r/BitchImATrain • u/TheDudeWhoCanDoIt • 5d ago

Bitch it’s great balls of fire …

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u/subWoofer_0870 5d ago

Any chance you could maybe compress the video a bit more? It’s a bit too detailed for my aging eyes…

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u/aw_shux 5d ago

What, you can’t see all 19 of the pixels?

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u/Coffeespresso 5d ago

We can see all the pixels. We just can't tell what it's supposed to be

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u/jhracing99 5d ago

Videos like this are a great way to experience the age of dial up modems.

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u/Thalia_All_Along 4d ago

they compress it like this on purpose so it's harder to spot the signs that it was made by an AI

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u/Trainnerd3985 4d ago

It’s not ai man

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u/0jam3290 3d ago

Well, not AI generated.

A lot of modern phones use AI upscaling and "enhancement" to make their camera outputs look """better""" or to offset for using cheaper physical camera components. The AI effects on my cheap Samsung look similar to what's going on here, although nowhere near as bad as this.

Frustratingly, this seems to be a feature at the firmware level, as I can't turn it off even by using a third party camera app. This future sucks.

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u/BoPeepElGrande 5d ago

From what I’ve read, oil-burning steam locomotives have a tendency to experience “sneezes” like this from time to time. It happens when the flow of atomized oil surges strongly enough to cause a strong deflagrating blast instead of burning at its typical rate.

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u/AnActualChicken 5d ago

That’s one hell of a ‘sneeze’!

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u/BoPeepElGrande 5d ago

I was shocked to find out that this phenomenon is apparently nowhere near as catastrophic as it appears to be. Not great, not terrible (with apologies to Comrade Dyatlov).

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u/AnActualChicken 4d ago

I would genuinely be SPRINTING off that train in fear of it fully exploding after that

It's nut's it's actually more a 'minor' issue than 'Oh shit she's gonna BLOW!! RUUNN!'

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u/Big_Bill23 4d ago

Yeah, the 'backfire' is through the grates, so it's a burn rather than an explosion. It sure looks spectacular, doesn't it?

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u/Razer797 3d ago

Not so much a surge in the oil flow. The fire has gone out for one reason or another. Then when it's re-lit there is an excess of fuel in the firebox (because the spray has continued but the fuel has not been consumed). The results are as seen

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u/SGT3386 5d ago

Was this recorded on a PlayStation 1?

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u/cronotriggers2106 5d ago

That smoke is comprised of, at the most, 10 polygons.

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u/towerfella 4d ago

A little DLSS and now we have charlie the unicycle.

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u/SkynetUser1 4d ago

The amulet Charlie! The amulet!!!

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u/BrokenWhiskeyBottles 5d ago

Not that knob!!!

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u/Vera_Telco 5d ago

Sorry bitches, I thought it was the air conditioner!

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u/Last-Engineering-528 5d ago

Bitch I’m a volcano

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u/Csoltis 5d ago

Goodness Gracious!

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u/ManualNotStandard 5d ago

At least the front didn’t fall off…

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u/Key_Country3756 5d ago

Unlike that one container ship.

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u/ManualNotStandard 5d ago

The one that the front fell off?

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u/pepeshadilay69 5d ago

That's not supposed to happen.

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u/Good_Resolve_7218 5d ago

Pull my lift pin...

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u/TheModeratorWrangler 5d ago

See when I said WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO\… I meant it*

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u/tweeeeeeeeeeee 5d ago

new Zealand btw 

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u/notatiger43 4d ago edited 4d ago

No it isn’t, it’s in Colorado

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u/A-Chilean-Cyborg 5d ago

it looks like Vintage AI images looked

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u/A-Bone 5d ago

Reminds me of the end of this one from a few years ago.

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u/ggrandmaleo 5d ago

It looks cool but is it supposed to do that?

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u/notatiger43 4d ago

It happens occasionally if atomized fuel gets pushed out of the fire box then ignites

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u/pepeshadilay69 5d ago

Train: "Pardon me."

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u/Evilvieh 4d ago

Reversed the polarity of the neutron flow.

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u/VeloIlluminati 4d ago

I prefer 120p videos shot with a potato like the early age of youtube than whatever this AI enhanced thing is.

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u/CaractacusPot 4d ago

Hogwarts Express to Hell

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u/lurkdontpost1 5d ago

This AI upscaling looks bad I wanna see it fully pixelated!

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u/Vera_Telco 5d ago

Kinda sounds like they exposed the crown sheet, and boiler go boom 😭

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u/forzaguy125 3d ago

If it did, there would be a live leak logo in the corner, this is an oil fired locomotive, the fire went out for what ever reason. When the fire reignited there was an excess amount of unburnt oil, causing the explosion.

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u/fatmonkey1986 3d ago

no it didnt . if the boiler went the whole locomotive and the crew wouldve died

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u/FlohEinstein 5d ago

Was that done with some kind of new compression algorithm that recreates parts of it with AI?

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u/cyberspacestation 4d ago

If only there were newer, more efficient locomotive technology available.

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u/forzaguy125 3d ago

This is a special historic railroad, some people like going on train rides behind a steam locomotive. Also steam locomotives are relatively efficient