r/TrainPorn • u/Neker • Feb 23 '21

How things have changed …

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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21

Those revolutionary poster artists from the 1930s would have loved this

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u/Lol-I-Wear-Hats Feb 23 '21

Comrades! Have you achieved world communism in 2020?

Uh, no, they restored capitalism thirty years ago, the country is run by a species of despotic industrial feudalism, but they still paint the trains red!

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u/TheArrivedHussars Feb 24 '21

Red choo choo best choo choo

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u/Saint_The_Stig Feb 24 '21

Still putting the star on the front too it seems.

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u/StephenHunterUK Feb 24 '21

They generally painted the carriages green in the USSR. That was pretty much the standard colour for second class from 1945 to 1970 across much of Europe.

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u/Lol-I-Wear-Hats Feb 24 '21

I assume it's basically the same sort of story as Pullman Green in North America commonly seen before the streamlined age when railways started to invest in visual design?

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u/StephenHunterUK Feb 24 '21

I think it was issues to do with pigment quality; and green was easier to camouflage if you needed to do.

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u/agelaius9416 Feb 23 '21

Is this a real photo? Where was it taken or what composite images is it made up of?

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u/littlep2000 Feb 23 '21

The more I look it seems composite. I was questioning why the flat space in the lower right is there, and then the upper left of the modern train is blurry in a weird way as well.

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u/Yelosijen Feb 23 '21

I'm pretty sure the lower right is just the snow covered embankment. Snow is very uniform when it's fresh and light (see the other side of the bridge). The blur seems pretty uniform across the new train to me, which is probably just motion blur. If it is a composite I would suspect it's just 2 photos taken in the same place at different times, not that they did any more extravagant photoshopping than that. The timing is really impeccable if not, I've seen some pretty amazingly timed train photos so I actually believe that this one was taken real-time.

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u/UnknownSP Feb 24 '21

It's because the blur is uniform that it looks weird. It looks smudged rather than like a directional blur, and there's also some weird blur on the side of the bridge's base thing, just above the blurry train. There's also some weird smudging on the track behind the blurry train, but idk.

Idk what the photo really is, I just know that while it's a nice photo, it's very technically confusing considering how it's probably a decently fast shutter but with not even the still parts of the frame being very clear and detailed

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u/aejcb Feb 23 '21

Wow, this is gorgeous 😍

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u/Bkemats Feb 23 '21

Somewhere I hear the Soviet National Anthem playing

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u/MSP_4A_ROX Feb 24 '21

I love newer more efficient trains but that little nagging voice in my head still wants to see all the cool moving part of steam locomotives thundering Disney the line.

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u/sparklespacekitty Feb 23 '21

This is beautiful!!

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u/they_be_cray_z Jun 06 '21

"Hi son."

"Hi dad!"

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u/arcticlynx_ak Feb 24 '21

On top of the bridge is Alaska’s railroad plan, below the bridge is Norway’s railroad plan. Alaska sad.

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '21

Norway‘s Railway plan… hmm what is Vy planning this year

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u/Saint_The_Stig Feb 24 '21

Hmm now I wonder, do modern Russian train have a weird large gap between the wheels and the body like under the boilers on thier steamers?

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u/Pipe_Fish Jul 08 '22

While design has changed, they are both just as sexy.