Visionary Locomotive Works

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Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· 5d

Let’s do this thing!🚂

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· 5d

Convention time again! Catch me at the Greenberg Train Show in Edison, NJ this weekend (August 8-9). I'll be there again with my prints available, my popular Thomas, Edward and Gordon stickers, and a bunch of cool Thomas and TM Books & Video items, as well as a lot of O gauge stock. Don’t miss it!

Green circular image of a black steam locomotive and orange passenger cars, its headlight shining.
Text in yellow on top reads in all capital letters: GREENBERG'S GREAT TRAIN AND TOY SHOW
Text in green on bottom reads: TrainShow.com Production

Full image fanart illustration of a painting of the character 'Lady' from the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends film 'Thomas and the Magic Railroad.' The setting is a brownish yellow, grassy hillside with small red and white flowers dotted about. A small magenta steam locomotive with four wheels, a purple roof and frame, and gold smokebox and lining, with her name 'Lady' in gold script lettering on her sides is climbing the hill towards the sunrise in the background, which has fluffy pinkish-white clouds and lilac purple colored mountains with a bit of snow on their peaks. Smoke swirls out of the steam locomotive's chimney against the medium blue sky with a sun coating it in yellow from the left side. In the bottom right in script black lettering says 'In loving memory of Britt Allcroft' - indicating it is for the passed on creator of the television series adaptation of Thomas the Tank Engine a.k.a. The Railway Series books.

PNG chibi full colored images of Thomas (top), Edward (middle), and Gordon (bottom) from the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends franchise. Thomas has toothy smile expression, Edward has a sleepy expression, and Gordon a mellow expression. All are against a white background.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· 19d

Trains are so damn cool.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· 23d

As a person who loves the advantages in the digital age but simultaneously believes in kids working with their hands and having in-person communication, I’ll let this clip of the late Richard Kughn do the talking:

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 28

This one goes out to @celticdeltic.bsky.social and his 1991 Santa Fe Super Chief set. #modeltrains #toytrains #lioneltrains #ogauge

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 27

Do you believe in the Magic of Lionel? #modeltrains #toytrains #lioneltrains #ogauge

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 24

Apparently, it’s supposed to be based off historical descriptions of the real Central Georgia locomotive (no photos of it exist), but it still just looks uncanny. It reminded me of the Lionel Fundimensions Blue Comet from the 70’s, and not in a good way.

Color photo of a 4-4-0 wheel arrangement (four lead wheels and four drive wheels with no trailing wheels) steam locomotive with blueberry blue paint and gold striping on the boiler, tender outline and wheel spokes.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 14

Also quick video of it in action. This has a super nice gear ratio, and the Blunami board allows it to creep super slow and smooth. I’m very proud of the flickering firebox setup the most.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 14

My first Blunami upgrade completed!🚂 This really nice 3rd Rail Sunset B&O Q4b was a basket case when I first got it (hence why I paid little💲for it), and finally decided to give it new life. I'm very impressed what SoundTraxx can do, especially for 3-Rail #OGauge. #Modeltrains #Toytrains #Trains

Full color photograph of an O scale model of an all black steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement (a 'Mikado' type) with a darkened valve gear, a large slatted cowcatcher, a tall smokestack, brass bell in the center on the top of boiler, and a pair of classification lights left and right of the boiler front. It's numbered '4470' in white serif on the number boards and on the headlight housing on the boiler top, and a Baltimore & Ohio 'Capitol' herald in the center. The model is made by 3rd Rail Sunset. Viewer is looking up from a low angle as the locomotive is facing right in the foreground and its tender is in the background.

Full color photograph of an O scale model of an all black steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement (a 'Mikado' type) numbered '4470' in yellow on the cab side with a drop plate connecting the locomotive to the tender. The model is made by 3rd Rail Sunset. Viewer is looking up from a low angle as the locomotive is facing right. An engineer figure is looking out the window and the firebox ash pan is glowing red.

Full color photograph of an O scale model of a black steam locomotive with a 2-8-2 wheel arrangement (a 'Mikado' type) showing its black tender with a four wheel trucks. The tender is a 'Vanderbilt' type with a cylindrical shape and a sloped square top holding the coal. It's lettered in serif yellow font that says 'BALTIMORE & OHIO' and capacity data on the tender rear below the backup light reads '12000' and '20', indicating gallons and tons respectively. The model is made by 3rd Rail. Viewer is looking up from a side angle as it faces towards the right. A scale coupler sticks out from under the deck and coupler release mechanism.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 13

My entire BlueSky timeline right now.

Screenshot from the Thomas & Friends 2013 full-length special "King of the Railway" of (left to right) Percy the Small Green Engine, Thomas the Blue Tank Engine, and James the Red Engine moving a very large scaffolding with four workmen on it as another workmen signals them to stop with a red flag.

Screenshot from the Thomas & Friends season 8 episode "Halloween" where Emily gets covered with a big white tarp or tarpaulin.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 1

Happy 8th anniversary to @ee93.bsky.social 's "Thomas and the Fortune Teller" - still one of the greatest #thomasandfriends fan productions ever. Hard to believe I made this 7 years ago...where do the years go? #ttte #tttefanart #rws #railwayseries #thomasthetankengine #fanart

Full image, full colored fanart illustration of the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends fan-production on Youtube, Thomas and the Fortune Teller, made by user EnterprisingEngine93. At the top half are a stack of three yellow tarot cards with white outlines and crescent moons in each corner with black arch of swirls on top of them, with Thomas the Tank Engine, a blue steam locomotive with a red buffer beam, gray running board top, and black funnel, smokebox and cab roof with yellow windows. He has blue eyes and has a surprised expression with smoke swirling out of Thomas' chimney. At the bottom of the image is a mature looking woman with medium dark skin, long black hair, a purple hair bandana with gold buttons, mauve cape, and white loose shirt with aqua blue bracelets. She is a fortune teller, and has her eyes closed with a clam smile pursing her purple lips. Her desk is mahogany wood and has pink, blue and green marbles, a magic wand, a small red bottle, a large purple bottle, a brown sack, and a yellow book stacked atop a white book. She has her hands over a dark blue crystal ball. All of this is against a dark purple cosmic looking background with various stars shining behind both the fortune teller and Thomas.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jun 1

“Attention passengers! The Texas Special is now arriving on Track 2!” #lioneltrains #toytrains #modelrailroading

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· May 21

Heard that this girl was out hauling freight…🚂

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· May 12

"Off to see the world now, Thomas?" "Yes, Edward - I am!" ~Book 2: Thomas and the Breakdown Train. Happy 81st Anniversary to the Railway Series! Here's submission no. 2 for the #RWSESCollab this year in 2026. #ttte #tttefanart #rws #railwayseries #thomasthetankengine #thomasandfriends #fanart

Full image, full colored fanart illustration of the Thomas & Friends story, Thomas and the Breakdown Train, from the Railway Series book, Thomas the Tank Engine. Three parallel railway tracks stretch the full diagonal length of the image, with the background being green, grassy hillsides in a busy country setting. A dark blue steam locomotive with a matching tender named Edward, who's numbered "2", is at a station platform on the right (viewer left) coming directly at the viewer with a very calm, satisfied expression and dark red coaches coupled behind him. He has a headlamp on the top of his smoke box, indicating he's a stopping service train. Having the same head code is a smaller blue steam locomotive with no tender on the track opposite the station platform (viewer right) named Thomas who also has red stripes on his blue boiler, tanks, and cab, and also has a red chassis with a light gray running board. He looks at Edward with laughter, elation and pride, acknowledging Thomas achieved his goal of seeing the world by running his own branch line, as Edward looks on with pride for his student. Smoke swirls out of both locomotives' stacks. A rectangular sign says "KNAPFORD" in san-serif text on the dark gray platform with white edges. The triangular canopy over the platform is green with dark gray wood texture on top of the roof. An orange building houses a brown haired ticket master. On the platform are Edward's fireman, a brown man with dark hair in a dark blue crew uniform, Thomas' driver, a blonde tan man also in the dark blue uniform, a black man in a light brown hat and suit sitting on the bench facing away from the viewer, and a light-skinned elf with silver hair in pigtails sleeping on the bench facing the viewer. Also on the platform is a woman with pinkish-blonde, bob-cut hair, in a gray sweater and periwinkle blue skirt that reaches to her ankles and a small boy with white skin and black hair and a blue T-shirt showing Thomas a book with him on the cover.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· May 12

"Wake up, Lazy Bones! Why don't you hard like me?" ~Book 2: Thomas & Gordon. Happy 81st Anniversary to the Railway Series! Here's submission number one (haha get it?) for the #RWSESCollab this year in 2026. #ttte #tttefanart #rws #railwayseries #thomasthetankengine #thomasandfriends #fanart

Full image, full colored fanart illustration of the Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends story, Thomas and Gordon, from the Railway Series book Thomas the Tank Engine. Three parallel straight railway tracks stretch the entire horizontal length of the image, with a dark yellowish ground underneath, and in the background are green, grassy hillsides. A brown fence separates the railway tracks from the vegetation, and dark brown telephone/utility poles with wires also stretching the horizontal length parallel to the tracks. The sky is cerulean blue with white, fluffy clouds. A large dark blue 4-6-2 steam locomotive with a matching blue tender named Gordon, who's numbered "4" on his coal tender, is sitting on the middle track. He is sleeping, as evident by the white speech bubble saying 'Z'. This is Gordon, the Big Blue Engine. Another blue engine, who is much smaller with an 0-6-0 wheel arrangement and no tender, is sneakily creeping up behind him in the foreground on the track closest to the viewer's POV. This is Thomas, the Tank Engine. He has a cheeky look on his face, and like Gordon, has dark blue paint with red striping and boiler bands, red frame with light gray running board, black smoke box and funnel, and cab roof with yellow window frames. He is numbered "1".

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Apr 5

Happy Easter. No pastel painted trains today, but here’s a classic - the #Amtrak GG1 electric and 7 matching passenger cars made by Lionel Trains Inc. in 1989. This is my very first GG1. While not Lionel’s best paint work, it is a great runner, and for under $350 for the whole set I can’t complain.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Mar 28

Ready to roll!🚂

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Mar 27

It’s that time again! Catch me at the Greenberg Train Show in Edison, NJ this weekend (March 28-29). I'll be there again with my prints available, my popular Thomas, Edward and Gordon stickers, and a bunch of cool Thomas and TM Books & Video items, as well as a lot of O gauge stock. Don’t miss it!

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Mar 13

I'll raise you one better.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Mar 9

Happy (late) International Women's Day.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Feb 28

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Twin Peaks opening shot, but instead of 'TWIN PEAKS' in the familiar neon-green outlined san-serif text says 'THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE & FRIENDS.'

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Feb 23

Sorry I haven't been posting much. Winter has been a pain, on top of work and other projects. Haven't posted about trains, so here's a 3rd Rail Baltimore & Ohio 2-10-2 "Big Six" circa 2004 I acquired in December. I love me a good ten-coupled steam locomotive. #ModelTrains #ToyTrains #Trains #OGauge

Full color photograph of an O scale model of an all black steam locomotive with a 2-10-2 wheel arrangement (named The Big Six) with a polished valve gear, a large slatted cowcatcher, brass bell off-center on the top of boiler, and a pair of classification lights left and right. It's numbered '6624 in yellow on the number boards and on the headlight housing on the boiler top, and a Baltimore & Ohio herald in the center. The model is made by 3rd Rail Sunset. Viewer is looking up from a low angle as the locomotive is facing right in the foreground and its tender in the background.

Full color photograph of an O scale model of an all black steam locomotive with a 2-10-2 wheel arrangement (named The Big Six) at the cab and tender drawbar numbered '6624 in yellow on the cab side with a drop plate connecting the locomotive to the tender. The model is made by 3rd Rail Sunset. Viewer is looking up from a low angle as the locomotive is facing right.

Full color photograph of an O scale model of a black steam locomotive with a 2-610-2 wheel arrangement (named The Big Six) showing its black tender with a six wheel trucks. The tender is a 'Vanderbilt' type with a cylindrical shape and a sloped square top holding the coal. It's lettered in serif yellow font that says 'BALTIMORE & OHIO' and "6624" on the tender rear below the backup light. The model is made by 3rd Rail. Viewer is looking up from a side angle as it faces towards the right.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Jan 6

Poster for the 1983 movie "Trading Places", directed by absolute cunt John Landis, featuring Philip Winthorpe (Dan Aykroyd) and Billy Ray Valentine (Eddie Murphy) looking into mirrors - Philip dressed formally looking at his reflection in ruins and a black eye, and Billy Ray smiling giving the finger gun dressed in taters looking at his reflection looking sharply dressed. The two Duke brothers (Ralph Bellamy and Don Ameche) looking over the bathroom stall doors.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Dec 26

Friendship ended with Lionel. 3rd Rail Sunset Models is my best friend. #ModelTrains #ToyTrains #Trains #OGauge #FlyingScotsman

Catalog advertisement by 3rd Rail Sunset for the LNER Flying Scotsman steam locomotive showing 3 photos of it.
Text reads as follows:
Top: "Sunset Models 3rd Rail, The European Series LNER Gresley Class A3
Middle: Re-introducing the LNER Gresley Class A3 by Sunset Models 3rd Rail in O Scale, true scale, lifetime, super detailed brass.
Sunset Models 3rd Rail now brings this world-renowned locomotive back to O scale in finely crafted brass, offering the most comprehensive lineup of historical modern A-3 variants ever produced in this scale.
Bottom:
Available in seven authentic versions:
- USA Tour Version
- Australia Tour Version
- Cathedral Express (Modern)
- Standard LNER 4472 "Flying Scotsman"
- Early British Railways
- 60103 British Railways Blue
- 60103 Modern with Smoke Deflectors

SCAN FOR MORE INFORMATION
ETA: Late 26'

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Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Dec 18

Together again.

Photograph in a lit basement of a yellow and silver streamlined steam locomotive with a 4-6-4 Whyte wheel arrangement and dark blue C&O letters is standing on 3-rail track in front of a toy train layout with large buildings, a big rock wall, and many green pine trees. The steam locomotive is an O gauge model made by Lionel, and has Tom Snyder on it. The toy train layout in the background was also owned by the late talk show host Tom Snyder.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Dec 15

Thanks for everything, Britt. Rest well, Queen.💙🚂 #thomasthetankengine #fanart #thomasandfriends #ttte #therailwayseries

Full color illustration of a purple, magenta and bright orange sky background with many white, glittering stars shining as a puffy white cloud with a railway track on top of it whips in front, with a small blue steam locomotive pulling three dark red box shaped railway cars behind it. The locomotive is Thomas the Tank Engine, who has cerulean blue paint, red striping, yellow window trim, black roof, six small blue wheels, a red running chassis, and a white running board with a headlamp. Smoke is coming out of his chimney. He's looking up at a figure - illustrated from the chest up - who's looking at the viewer. It is an artist's representation of Britt Allcroft, creator of the TV series adaptation of the Railway Series, Thomas the Tank Engine & Friends. Britt has dark blonde hair with red streaking, blue eyes, a red shirt with a black coat over it, and a silver necklace. Her name BRITT ALLCROFT is in capital sans-serif letters below her.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Dec 14

Happy Holidays from the New Jersey Hi-Railers in our brand new home! Special thanks to the late Tom Snyder and his Standard Gauge layout.

Visionary Locomotive Works@visionary1126· Dec 10

Oh yeah. One of my favorite films (John Carpenter's Christine) also released 42 years ago today (actually yesterday - December 9, 1983), too. If you couldn't tell, I am a big fan! #christine #horrorsky #filmsky #johncarpenter #stephenking