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Our models are inspired by real railway history and designed to be more than static display pieces. Many can be upgraded with electronics for lights, motion, sound and steam, turning a 3D printed locomotive into an immersive model railway experience.

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Pocket Railway Museum creates 3D printable locomotives, coaches and railway accessories for people who love building things themselves. Instead of spending hours designing every part from scratch, you can focus on printing, assembling, painting and enjoying your model.

Whether you are into Dutch railway history, British steam locomotives or large-scale model railways, our files are made to help you build something detailed, personal and fun.

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Follow the latest 3D printed locomotives, customer builds, diorama updates and behind-the-scenes experiments in model railway design.

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Oh and do they move indeed! The trains at the Haarlem station Diorama might not have a lot of track, they stil manage to drive aproximately 24 kilometers per week!!!

You can see them in action from 06:00am every day until 22:00pm in the evening in the station of Haarlem, the Netherlands.

#diorama #pocketrailwaymuseum #haarlemstation #ns #traveling #smallworld #3Dprinted #modeltrains #gauge1

Another small appreciation post for the locomotives in the diorama in Haarlem. These two Dutch locomotives shuttle back and forth on the small layout, the station is a scale replica of the station of Haarlem itself in scale 1:32.

The locomotives don't follow a timetable but drive in intervals between 30 and 90 seconds of waiting on either side of the layout.

Because of the literal kilometers they drive, a lot of maintenance and track cleaning is needed. But that is always a nice excuse to come and visit. The station staff keeps me in the loop when the trains are standig still, so I can come by and get them up and running again.

#pocketrailwaymuseum #haarlem #NS #stationhaarlem #spoor1 #3Dprint #modeltrains #spur1 #stoomlocomotief #modeltrein #diorama #scalemodelling

The amazing LNER Coronation observationcar, part of the full 7 coach set. This one is a little special; it's printed on an existing MK1 chassis for a client that loved to have this iconic coach in gauge 1. Thats why this one is a little longer than you would expect and the bogies are not acurate on the model. My apologies to the purists!

Since already having most of the files for the observationcar, it was almost rude not to draw the rest of the consist too. So that is exactly what I did including fully printable interior. It was an enormous task, but it was absolutely worth all the effort.

Ofcourse, the files you find in our shop do have the correct bogies and wheels and are exactly as long as they should!

The set goes great with our Gresley A4.

I can't wait for someone to print the entire set of coaches. If you have, please share the pictures!! I'm very keen on seeing them in real life but haven't had the guts to print them all myself 😁

#lner
#coronation
#gauge1 #1:32 #modelrailroad #diy #3drailway #3dprinting #pocketrailwaymuseum #coaches #spur1 #modelmaking #diorama #malard #locomotive #steamtrain

Just received a very nice package from @jlcpcb
3D printed stainless steel wheels for the trains in the diorama at Haarlem Station.

We are switching to metal wheels to deliver electricity from the tracks to the trains. The old system uses sliding contacts on the track. Unfortunately, they turn out to be a little maintenance heavy, especially if you consider the kilometers these trains will drive in the year the exhibition will be there.

In the past 2 months they have each driven around 100 kilometers! Not bad for some printed locomotives.

However, it's time to upgrade to an even more robust system, which is the delivery of electricity through the wheels.

I have added a picture of the old pickups after 100 kilometers. And these things are tough!! Imagine the metal dust that had to be cleaned every few weeks.
Hopefully with the new wheels, this will be a problem of the past.

The locomotives will receive their new wheels this week, so if you are keen to check them out, hold on a little longer, and you can catch them chuffing happily along again, just on time for the festive season.

#jlcpcb #3dprint #metal3dprinting
#gauge1 #modelrailways #diorama #ns3737 #ns7700 #bello #diorama #stationhaarlem
#haarlem #ns #modelmaking #diy #pocketraikwaymuseum #diorama

I often get the question if you need a resin printer for my models. The definitive answer is: absolutely not!

As a benchmark I printed the smokebox of my currently under construction prototype of the NS 7700 on my FDM printer. And I am blown away by the quality. This part comes straight from the printer, no cheating.

Let's be clear about the fact that there needs to be some post processing, a little bit of sanding and diling here and there, but that is part of the fun of constructing a printed locomotive.

Facts about this print:
Printer: Creality K1C
Printed at 45° angle (as seen on the last picture)
Filament: Creality Hyper PLA
Layer height: 0.08mm
Print duration: 2 hours and 52 minutes.

#3drailway #creality #k1c #3Dprint
#hyperpla #modelmaking #modeltrains #gauge1 #spur1 #nopostprocessing #dıy #pocketrailwaymuseum #train #steamtrain #locomotive #ns7700 #bello #museum #hoornmedemblik

The NBDS 30, or NS 3500 class as they were known later on. One of our older designs stretching her legs.

This design shares a lot of similarities with the NS 3700 class. You can tell them apart by the lack of the external cylinders on this one and ofcourse, a 3700 will never be seen in blue!

If you would like to see this exact model in real life, you are in luck. You can find her on the turntable at our diorama in the station of Haarlem in The Netherlands

Would you like to print this one yourself? It is on the maybe list of lockmotives that need a rework to make the parts suitable for the webshop. There is a huge difference in whipping somethins up and printing it for yourself and doing a lot of cutting and glueing post-prontint and designing parts that are suitable for assembly straight of the printbed. Luckily, with every loco I design, this gets easier and faster!

#nbds #blauwebrabander #prm #pocketraikwaymuseum #gauge1 #spur1
#ns3500 #stoom #stoomtrein #steamtrain #modelmaking #modeltrains #dıy #3drailway #3dprinting

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