#train cab

[whirligig-girl]

Meet the locomotive crew on the South Lymer Railway on planet Gymnome! These are the crew of locomotive SLYM-11513, a small narrow gauge Advanced Steam switcher. The locomotive is a modernized form of a steam engine, with electronic controls rather than mechanical, and a closed off climate controlled cab.

The orange one is the conductor, and despite having the more junior role is actually the more experienced one. The blue one is the engineer, who is new to the SLYM Railway.

(These are characters for our train shunting puzzle game, Train Puzzle dot exe (title pending))

[nauticaltrain]

Iron Show Pony

[catenary-chad]

fun tidbits: Krupp’s original design has “362” on one arm and is a dead ringer for the paint job on the irl Amtrak 362, which was an EMD F40PHR diesel that ran from the early 80s-2000s. Smallish but dependable passenger diesel engine widely used by Amtrak at the time, still used on several commuter lines today. Looks like this specific one got sent to San Luis and Rio Grande in Colorado and possibly made a “road slug” in the 2000s, basically had engine/controls removed and used as extra traction motors.

A bunch of these were gutted and used to remotely control engines on the other end of the train for push/pull service as cabbage (cab/baggage) cars. A husk possessing others is a terrifying concept that’s incredibly common with irl trains, it’s done to a lot of passenger diesels that aren’t needed as engines anymore.

When I first saw a picture of the single porthole on the backside of these things I laughed because ha. butt. And then had the horrifying realization that it also resembles the soul-sucking hole on Shedinja and that weirdly fits with how cab cars are also technically haunted shells.

Interesting detail that supports the idea of “chauffeur Krupp” being a diesel engine (which would fit being a chauffeur since the US is only 1% electrified and Electra WOULD need someone to pull them around the rest). This setup would happen irl several years later in 1991-2 with the conveniently oddball (and German influenced) F69PHAC locomotives that hauled around an ICE train on a national tour and were barely used outside that.

[patovpran]

Lovro the strongest soldier on the gay frontlines fr because wdym your bff got to have alone time with his gf but opted for inviting you and then spending time with you instead because you were feeling down, I'd be in love with him too

[tinydancerfreelancersblog]

[notbecauseofvictories]

I know my experience is not universal, but I biked 5+ miles to do my errands today and I genuinely think we'd be much happier as a human collective if we increased residential density and switched to largely alternative modes of transportation.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[stuft]

Getting home from Philly felt like there were many times it could have turned into After Hours

[eltristanexplicitcontent]

NCRy - Take an evening run from Niles to Sunol at 7X speed from the front of SP 5472

Southern Pacific 5472 is the restored EMD SD9 in the Black Widow paint scheme which is owned by the Pacific Locomotive Association on the Niles Canyon Railway

[rawsophistication]

Grand Central Station, New York City.

[nauticaltrain]

You ever seen them fight? It's brutal. They can't feel pain, but they can still make each other hurt. It's some weird dominance thing they do.

Sounds like humans.

[catenary-chad]

thinking about how specifically horrible a literal stex slime tutorial would be. Traction motor grease with ball bearings and coal clods mixed in. There are so many disgusting and exotic goos used on actual trains.

honestly would be a hilarious “come volunteer!” ad for museums. Do you have small hands? Do you like playing with slime? Well come on over and shove them inside this old train.

[eversncenewyork]

oh yeah

[thevioletcaptain]

vaguewatching the fifth element while i attempt to write and suddenly i need a deancas au with dean in the role of korben dallas and cas in the role of leeloo

[y2k-2day]

Daphne and Celeste - U.G.L.Y (2000)

[eonars]

10hr flight to london was in a weird misaligned row of only two seats but had both of them to myself popped 2 nyquil and a gabapentin for the inevitable restless legs feeling that goes up into my biceps and titty muscles folded up my incredibly unwieldy 6ft frame into the two seats and slept the entire time and after 8 hours of layover purgatory in london I get to go home to -14C and snow in the middle of the night