#“i always wondered what that weird thing in my great grandpa’s prewar lionel trainset was. oh. they lived to see CONRAIL??”

[catenary-chad]

I think it’s really funny that someone tagged an S-Motor “dieselpunk”…. they predate WWI by a decade….. time-period wise they’re technically more steampunk than anything. But then they were literally made to replace steam power before internal combustion engines were widespread so they’re kind of a secret third thing. Trolleypunk or something.