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

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

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Have an emotional support perpy for your troubles :D

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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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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.

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475.111 "Šlechtična, Pětasedma" since 1947

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Guys, look how smol he is!

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Commission for @seaswine of their OC Willard singing for some workmen!

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Two double-headers on the Trans-Gooiw Railroad passing each other in the hills, dragging long freight trains behind them, during the early days of the Pan-Mellanus Oil Crisis.

More mellanoid trains: Guz's Model Garratt | Museum-piece carrying rocket parts | Advanced Steam Tank Engine | Guz's bigger model Garratt | Tram and Coal Mine loco sketches.

The diesel-hydraulic at the front of the foreground consist, already somewhat old and tired by this point, dates back to around the time period that steam engines were originally retired on Mellanus. It's not very fuel efficient as it is, and with the oil rations, diesels can not handle the trains on their own any longer.

For a few years now the railroads have been taking their steam engines out of mothballs and museums, as coal was comparatively dirt-cheap. Still though, the various maintenance and operational complexities of running steam locomotives resulted in a lot of losses for the railroads.

Pictured here behind the diesel is an early attempt at the Advanced Steam Engine concept, modifying a member of a very prolific and successful 2-8-0+0-8-2 Garratt class with a gas producer combustion system, more modern cylinders and valve gear, and entirely replacing the cab with an electronic control system (with the more diesel-like control stands moved to separate cabs on the tenders). The electronic control scheme allows for the steam engine to be connected to a diesel engine to be run as a multiple unit, cutting down operational costs. However, as a modified prototype, this locomotive lacks some of the other features which exemplified the Advanced Steam era, such as modular ashpans, computerized control, and precision engineering.

On the other track, moving the opposite direction, we see a double header of two steam locomotives, another 2-8-0+0-8-2 loaned from the Slaibsgloth Coal Mine Railroad, and a 2-10-2 'easy' type non-articulated loco leads the train. In this case, there is no electronic connection, so a crew of four mellanoid slimes is necessary to operate the train.

The eagle-eyed railway fans will notice that there are radiators for a dynamic brake on the diesel, yet the diesel is an electric. Diesel-electric dynamic brakes switch the traction motors into generators, and dump the electricity out as waste heat--but there's no traction motors on a hydraulic. So why the radiator fins? There's still a dynamic engine brake on the diesel-hydraulic, so it still needs to be able to dissipate heat, especially on the mountain routes.

WIP images follow:

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Britannia at the Nene Valley Railway, March 2025 (Part 6)