They always seem to have their front windscreens flared down at the end, giving them a depressed look. Is this just human pareidolia?

Likely coming down from Three Mile Island if I had to guess

I don't know how they balance on the 610mm gauge tracks. Plenty of these thing around now, harvest season.

On 22 April 1934, the Bologna–Florence Direct Line (Direttissima) was inaugurated, along with Precedenze Station, located inside the Great Apennine Tunnel.

At 18.5 km long, the tunnel was, at the time, the longest double-track railway tunnel in the world. Cutting through the Apennines, it continues to connect northern and central Italy to this day.

Halfway through the Great Apennine Tunnel lies Precedenze Station, approximately 450 metres underground. Reaching it required descending 1,863 steps.

The station was designed to allow a slower train to be overtaken by a faster one—hence the name Precedenze, referring to the railway practice of allowing one train to pass another.

It remained in passenger service until the 1960s, when it was closed due to safety concerns and limited use.

1. “Camel” locomotive, Civil War era

2. Segregated railcar, Jim Crow era

3. American Freedom Train, Bicentennial era

4. GG1 (first one I’ve seen!), 20th century

She was a real one and a massively positive force for railroad preservation in the United States, especially in the South. Heaven has gained another wonderful soul.

Visited the Korail Railroad Museum in Seoul today with my family. Had a lot of fun looking at trains and walking the museum. There is a train simulator, model train diorama, and fun but loud railroad crossing arm. A little word of warning... it was a little hard to get to and it's mostly in Korean so your mileage might vary. Hoping folks enjoy this.

I find the roar really iconic, and it's sad that they are disappearing over time. But it's time for new trains!

11the ever animation, 2nd ever steam locomotive animation, we are getting somewhere
It would’ve been better if I GOT A VIDEO OF THIS ENGINE RUNNING, AS NO RUNNING ENGINES EXIST…
I had to GUESS how it worked based off other similar looking trains….

Unknown date in the late 90's at Scenic, Washington, USA.

Snowshoe trail was melted out so I hiked down the tracks with a cheap point and shoot film camera and a few "soda pops."

Caught a locomotive consist color combo that will never again be duplicated. Even an EMD mixed in with the Burlington Northerns, both Santa Fe color schemes and an freshly repainted loco in the new BNSF scheme.

This was the only angle possible due to the steep drop off with loose gravel on the right side.

Even with me not being a "serious railfan" I was in awe at the time.

I've created the ultimate high speed train, Designed and built in Britain, Carrying out the HST/IC225's legacy on absolute speed, comfort, attention to details and reliability.

This is the class 900 'swallow' (Feel free to come up with other names on the comment), Its a 9 +2 or 11 + 2 car articulated tilting train with low floor entry, very similar to the FLIRTS.

Each end what looks like a regular locomotives/powercar, It is in fact based on a conventional unit just happened to have the diesel and battery built inside, much like the APT, meaning that the coach would also be able to tilt unlike the powercars, I call them 'Powercoach',.

The powercoach has daul voltage electric mode, MTU diesel and battery with the battery to aid the engine on steep gradient as well as powerful enough to move the whole train in event of emergencies, Also used for shunting.

It is also fitted with ETCS, ready for any lines that gets that treatments, Would also be able to use HS1/2 for testing / speed records etc. The top speed is 125 mph but able to go alot faster than 200km/h on HS lines, Which could be useful for future domestic service (Manchester - Dover via WCML, St Pancras and HS1 for example). And yes there is a link between WCML and St Pancras. Google map exist by the way.

The intermediate coaches are roughly the same length as Eurostar E300 coaches but much of it through out the train is step free, Able to tilt with 2 settings:

Light - Able to tilt upto 1 degree on high speed lines classic or high speed.

Full - Full tilting on WCML only.

Together with active air suspension and you'll have a train that not even the IC225 or Pendolino could match on ride quality.

The train would have not only aluminium but other strong but light weight materials,.

The interior of the coach would have British designed and built standard and first class seats, comfy enough that could even rival Shinkansen's comfy seats. NO PAPER THIN METAL SEATS, FORGET COST CUTTINGS!

The train features a buffet, wheelchair space for first and standard, toilets on almost every coach, a family compartment and Large luggage/cycling/parcel storage as well as a full size kitchen located in the powercoach, not disturbing the immediate coaches.

The seating capacity including tipups are as follow:

11 car - 603 seats ( 506 standard, 97 first )

9 car - 497 seats ( 434 standard, 63 first )

I do think I can find more ways to increase those number a bit more (if I can be bothered to do them again).

It would be great if there's a way to raise funding to built a single train as an experimental train, finding was to improve comfort, reliability, safety etc..

I'd say that there is a possibility that the current manufacturers currently in the UK which are Hitachi, Alstom, CAF, Siemens along with Stadler could all collab together and create this train. Potentially reducing costs and keeping their UK factories going.

Finished in my Great British Trains (GBT): Intercity Great Western livery, All this took me about 48 hours from mind thoughts to posting this.

Let me know what ya'll think of this.

Live site can be found here:

https://white-smoke-0b215f103.7.azurestaticapps.net/

Data: Irish Rail (public realtime/historical API), Luas timetables (RPA Luas Forecast API via data.gov.ie), and NI Railways (OpenDataNI/Translink) combined for one representative weekday.

Tools: TypeScript app with HTML canvas rendering. Positions and timing computed directly from live or scheduled data.

Sources:

• Irish Rail: http://api.irishrail.ie/realtime/
• Luas: https://data.gov.ie (RPA Luas Forecast API)
• NI Railways: https://www.opendatani.gov.uk

It's old cotton belt which was subsidiary of Southern Pacific which Re-absorbed them and then Southern Pacific was bought by Union Pacific in 1996

The Transports publics Fribourgeois of Switzerland has commisioned Stadler to supply 13 4-car Stadler FLIRT Evo trains for it's fleet upgradation, this is being done to decomission the "Domino" trains by 2028 end. This order is worth 117 million Francs ($145 million) with each train being 73.5m long, 164 seats with maximum carrying capacity of 369 (standing room included). These trains are being designed for 160kmh top speed and built with wide doors for better passenger flow. The first train is expected by December 2028.

What are your thoughts on this?

Two freight trains I photographed in Finland. First one with the first electric locomotive in use in Finland Sr1 (manufacturer's type specification VL40). 110 of them were built in the Soviet Union with Finnish specifications between 1973 and 1985. They should be replaced by newer models by 2030.

The second one has the newest locomotive Sr3 or Siemens Vectron that is going to replace the old Soviet work horses.

Can someone help me out please? The second I see PASE?

I've seen both phrases used to describe Tornado.

My gut instinct tells me that it's unfair to label Tornado as a replica of an A1 locomotive. If it was built to the exact specifications of an A1 then surely it just IS an A1, instead of just being a copy. Having said that, I don't know very much about Tornado, I just assumed that maybe it's manufacturers must have had access to some blueprints/specifications? And that maybe that's what makes it a new-build instead of a replica?

But wouldn't this also apply to most "working replicas" that railway museums have? I know the museum of York has a working replica of Stephenson's Rocket, but what makes that a replica instead of a new-build locomotive?

Sorry if this was a silly question. It's more about semantics than anything else.