#electroliner

[whitedogblog]

Electroliner on the Chicago El, 1941

[littlewestern]

For Silver and Black, any headcanons about the other engines at the IRM? I wonder if Pilot, 1630, and the electroliner get along since they’re the ‘faces’ of the museum. There’s also that Q Hudson, 504, 9925 and 9976. They probably all hang out as the Q club lol. I wonder if they like the BN units?

The IRM is practically a chronic and compulsive character designer's dream. I could spend the rest of my life making little guys out of their roster and probably not ever get bored, so you can bet DJ (@greatwesternway) and I have spent the past 13 months doing exactly that lol.

1630 was absolutely one of the first ones we worked on after Pilot, given that she's so iconic and important to the IRM. Engines with stories are far and away the easiest to write for, and 1630 has a great one. Plus, she's a face as you say! I like to characterize her as a bold and confident problem solver, especially having read some of the old Rail & Wires from the time period when she was undergoing restoration. Her first trial run went so well they had her pulling trains even though she was supposed to just be fired for testing, and that to me informs so much of her personality. She was ready to work from the jump! She's obviously besties with Shay 5, being that they've worked together for so many years, and I like to think they're sort of the de facto ambassadors for the steam department with the rest of the museum.

The Electroliner, I'm a little embarrassed to say, I only got around to learning about recently even though I was struck immediately by the design. I like to picture her as a more blue-collar version of the Zephyrs, streamlined and modern but still very much of the people. I haven't explored her history that much since we haven't gotten there in the letters yet, but I'm excited to learn more! I think she and Pilot get along really well, but that's sort of a given since Pilot gets along with everybody.

Some other characters at the IRM that get some play in the discussion are The Goddesses, who all have unique personalities and have been cropping up more frequently in the letters. We've also casually written some thoughts down about the other Pullman streamlined cars (Birmingham and Loch Sloy) as well as quite a few of the diesel shunters, since they're literally always out doing stuff at the IRM, and it's easy to fall in love with the engines that are constantly out there working. Our favorite so far is the Commonwealth Edison 15 shunter because he's grey and the last time I saw it out, it was switching the aforementioned Pullman cars around and @joezworld joked that he was going, "Look! I'm a streamliner!" and that has since become basically canon.

I don't have much for the Q steam engines although they're definitely on the list. I'm very interested in the BNs 1, 2, and 3 because I think their story is going to be interesting but I also haven't put much time in on their history yet. Since the museum's roster is so extensive (especially compared to the MSI), we've just been letting the stories inspire us as we learn about them organically. DJ's been adding new entries to the timeline from the IRM's photohistory book, and that alone has sewn some ideas we're definitely going to revisit later, if not in the letters than possibly in some other stories or just for our own amusement.

These questions are *so* good by the way, I'm absolutely loving being able to answer these! Thanks so much!

[monstroso]

yuuuup that's what he is alright good job marshall productions

LOL i just ripped this off archive.org (sorrryyyyy Marsh, wasn't paying 25 clams for this one) and the sound was all desync'd and it was awful but I fixed it in audacity. took me like two hours. It was totally worth it for the footage of the 2903 move though!! I'd seen screenshots of it that I knew were from a vhs, but I couldn't track it down to save my life. Then, right there in the middle of the IRM video, was my boy!!!!!!

The world music over the Zephyr footage was great, totally inappropriate for the setting.

Actually, unironically, the Electroliner part was super informative and it gave me a lot of appreciation for it that I didn't have prior. For a really long time it was under restoration so the footage of it running at the museum was the first time I'd seen the inside. Here's hoping they bring back the electroburgers!

[first-manchester-661]

Still hate myself... lol

Anyway here is a photo of a 2024 wright electroliner

[guerrerense]

Illinois Ry Museum #802 por Jim Strain Por Flickr: The Electroliner has its turn during the 70th Anniversary Trolley Pageant. (232374)*

[datalite]

Sanctuary (feat. Brad Raker) (Electroliners Remix)

[djchorlocontrolection]

M5 Featuring. Brad Raker - Sanctuary (Electroliners Remix) 1996

[globalrailfan]

Wrightbus 'GB Kite Electroliner' Classed As The Most Efficient On UK’s Roads.

http://dlvr.it/Sq075G

[anantradingpvtltd]

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[tothemaonline]

Electroline Christmas Competition

Δικαίωμα συμμετοχής έχουν τα άτομα τα οποία πληρούν τις ακόλουθες προϋποθέσεις:

Είναι φυσικά πρόσωπα, ηλικίας άνω των 18 ετών (ηλικία που πρέπει να έχει ήδη συμπληρωθεί κατά την πρόσβαση στην ενέργεια).

Είναι μόνιμοι κάτοικοι Κύπρου.

Έχουν ακολουθήσει σωστά ΌΛΑ τα βήματα του διαγωνισμού.

Ο Διαγωνισμός θα διαρκέσει από τις 12/12 μέχρι τις 26/12.

Ο/Η νικητής/τρια θα ανακοινωθεί 27/12 στα σχόλια της ανάρτησης του διαγωνισμού στο Facebook.

Το δώρο του διαγωνισμού είναι 1 LG QP5 e-clair μπάρα ηχείων 3.1.2 καναλιών, άσπρο αξίας €399.

Η παραλαβή του δώρου θα γίνει από κατάστημα της εταιρείας Electroline.

Οι φόροι συμπεριλαμβάνονται.

Η παραλαβή του δώρου θα γίνει από τον/την νικητή/τρια. Σε περίπτωση που ο/η νικητής/τρια δεν μπορεί να εξαργυρώσει το δώρο η εταιρεία δεν φέρει καμία ευθύνη.

Το δώρο δεν μπορεί να εξαργυρωθεί με κάτι άλλο ή με χρηματικό ποσό.

Ο/Η νικητής/τρια ορίζεται κατόπιν ηλεκτρονικής κλήρωσης που δεν επιδέχεται ανθρώπινη παρέμβαση. Η κλήρωση θα διεξαχθεί μεταξύ όλων των έγκυρων συμμετοχών και θα τύχει πλήρους εμπιστευτικού χαρακτήρα.

Ο/Η νικητής/τρια θα πρέπει στη συνέχεια να επικοινωνήσει μαζί μας σε προσωπικό μήνυμα και να μας ενημερώσει ότι αποδέχεται το δώρο αλλά και να δώσει τα προσωπικά του/της στοιχεία (όνομα, ηλικία και τηλέφωνο) ώστε να διευθετηθεί το δώρο του/της.

Από τον Διαγωνισμό αποκλείονται όσοι εμπίπτουν στις ακόλουθες περιπτώσεις: α) οι εργαζόμενοι της Διοργανώτριας Εταιρίας «ALPAN ELECTROLINE LTD», καθώς και όσοι σχετίζονται με την υλοποίηση αυτής της προωθητικής ενέργειας και β) τα πρόσωπα συγγένειας α’ και β’ βαθμού με τους ανωτέρω εργαζόμενους καθώς, επίσης, και οι σύζυγοι των εργαζόμενων αυτών. Ο αποκλεισμός μπορεί να γίνει σε οποιαδήποτε φάση του Διαγωνισμού, ακόμα και κατά το στάδιο παράδοσης των Δώρων.

Η συμμετοχή στην ενέργεια συνεπάγεται τη ρητή και ανεπιφύλακτη συναίνεση του συμμετέχοντα για καταχώρηση δεδομένων προσωπικού χαρακτήρα και ανεπιφύλακτη αποδοχή των όρων συμμετοχής.

[doctor-ciel]

Had a dream someone did a dne campaign everyone’s characters had the job “electroliner”

[marmarinou]

From The Trolley Dodger Blog: "The photographer (possibly Emery Gulash) had but one chance to press the shutter button at precisely the right moment, and he nailed it with this classic view of westbound Electroliner train 803 at Lake Bluff in January 1963. This is what noted photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson had in mind when he wrote about the 'decisive moment'."

[radicalnature]

ELECTROLINER

[saveyourself]

killjoys mcm - day 1 and 2 - her mother + infancy

i didn't have the chance to do something yesterday so i figured i'd do it today ! and my timeline works differently for the girl, specifically, so this worked out well for me.

954 words + cws for: death, + war !!

Electroline.

Her name is Electroline.

She's the face of the revolution and technicolor bleeds from her veins, stains the very ground she walks on like holy water; burns away the corruption and the smog that reek of death and decay. She is, she is.

Electroline doesn't quite know what to think about the pedestal she's been put on.

She's a fighter, she knows that, and she's a soldier. She's another soldier, and that's the end of the story. A soldier that gets a little more airtime than the other soldiers, but that doesn't change her position.

She makes battle plans. She hopes she doesn't get people killed.

It never works out that well, but Electroline supposes she can't complain; she's alive and she's managed to keep a two-year-old alive so far.

Although, she supposes that isn't going to stay that way for long.

The Phoenix Witch stands next to her on the horizon, staring down at the sun sinking beyond the horizon,

She's holding the child in her arms, fast asleep. Knows that one day that child will take all the power from the sun and harness it at her fingertips, take the satellites out of the sky and keep them at her command.

"You cannot keep her," the Phoenix Witch says, voice low, reverberating through the ground, though the soles of Electroline's boots. To her spine. To her ribs. To her heart.

Her heart, that can't bear the idea of not having her child.

"I know," Electroline whispers, as though saying the words will bring them to life, will stop her heart in the way she knows will happen soon. Soon, she doesn't know how soon.

She hopes that it'll be when the Analog Wars come to an end.

And the Analog Wars are ending, she knows that; Better Living Industries is tired of their little rat infestation becoming a problem and the XX Division has long since been worn down, tired of fighting a war they'll never win, tired of losing friends and burying bracelets.

"Do you know where she'll go?" Electroline asks, because it's the only question, she thinks, that'll help her process it all.

She doesn't know what's beyond death. No mortal is supposed to know that. But she wants to know what she's going to leave behind, where the bundle in her arms will go. Supposedly, two-s years-old is too big to swaddle, but the child's always been small for her age.

The Phoenix Witch hums. "Somewhere she'll be taken care of."

"Not enough."

Perhaps a child's only place is with their mother. Where, then, is the child's place, when their mother's destiny is something worse than a six-foot hole in the ground? When is the line burred, the path deviated?

"I understand your loss," the Witch says slowly, as though she's giving out information that should've died with her mortal body. "The child will not understand the grief. She... she will not remember you."

Electroline nods. She knew that. She knows that. "I can't tell if that's better or worse. She's my entire life, and yet, she's not going to remember me."

"She is not your entire life," says the Witch, "but she is the end of it."

There's nothing to do but smile, running her thumb over the child's forehead, tucking the blanket back in.

She can't think of dying, not really. Can't think about losing her daughter.

_

The battlefield has long since held her heart, held her tight enough for her ribs to pierce her lungs.

Metaphorically, of course, but this, this is the end of the Analog Wars and she knew what she was doing when she woke up that morning, knew she'd be dead before the day ended.

"You're out of your mind," Milligram had said when they'd left the airfield hanger they'd been staying in, "taking a fucking kid into a firefight, You know she's going to die out there, right?"

The child isn't the one who's going to die.

She, Electroline, leader of the XX Division, will die on the battlefield, and she won't be holding a child.

Her blaster is at low power, running on Technic Nylon with the glow seeping out, bright green onto her gloved palm, sweat sticking stray hairs to her forehead with wide, blown eyes, trigger, trigger, always on the trigger.

"The child," she says, swallowing thickly because they're nowhere near the end of this firefight and yet she's on the frontlines and out of tricks; it's her time.

She doesn't know who hears her, not his name, but he's got bright red hair and a babyface that says he hasn't been out in the Zones long, shouldn't be in a Death Disco like this that's going to result in the death of all his heroes.

"The child!" Electroline hisses again, ducking as a blast of light flies over her head.

The red-head looks at her with wide eyes, panicked and confused, and Electroline gestures to the bundle on the ground with her blaster.

"The child, take the child, get her out of here, get out of here."

Maybe it's because it's an order. Maybe it's because Electroline is the one giving it. Maybe it's because the kid's been looking for an excuse to leave.

She doesn't know.

She doesn't know and she thinks that's what kills her, really, the not knowing, not knowing what happens to her child.

It kills her long before the blast to the chest does. Long before a mask is put over her still-warm body.

The last thing Electroline sees, before she's dead, before she's stripped of the electricity that made her a staple of a war that's now over, is the setting sun, red hair, and the Witch's sympathetic smile.

[guerrerense]

Electroliner por Robby Gragg Por Flickr: The CNSM Electroliner sits on display at 50th Avenue in Union, IL.