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"quite the journey"

Photo of an antique black steam locomotive, Florida East Coast Railway No. 153 at the Gold Coast Railroad Museumphoto by Smart Destinations - https://www.flickr.com/photos/gocardusa/3856316180/, CC BY-SA 2.0

jontyjago has a great comment about how finding a chance article by late member pjern on Metafilter eventually led to a career change as a UK railway signaller. Very interesting!! 🚂

11/16/24
by taz

A Universe of Strange Mysteries!

Screenshot from game!

It’s been six years since community member justkevin released his first game, Starcom: Nexus. Time’s flown by and the follow-up is here (over in Projects) Starcom: Unknown Space! Enter a vast open-world universe filled with alien factions vying for power, strange worlds to explore, mysteries to investigate, and a sinister enemy that threatens the galaxy with an ancient power.

How to pull 50 bottoms

Photo of 150 in action, photographer unknown. What do you do when Case stopped manufacturing your favourite tractor 110 years ago and none are available on the used market? If you are Kory Anderson you start a foundry so you can build, with help from your friends, a brand new Case 150 steam road tractor.

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