#Electric Locomotive

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Intercity Swallow appreciation

Intercity Swallow livery, as carried by HST, class 47s, 73s, 86s, 87s, the 89, 90s and 91s in the early 1990's. A very smart colour scheme which suited all of these classes and is leagues above most modern rail company liveries!

[railway-roundhouse]

You will never be as cool as Little Joe

[karl-jensen]

Railway Series accurate Etienne

Perhaps one of the more obscurer characters in Thomas and Friends would have to be the Foreign Engines in The Great Race. All of which are based on real-world locomotives with some of historic significance. One of which would be Etienne the French Electric engine who broke the land speed record on March 1955.

I drew him last March as a "what-if" take on the character if he appeared in The Railway Series. I gave him an embedded face like some Diesel characters (such as Daisy, BoCo, Bear, etc.) and his real-world livery that the actual 9004 has. Instead of giving him his name as seen on the plates, I gave him his real-world number as well as the SNCF logo.

Below is the "gray face" version of Railway Series Etienne.

To accompany his "Railway Series" appearance. I made up a story based on his real-world record breaking run and made several original characters based on engines that the SNCF used. One of them is an American-built SNCF Class 141R as well as an SNCF Class 241A. Seen below are the characters that I created.

[train-of-the-day]

Train of the day is: Amtrak Cities Sprinter Siemens ACS-64! ( X )

[soldatenstiefel]

[identifyingtrainsinposts]

I knew this blog had to exist! I'm so glad I found it :)

Anyway, this should be an easy one

Talgo / Bombardier - 250 Dual

[osrphotography]

Scanned from a 35mm slide, image being used non-commercially.

Ferrocarril del Sur (Chile, now FEPASA) № E-3208 at Santiago. c. 1990s.

New to the Empresa de Ferrocarriles del Estado (EFE, Chilean State Railways) in 1961, the Tipo E-32 was built by GAI-Breda and Marelli.

In the 1990s, the EFE divested a number of operations to a new company, the Ferrocarril del Pacífico S.A. (FEPASA) and in so doing transferred 3208 and 5 other E-32s to the new company.

I am unsure whether 3208 is still running, but as of 2017, it and 3223 were both intact at Talca. Of the ones retained by the EFE, E-3209 is seemingly still running. Albeit in the later blue/yellow scheme rather than the burgundy with gold stripes that the type originally wore.

The Tipo E-32 is built to broad gauge (5ft 6in 1676mm gauge).

[zponds]

Now here we have the iconic Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 electric locomotives. There are four of them in my roster of TTTE OC engines from the PRR: Glenn (brunswick green five-stripe #4927), Gracie (tuscan red five-stripe #4877), Garrison (brunswick green five-stripe #4919), and Gaby (tuscan red five-stripe #4913). And these images will be here for Grantgfan to use when the time comes.

[hs999]

久々の鉄道風景

普段あまり使わない、リアルタイムトラッキングによる撮影。

機関車、重連で引っ張ってるんだね。

camera :SONY α7RⅣ

lens : TAMRON 28-75mm F/2.8 Di III VXD G2

[terribletrainphotos]

Trying to hunt the elusive Rc4 as it vanishes into the freight yard at Helsingborg.

[bacony-cakes]

i am walking in the park and i feed some breadcrumbs to the pigeons and all of a sudden a knee-height gg1 electric locomotive in the amtrak phase 1 livery trundles up to me and starts eating the breadcrumbs as well

[the-time-lord-oracle]

Contrasts at Rugby, with a Duchess, class 86 and Pendolino showing the changing face of the station.

[number1spongebobfan]

Titipo Titipo's a spinoff of Tayo the Little Bus btw! :3

She is so kawaii!

[i-have-funny-hat]

Went to the NRM to see Flying Scotsman today!

I’ll be posting things separately so here’s the station photos!

There’ll be:

Station

Museum steam

Museum diesel/electric

Scotsman

[train-of-the-day]

Train of the day is: Newag Griffin/ PKP EU160! ( X )

[voca1ion]

this is one of the first mainline electric locomotives in the world, and this exact locomotive, number 6000, still survives (barely) in a forest cut off from the rail network with another historically significant electric locomotive