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Union Pacific’s 4014!
I’ve recently had the most absolute pleasure of getting to see UP’s Big Boy steam engine in person! Well, one of them anyways! There was a display event in the city I live in, and I couldn’t miss this chance tbh.
I can gladly say that this event marks a special place in my heart. As someone who enjoys the history of locomotives and railways, I’d say seeing something like this is very close to me.
According to what the crew team have told a crowd of people (myself included), this is the last Big Boy in service today. So glad that he’s been restored and now running the rails again. 🖤🖤🖤
• Pere Marquette 1225 •
Friends on Discord were giving out ideas of humanizations of real life engines, so I decided to try it out with Pere, the Polar Express! One of my favorite designs I’ve done, I’ll admit. I love her. 🤍
Back once again with, more train OC’s!
This time, featuring the Union Pacific Big Boy fleet! Currently in present day, these guys are the remainders of the existing engine class. They were so much fun to design, and I can’t wait to get some reference sheets out for them!
I’ve done my best to show a sprinkle of their own personalities in their expressions and show how I interpret them individually. Hope you enjoy these sketches.
Aaah🤩🤩💖👏
When your character design homework is to reboot an already existing character-
This is quite old but it somehow got lots of attention on twitter- zlfkzld's'd
Adorable :3🥹🥔🥔💖💖💖
Steam locomotive at winter night (2022)
Train from the past and from my dreams
A steam locomotive breaks the silence of a winter day (2023)
Steam train on the milky road (2023)
Illustration for the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad (銀河鉄道の夜, Ginga Tetsudō no Yoru) by Kenji Miyazawa written around 1927.
I haven’t been able to get the full video but we just celebrated one of our steam locomotives turning 145 by chucking a chocolate cake into her firebox
Why is Peter Sam’s face Nicolas Cage? 😳
SO to anyone who was wondering why I’ve been gone for a while, I’ve been working really hard and saved up enough to go on vacation to Tywyn in Wales to visit a certain little railway :)
Pt. 1
These were taken on the Talyllyn a day before they dressed up the locos in their Skarloey liveries for the Awdry event!
I got to meet lots of other railfans, including several youtubers!
• Pere Marquette 1225 •
Friends on Discord were giving out ideas of humanizations of real life engines, so I decided to try it out with Pere, the Polar Express! One of my favorite designs I’ve done, I’ll admit. I love her. 🤍
@brick-boats I bet you heard something similar being said about most engines.
SO to anyone who was wondering why I’ve been gone for a while, I’ve been working really hard and saved up enough to go on vacation to Tywyn in Wales to visit a certain little railway :)
Pt. 1
These were taken on the Talyllyn a day before they dressed up the locos in their Skarloey liveries for the Awdry event!
I got to meet lots of other railfans, including several youtubers!
😂😂😂😂
SO to anyone who was wondering why I’ve been gone for a while, I’ve been working really hard and saved up enough to go on vacation to Tywyn in Wales to visit a certain little railway :)
Pt. 1
These were taken on the Talyllyn a day before they dressed up the locos in their Skarloey liveries for the Awdry event!
I got to meet lots of other railfans, including several youtubers!
The Abandoned Thundersnake
(just a neat idea for a setting that Warriors should totally have:) the cats belong to some of my followers ! Pic referenced from a Finnish steam train located in the woods of Essex)
Working on this slowly
I've never played but how can you not love that little train. This interpretation is inspired by the likes of Ivor the Engine and Furness Railway #20.
I've been chipping away at this on and off over the last two months. No idea when I'll finish.
Byrne can resurrect Mallard and run her on the mainline, as a treat
Defender of the fastest locomotive from that usurper 5550.
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This week's locomotive of the week is GNR No.990 "Henry Oakley". 990 was built in 1898 at Doncaster works and became the first 4-4-2 Atlantic type locomotive in the United Kingdom and carried the name of the railway's general manager. It was fitted with modified frames in 1919 and a superheater and piston valves in 1923. The engine was withdrawn in 1937 and placed in the LNER's railway museum at York. It was returned to service for short bursts in 1953, 1975 and 1977, though now resides at the National Railway Museum as object number 1975-7001.
Beachy Head
Last month, the Bluebell Railway finished constructing their new Atlantic and were able to release it into traffic. It is a complete new build, yes, but unlike Tornado, it’s more of a replica, rather than a continuation, because this engine shares its name and number with one of the original H2 Atlantics from the LBSCR. The only part of the engine that wasn’t made from scratch is the boiler.
D.E. Marsh, the man who first designed these engines way back when, was educated on the GNR under Mr. Ivatt. Because of this, when Marsh went to become the LBSC’s chief mechanical engineer, he closely followed GNR practice. So, if you think the H2 resembles the famous C1 Atlantics on the GNR, you’d be right! They are extremely similar, and their boilers are nearly identical. Years ago, a spare GNR C1 boiler was discovered somewhere up north, and the Bluebell Railway, knowing everything I just described, jumped at the chance to get a hold of it and fill a gap in Southern Railway preservation.
Last week, I got the chance to visit the railway and ride behind the engine during the Bluebell Railway’s beer festival. I drank quite a few high quality brews, but the highlight was, of course, riding behind Beachy Head. The best part of it all? The Bluebell Railway operates a section of former LBSCR track, so Beachy Head, being an LBSCR engine, is on home turf. These engines would have traveled down this way in the old days, so I’ve been told.
Anyway, the Bluebell Line is an exceptionally friendly railway, and I recommend it to anyone who makes a trip to the south of England. It’s an easy day trip to make from London, with mainline trains running straight to the Bluebell Railway’s northern terminus at East Grinstead.