Need some good train papes, steam engines preferred.
This is all I've got for now.
This is what ((they)) took away from us.
Is any steam train still running today but not as a meme? Like real regular train.
>>8044929https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy_Queen_(locomotive)
Excellent contributions, I love these.
>>8048271hampton loade station, severn valley railwaysthat's weird that you post that, I was thinking about a childhood memory where my parents took me here but I couldn't remember where the station wasI recognised it in your image and found the station by reverse image search
>>8050334That's nice, man. Thanks for the info.
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>>8055480https://trains-today.blogspot.com/2017/03/winter-steam-2017-sandaoling.html
I got a few I've collected. Sorry idk the models. 1/3
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https://youtube.com/shorts/nORuhEdplzc?si=xFAvR_U2To3Iyu3b
>>8057673Exquisite. Captivating. Majestic.
My autism is greatly satisfied in this thread.Can you imagine how much more popular trains would be it would be if new modern high-speed trains and subways were designed to look like old steam locomotives?
blessed trainfags, esp the brit enthusiasts. have some LNER legends before I go to sleep
gnight all
>>8068176How did you sleep, Anon?
>>8068241too long but it was great
>>8068285That's good to hear.
I thought that this thread was going to be retarded, man was i wrong
>>8068545>>8068546These go so hard. God damn.
Question for all the anons:What makes (you) so interested in trains?
>>8068820It's a really good question Anon.One word that quickly comes to mind, particularly about steam trains, seeing as we're in this thread, would be 'nostalgia'; even if that nostalgia is often heavily rose-tinted and thus generally completely ignores what an utterly labour-intensive maintenance menace steam trains often were/are - as a wise man once said (paraphrasing here) 'everyone wants to be a steam train driver, however for most being the night-shift steam train maintainer is not quite the thing.'But for trains in general, the design aesthetics of trains, whether inside and/or out, is what lights some folks candle; while for other folks what especially toots their horn is the heavy engineering that goes into a trains production and operation, i.e. people are often just fascinated by really big and/or very technical things built by other humans, such as a multi-carriage train that weighs many hundreds of tons that can move at all let alone move so quickly and with such purpose, this is also part of why people also love things like trucks (big rigs), aircraft (civilian and/or military), and heavy construction equipmentThen there are those folks who are only interested in a specific type of train based on its method of power supply, e.g. steam, gas turbine, diesel, or electric; perhaps because of the sights, the sounds, and/or (for steam, turbine, and diesel trains especially) the smellsAnd then, for whatever reason, there are those people who have a particular favourite model of train and they'll go to often extraordinary lengths to even see an example of their favourite train in the wild, if not make a journey on one if/when the chance comes up, e.g. BR Class 37 or BR Class 43 to name a couple of popular British examples; or maybe it's a particular (iconic and usually specifically named) train service such as 'The Flying Scotsman' that particularly oils their pistonThere's very likely other reasons people have too, but that's just a few examples.
>>8068841I read this in the voice of the grizzled old grandpa who was the head engineer of my local scenic railroad
>>806913110/10!
>>8064183Just saw the Big Boy in N California last weekend. It was great, very impressive in person.
>>8069621Ol' 4014 I saw leaving towards you on July 4th, she'll be coming to rest here this weekend and power down so we can take a better look. That steam whistle could be heard across the city, nothing like it.
>>8044889Now this is cool, we need to bring back steam trains, they were simple and easy to fuel.
>>8070794...but a nightmare to maintain.
