#Locomotive Works

[trainmaniac]

J17 BR 65567 at Doncaster Works being cosmetically restored for preservation in the National Collection 04-06-1963 by Paul Kearley Via Flickr: The photographer is unknown. A digitally restored image from an original negative in my collection.

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

"TURNING OUT ONE COMPLETE TRAIN A DAY," Winnipeg Tribune. December 4, 1913. Page 13. ---- Shops at Angus Largest of Their Kind in the Dominion-C.P.R. Building Cars of Steel ---- The Canadian Pacific railway's shops at Angus, in the extreme northeast of Montreal, are the largest of their kind in the Dominion. Here pig iron is turned into monster locomotives with shiny fittings, and when roughhewn logs are not employed made into palace parlor cars. Angus shopmen boast that the plant is capable of turning out a complete train a day. When the entire force is working an army of 6.000 men are employed at the works.

From the boy who deftly catches bucket of red-hot bolts tossed to him from a forge twenty feet away, to the expert engaged in tuning and testing the bells and sirens which are to clangs and whistle in Saskatchewan or Austria, every person at Angus fits into his niche of the intricate organization and there is no confusion and no de-ay.

When the Pennsylvania railroad system completed its tunnel into New York, it made a regulation that no wooden cars were to make use of its lines. This led the railway companies of Canada to construct steel cars, for which the public had been agitating for some time, as they constituted less risk to the tray.... So that now wooden cars are gradually disappearing and will soon be 3 thing of the past.

The decision on the part of the Canadian Pacific to build its cars of steel instead of using wooden bodies, while not exactly a new step in Industrial activity, will probably be taken up on a larger scale than ever before on this continent. The capacity of the new steel shops which have just been completed is ten cars a day, and this department of the works is now running full blast.

Assembling a Steel Car. When the trucks are delivered from the trucks shop, steel girders, punched for bolts and rivets, are hoisted on cranes and held in position while a workman with a hydraulic drill drives the fasteners into place. The assembling of a steel car is much more speedy than the old method of building wooden coaches, using the trucks as foundation. A large amount of the old equipment which was used in the construction of the wooden cars 14 being reconverted and adapted for the making of the new carriers.

This department of the Angus shops is now in the course of transposition and will be much condensed, as wooden parts required will be much less numerous. The wooden box which forms the exterior of the freight car is fastened outside of the girders and can be replaced on the same car when it wears out.

Comfort and Luxury. Although the project of making all cars, passenger and freight alike, with steel frames, has been proposed, and is now under serious consideration by the C. P. R., no move has been made at Angus towards installing a steel plant for passenger coaches. The general plan of assembling a passenger car is that used in other train work, the component parts being added to the trucks, which are set in the erecting pits to be built upon.

The finished parlor car is in itself an achievement, for here not only safety and utility are to be considered but comfort and luxury for the passengers.

Coaling Up Real Test of Engine. Coaling up is the real test of an engine's worth. Parts may have been perfect and preliminary inspection may have found no defect in the whole, but engines are made to run, and if this one will not, back it goes through a long series of tests and examinations to discover where is its weak point. As with ships at their first launching, the constructing engineer who has planned the whole is never certain that his locomotive will run without mishap.

To the east of the Angus shop is a side track where the monster engines are first tried with coal in the bunkers and steam in the boiler.

A little group always gathers around the new engine. Fires have been laid, the smoke pours through the exhaust pipe and the fireman gives a preliminary tug at the bell rope Then the grisled engineer, who is the only one who does not appear excited. throws open a throttle, opens the siren into hideous shriek, and the leviathan chugs along the track, as if this were no new feat and it had been chugging along tracks for years.

The little group of foremen and inspectors give a weak hurrah, as they have done for hundreds of new locomotives since the first was turned out In a few minutes the big engine has steamed backwards into its place at the end of the erecting pits, and stands all ready to go on the "main line."

[dropthedemiurge]

Lee Taevin every second for the past year: Love for Love's Sake is so precious, I loved this project, I will remember it forever, did you know we became one of the main representatives of BL genre in Korea? Yes, now everyone go watch BLs, I seeked this project after my queer storyline in ordinary Kdrama was completely erased, anyway about my love for Love for Love's Sake–

And then after LFLS he went and played on stage a gay red flag character in historical play "Angels in America". Lee Taevin, THE MAN THAT YOU ARE 🥺

[rouxipanda]

Skaloey ? More like Skarlo-King!

Commission work for @traintrainingmontage ! I had so much fun and I'm really happy with how it came out !

[chicago-geniza]

Today in physical therapy I walked on a treadmill in front of a full-length mirror (while strapped into a cross-body harness suspended from the ceiling to reduce the gravitational strain on my legs; PT is sometimes like a combination of trapeze and shibari)--they explained again how the mirror's purpose was to observe and correct posture in real time and I exclaimed, very loudly, like in a genuine Eureka voice, "oh my GD, that's why DANCE STUDIOS have MIRRORS instead of OPAQUE WALLS" and physical therapist was like "...I never thought about it but yeah, that makes sense, you're probably right" lmfao

[ohjeeztrains]

I'd like to imagine if Edward accidentally scares someone too much he would do anything he can to help calm them, he'd probably even brew some calming tea

[dieselfutures]

LMS Sentinel No.7192

[sheepie-self-ships]

By the time I’m posting this this art is a few weeks old, but I HAVE DOODLES AND I ALSO HAVE LIKE STORY BITS 👉👈 a little s/i story lore to drop…,.,,, spoilers for s.tex I guess?? Not really 💀 the art isn’t related to the writing, more so I just had the ideas to put them together to see how it’d go

First off, Ace is employed by the train yard s.tex takes place in after the events of the musical as a temporary locomotive mechanic due to E.lectra, GB, and CB all crashing during the final race (in my mind they just didn’t get fixed after One R.ock n R.oll Too Many quite yet), and they needed some extra hands to help out with the wreck and also restoring the trains 😭

They’d just gotten out of trade school so they were struggling to find a job, so they figured this temp position would be good for them to at least get some experience if nothing, and buy them some time while they look for a more permanent thing

So Ace joins the team and is shown around, and those three are like completely out of commission, all their parts are mixed together, I’m pretty sure CB has some burnt planks and stuff that need to be replaced and such, it was just a bad time all around

Ace is put in a small group to restore GB, and once all his parts are separated and unsalvageable parts are reordered, the group starts working on getting him back up and running as fast as they can. He is their champion engine after all, even if he didn’t win this championship.

Once he comes to, I don’t think he respects them at alllll. Ace is probably the youngest worker in there, since they just got out of school. Granted, I don’t think he respects any of the mechanics, sigh. But right out the gate, he’s a wiggle worm, he won’t stop talking, flirting, and generally getting in the way of the job getting done, and being an overall nuisance to everyone working on him.

Maybe one day he sees Ace coming into the shop in an already sour mood, and he chills out, just to get through that day. Ace is busy with him, working in silence and he doesn’t care enough today to give them a hard time. Normally they’d respond to his banter, but he can already tell it wouldn’t be great for either of them so he kinda just sits there finally.

This is a real relief for Ace, and even if he gets back to his regular self by the next day, he’s a bit more likely to calm himself if it’s needed.

They get to know each other more due to forced proximity, and eventually his flirting gets more serious day by day, and he looks forward to them working together.

When they finally get done restoring G.reaseball, he still wants them to work with him, so he pulls some strings and gets them on his team permanently (Ace has no idea he did that)

And they kinda groan, but it’s not the worst gig they could get stuck with… the guy was funny sometimes at least

Also surprise!! More sketchbook scans :3 these are the informational Aceball ones hehe

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[dampfloks]

Disney World Railroad – Orlando (Thema Park Magic Kingdom) Dampflokomotive - No.2 - Lilly Belle

Die hier fahrenden echten Schmalspur-Dampflokomotiven (Spurbreite 914 mm) wurden gebraucht in Mexiko auf einem Boneyard gekauft und in Florida überholt bzw. umgebaut. Dabei wurden sie von Kohle auf Heizöl umgerüstet, mit neuen Kesseln und neuen Führerhäusern versehen. Auf den originalen Fahrwerken wurden bei den Schlepptendern ebenfalls neue Aufbauten errichtet.  Alle vier in Betrieb befindlichen Lokomotiven wurden Lokomotiven von Baldwin Locomotive Works gebaut.

Zu meinem Besuch im Februar 2024 waren nur zwei Maschinen 

No.1, “Walter E. Disney”, Achsfolge 4-6-0, Baujahr 1925, Fabriknummer 58444

No.2, “Lilly Belle”, Achsfolge 2-6-0, Baujahr 1928, Fabriknummer 60589 

im Parallelbetrieb. Die anderen beiden Lokomotiven 

No.3, „Roger E. Broggie“, Achsfolge 4-6-0, Baujahr 1925, Fabriknummer 58445 

No.4, „Roy O. Disney“, Achsfolge 4-4-0, Baujahr 1916, Fabriknummer 42915 

waren gerade in Wartung.

Disney World Railroad - Orlando (Magic Kingdom theme park) Steam locomotive - No.2 - Lilly Belle

The real narrow-gauge steam locomotives running here (gauge 914 mm) were bought second-hand in Mexico at a boneyard and overhauled or rebuilt in Florida. They were converted from coal to fuel oil, fitted with new boilers and new driver's cabs. New bodies were also built on the original bogies of the locomotive tenders. All four locomotives in operation were built by Baldwin Locomotive Works.

At the time of my visit in February 2024, only two machines

No.1, "Walter E. Disney", axle arrangement 4-6-0, year of construction 1925, serial number 58444

No.2, "Lilly Belle", axle arrangement 2-6-0, year of construction 1928, serial number 60589

in parallel operation. The other two locomotives

No.3, "Roger E. Broggie", wheel arrangement 4-6-0, year of construction 1925, serial number 58445

No.4, "Roy O. Disney", axle arrangement 4-4-0, year of construction 1916, serial number 42915

were currently undergoing maintenance.

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[butchratchettruther]

Stex oc that's based after one of the horse-powered locomotives (Cycloped, the Flying Dutchman, Impulsoria) that's just a cats-style horse furry

[postcard-from-the-past]

Locomotives in the Schneider Works in Le Creusot, Burgundy region of France

French vintage postcard

[4449fandom]

The Return of the Brooklyn Turntable by Jeremiah Lietke Via Flickr: This past Friday, the SP 4449 was rotated on the former Brooklyn Roundhouse Turntable for contributors and volunteers alike. Both entities had a common goal: to refurbish and reinstall the 99 year old turntable at the Oregon Rail Heritage Center. Eleven years after being removed from Brooklyn Yards, their dream became reality. The turntable was later re-dedicated in a public event the next day.

[duckapus]

My headcanon for Orbulon's incredibly drastic redesign is that it's something he did to himself in-universe. Somebody made the mistake of introducing him to the Marketable Plushie meme and he got the idea that if he looked small and endearing people would be more likely to accept him as their new leader once he finally eventually got around to taking over the world. I mean, given that one human disguise and the fact that this is the Mario world it doesn't seem like too much of a stretch to assume he'd be able to find some way to chibify himself and his ship.

The rest of WarioWare Inc. honestly think it's weird even by their standards, but most of them aren't sure how to bring it up without sounding rude, and the ones that have no problem being rude don't really give a shit. It's his body after all, if he wants to make himself look like a McDonalds toy more power to him.

[rouxipanda]

Commission work for @sodorsteam!

The lovely Rook resting in a place he like!

I had fun drawing him and the building heheh :]

[lightning-studios]

So uh hey here's my au take* on the works diesel from the railway series

She's based on the BR Class 53 'Falcon' instead of the Class 47 mainly because:

A: I really wanted one as a character

B: the 47s are not really all that interesting to me sorry /:

*I say 'take' but tbh she might as well just be an oc at this point, though considering how unfathomably boring the works diesel is in canon can you really blame me?