#steam train

[msilverstar]

If I ever get back to Wales, I'm absolutely going to take this train! And when we travel this summer, I'm going to find a steam train, because I love it. Actually, maybe Santa Cruz still has a steam train...

can't believe there's people out there getting radicalized and watching alpha male podcasts on god's own youtube when timsvideochannel1 has two full hours of Driver's Eye View - Welsh Highland Railway (Rheilffordd Eryri) - Porthmadog to Caernarfon

[maureen2musings]

Steaming through Harz, Germany

tom_juenemann

[steampunktendencies]

The Great Train Graveyard in Uyuni, Bolivia is a unique tourist attraction in addition to the famous salt flats and red lakes. The area is home to a collection of abandoned, vintage trains that were originally intended to expand the transportation network in the early 19th century. However, due to technical challenges and conflicts with local indigenous communities, the project was never completed. The trains were later used to transport minerals to port cities, but when the mineral resources depleted in the 1940s, the miners left and the trains were left to deteriorate in the desert. Over time, exposure to salty winds has caused the trains to corrode, creating the fascinating landscape of the Great Train Graveyard that exists today.

Credits: Keith Alexander

[thewolffinsnow]

Steam power

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite at Glenfinnan Viaduct

[dutchs-blog]

Steamy Power Locomotive 🚂

[scotland]

Scotland’s Most Scenic Train Journeys

Scotland’s railways offer more than just transport—they provide some of the most breathtaking views in the world. Whether you’re gliding past rugged mountains, shimmering lochs, or dramatic coastlines, these scenic train journeys make the journey as remarkable as the destination.

[alteredstatesstuff]

old steam engine

[2inx4inx8inbrick]

Union Pacific Bigboy 4014 at Linwood Kansas on its way to Topeka KS

taken 10/17/24

[jesus-holding-your-fave]

i have a very odd request: can jesus hold a steam train and the lesbian flag at the same time? it’s an inside joke and i need to show it to someone-

Today, Jesus is holding:

A steam train and a lesbian flag

[seaswine]

"We've no money to mend you... to the back of the shed you'll go"

[womblegrinch]

Terence Cuneo (1907-1996) - The 'Flying Scotsman', 4472

Oil on canvas. Painted c.1972.

29.9 x 40.2 inches, 76 x 102 cm. Estimate: £30,000-50,000.

Sold Sworders, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, 1 Oct 2024 for £29,000 + B.P.

The Flying Scotsman, still in service, is the most iconic steam locomotive in the UK.

[whirligig-girl]

NWR No.1 and SLYM No.11513 at a dual gauge interchange just outside of the city center.

SLYM No.11513 is an Advanced Steam Locomotive native to Gymnome--a coal-burning steam engine operating at high pressure, with technological improvements to allow it to rival the efficiency and ease of use of a diesel locomotive, such as electronic controls, compound expansion of steam, a gas producer combustion system firebox, dual exhaust, and automatic firing and oiling. 11513 was built some time in the 2340s, and survives to 2381 as a museum piece.

NWR No.1 is a much older locomotive and from another planet altogether, built 1915 for the LBSC railway as a one-off prototype for a six-coupled shunter to replace the aging Terriers and to supplement the much larger E2-tanks. NWR No.1 made it to the North Western Railway not long after it was built, having been allocated there for the war effort. It is not clear how a locomotive built 465 years in the past on planet Earth made it intact to Gymnome, nor how its gauge perfectly matched Goo'iw Broad Gauge, at least not without invoking some kind of universe-spanning magic railroad, or perhaps the notion that this is all a simulation being run in some kind of virtual reality in some alien starship.

(no this isn't canon.)

Artist's notes:

Earlier today I doodled this in my sketchbook.

And when I got home i decided, hey, I have my Thomas 3D model, and I have the game model of the Advanced Steam Tank Engine... why not actually stage them together and draw them to-scale. The size difference is greater than I expected--partly I think this is because the Thomas gauge-1 prop was not designed with scale in mind, so it's bigger than British Railways loading gauge. Granted, they are at different gauges (standard gauge versus roughly meter-ish gauge), but the loading gauge on the advanced steam engine is very wide.

My first attempt at the drawing was from a very different angle:

But I quickly realized that you can't actually see the Advanced Steam Engine's wheels, and that's a major design aspect.

So i chose a different angle.

I constructed the dual gauge track before anything else.

And before long (the better part of 2 hours) I had the line art finished.

The Advanced Steam Engine ended up being a hybrid between the original illustration I did of it months ago, and the game model--with most of the geometry accurate to the game model, but with the subtler detailing of the illustrated version.

Thomas was meant to be a sort of hybrid of the Gauge 1 Prop from the TV series and a realistic loco. I prioritized the geometry and simplicity of the gauge 1 prop in most respects, but added details below the running board, in particular brake rigging, sanding gear, and these blade-like protrusions of the frames which i'm pretty sure are some kind of debris deflector, a british version of a cowcatcher. There's also snifters on the cylinder saddle, and the whistle is made of two different lengths to justify Thomas' multi-tone whistle.

The original background was going to be this marshland with (electricity-generating) windmills in the background, a callback to that first shot in the Thomas & Friends opening credits, but I hated how it felt like the middle of nowhere, so I introduced the retaining wall and an alien city scene.

British steam engines are generally given very shiny liveries which reflect the environment in interesting ways, so I made sure to do that justice, using a GWR 14xx autotank as reference.

By contrast, the Advanced Steam Tank Engine is kept in a more workwormlike condition, with a somewhat faded matte paint work and a fair amount of grime.

The original illustration of the advanced steam engine, for comparison.

Finally, a version with faces.

[dampfloks]

Brockenbahn

[gravitycosplays-solarflareart]

@lolthandfound made the meme and I felt absolutely compelled to draw it 😂 Anyways, everyone say hello to my latest hyperfixation: the Starlight Express. I love these silly little trains, trucks, and coaches ❤️

[connorphilpphotography]

The Jacobite, Glenfinnan Viaduct