#living locomotives

[ohjeeztrains]

His tummy hurts :(

[shadeandthedugeonofcringefanart]

people will draw humanized ttte (or other related media) because they want to see them do human things or it's easier to draw (which is respectable, I do those things too)

but the reason why I always interpret them as Train-to-human shapeshifters/monsters is so I can imagine them beating the sh__ out of each other.

[shadesdahimp]

so...

I've been trying to design my monster train guy but I need a bit of help...

he's suppose to be a 2-8-2 Mikado (based off of many other mikados so no specific basis) American locomotive. I really just need help figuring out a little more about his anatomy and some extra details (since he's American, I need help deciding what details I need to add more to him since American locomotives tend to be more detailed)

[don't question about his face, I'm trying to do his body first before drawing his face]

[greateasternj69]

Finished the first illustration for chapter 2 of TFTTOH the Arrival of the DMU's. This illustration is part of the introduction to our main protagonist's Danwood and Sanworth who are BR Class 101's and their two sisters Angelina and Danielle who are seen here sleeping in their original shed at their original home at Lightcombe on the former Jamston and Lightcombe branch line in Devon, on a cold morning sunrise as the sun is rising over the hills.

Tarmingham Overhead Railway and Characters: © Great Eastern J69

[edwards-exploit]

I think I can, I think I can, I think I can!

[whirligig-girl]

As a lower decker, Ensign Eaurp Guz doesn't have a lot of space for a model railroad. Arguably she could fit like a shelf layout precariously above her tub-bunk, but that's where she keeps some of her model spaceships. So instead, she builds larger scale model engines and runs them on the holodeck. Here's a roughly G gauge model of a Slopspit & Southern Class 80 "Easy"-type 2-6-0 steam engine with decorative smoke baffles. Like most of her models it's built with function in mind, so it's live steam.

Guz's model rockets and spacecrafts are either run in the holodeck, or in certain conditions on shoreleave or staged out of the shuttlebay on actual spaceflights. For example, the Orion Nuclear Pulse Rocket from Guzcomic was planned to make a round trip between Douglas Station and the planet's moon, DbII before it went and exploded itself, and the lunar lander she'd built for the Apollo 11 anniversary was going to actually land on the Moon.

When she can fully recover her models, she keeps them in storage and rotates them in the display above her tub-bunk.

Guz also has plans for a proper model railroad which would replicate a colliery circa 2350 with a late example of a revenue-earning steam locomotive in approximately HO-ish gauge, but it would require having her own quarters.

She's also kicking around plans to make a 1:4800 scale layout which would fit on a microscope slide.

[shittykinaesthetics]

Shitty Naru Ayase aesthetic: i think in 2024 more people's resolution should be to have a lovely-type personality. let's all work on that shall we

[hazel-of-sodor]

Day 20-Lively Polly

Traintober 2023

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Day 20-Live Wire

Lively Polly

It was the dark hours of the morning when Polly happily rolled out of the shed and into the snow, blowing steam over the rails as she went. The few engines awake watched their little steam engine sibling depart with amusement, only she would be happy to go out in such weather.

Polly had soon collected the workman's coach and set off up the line.

While clearing the third rail of ice would have been a boring job for most engines, Polly loved it. Slowly running up the line up into the hills, occasionally pulling into a siding to allow her shedmates who collected their power with pantographs to pass. The world was quiet and still, the air bitingly cold against her boiler.

Many of the North Western's other steam engines had asked her if it was lonely being the only steam engine assigned to her branch. She had always happily replied it wasn't, she had her electric siblings after all.

The top station at Peel Godred was always a beauty in the early hours of the Morning. Polly loved watching the first rays of sunlight hit the glass roof of the station. The bells of the city's electric trams range out as they set off for the day. Occasionally Polly would shunt a goods train together, but most of the day she spent in the station sidings chatting with whoever was at the station.

Finally, as the sun set she would collect her coach and and trundle down the line, de-icing the rails for the night, before falling asleep in her berth in the shed.

AN:Since shes pretty obscure from what I can tell, heres what Lively Polly Looked like pre-Sodor

[klein-sodor-bahn]

“Conquest of Paradise intensifies”

A recreation of The Vangelis Album “the collection” as part of a challenge hosted on a discord server.

Heinrich was best suited for the job because of his body type and being one fast boy so the wings suit him quite well.

The original cover under cut:

Originally in possession of my father but I never gave it back (whoops). I actually listened to it while working on my version. And man having the reference in your hand helps a ton.

[kcvulpinestudios]

Merry Christmas, y’all.

This is the dedicated Christmas pic with trains that I pushed myself to make.

I used my model trains as…well…art models. Enjoy this Lionel inspired pic and have a Happy Holiday!!!

[catsaysmlem]

living like this is EXTREMELY sexy of him ngl. this set design deserves an award for completely understanding the character and for not being afraid to go All OUT. and i need to point out no other action movie guy could ever or will ever be able to carry this living space off without it looking like he's trying and failing at doing too much. but not maverick as played by tom cruise. with him and him alone does it look simply like getting a peek into the natural habitat of someone known for having jetfuel in their blood.

[ohjeeztrains]

Whenever Bill and Ben removes their name plates and causes chaos, only their father can truly tell them apart (Based off of this post by @thebunnylord )

[locomotive-idiot]

Favourite fictional train, gibbus

he's the one (he's the one)

he's the really useful engine that we adore

[greateasternj69]

Redraw of an old piece I did back in 2017 featuring one of my oldest locomotive characters. Silver Lady The LNER A4.

Golden Plover: "Sis garter blue is not that bad of a colour really, I think it looks very beautiful on all of us."

Silver Lady: "Well I don't! Must we all be wearing this disgusting common blue we've all been forced to wear as standard, instead of keep some of our class such as myself in the liveries we originally came out in when we were finished being built! I look hideous!"

Golden Plover: "It's up tops orders I'm afraid Silver Lady and we can't do anything about it. Besides the Silver and Apple Green liveries were very difficult for the cleaners to keep clean and shining, and you know we A4's are express engines, so we must always keep up appearances before our daily express runs. As our CME usually say's to us cleanliness comes before usefulness, and you look fine in your new livery."

Silver Lady: *Scoffs* "No Golden Plover I do not! I look like the rest of your batch, and doesn't make me stand out from any of you! It doesn't match with the colour of my coaches who are apart of the train I haul, and it's name happens to be the 'Silver Jubilee' meaning that it's meant to be an all Silver coloured consist throughout complete with engine to match! So, I'm supposed to be this beautiful, good looking, shiny Silver streamlined engine who pulls a consist of streamlined coaches with a matching livery, and the right one too! I' am not good looking right now! As my livery doesn't match my consist, making the point of it's namesake pointless, as I look like a blue whale who's pulling a mismatched train with the wrong colour, and to add to that my make up doesn't match up as well! So, honestly the passengers will think I look terrible, because I do look like it!"

Golden Plover: "Sister, I know you really liked your Silver livery as it always made you feel good about your appearance. But having a matching livery just to match a consist of coaches of a named train which has a name associated with that colour, doesn't really matter at the end of the day. As the passenger's won't mind what colour their engine in front is in, as long as they have the right engine to pull their train, and it arrives at it's destination on time. So, I suggest you get over it sis and just live with wearing the wrong colour for your coaches."

Silver Lady: "Easy for you to say Plover! But I don't accept being in this livery that easily, and oh look my express is ready. So, I can't waste time complaining about how awful this livery is, and how much I hate wearing it all day. So good day Plover, and I'll see you later this evening when I'll continue complaining about this disgusting blue to you and the others." *Steams off for the station with grumpiness boiling inside her.*

Golden Plover: "She'll learn eventually."

Silver Lady as everyone knows, has always been identified as a Silver Streak in preservation due to her wearing her iconic LNER Silver livery, which is her most preferred colour to wear as it represents her time pulling the Silver Jubilee streamlined express service between London and Newcastle during the late thirties, and was the first livery she wore after rolling out of the works in 1936.

However, despite Silver being the livery she is identified in, Silver Lady has worn many different liveries throughout her service life like most of her siblings. From wartime black to BR Brunswick Green with her having varying opinions on each one she wore. Her latest favourite livery and the one she's always had a huge distaste of wearing, happens to be LNER Garter Blue livery. She never liked being painted in that livery as to her it looked ugly and hideous, and happened to become the standard livery for her class, that she was forced into wearing due to the cleaners seeing it as a much easier livery to clean than the Silver livery she adored so much. Fueling her dislike for the livery as she saw it as lackluster, didn't match with her name and the name of the express service she usually pulled and had become so common among her class that it seemed forced for them to wear only one paint colour.

Silver Lady also thought the livery ruined her trains image, as she used to believe that everything had to match with the livery of the coaches she usually pulled behind her, and the passengers would find it appealing that there was a mismatched painted A4 pulling the train up in front that seemed out of place and didn't match the coaches, to the point where she thought they would laugh at her for looking odd among the rake of silver coaches. This idea give her constant anxiety to where one day, while an LMS 4F was complementing her livery while saying how it didn't match her coaches while waiting at Peterborough, she angrily left her train on a siding, and run away down the LMS's line to Birmingham. Arriving at Leicester where she run into who would become her first mate, LMS Princess Coronation Class No. 6220 Coronation, who had been taking time off to casually explore the line and to use it to sneak onto LNER metals for an adventure.

When Silver Lady told him what she was going through with her new livery, Coronation helped her learn that it didn't matter how she looked for her trains and that no one will judge her for looking different than what she would usually prefer to look, as it was the inside of her hiding underneath that livery that brought out her true beauty of herself and her class at the end of the day regardless of what livery she wore. This helped Silver Lady to appreciate the engine she truly was on the inside, and to accept that she won't always be in the livery she preferred to be in, and she would have wear any livery regardless of what she thought of it, even if it was one she very much disliked like the Garter Blue livery she was wearing. In the end although she still disliked blue, it didn't bother her that much anymore if she had to wear it, even when she was painted into it again after the war for a short period.

When Silver Lady was preserved by the North Ousingham Railway, she was grateful for when she was restored to her original Silver livery, and she remained in that colour for many years afterwards, though she did wear garter blue again briefly in 1990 so as to impress her second mate, but was returned to Silver the year after and has never changed it again since.

Silver Lady and Art © GreatEasternJ69

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

Gauge 3 get together July 23

[pexiderg]

@hal9ooo influenced me into drawing this it’s his fault