#train art

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[jeeklaart]

taking the train going anywhere 🚃 🌱

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[natalya-andrex]

Train at sunset.. 🌇

[whirligig-girl]

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.)

[network-rail]

[victusinveritas]

Art by Kevin Yackmack

[trainsandstuff]

I believe this is Nickel Plate Road 750 in a painting done by David Tutwiler.

[pexiderg]

Redo of my how to dragon your train trend, going with a feral approach for the bart dragon

[brendambois]

Woe

Boxtangle be upon ye

[victorards]

metro

[jeeklaart]

Train rides & familiar sights 🚃

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[duncandonuts06]

Is it too late for 1/1?

Have a Skarloey anyway!! Been a little unsure of what sort of TTTE content to draw recently, but I saw a BEAUTIFUL picture of Talyllyn on Alamy and decided to redraw it as Loey! It really helped me practice my shading. Such a beautiful engine.

Here's the photograph I was inspired from! ---> https://www.alamy.com/talyllyn-steam-saddle-tank-locomotive-showing-headboard-with-welsh-image150395349.html

[number1spongebobfan]

really old art >-<

I drew this the day Michael Angelis died. I grew up watching the American dub of Thomas, though I still appreciated him for working on it and paid my respect when he passed away.

It is Thomas (as a "feral" train, not my anthropomorphic "furry" toon Thomas) meeting Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony. I like them being friends and meeting up together!! Though, I never got why ppl shipped them and compared them to each other. Cause tbh, they really don't have much in common. Thomas is more like Rainbow Dash while Twilight is more like Rheneas, IMO.

But still, I love crossovers, and I wanted these 2 to meet!!

[whirligig-girl]

Commission for @pikablob of her sentient fictional Underrail steam locomotive, 2956 Dreadnought. It uses compound expansion of steam, with boiler pressure steam entering the external cylinders and driving the rear drive wheel, then exhausting into the low pressure cylinder under the smokebox, where it drives the front drive wheel. Note that the two wheels are not coupled together, making this a 2-2-2-0, and due to its two reversers, it has the dubious honor of being capable of wheelslipping in two directions at the same time.

See also: Featherfoot

More info and, process, and alternate images below the cut:

She turned in time to see a new shape burst out from under the island’s shadow, a shiny blur of polished brass and whirring rods, gunning gamely for the yard’s throat.

It was a smaller engine than the first, painted in neat polished black with red and white lining. The cylinders were small and boxy, set behind the wheels of the leading axle. With each breath from the chimney, a great snort of steam would burst from one of them, or from beneath, between the frames; peering closer, she could see the outline of a massive third piston-housing under the smokebox, half-hidden by pilot beam and cowcatcher.

Neat valances covered two sets of large driving wheels, the rear one eclipsed by the cab side-walls, while a complicated set of polished steel rods whirled below. And above, on the leading wheel-arch, polished to the same brassy sheen as whistle, bell, and safety-valves, was a gracefully-curved nameplate:

Dreadnought.

What this is all describing is an LNWR Dreadnought-class 2-2-2-0 Webb Compound. One of these (No. 1320) was actually exported to the Pennsylvania Railroad in the U.S. and ‘Americanized’. The fictional Dreadnought will have been through a similar process.

Dreadnought is sapient, with a "Coal Heart" in her firebox which acts as the mind and main power source for the loco (though she still consumes coal).

A real LNWR Dreadnought. Note the large shiny round disk below the smokebox door, mostly hidden under the frames--that's the low pressure cylinder.

the real life PRR 1320 'Pennsylvania', the exported Webb Compound, with an airbrake compressor, a cowcatcher, a bell, headlamp, and larger cab.

The first iteration of my sketch of Dreadnought, from the evening of June 1st. Pretty rough--a lot of the proportions hadn't been figured out quite yet.

The next morning at around 10:30 AM, I began work again.

She briefly had a more american outline boiler, but I got rid of it.

Even after a lot of tweaking, the proportions still didn't look right. It turned out that the spacing between the drivers was totally wrong.

After much surgery--cutting up the boiler, moving the wheels, and stitching the lines back together--the locomotive was looking a lot more authentic.

The sketch was finished by 1:42 PM.

By 3:40, the locomotive and tender bodies were clean lined.

I was running out of time before a meeting as I was putting the wheels on.

The Joy Valve Gear turned out to be really easy to draw, almost disappointingly so.

Joy Valve Gear takes the valve timing from the connecting rod, rather than the drive wheel or axle.

So at 5:00, before I left for my meeting, this was the state of the drawing.

and, um, I also may have sketched it with pencil during the meeting...

I didn't draw any more that night, but at 9:50 AM this morning, I got back to work.

The tender trucks are off of NYC 999, which have this really weird suspension with those inverted leaf springs. The tender is also a little longer to accomodate.

At 10:15 AM, the clean line art was finished:

Coloring then took until about 1:00 PM. There's a lot of very fine line work and there's only so many shortcuts that can be taken. The livery is based on the LNWR lined black (which is extremely similar to BR Black), but with the white wall tires off of NYC 999 (since the tender trucks looked wrong without them and the loco looked wrong with them on just the tender). There's also a white roof, just because.

The shading was done with black for the shadows, and cool grey for the highlights. British steam engines were usually kept pretty shiny anyway, but this locomotive is kept in very good condition by its owner

the full drawing (shown in the OP) was finished at 2:43 PM. But I also made some variants, like the transparency shown above, the solid color version that's brightened for a white/transparent background. (also shown above), and the following:

Transparent with no steam and lights.

background with no steam and lights.

and as before with Featherfoot, a lineless variant. (this isn't a true lineless drawing, it's just the lined drawing without the lines)

Overall this was a great commission and I had a lot of fun on it, just like Featherfoot. Probably put too much detail into it.

[network-rail]

A class 455 doing some sweet multi-track drifting