#I Love Trains

[luthiest]

10.28.23

soooooo i participated in my first violin making competition this week w my first instrument !! 10/10, met a lot of really lovely people, got to explore poznan a bit, had some helpful feedback on my instrument, and i came away w a couple awards for best score in acoustic quality 🥳🥳 (none for the workmanship but i’ll get there one day lolol)

the last two weeks have been pretty inspiring—low key excited to get back to school and do work? who would’ve thought

🎧 : need 2 - pinegrove

[ukrainian-moodboard-enthusiast]

a love letter to Ukrzaliznytsia 💙💛

[outer-edges]

im taking the amtrak and fully positive they accidentally loaded my line into business class but this shit is NOICEEEEE. the seat comfort?? the leg room??? never taking a plane domestically ever again

[capitalismenjoyer]

Wor MA-> PGH spring 2023

[aikselddaiks]

[hum-tittle]

Thanks @amtrak-official for getting me to @falloutboy

[oldvintageglamour]

Lionel trains catalog, 1962 🚂🛤️

[riverance]

Cozy train ride.

[door]

Trans-Siberian Railroad Egg (1900), created by Fabergé for Tsar Nicholas II to present to his wife, Tsarina Alexandra Fyodorovna. At this point, the railway was nearly complete, and the route was etched in silver around the outside of the egg.

The egg's surprise is a tiny clockwork model of a steam train, exact down to the labeling of each train car, the sides of which read “mail,” “ladies only,” “smoking,” “non-smoking,” and “chapel.” The included key could be used to wind the train. Author Géza von Habsburg has tried it and remarked, "the mechanism is a bit rusty, and it moves slowly but it's like a sort of old 'dinky toy.'"

The egg itself was constructed of gold, silver, enamel, onyx, and velvet for lining. The surprise was made of gold, platinum, rose-cut diamonds, rubies, and rock crystal (for the train windows).

Check out this video for a sense of its scale and how the train fit inside the egg:

[rothesmary]

The train going past is literally the perfect experience. The ground shakes beneath you; the smell of rust; the insurmountable power. And god the sound of the horn that rattles into your heart. It engages every sense and moves with joints like a real great animal. And then it’s over. It ends in seconds and then you’re left desiring again m, so so perfect

[bojanus]

[toast-com]

Current Mood:

[pulsar-1919]

It has just occured that I, a possibly autistic train enjoyer, has not once thought to check the trains tag on this, The Autism Website

[gay-edwardian]

Say what you will about England but they sure can rolling green hills

[locomotive-idiot]

this is just

man

a steam locomotive on a cable car crosses the canyon of the rio grande river

new mexico, 1915

[treecakes]

almost time to ride the TRAIN