'm just going for "Japan", and picking trains I like (but trying to get the rolling stock accurate atleast).
I'll see if I can find where each would have ran originally, and see if I know any of those places from anything I may have watched or whatever and have any level of fondness for, and go with that number.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 20 Feb 2026 14:08:27 No.11718436 Report

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>>11718433
Well I've given you the info for 611.
If you read the Google Maps reviews for 453, someone mentions that it worked in the Kagoshima and Sendai regions, which are almost at opposite ends of the country.
I will dig a bit more for you on the other two, but nothing was showing up when I looked for them earlier.

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Anonymous Sat 21 Feb 2026 01:51:11 No.11719008 Report

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Anyone have a crack for SCARM2?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 21 Feb 2026 02:58:54 No.11719066 Report

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>>11718424
Ya I generally check if the historic route matches my layout, then check if one engine had a particularly interesting story behind it or any spectacular prominence and go from there.
If nothing really fits I pick a number that's dissimilar to my existing engines.
On rare occasions there's a number that fits with other aspects of my life (352 is the original displacement of Ford's FE big block and all 352/360/390 blocks are cast with "352" on the front- which would include the 1968 GT350 Mustang in the movie Bullitt)

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Anonymous Sat 21 Feb 2026 19:32:50 No.11719582 Report

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>>11718269
>op trawling shutterstock for spank material so his mom doesn't see him visit naughty sites

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Anonymous Sun 22 Feb 2026 01:55:42 No.11719844 Report

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>>11719582
please don't tell her

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Anonymous Sun 22 Feb 2026 04:44:40 No.11719912 Report

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You know, I never really cared about lighting on/in trains, but after installing lights in a rake of coaches, I now HAVE to do it to every piece of rolling stock I own. It makes such a difference.

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Anonymous Mon 23 Feb 2026 00:38:18 No.11720664 Report

Quoted By: >>11721514

If I want to practice painting and weathering models would it be cheapest to practice on rolling stock easily available to me within my country?

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 01:00:35 No.11721514 Report

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>>11720664
I mean, probably, yeah?
Just go on [used item website of choice] and buy a cheap bulk lot of old rolling stock to practice on.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 02:16:06 No.11721581 Report

Quoted By: >>11721648

One iteration 3 of 3D Printing Lady on my P1S. Going to remove the "Lady" name plate on her side in favor of a Waterslide sticker of the name in gold foil.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 03:35:54 No.11721648 Report

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>>11721581
Neat
I'm planning to get a 3D printer later this year

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 05:48:13 No.11721726 Report

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>>11718269
What's a cheap train to get as a cat toy?

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 05:49:49 No.11721729 Report

Quoted By: >>11721733 >>11721734

>>11721726
Hornby Playtrains

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 05:52:20 No.11721733 Report

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>>11721729
Seems legit, do you know if you can keep these things running 24/7 or if there's a big button version a cat could use?

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 05:53:51 No.11721734 Report

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>>11721729
I'm afraid they'd knock them off the tracks too. I don't want them to get hurt.

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Anonymous Tue 24 Feb 2026 22:34:20 No.11722179 Report

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I kinda like the idea of trains going around a track but I could just play Factorio because holy shit the price of Hornby stuff is outrageous.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 01:43:28 No.11722349 Report

Quoted By: >>11722444

Should I just bite the bullet and join a Club? The space for my Layout is so tiny, but with a Club I gotta convert my Engines to DCC.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 03:39:44 No.11722444 Report

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>>11722349
Take the N scale pill

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 06:32:49 No.11722546 Report

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>>11722444
I think I should. I already have an N-Scale I got from a Train Show with 5 couches, and an Ebay seller offered me a deal on a Kato D51.

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 07:15:40 No.11722564 Report

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>>11722546
If it's the model number 2016-9 D51, they're basically giving them away on Amazon (although I guess it depends on country).
I got mine for AU$82 (on a slight discount), but right now they're kind of fluctuation in and out of stock by Amazon Japan (offering the low price), and 3rd party sellers listing them for twice that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 07:43:09 No.11722579 Report

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>>11722564
Huh, $95 ain't bad but then I gotta find accurate coaches

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Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 07:49:48 No.11722581 Report

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>>11722579
Got you covered 10-034.
Add interior lighting kit 11-214 for maximum comfy.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 25 Feb 2026 08:45:16 No.11722617 Report

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Where's the Hattons replacement?

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Feb 2026 07:17:41 No.11724357 Report

Quoted By: >>11724741

Learned a neat trick, if you're installing interior lighting on coaches or whatever away from your layout, just grab a spare piece of track, and put a 9v battery upside down on it, each side touching each rail, now you have a place to test it. Works on both N and HO/OO

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 27 Feb 2026 18:57:06 No.11724741 Report

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>>11724357
Now I want to do this in the club car while having lunch on a trip through the Alps.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Feb 2026 21:24:06 No.11724859 Report

Quoted By: >>11724909

>>11718269
has anyone bought from the bradford exchange? i'm thinking of getting their coca-cola through the years train set.

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Anonymous Fri 27 Feb 2026 22:32:40 No.11724909 Report

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>>11724859
DON'T. They have a habit of "accidentally" putting customers on a subscription.

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