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What's your favorite locomotive, /n/?

Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 23:53:26 No.1886049 View View Reply Original Report

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Anonymous Sat 28 Jan 2023 23:58:46 No.1886051 Report

Quoted By: >>1886053

>>1886049
Read and Weep Retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 00:13:12 No.1886053 Report

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>>1886051
>>>/o/

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 10:34:39 No.1886136 Report

Quoted By: >>1886213 >>1886876 >>1899008

>world record holder
>smooth streamlined body
>shiny black/blue/gold livery
>you can go up and touch her and look inside her
>she occasionally takes trips out of her home at the museum
85 years old, still sex on rails

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 16:44:23 No.1886213 Report

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>>1886136
>about to be mogged by an American

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:55:36 No.1886289 Report

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>>1886049
T A U R U S
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SDYdHzT7Qw

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 20:57:58 No.1886291 Report

Quoted By: >>1886565 >>1887502

>>1886213
>thinking any railroad in america will let them get even close to 125mph

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:07:28 No.1886295 Report

Quoted By: >>1886298 >>1890442 >>1890566

I just like them. Really cool, clean 50s design.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:34:51 No.1886298 Report

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>>1886295
V200 is sweet but I'm more of a 103 kinda guy

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:43:36 No.1886299 Report

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 21:48:19 No.1886301 Report

Quoted By: >>1886355

The old ALCO FA (FPA-4 here) is pretty awesome.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 23:23:10 No.1886335 Report

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I might be biased

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 23:43:52 No.1886344 Report

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>>1886049
Pennsylvania Railroad GG1 my beloved

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 29 Jan 2023 23:49:11 No.1886348 Report

Quoted By: >>1887095 >>1887479

There is no more perfectly proportioned locomotive than the GER T26. It is THE steam locomotive, if you will.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 00:27:50 No.1886355 Report

Quoted By: >>1886391

>>1886301
Any particular reason for choosing the FA over the PA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 03:44:26 No.1886391 Report

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>>1886355

No, they're both pretty nice looking actually.

SAGE

SAGE Mon 30 Jan 2023 22:03:25 No.1886565 Report

Quoted By: >>1886584

>>1886291
Plenty of high speed corridors just they are short as fuck usually. Lel

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 30 Jan 2023 22:46:00 No.1886584 Report

Quoted By: >>1886952 >>1889396

>>1886565
i guarantee you amtrak is not going to let a steam loco trying to break a record foul up their schedule

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Jan 2023 22:50:01 No.1886876 Report

Quoted By: >>1886880 >>1887037

>>1886136
U.P FEF's did 124MPH and was still accelerating before it ran out of track.

And you know, can actually pull a fully loaded freight unlike euro trains.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 31 Jan 2023 23:32:42 No.1886880 Report

Quoted By: >>1886900

>>1886876
>U.P FEF's did 124MPH and was still accelerating before it ran out of track.
[citation needed]
>And you know, can actually pull a fully loaded freight unlike euro trains.
horses for courses
most countries realise the advantages of having passenger trains and keeping freight trains fast to accomodate them

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 01:27:40 No.1886900 Report

Quoted By: >>1886989

>>1886880
>and keeping freight trains fast to accomodate them
That's the hallmark of Britain's robust freight rail system that puts the remainder of the world's to shame

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 01:45:55 No.1886905 Report

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>>1886053
What did he say

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 04:33:09 No.1886938 Report

Quoted By: >>1887179

>>1886049
Canadian Pacific Railway C-Liner's.

But a close 2nd would be the 1st and 3rd generation Union Pacific GTEL's.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 05:03:48 No.1886952 Report

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>>1886584
Yeah youre right. Although Amtrak doesnt need much help fucking up their horribly kept scheduling

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 05:53:55 No.1886959 Report

Quoted By: >>1887065 >>1889436 >>1893496

I like…. Trains..!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 09:03:27 No.1886983 Report

Quoted By: >>1887012 >>1888695

Not sure if I have an overall favorite, but these little guys always put a smile on my face when I see one.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 10:05:39 No.1886989 Report

Quoted By: >>1887013

>>1886900
>american rail
>putting the rest of the world to shame in any respect

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 14:40:52 No.1887012 Report

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>>1886983
It looks like its about to fall over at any moment given how top heavy it appears.

Nice little loco

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 14:42:31 No.1887013 Report

Quoted By: >>1887017

>>1886989
Almost like its not economical nor practical to electrify most of the routes on US rail lines for a list of reasons that is about a mile long.....

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 16:13:26 No.1887017 Report

Quoted By: >>1887052

>>1887013
>electrification isn't practical!
>don't look at all these countries with electric heavy freight!
>don't look at these double-stack container trains running under OHLE!
>don't look at the statistics showing greatly reduced energy consumption for electric trains!
>just believe in the railroads when they say "capital investment bad"!

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 16:18:50 No.1887018 Report

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>>1886213
Christ what an ugly machine

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 17:49:54 No.1887037 Report

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>>1886876
oh okay then. boy i feel foolish for liking that locomotive now. my face is red

Anonymous

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 17:53:49 No.1887039 Report

Quoted By: >>1887066

like what kind of retard responds to someone saying what they like about their favourite locomotive - the topic of this thread - with
>U.P FEF's did 124MPH and was still accelerating before it ran out of track.
>And you know, can actually pull a fully loaded freight unlike euro trains.

this website melts peoples' brains. fucking hell

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 17:58:20 No.1887041 Report

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"that guy is saying what he likes about his favourite train. this is a challenge, directed specifically at me, to prove that guy wrong for liking that thing"

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 18:52:32 No.1887052 Report

Quoted By: >>1887059 >>1887163

>>1887017
Its not. Have you seen the expanse of the US geographically? Have you seen how empty most of it is?

Pull your head out of your ass and realize the economies of scale in Europe dont work elsewhere.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:09:16 No.1887059 Report

Quoted By: >>1887069

>>1887052
And this is relevant to electrification how?

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:12:38 No.1887062 Report

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SHUT THE FUCK UP AND TALK ABOUT YOUR FAVOURITE LOCOMOTIVES

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:21:50 No.1887065 Report

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>>1886959
Bacon, if you're gonna troll, at least lrn2grntxt

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:24:19 No.1887066 Report

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>>1887039
>this website melts peoples' brains. fucking hell
speak for yourself

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:26:07 No.1887069 Report

Quoted By: >>1887072 >>1887160

>>1887059
>And this is relevant to electrification how?
A cost-benefit analysis will show that the cost to implement electrification in the USA is not worth the very late(if at all) return on investment into electrification.

tl;dr seethe more, cuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 19:32:50 No.1887072 Report

Quoted By: >>1887133

>>1887069
ah, i see you think of railroads as a means of paying shareholders

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Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 20:48:40 No.1887095 Report

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>>1886348
Neat, but couldn't handle the loads of pic related without struggle.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 22:13:37 No.1887133 Report

Quoted By: >>1887160

>>1887072
Nope. PSR is fucked and killing the US railroads as we once knew it. The bottom line won't matter if no one is going to ship on your rail network

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Feb 2023 23:22:40 No.1887160 Report

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>>1887133
are you >>1887069 or someone else?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 00:13:00 No.1887163 Report

Quoted By: >>1887170

>>1887052
This is bullshit. The Milwaukee Road Pacific Extension was profitable but Jews destroyed it because they wanted the short-term scrap money

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 00:50:24 No.1887170 Report

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>>1887163
No, Jews destroyed it because the Jews were/are heavily invested in the CBQ/BN/BNSF. Hell, BN's CEO was Gerald Grinstein when the MILW was torn up.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 00:56:06 No.1887171 Report

Quoted By: >>1887179

If you want to talk about electrification, make a separate thread about it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 02:16:15 No.1887179 Report

Quoted By: >>1887370

>>1887171
blame the eurocucks for absolutely SEETHING about diesel locos being used for any practical purpose

pic related, as >>1886938 said the UP GTEL's are just neat

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 02:38:41 No.1887181 Report

Quoted By: >>1887182 >>1887285 >>1887480 >>1894076

These motherfuckers made noise when they came through.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 02:40:18 No.1887182 Report

Quoted By: >>1887285 >>1887480 >>1894076

>>1887181
E60.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 15:29:58 No.1887285 Report

Quoted By: >>1887679

>>1887181
>>1887182
That design really makes me think they gave 0 fucks about wind resistance, but I suppose during their general operation envelope its mostly irrelevant at those speeds.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 22:10:23 No.1887370 Report

Quoted By: >>1887391

>>1887179
no, it's the americans who are to blame for refusing to accept the idea that in some areas they are not #1

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 02 Feb 2023 23:41:35 No.1887391 Report

Quoted By: >>1887563

>>1887370
Make another thread about it then bitch stop shitting this one up

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 09:46:40 No.1887479 Report

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>>1886348
For me, it's this.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 09:52:49 No.1887480 Report

Quoted By: >>1887679 >>1894076

>>1887181
>>1887182
Needs more anti-nigger bars

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 12:20:49 No.1887499 Report

Quoted By: >>1887924

I like this bloody guinea pig.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 12:47:05 No.1887502 Report

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>>1886291
>he doesn’t know about the Pueblo test track

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 12:51:58 No.1887503 Report

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>>1886049
The 9000 (UP-1)
Simply because the absurdity but also coolness of a 4-12-2 3 cylinder locomotive that could do 65

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 15:13:22 No.1887535 Report

Quoted By: >>1887689

Camelbacks are cool

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 17:43:57 No.1887563 Report

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>>1887391
(glasses flash as i push them up my face) that is not a locomotive

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 17:45:38 No.1887564 Report

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huh. wait, no, i'm wrong. i honestly thought the first TGVs were multiple units, not loco-hauled stock. i've owned myself

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 20:37:14 No.1887612 Report

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>>1886049
Ï love this cute little thing

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 03 Feb 2023 22:35:38 No.1887644 Report

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>>1886049
>buy new “high-speed” trains
>don’t fix shitty tracks
>slow as fuck and nobody uses it

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 00:26:48 No.1887666 Report

Quoted By: >>1887924

I love a 31

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 01:42:41 No.1887679 Report

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>>1887285
>That design really makes me think they gave 0 fucks about wind resistance, but I suppose during their general operation envelope its mostly irrelevant at those speeds

I think the sheer momentum those fat fucks generate at 90mph makes drag a non-issue. Electricity is cheap anyway.

>>1887480
There was a brief period in time when people were throwing rocks at the cab. I don't like to acknowledge that.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 02:51:25 No.1887689 Report

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>>1887535
I agree

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 02:53:29 No.1887690 Report

Quoted By: >>1887735 >>1888180

Boxcabs are nice

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 02:56:30 No.1887691 Report

Quoted By: >>1888180

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 07:37:58 No.1887735 Report

Quoted By: >>1887862 >>1887905

>>1887690
soooo fucking weird as a steam engine design but kind of neat

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 13:24:03 No.1887804 Report

Quoted By: >>1887958 >>1888434 >>1890470

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKHfSwoALYE

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 16:46:43 No.1887862 Report

Quoted By: >>1887917

>>1887735
Nah, it's electric. You can see the gents standing next to the third rail and the pickup shoes on the front bogie of the locomotive. But yes, steam boxcabs are/were a thing, too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 18:36:17 No.1887895 Report

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My favorite Anglo loco is the LSWR 700 class. Perfectly proportioned and elegant, some managed to serve for 60+ years. Shame none were preserved, it may not have the flair of a Peppercorn A1 or a Gresley P2 but it deserves a new build just the same.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 19:10:09 No.1887905 Report

Quoted By: >>1887917

>>1887735
This is what the dd1 looks like on the inside. They hooked up the electric motors like you would a steam engine.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 19:49:44 No.1887917 Report

Quoted By: >>1888029

>>1887862
>>1887905
Fuck me im retarded. For some reason I was thinking of the big boy steam engines that had the cab in front for tunnel usage. Derp.

I often forget they had electric boxcabs too. Hell you can see the catenary pickup arms on the top of the cab, too.

The cab removed pic is 10/10

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 20:05:58 No.1887924 Report

Quoted By: >>1887985 >>1888399

>>1887499
Hit a herd of cows?
>>1887666
It's crazy that these guys, along with the 37s are still going on the mainline in everyday duty whilst newer, stronger, more technologically sophisticated locos have gone to the scrapline

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 21:01:36 No.1887944 Report

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>>1886049
the only correct answer.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 21:29:37 No.1887955 Report

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Iconic design right here

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 21:34:22 No.1887958 Report

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>>1887804
Such a great looking train. I saw it in person as a kid in the 90s and I still thought it looked futuristic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 04 Feb 2023 23:08:39 No.1887985 Report

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>>1887924
>Hit a herd of cows?
Close, it hit reindeer herd.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 05 Feb 2023 02:45:30 No.1888029 Report

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>>1887917
You are thinking of Southern Pacific's Cab Forwards, which are really neat as well.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 05 Feb 2023 15:06:38 No.1888139 Report

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Anonymous Sun 05 Feb 2023 18:23:23 No.1888180 Report

Quoted By: >>1888383

>>1887690
>>1887691
Why are Pennsy engines so cool?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 09:22:23 No.1888383 Report

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>>1888180
I've always liked how Pennsylvania had alot of the weird or unusual locomotives

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 12:05:41 No.1888399 Report

Quoted By: >>1888645

>>1887924
Hard to improve on perfection.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 15:17:31 No.1888431 Report

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I’ve always liked Forneys. They’re usually associated with narrow gauge lines like the Maine two footers but the New York elevateds had hundreds of them before electrification.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Feb 2023 15:30:21 No.1888434 Report

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>>1887804
>two locomotives and two carriages
nani?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 07:32:44 No.1888645 Report

Quoted By: >>1889427

>>1888399

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Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 12:36:17 No.1888695 Report

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>>1886983
>mfw I’ll never be able to run one of these

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Anonymous Tue 07 Feb 2023 22:37:42 No.1888819 Report

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Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 13:17:02 No.1888943 Report

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Anonymous Wed 08 Feb 2023 13:36:02 No.1888947 Report

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>>1888819
QT two foot gauge Forney named after a Shakespeare character like its twin Puck

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Feb 2023 00:15:42 No.1889064 Report

Quoted By: >>1889479 >>1895552

This one, wish we had better pictures of it though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Feb 2023 01:48:57 No.1889085 Report

Quoted By: >>1889353

Always found these absolute units impressive.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 09 Feb 2023 02:27:20 No.1889096 Report

Quoted By: >>1889097

>>1886049

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Anonymous Thu 09 Feb 2023 02:38:12 No.1889097 Report

Quoted By: >>1889492

>>1889096

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Anonymous Thu 09 Feb 2023 19:57:30 No.1889290 Report

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>>1886049
CHOO CHOO JEW JEW

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 00:36:53 No.1889353 Report

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>>1889085

German Autism meets Soviet Brutalism
Picrel is their bigger brothers and a further example of this

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 03:38:29 No.1889396 Report

Quoted By: >>1889488 >>1889571

>>1886584
>Amtrak
>Schedule

Bruh....

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 09:31:31 No.1889427 Report

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>>1888645
Based noncehunter Nige

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 11:15:46 No.1889435 Report

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>>1886213
imagine being so salty that you're willing to spend millions building an engine to beat an 80 year old speed record for a form of motive power that is now obselete.

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 11:27:02 No.1889436 Report

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>>1886959
Nice selfie, anon

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 15:31:28 No.1889479 Report

Quoted By:

>>1889064
>steam turbine loco
fucking wild

Anonymous

Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 16:14:04 No.1889488 Report

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>>1889396
kek, this

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 16:18:52 No.1889492 Report

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>>1889097
nice

Anonymous

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 23:23:39 No.1889570 Report

Quoted By: >>1889573

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 23:33:04 No.1889571 Report

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>>1889396
exactly, they don't want to be even later

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Anonymous Fri 10 Feb 2023 23:53:17 No.1889573 Report

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>>1889570
OH YEAH!

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Anonymous Sat 11 Feb 2023 13:53:36 No.1889725 Report

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Swiss toaster stronk

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Anonymous Sun 12 Feb 2023 00:03:18 No.1889832 Report

Quoted By: >>1889838

something about those 2-10-0's was majestic as fuck

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 12 Feb 2023 01:05:03 No.1889838 Report

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>>1889832
Frisco?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 14 Feb 2023 09:12:35 No.1890442 Report

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>>1886295
Nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 14 Feb 2023 12:05:35 No.1890470 Report

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>>1887804
It's a shoe.

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Anonymous Tue 14 Feb 2023 17:03:51 No.1890540 Report

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Anonymous Tue 14 Feb 2023 19:11:32 No.1890566 Report

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>>1886295
Its baby cousin is cute too.

KonaBro !!zJbpV0948+w

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KonaBro !!zJbpV0948+w Tue 14 Feb 2023 19:27:57 No.1890575 Report

Quoted By: >>1895100

The Nazi train I'm making for a Day of Defeat: Source map. There's an allied one too but it's boring. There are also 2 destructible bridges.

I abandoned this in 2010 and decided to finish it this year to soothe my autism.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 08:52:50 No.1890744 Report

Quoted By: >>1891246

For me it's the Battle of Britain class.

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Anonymous Wed 15 Feb 2023 23:46:45 No.1890887 Report

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>>1886049

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 12:00:48 No.1891213 Report

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Anonymous Fri 17 Feb 2023 14:41:19 No.1891246 Report

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>>1890744
Was going to post a West Country, the one I have the most affection for is 34092 City of Wells, seen her at several railways now, sadly now out of ticket

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 15:53:51 No.1891537 Report

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Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 17:54:02 No.1891564 Report

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>>1891537
Are those two fill ports above the centre driver for lubricating oil for the valves or axles or...?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 18 Feb 2023 17:58:55 No.1891565 Report

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>>1891564
Could be the sand fills

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 19 Feb 2023 23:09:40 No.1891942 Report

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>>1891246
They really went hard on the golden arrow motifs. Almost looks photoshopped its so gaudy, but there would be no missing which engine it was or to what claim to fame it was when it went by, though.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 20 Feb 2023 03:19:16 No.1892012 Report

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Anonymous Mon 20 Feb 2023 15:38:00 No.1892084 Report

Quoted By: >>1894209 >>1895177

>>1886213
T1 Trust is really cool but also GODDAMN SHOULDA BEEN THE DREYFUSS TRUST

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Anonymous Tue 21 Feb 2023 02:30:52 No.1892192 Report

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How can I explain to people on this site that I relate to a 120 year old contraption more than any of their seasonal anime waifus or whatever?

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Anonymous Sat 25 Feb 2023 21:52:21 No.1893496 Report

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>>1886959
I look like that and I say that

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Anonymous Sun 26 Feb 2023 03:51:45 No.1893555 Report

Quoted By: >>1894208

>>1886213
Imagine not building a new T1a with modern Walschaerts valve gear that can actually survive record-breaking speeds without breaking down.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 28 Feb 2023 16:56:30 No.1894076 Report

Quoted By: >>1894209

>>1887181
>>1887182
>>1887480
>Choosing the inferior Amtrak NEC locomotive
Prepare to get Toasted

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Mar 2023 14:50:33 No.1894208 Report

Quoted By: >>1894877

>>1893555
Nah they're using Caprotti poppet valve gear last I heard.

Anonymous

Anonymous Wed 01 Mar 2023 14:57:15 No.1894209 Report

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>>1894076
What a brutalist looking shitbox
>>1892084
Fantastic photo

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Anonymous Sun 05 Mar 2023 00:24:12 No.1894877 Report

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>>1894208
Franklin B2 rotary-cam poppet valve gear actually.
Poppet valves on a steam locomotive are a meme. It's possible to design lightweight piston valves that offer superior performance.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 03:05:22 No.1895098 Report

Quoted By: >>1895103

>Ctrl+F
>No MPXPress
God it's like you all intentionally choose inferior locomotives. Only the F40P and Electromotive F-unit chads get to butt heads with us in the diesel-electric discussion.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 03:16:12 No.1895100 Report

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>>1890575

Ill put this on my server if you finish it and allow me

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 03:35:49 No.1895103 Report

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>>1895098
There's better shit that saw the diamonds of Joliet than that turd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 04:30:47 No.1895110 Report

Quoted By: >>1895137

>>1895103
>Diesel-Electric
Personally, I liked the Class 26 for steam (and really 4-8-4s in general were good), but I was posting my personal favorite of the Diesel Electrics.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 13:32:00 No.1895137 Report

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>>1895110
Red Devil is kino.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 14:53:40 No.1895155 Report

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>>1886049
I love the Class 37

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 16:16:11 No.1895177 Report

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>>1892084

Losing the NYC Hudsons was criminal. That would've been my dream rebuild project if it was my choice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 17:36:55 No.1895192 Report

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>>1895137
This train single-handedly tricked child-me into believing America was a great country full of great passenger rail.

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Anonymous Mon 06 Mar 2023 18:29:35 No.1895205 Report

Quoted By: >>1895295 >>1898420

>>1895137
>you will never ride in a streamlined passenger car pulled behind an EMD F-series.
Kinda sucks to be honest.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 07 Mar 2023 00:20:06 No.1895295 Report

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>>1895192
>was
That's the key word and it feels bad. Amtrak is a soulless pile of shit now with worthless nigger car attendants and pre-boxed meals made in dubious kitchens.
>>1895205
Feels bad, man. Closest we can get is to Via Rail's Canadian, but only if it's the all Budd consist. Still, no more hand-me-down CP or CN ALCo/MLW FPA4s or GMD FP7/9s to lead it, though.

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Anonymous Tue 07 Mar 2023 20:36:29 No.1895552 Report

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>>1889064

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Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2023 19:48:27 No.1895807 Report

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>>1886049
The 1746. Makes an amazing sound and has 4.5 MW of electric power.

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Anonymous Wed 08 Mar 2023 20:28:49 No.1895826 Report

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>>1895807
Posting relevant CP

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Anonymous Sat 18 Mar 2023 23:05:46 No.1898420 Report

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>>1895205
The Royal Gorge tour train has a couple of F7s, not sure if they're active right now though.

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Anonymous Sun 19 Mar 2023 19:40:37 No.1898586 Report

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I have always found shunting locomotives to be aesthetically better proportioned, for some reason. Probably the symmetry.

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Anonymous Mon 20 Mar 2023 14:24:22 No.1898747 Report

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The Class W1, I just think its neat

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 17:40:38 No.1899008 Report

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>>1886136
Based and blue pilled

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 17:43:17 No.1899010 Report

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Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 20:43:52 No.1899048 Report

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I've got a soft spot for basic ass GP engines, Specifically the GP7. My first real trainset as a kit was a Lionel 3 rail Frisco set.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 21 Mar 2023 21:45:02 No.1899057 Report

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>>1899048
>no dynamics
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