1880s Railroad Worker on a Handcar

A track gang labourer leaning into the pump handle of a hand-powered rail car. He grips the crossbar with both hands, arms straight and body braced back, the whole pose built around the up-and-down rhythm of the stroke. He is dressed in period working clothes: a flat cloth cap, a buttoned waistcoat over a rolled-sleeve collarless shirt, a neckerchief knotted at the throat, heavy trousers and scuffed work boots. His round base is textured with ballast stone and cinders. Designed to be dropped straight onto a handcar or velocipede on a nineteenth century railroad layout, or used in a track-laying and maintenance-of-way vignette on a frontier or industrial-age diorama

Base scale 1:87 (HO). The STL is dimensioned at 1:87 — scale it up or down in your slicer to print at any scale you need.

We use ai to paint our models for display. All other renderings and original model are done in 3dsMax 2025 and represent close to 10 years of 3d model work.

All Stls are done to a target size of 50 to 100mb to make them manageable for the average users computer. This results in a a mesh density of 33 faces per mm