#graffiti on boxcars

[onlyfr8love]

I didn't have time for a bit

[grusik]

Paser/?? by quiet-silence

[kcvulpinestudios]

Soon, it'll be officially Autumn.

With the end of Summer, comes the arrival of cooler weather and brilliant colors on the trees. But, we still have work to do under the sun. The afternoon freight from Bakersfield heading to Fresno will pass through communities like Putnamville on this quite pleasant day. Like the train, there's nothing to do but move forward into the changing seasons.

[houseshoesandtallboys]

[cargobulls]

ONE HIT DOES IT

photo by @wojophoto via Flickr

[goblinwolf]

[onlyfr8love]

Moscow May 2017 - Fryazevo February 2024 - Rostov-on-Don August 2024...

[sohannabarberaesque]

Seems Tom and Jerry sure know how to get around these days:

As witness this graffito-enhanced boxcar spotted in the Chicago suburb of Blue Island, IL on 10 May 2023; the reporting marks of "WRWK" identify this as belonging to the Warwick Railway, a onetime short line railway in Rhode Island as has since been merged into the Providence and Worcester--and, in recent years, has seen a portion of its line being rebuilt.

[grusik]

Hearl/Therd by quiet-silence

[kcvulpinestudios]

It's officially Halloween season.

Time for the sweet smell and taste of Pumpkin Spice, along with the decorating of either pumpkins, goblins, and ghouls to fill our spaces. 

I hope y'all will have a pleasant, if now delightfully spooky, season this year.

[houseshoesandtallboys]

[cargobulls]

SCHEISS WELT SCHEISS MENSCHEN

photo by @norbertneedle via instagram

[goblinwolf]

[aweiwp]

[whirligig-girl]

Commission for @trydianth of Entrapta operating tiny trains (since she loves tiny food so much!)

Image ID: Entrapta from She-Ra is grinning and fiddling with some train cars on her model train set. Entrapta is a tan-skinned woman with pink hair in large prehensile tentacle-like pony tails. Her regular hands are on the train layout table but she’s messing with the train cars with her hair. She’s also using her hair to control the model railway’s power transformer, which is hooked up to a First One’s crystal. The train layout contains a yard with three sidings with five freight cars and a purple tank engine. It also contains a loop that goes back and forth between a simplistic diorama of dark purple Dryll castle on the left and of Brightmoon castle on the left, with a small diorama of the Whispering Woods’ dark blue trees in the foreground. There’s a spur track that runs off-screen with the ominous reddish glow of the Fright Zone. A pretty streamlined tan, white, and gold train is coming from that line. On the loop line near Entrapta is seven freight cars and a scary looking military-green diesel with a Horde insignia. End Image ID.

Under the cut are some detail close-ups and artist’s notes.

Flatbed of First Ones Tech, FZR Boxcar, two unnamed vans, a refrigerated Salineas Fisheries boxcar, an unnamed tank wagon, a gondola of snow from the Kingdom of Snows, a Fred Pelhay Coal Co. truck for some reason, a Plumeria Products boxcar, and a Freight Zone Rail Road boxcar with graffiti reading She-Ra was Here.

A Freight Zone Rail locomotive and an old industrial shunter tank engine from Dryll Quarry.

Bright Moon Railway’s cab-forward streamliner, coming from the Fright Zone. Does that make sense? Perhaps not, but I hasten to remind the viewer that this is just Entrapta’s toy model.

I definitely put more detail into this than I intended to! It was going to be a lot simpler, but by the time I got to drawing and then perspective-skewing an actual model railway layout with sidings and switches I realized this was going to take a while. I wasn’t quite sure what to do for the engine visual style. At first the locomotive positioned next to the Dryll tank engine was going to be a big Dryllian steam engine, but I decided it’d be better to show a big scary Horde diesel.

I used steam engines for the good guys and a diesel for the bad guys soley and completely because i am thomas the tank engine-brained because I just like the look of steam engines! There’s no realistic reason why there should be steam traction in Etheria, rather than something entirely magical--but then, steam engines just look better in fantasy settings in my opinion! I can justify it, after-the-fact though: magic is everywhere in Etheria, but it can’t be harnessed by everyone (during the events of the series). Sometimes transportion has to be done through mundane means. And it’s not like we see any big power plants on Etheria, so electricity is out. Entrapta’s one of the only people who uses first one’s tech to power her inventions--otherwise we see no powerplants in Dryll. So. Wood or coal or magic-crystal powered steam engines! Yipee!

Obviously they’re all electric powered in this model, though.

[floofyboi57]

A train passed by and while looking at the graffiti on the boxcars, one just said “SOUP!”

….Giovanni Potage?—