#old steam engine

[bigggordon]

THOMAS AND FRIENDS|what a charismatic Cuban ???

*Victor))))

[old-transport]

GWR loco No. 6902 'Butlers Hall' @ Swindon Works - May 1961 by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: An old photograph (2" x 2") of accident damaged British Railways/Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotive No. 6902 being scrapped in 'A' shop at the Swindon Works. The works was opened in January 1843, the last BR steam locomotive it produced was 'Evening Star' in 1960, the last steam loco to come in for repair was in 1964, the works closed in 1986 with some work continuing into 1987 after which most of the site was cleared for redevelopment. Old/new overhead maps view:- maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=15.4&lat=5... The photo has no date or photographer name. No. 6902 'Butlers Hall' was a C. Collett designed 'Hall class' 4-6-0 engine, built at the Swindon Works and new to GWR in Jul 1940. In Feb 1961 the locomotive was involved in an *accident in which the driver died, this is it being scrapped at Swindon Works just a few months later in the May. The accident damage can clearly be seen in the photograph. * "In the early hours of the 11th February 1961, the ex GWR locomotive 6902 Butlers Hall was heading the 10.23 p.m. York - Swindon express when it collided with the rear portion of a divided freight train and derailed. Tragically this resulted in the death of the driver of the express, Driver A. L. L. Jones, who was trapped on his footplate." From Mike Crabtree in the 'Railway Identification Group' on Facebook:- "Swindon ‘A’ shop because of the configuration of a single overhead crane lifting the whole locomotive, Darlington North Road also lifted locos using a single crane and its most definitely not North Road. All other erecting shops used twin cranes and lifted using what was called a double lift." If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. 📷 Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location. 📷 -------------------------------------------------

[tabooiart]

rusty over time :3c

[choc-ice-on-wheels]

DUCK IN THE CORNISH MYSTERY

[dreamdancerdotfile]

Shunt normally: 🤨😒😑😤

Shunt w Momma: 🥺🥰🫣🐶

Their relationship is this. To me.

Also their song is Fine Wine by Saint Motel maybe I‘ll make them a ship playlist eventually aughhh

[littlewebtreasures]

Trains, Steam Engines and Train Cars by Animation Factory

[elektrostantsiya]

Turbineposting again, bc they're so beautiful 😻, yet so unappericated. All imgs from Pinterest

[thoughtartistry]

Train graveyard, New England. 🚂

[gordonengineswifenirmal]

He finally arrived! Bloody post sent him back once, so he took a double journey.

[railwaycreature]

Another OC I've not introduced to you all yet:

Beatrice the Haunted Engine!

Beatrice (She/Her) is a Stanier 8F Class locomotive, quite a gentle, pleasant lass despite her strength, and a very diligent hard worker. She's a trans woman, and owing to her busy life she doesn't often get chances to shave, leading to her having a bit of scruffy facial hair. She's quite fond of it, though :)

You may be wondering about her title, haunted how? Well, in real life, a handful of Stanier 8Fs were involved in peculiar accidents, in which they fell off of boats and were lost at sea. Spending so long underwater, one of those 8Fs began to change... and so was born

Silt the Sea-Swallowed Engine!

They're a... strange being, to say the least. They don't have a permanent physical form, and can only hold one for a short amount of time. By default, they are ghostly and they often reside within Beatrice, resting in her consciousness and scarcely ever revealing themself. Silt haunts Beatrice and is linked to her physical form, using her as a sort of host since they can't sustain a form themselves. They can take full control of her at will, which has caused Beatrice's social life to take a nosedive because under Silt's control, she just... stares, and moves strangely, and mumbles non-words or unsettling ominous sentences

Beatrice feels very conflicted about Silt. She feels very sympathetic towards them owing to the terrible accident that caused them to gain this form, but she does really dislike being used as a puppet, and how it's affected her relationships with others

[moffittarts]

[ariaofstarlessnight]

union pacific big boy my beloved

look at this heccin' chonker of an engine

[old-transport]

GWR/BR loco No. 4699 @ Whitland shed - West Wales Tour (787) - Jun 1959 by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: An old amateur photograph of British Rail (BR) pannier tank engine No. 4699 inside the Whitland engine/locomotive shed (closed Jan 1966) in Jun 1959. This is in an old rail enthusiast photo album, on the reverse is annotated "West Wales Tour, C. F. Walklet at Whitland Shed, 7 Jun 1959". No. 4699 was a C. Collett designed class 5700 0-6-0PT engine, built at the Swindon Works, and new to Great Western Railway (GWR) in Feb 1945. The locomotive was withdrawn from service in Jun 1964, then scrapped in the August at the BR Swindon Works. Old/new overhead maps view:- maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=17.4&lat=5... If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. 📷 Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location. 📷 -------------------------------------------------

[thenecropolix]

I'm sure there's already fics of this, but I feel like it'd be fun to read a 5 times +1 fic of the engines' crews realizing that dealing with their engines is not unlike dealing with a toddler; there's something amusing to me about how despite most of these engines being 50+ years old, they occasionally (coughfrequentlycough) display childlike wonder and behavior over things we humans might consider trivial or common knowledge

[op3ra]

catch up, steam train

[mus1ca1]

november 2022 - final shot