#locomotive general

[michael-rosskothen]

American steam locomotives from the 1850s

[railway-roundhouse]

You will never be as cool as Little Joe

[theflyingkipper]

Gemi

[new-york-central-official]

Information-dense booklet about our electrification projects made in 1929. By then we had already electrified most of our trackage around New York City with the exception of the now-defunct Putnam Line. Check out the inside, with photographs of our infrastructure and some diagrams of our state-of-the-art electric locomotives, the S and T motors.

[trainmaniac]

Almost High Noon at Woodford by Greg Brown Via Flickr: When I went on railfanning trips with my friend Mike Devlin, he tended to shoot throughout the day. Sometimes that meant we caught great subject matter in some uninspiring midday lighting. As we were returning from our trip to Arizona in July 1988, we spent a full day on Tehachapi. Since we were railfans from Southern Oregon, we rarely saw General Electric power on our home turf. Even though it was still fairly early in the afternoon, we were elated to catch this westbound Santa Fe drag with four big GEs and an EMD kicker. In this image, the train is hitting the east switch of Woodford siding. We would chase this one all the way down the hill to Caliente.

[bluehexagone]

Realism is fun till it isn’t and I realize I’ve already committed too far and can’t just scrap it but I know it will take me too long so here are some sacrifices you may see finished later on

[thecastilloking]

Today, I just try out the character headcannon generator on some TBL characters.

I must say that I just discovered a forbidden power.

(Please like and reblog)

[pianokantzart]

I think I need to slow down my output of comic pages to about 1 page a week until further notice.

[pxmun]

Stinker was excited about his first day on the Dream-A-Way Railroad. He was dirty and a bit rickety, but that didn't stop the dock switcher from puffing down the line at full speed. Unfortunately, Stinker had ignored Rivet's warning about cleaning his wheels before riding on the track and the B&O locomotive soon found himself in trouble. He was rushing towards a curve, when Stinker's driver saw it she immediately applied the brakes, but it was already too late as Stinker tipped over and fell to his side. The poor engine had to wait for Zappy to come with a wench to put him back on track as the railroad hadn't been able to purchase a break down crane yet. It felt like forever before Stinker was back on the rails. But I think he's learned his lesson, don't you?

[felixringtailtravels]

[locomotive-idiot]

Steamers hauling cargo, electric hauling mixed, or diesels hauling passengers?

This will be on the test

i rest my case

[unknowncreature19]

Finally, I got redesign of shiny knight!! and yes, I forgot to put the old ref in this, but I lost it so you can look at my old posts! But yeah, here he is!! he is a The General 4-4-0 Steam Locomotive! And I had fun with him drawing him. Of course he’s the same color and everything but just more like attitude and if you’re wondering that “oh cousin~” thing, it’s from a role-play that me and my great friend @projectanimations did which shiny knight is scared shitless when he met the ghost trio, and every time shiny said, something stupid, or says about spirits, blue fire would say “ oh, cousin~ my wonderful cousin~ Would you like to bring your friends to teach him again?” Shiny would freak out and run off or close his door shut Lol! and yes, he did make it from a blast. It did hurt him, but thankfully he survived, and he still love royal knights stuff. But now he starting to like shiny things too lol!

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[somethingcooltolookat]

[collinthenychudson]

After departing the Quintette mine several minutes ago, BC Rail GF6Cs No. 6004, 6002, 6003 and 6005 are taking a westbound coal train to an interchange where CN diesel power will take over for the remainder of the run to Prince Rupert where a ship will transport the coal to Japan.

Models and Route by: ATSF854, Jointed Rail, RRmods and Download Station.

[sudriantraveler]

Scary Jack Frost

Ok, so as many of us know, railroading in the snow sucks! On top of that, recently I’ve been thinking a bit about locomotive folklore, and I think I’ve come up with a sufficiently intimidating idea for the locomotive version of “Scary Jack Frost”.

A giant rotary snowplow with a gaping maw of long jagged icicles, and a tender full of snow. From its funnel belches not smoke or steam, but storm clouds for a massive blizzard which trails in its wake.

This depiction is not worldwide. It is most commonly associated with engines in the United States and Canada, particularly on lines such as the Colorado narrow gauge railroads which deal with particularly aggressive winters in which there have been many major struggles against the snow throughout history. This version of Jack Frost is by no means only found within North America however, a similar version can also be found in Scandinavia, Russia, and even in Scotland, as well as pretty much anywhere else where the winter months are often particularly brutal.

Scotland is somewhat of an outlier from the rest of the UKs railways, whose engines generally describe a somewhat tamer in appearance but still respected/widely feared interpretation of Jack Frost. This interpretation is a snow-white engine with a face surrounded by spikey icicles. Often it is said that their mouth contains icicle teeth as well. This is thought to be something carried over from the rotary snowplow interpretation described previously.

Incidentally, the subject of the Thomas and Friends episode Jack Frost did happen on Sodor, albeit with several differences from its TV adaptation (James’ terror was much more than Alec Baldwin’s narration implies for one thing).

While visual interpretations are different, the powers and abilities Jack Frost is credited with usually remain the same (though there is occasionally still some variation). As well as creating blizzards, they are said to leave behind a trail of ice, making rails slippery and freezing points and signaling equipment. Their whistle is often associated with cold howling winds, and their headlamp, far from being a source of a warm glow, brings a biting chill which is said to leave a coating of frost on anything its cold light touches as well as freeze diesel locomotive’s fuel and extinguish steam locomotive’s fireboxes.

Personality-wise the locomotive version of Jack Frost runs the gauntlet from being a sinister force to a troublesome mischief-maker to even occasionally a heroic figure, in which case they might freeze points to divert engines away from avalanches or other hazards or, in an act that is seemingly in contradiction with the rest of their description, protect engines left out in the cold from the worst of the winter weather. The latter interpretation is the most uncommon amongst locomotives however, with the most common interpretations generally being considered bad news for any engines to encounter.

As a final note, the previously mentioned incident with Percy and James is not the only notable time the subject of Jack Frost has come up on Sodor. Henry claims that after his Kipper wreck, as he was fading in and out of consciousness waiting for help to arrive, he could’ve sworn he saw a snow-white silhouette of something like an engine in the distance on the tracks ahead. He claims the figure disappeared shortly before the breakdown gang arrived, seemingly vanishing into a flurry of snowflakes.

[sandimexicola]

Waiting for the Train on a Gloomy Day

Midjourney Prompt: cinematic image that creatively, vibrant autumnal, music video, landscape, vintage steam train, valley with trees, autumn, majestic waterfall, Transitioning, central female singer --v 6.0