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[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!

[rouxipanda]

Artfight revenge I did for @synthetic-rust ;]

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

[lost-fool-wandering]

T435.058 Hektor

-L.F.

[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!

[locomotive-idiot]

comrades in arms, drawn to a close together

[grayrazor]

One thing I found slightly goofy in Gundam: Iron Blooded Orphans was that despite it being however many centuries in the future, with giant robots, spaceships, colonies on Mars, neo-feudalist warrior clans, all the cities on Earth looked almost exactly the same as they do now.

Did all the buildings survive the robot apocalypse unharmed, and they never built any new ones?

Maybe a Japanese audience wouldn't have noticed with the cities in Alaska and Canada, but I literally live here lmao

Also, they've got the Schwerer Gustav/Energia-Buran Grasshopper double-rail setup for hauling mobile suits around, but they're still using 20th century diesel locomotives in almost the same Alaska Railroad color scheme.

[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.

[ldagence]

★彡𝓛𝓓ミ★

[thesudrianchronicles]

Alright people! I have a question for you all.

What locomotive (Steam/Diesel/Electric/Whatever) do you love like it's a favourite of yours, or love so much that it could almost be call an obsession?

(That's NOT a bad thing btw)

For me it's the:

NBR H Class Atlantics

GWR 4000 Class

PRR T1

LNER A1/A3's

VR S Class

[dragons-and-magic]

Hm. I'm bored. Can y'all show me your favorite IRL engines? Or you favorite ttte engine. I'm not picky. Feel free to tell me all about them! I wanna hear!

[reasonsforhope]

"California just cracked down on pollution from transportation in two major moves, part of an effort to improve air quality and cut carbon emissions at the same time. 

On Friday, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved a rule that would ban the sale of diesel big rigs in the state by 2036. The mandate, which will apply to about 1.8 million trucks — including those operated by Amazon, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service —  is reportedly the first in the world to require trucks to ditch internal combustion engines. The news came one day after California became the first state to adopt standards to limit pollution from trains. 

Trucks and Diesel

The regulations are intended to improve air quality and trim carbon emissions from transportation, the source of about half the state’s greenhouse gases. Trucks and trains spew diesel exhaust, full of soot that contains more than 40 cancer-causing substances, responsible for an estimated 70 percent of Californian’s cancer risk from air pollution. 

The trucking rule requires school buses and garbage trucks to be emissions-free within four years. By 2042, all trucks will be required to be “zero-emission,” meaning there’s no pollution coming out of their tailpipes. The deadline comes sooner for drayage trucks, which transport cargo from ports and railyards to warehouses — typically short routes that require less battery range. New drayage trucks must be “zero-emission” beginning next year, with the rule applying to all drayage trucks on the road in 2035. 

Currently, medium and heavy-duty vehicles account for a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions statewide. In August, California clamped down on pollution from passenger vehicles with a plan to end the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035.

People breathing pollution from freeways and warehouse hubs have long called for stricter air standards. In the port cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles, some 6,000 trucks pass through every day, exposing residents to high levels of ozone and particulate matter, pollutants linked with a range of problems including respiratory conditions and cardiovascular disease. Long Beach residents who live the closest to ports and freeways have a life expectancy about 14 years shorter compared to people who live further away...

Trains and Locomotives

According to the new rules, the state is banning locomotive engines that are more than 23 years old by 2030. It also bans trains from idling for more than 30 minutes, provided that they are equipped with an engine that can shut off automatically.

The stage for the rule was set by a single line buried in the Biden administration’s proposed auto emissions rules, in which the Environmental Protection Agency said it was considering allowing states to regulate locomotives. Still, California’s new rules may spark a legal battle with the rail industry, which argues that the state doesn’t have the authority to make such sweeping changes.

Though railroads only account for about 2 percent of the country’s carbon emissions from transportation, switching to trains powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells would provide some benefits in the effort to tackle climate change. The public health gains would be even bigger: The California Air Resources Board estimates its new rules for trains, passed on Thursday, would lower cancer risk in neighborhoods near rail yards by more than 90 percent.

“This is an absolutely transformative rule to clean our air and mitigate climate change,” Liane Randolph, the chair of the air quality board, said ahead of the vote on the trucking rules on Friday. “We all know there’s a lot of challenges, but those challenges aren’t going to be tackled unless we move forward … if not now, when?”"

-via The Grist, 4/28/23

[kumatajdg]

Commission of Oliver and Class 40!

[whirligig-girl]

sketch of a diesel-pneumatic express locomotive, built for the roughly 963mm gauge Trans-Gooiw, one of the major north/south migrational right-of-ways on Mellanus.

The class was not very successful due to thermal inefficiency compared to diesel-hydraulics, as well as cooling problems, but Mellanoid Slimes are not in the habit of throwing away functional machines. This unit, Seximal-No.11540 "Eugathi," considered heritage equipment, runs passenger trains on one of the east/west Gooiw branchlines.

Eugathi is not popular among the other locomotives, varied as they are. Advanced Steam locos and diesels consider them outdated, old-timer steamers and diesel-mechs consider them a strange merger of two incompatible power systems, and everyone says they're a "monstrous merger." They don't even remember their number, let alone their name. And the passengers don't like how unreliable they are.

But slimerailfans? They love Eugathi. The animalistic growl of a diesel motor with the vibrant, living chuffing and hissing of a steam engine, and with outside valve gear too? What's not to love!

But slimerailfans don't talk to Eugathi, and other locos do.

[collinthenychudson]

Went up to Ogden to see Union Pacific 4014 again, this time with No. 1983 making a guest appearance.

[i-have-funny-hat]

Hey everyone happy pride month!

I’m a little late with this as I forgot about posting anything here but on the 25th of May I went to the Nene Valley Railway for their Locomotive Legends event!

I have plenty more to share so feel free to ask for any more photos but as always more videos are over on my TikTok.

It was a wonderful day out and I’m sure I’ll be back when Tornado is visiting 👀

Also if you ever get the chance make sure you take a ride on a freight train it’s unbelievable fun!