#steam engine

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The Jacobite, Glenfinnan Viaduct

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Misty Islands Logging Company No.2 Bernard --- Misty Islands Scenic Railway No.2 Bernard or "Bash"

One of the two surviving yarding locomotives operated by the Misty Islands Logging Company, Bernard has been there from almost the beginning, and though he didn't help lay the original tracks to the first logging camp, he did help build much of the rest of the railway. He and Ferdinand took great pride in their work, and hated the implication that it was "bad" or "spaghetti" or "so tightly curved that Rex, Mike, and Bert would clench their spring rigging".

There is a misconception that Bash and Dash (David) are twins, but though the share the same overall layout and are very close friends and get up to the same kind of mischief that one would expect from the china clay twins, David and Bernard have some significant differences which will be shown eventually.

This format of locomotive--a small 0-4-0, often geared, with a yarding winch on the front, were very common on the Misty Islands Logging Railroad. Unfortunately, only two survive.

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Rusty, Greaseball and Electra except I redesigned them only using the real trains for reference

(All the train photos are from google btw)

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Drew this JNR D51 in art class a little while ago! Behold Astrotrain- I mean Hiro, Master of the Railway

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old steam engine

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

taken 10/17/24

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Gearing up again

Abandoned Steam Engine Brought Back to Life! - 1908 Industrial Time Capsule x

Woburn Municipal Waterworks Museum

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Flying Scotsman at the Nene Valley Railway, February 2025: Video 1

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Have an emotional support perpy for your troubles :D

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Steam locomotive from Germany

23.1097

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The Sussex Belle camera: Sony a7 iii lens: Tamron 24mm f/2.8 Di III OSD flickr // instagram

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Commission for @traintrainingmontage of their OC, Glennock the Tank Engine.

More info and timelapse below the cut:

Glennock is a 'fankid' of Rheneas and Stepney. Don't ask me how that works, that's a question for the client. So I had to come up with a design that was halfway between Rheneas or the real life Dolgoch, a narrow gauge 0-4-0 built by Fletcher-Jennings, and Stepney, a real life LB&SCR A1 Terrier 0-6-0 tank engine. The client originally asked for a side tank engine, but I talked her into a well tank since it'd be easier to make her look like Rheneas despite being standard gauge.

My initial thought was to just find a suitable engine and make that the basis. And honestly, that could have worked. My original choice was a Beattie well tank

Maybe modified a bit to look more like Rheneas and Stepney.

And while I did still take some inspiration on the mechanical side of things from the Beattie, as well as a Class G standard gauge 0-6-0 designed by Fletcher-Jennings, Glennock ended up being almost entirely a one-off design based on Dolgoch and Stepney.

Rheneas and his real world counterpart, the Talyllyn Railway's No.2 Dolgoch

Stepney in the Railway Series and Stepney in the real world.

The boiler is largely a scaled up Rheneas boiler, and below the frames it is more like a Class G. Stepney's contributions were largely visible, like the Stroudley cab, and a livery pattern based on Stepney's Improved Engine Green.

The livery was a real headscratcher because it had to incorporate pale blue as the main color, Stepney's orange-yellow color, and Rheneas' red. Took a long time to figure out something that looked halfway decent. It didn't end up with a ton of red (no more than most british steam engines) but to be fair the mechanical side is a lot more Rheneas than Stepney.

I was kind of imagining this engine was a one-off industrial engine built by Fletcher-Jennings, with the Stroudley style cab being a later addition. (Perhaps she was not originally built with one)

(Though I think the client probably had something more supernatural in mind--i'm sure they can clarify in the notes.)

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I wasn’t able to reply to the original post for some reason, so here we go.

Gordon deserves to be comforted. (I've got this, I'll take care of him.) I can relate to his feelings - l've had feelings ignored/dismissed most of me life. He's an engine, if it's hard enough for a person to deal with it, it's worse for him. He's already treated like a glorified object. He's scolded for feeling upset. He was scolded for ignoring Edward's feelings. He took Edward (especially) and Henry for granted, but now he realises he cares about them. He deserves to be acknowledged n validated for that. He wasn't taught anything else. It's not his fault.

Nia, Rebecca, and even Emily could have had sheds built for them, like an engine sorority.

Update: had to cross out names, because I have since found out these people are disturbing enablers of narcissists and engage in false accusations against me. They are also actual paedophiles.

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1899 Stanley Steamer: Mr Stanley Turns on the Steam Climbing Mount Washington by Kenneth Pauling Riley

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Guys, look how smol he is!