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  1. Lil jj

    Lil jj Well-Known Member

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    Good idea, but I am very bad at making liveries.
     
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  2. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    No worries. There is probably one on the creators club. Likely de-branded though
     
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  3. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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  4. frabjousvector

    frabjousvector Well-Known Member

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    I use a picture of Vector, from Despicable Me, for pretty much all of my social media presence. It’s just an in-joke among friends.
     
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  5. Lil jj

    Lil jj Well-Known Member

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  6. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    As said on the last page it looks like Grantham. Have you seen the new 225 livery?

    Mine is a picture I took of a 45 and 44 on a very old and low quality camera. At the time I was rather ticked of but looking at it now it gives the picture some atmosphere in making it look a lot older than it is.
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  7. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    Yea, it looks great! Perfect for your profile pic :)
     
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  8. Lil jj

    Lil jj Well-Known Member

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    I have seen picures of it and it looks very nice. imo it looks better than the normal LNER livery tbh
     
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  9. matt#4801

    matt#4801 Well-Known Member

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    Thanks mate.
    Yeah it looks bloody brilliant and is very nostalgic especially when I pass one and just see the front.
     
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  10. J4mes

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    [​IMG]

    This is mine, its my Daughters favourite toy that goes everywhere with her, and a Marker lamp that was placed on the Platform at Bodiam during a visit to the Kent and East Sussex Railway. I thought it was a good picture at the time
     
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  11. TSW Nathan

    TSW Nathan Well-Known Member

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    That's nice :)
     
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  12. J4mes

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    Thanks.
     
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  13. tft#6439

    tft#6439 Well-Known Member

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    That's so cool! I'd love to see a SpaceX launch. Maybe one day I can see one. Recently went and bought and a 15X - 150X telescope so hopefully I can take some great photos in the future. If you want to see them when they come out check out my thread: and https://forums.dovetailgames.com/threads/a-place-for-my-media.62233/
     
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  14. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    My new one is Arrow III 1331 Princeton Dinky on April 2 2023
    I took the picture at Princeton Station
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  15. Nick Y

    Nick Y Well-Known Member

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    Well, my new forum profile pic is of 37250 sitting at Leyburn station on the Wensleydale Railway.
    This was the loco I drove last week so I decided to make use of the photos taken on that day.

    My previous pfp was a screenshot of a class 158 in the old Northern Spirit Transpennine Express livery that I had taken in TSC.
     
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  16. Lil jj

    Lil jj Well-Known Member

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    Here's my new pfp which I changed a few days ago. It's my own picture of a Class 185 passing through Mirfield.
     
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  17. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Is that on the NTP Huddersfield line? Mine is on the Princeton Branch off NEC Trenton New Brunswick Rutgers University Robert Wood Johnson Hospital Newark Airport Newark Penn New York City route.
     
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  18. tft#6439

    tft#6439 Well-Known Member

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    I think it is
     
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  19. Nick Y

    Nick Y Well-Known Member

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    Yes, Mirfield is on the NTP route. It appears in the newer form over on TSC in The Huddersfield line route (which is just a modern day version of NTP in TSW).
     
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  20. Lil jj

    Lil jj Well-Known Member

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    yup
     
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  21. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Thank you for the answer.
     
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  22. solicitr

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    Mine is DB 169 003 1 (ex-E 69 03, ex- LAG 3) "Hermine", which operated on the Ammergaubahn from 1912 until 1982. This was my local when I was a kid! She was also for many years DB's oldest locomotive in scheduled revenue service.

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    (Her slightly older sister 001 "Katharina" was the first AC locomotive in Germany when she entered service in 1905).
     
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  23. LodeStar

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    DB 103 brought me from Koblenz to Cologne Hbf. on the Linke Rheinstrecke during last years DB Museum Sommerfest TEE railtour.
     
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    Mine is my favorite train, SŽ 711 nicknamed "Zelenc" in Pula. Taken on 14th of August of last year.
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  25. driverwoods#1787

    driverwoods#1787 Well-Known Member

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    Wow and in some cases they can be used to switch the Berlin Duty train inside Bremerhaven Bremen Frankfurt am Main Hbf if needed. Those were the main stations to Berlin inside the American sector in West Germany. Model Railway wise Märklin group actually makes the locomotives in your picture.
     
  26. mortal1234

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    My cat Taz. He’s much more long haired now. This pic was in 2021. IMG_1948.jpeg
     
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    My profile pic was from a field trip I took with my university's railroad club. We were touring UP's Lake Street Tower in Chicago and got to go out on the tracks to watch a crew fix a switch machine. An inbound Metra train passed while we were out on the tracks and there as a UP GP15 was switching the station.
     
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    Mine is Quarry Hunslet "Alice" at Llanuwchllyn on the Bala Lake Railway just after I had completed a "Driver for a Fiver" on her. Photograph was taken on August 26th 2019
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  31. Myron

    Myron Well-Known Member

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    I made my pfp myself and idk what it is supposed to be, but I like green
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  32. tft#6439

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    Kinda looks like an emerald block
     
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  33. Myron

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    reminds me of villagers overpricing everything they own
     
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  34. Myron

    Myron Well-Known Member

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    I have like, five versions of these: green on white, green transparent, white on black, white on green and white transparent
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  36. tft#6439

    tft#6439 Well-Known Member

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    Same here!
     
  37. bobbobberdd

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    It was Time for something New, my new Profile Picture is from Nahverkehr Dresden, the S1 at Freiberger Straße with the WTC Dresden in the Background.

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  38. MaxBenchip

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    Mine is an Eurostar E300 going to London on the LGV1 in Belgium :) And I proudly made this photo myself :)
     

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  39. Myron

    Myron Well-Known Member

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    classic DB class 146 ;)
     
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  40. airbusfan1330

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    DB BR 146*
     
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    *Class in english
     
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  42. Diamondderp

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    Always so funny yet so confusing when talking about BR and class. Can be both seen as class, but BR can be seen as British Railways.

    Anyways... profile picture. It's less confusing, one of the first pictures I made with a proper camera and for the first time at that location.

    Looking back at it at full size, the picture could've been better.

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  43. Myron

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    isnt that the G6 shunter or whatever its called, atleast in the TSW DLC
     
  44. MYG92

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    Nope it’s a MaK/Vossloh G1206
     
  45. Myron

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    oh cool
     
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    I am his older brother :cool:
     
  47. Suomen surkein junakuski

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    Mine is SR3 (Finnish variant of Vectron) with double decker intercity-coaches at Tampere station in the march of 2022. The livery is so cool.
     
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