Carve Your Own Vintage Railway Signs
In one of his newest Maker Share projects, Dessie Gamble details how he carved vintage railway signs for museum exhibits.
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Explore the Multifaceted, Century-Old World of Model Railroads
Model railroads are built in different shapes, scales, and sizes, from exact-detailed copies of railroad locales, to more fanciful designs.
This Handmade Model Railroad Spans Acres and Is the Work of One Man
Bruce Zaccagnino is on “some kind of quest.” He’s built a spectacular, detailed model railroad that spans acres.
Making a Wooden Toy Train Crossing
Have an idea for a part you wish you could add to a toy, say a toy train set? Desktop fabrication to the rescue!
Snowzilla in Mattapan
The MBTA uses a Korean War-era jet engine mounted on a train to keep a short section of the Mattapan line clear of snow.
Toy train used to calibrate fusion reactor
While Princeton University’s National Spherical Torus Experiment was shut down for improvements over the winter break, scientists and engineers availed themselves of the opportunity to recalibrate the reactor’s neutron sensors. To do so, they assembled a circular toy train track around the torus and ran a toy locomotive carrying a chunk of neutron-emitting californium-247 along it for three days. The New York Times explains:
Train nerds, unite!
This Saturday, May 9th, is National Train Day (in the US). There are exhibits and festivities at train stations across the country. Check out the National Train Day site to see if anything interesting is happening in your city. National Train Day
