ZCochrane

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About ZCochrane

Artist // Hobbyist // Photography

Dec 4, 1986
Germany
Deviant for 19 years
www.ferroequinologist.de
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I am a railroad enthusiast. I'm also a computer enthusiast, but my products there don't make pictures anywhere near as nice. My photography is generally amateur level. I hope to get good enough to be a "Pro-sumer" one day.

Oh, and I write way too much in image descriptions. So if you want to know more, and particularly if not, that's the place.

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Whichever I bought the DVDs of last

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Way too many

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Way too many

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I'm working on it

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Mac OS X

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Canon EOS 1000D

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Programming, Star Trek, Railroads

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ZCochrane

Jun 8, 2024

Nicholson Creek Bridge

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Over the past few weeks, I built a new model railroad module. It's a tiny trestle bridge, based on plans from the Great Northern Railway. I'm calling it the Nicholson Creek Bridge, because I had hours and hours of old Jenny Nicholson videos on in the background while I was working on this. (Actually, now that I think about this, I hope this doesn't get read as an insult, because the river here is literally not that deep.) Anyway, some tech specs: N scale, follows the T-Trak module standard but slightly modified (58 mm distance front to edge of track bed, instead of 38 mm normally), and this time single-track. There are power connections hidden underneath. The main point is the bridge, of course, a classic american staple. We don't have these kind of wooden bridges in Europe. Although, maybe we should? They do look neat even with european trains on them. The bridge is the main thing here. The main sections ("bents") are constructed out of 2x2 mm balsa wood. The long line on

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ZCochrane

Feb 1, 2023

Just saw someone say "if you don't like AI you're hypocritical, posting on a site that has an AI generator". Dude, I've been on this site for over sixteen years now. It's had an AI generator for less than half a year, and I certainly did not ask for an AI generator to be added. There is nothing hypocritical, this is literally just how time works.

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ZCochrane

Jan 27, 2023

I'm not sure what to think about AI art. On the one hand, it is an interesting technological achievement, and it's great for people who are doing mixed media art, giving them much more options. On the other hand, there is the whole ethical aspect: I'm not sure if the copying that's done to generate the data will be ruled legal or not, but I do think it's ethically iffy. Not something I want to support. I've also seen quite a few posts on Twitter that were very dismissive of actual artists, celebrating them being "put in their place" or something. Now, that is not something every AI user thinks, probably not even most of them, but I don't like how it's enabling them. On the first foot (ran out of hands), there's also the issue that a lot of AI art is just bad. Even if everything lines up and everybody has the right amount of fingers, most of it has no originality. It's all just a kind of picture we already know, just more of it. Way, way more. And also an incredible amount of porn.

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kanyiko

Apr 19, 2026

A belated thank you for the !!

p3rsh1ng

Nov 21, 2025

Say, have you seen that old double-decker made by Wagonbau Gorlitz with regular passageways on end(s) somewhere? I wonder whether at least a single unit still exists somewhere out there and who owns it. Also wonder why the passageways weren't on the same level as regular passenger cars, so the unit could be combined with them.

ZCochrane

Nov 22, 2025

I know about them, but as far as I know they were all scrapped. If one is still left then whoever owns it sure has managed to hide it well. According to German Wikipedia (which has a long history of being uncharacteristically bad when it comes to double-deck cars, you need to go to "Doppelstockwagen" then it's a sub-point of "Deutschland") they were taken out of service in the 1980s; they weren't a huge success, built very lightly with some weird choices but still very quickly overloaded.

My guess with the high passageways is that the plan was to have them as a special fleet for high-performance service, where a train would consist of one or two of these five-part units. There were also special baggage and buffet cars with the equivalent high passageways to enable this, and a train with two units and one of each of these would be plenty long enough for most purposes already. Of course, in the end, their incompatibility with normal rolling stock was part of the reason why they were taken out of service so early in the end.

Hi there

Hi!

I like high speed trains too

ArrasyaDelvino

Jan 27, 2025