#Diesel Locomotive

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Two double-headers on the Trans-Gooiw Railroad passing each other in the hills, dragging long freight trains behind them, during the early days of the Pan-Mellanus Oil Crisis.

More mellanoid trains: Guz's Model Garratt | Museum-piece carrying rocket parts | Advanced Steam Tank Engine | Guz's bigger model Garratt | Tram and Coal Mine loco sketches.

The diesel-hydraulic at the front of the foreground consist, already somewhat old and tired by this point, dates back to around the time period that steam engines were originally retired on Mellanus. It's not very fuel efficient as it is, and with the oil rations, diesels can not handle the trains on their own any longer.

For a few years now the railroads have been taking their steam engines out of mothballs and museums, as coal was comparatively dirt-cheap. Still though, the various maintenance and operational complexities of running steam locomotives resulted in a lot of losses for the railroads.

Pictured here behind the diesel is an early attempt at the Advanced Steam Engine concept, modifying a member of a very prolific and successful 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt class with a gas producer combustion system, more modern cylinders and valve gear, and entirely replacing the cab with an electronic control system (with the more diesel-like control stands moved to separate cabs on the tenders). The electronic control scheme allows for the steam engine to be connected to a diesel engine to be run as a multiple unit, cutting down operational costs. However, as a modified prototype, this locomotive lacks some of the other features which exemplified the Advanced Steam era, such as modular ashpans, computerized control, and precision engineering.

On the other track, moving the opposite direction, we see a double header of two steam locomotives, another 2-8-0+0-8-2 loaned from the Slaibsgloth Coal Mine Railroad, and a 2-10-2 'easy' type non-articulated loco leads the train. In this case, there is no electronic connection, so a crew of four mellanoid slimes is necessary to operate the train.

The eagle-eyed railway fans will notice that there are radiators for a dynamic brake on the diesel, yet the diesel is an electric. Diesel-electric dynamic brakes switch the traction motors into generators, and dump the electricity out as waste heat--but there's no traction motors on a hydraulic. So why the radiator fins? There's still a dynamic engine brake on the diesel-hydraulic, so it still needs to be able to dissipate heat, especially on the mountain routes.

WIP images follow:

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Intercity Swallow appreciation

Intercity Swallow livery, as carried by HST, class 47s, 73s, 86s, 87s, the 89, 90s and 91s in the early 1990's. A very smart colour scheme which suited all of these classes and is leagues above most modern rail company liveries!

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Artfight revenge I did for @synthetic-rust ;]

Friend shaped duo ! I also got new brushes and wanted to try them a bit heehe

[train-of-the-day]

Train of the day is: C-50! (Additional page!) ( X )

As evident by the GV(Gazdasági Vasút) in their track numbers, most of these locomotives were made for light/economic railways, but after their decline in the 60's, many were scrapped and used as sources for spare parts, preserved and put on display near narrow gauge stations, or found their way into the rolling stock of narrow gauge tourist railways. A single one of such locomotives was also present in Slovakia(GV 3737) until 2007 at Čiernohronská železnica, after which it was bought, and is now used around Nagybörzsöny and Mátrafüred.

[lost-fool-wandering]

T435.058 Hektor

-L.F.

[dampfloks]

233 217-9 TrainLog "Ludmilla" Bj 1975

[i-have-funny-hat]

Hello everyone sorry for the wait!

Here’s everything else from the Peak Rail steam gala!

Driving the Ruston was incredibly fun and I highly recommend it if you get the chance!

[ldagence]

★彡𝓛𝓓ミ★

[golden-spike]

I think trains should try silly new paint schemes/liveries for fun. My friends and boyfriend tried to place many many stars and stripes on me. It was very fun.

[vixessrin]

Went to a night tour at NCTM and the lighting was just too cool NOT to take a few photos of the rolling stock amongst the fall clouds c: We got caught in some rain towards the end of the tour, but still very very cool! Got to see parts of the museum that aren't normally accessible to the public c:

[osrphotography]

DL 9233 running through Papatoetoe just after 9am one morning.

I can't remember what train it was on, but it was probably one of the MPs from Tauranga.

[yakup23]

[cryptic-mythos]

Who wants to hear about this guy?!

His story is on the post after this!!

[railway-roundhouse]

Some diesels are super nose, like borzois. U50s are literally just the pugs of the locomotive world. They were probably scrapped bc of breathing issues. This is just a persian cat. FLAT.

[train-of-the-day]

Train of the day is: Amtrak NRE 2GS12B! ( X )

[locomotive-idiot]

goin for a swim brb

blub,, glub,bg,,