Real Trains

[earnest fossil]

Unless they mean 2021

[viral garnet]

Oh like that

Yeah now i understand that it can be double yeah

I read it as 2021

Cuz they said in

[earnest fossil]

I reckoned it might've been just poor English

[pearl mural]

it's 2021

[drowsy stratus]

Have some train pics I took in September '21.

[viral garnet]

September 21

I don't have many september 2021 pics

[boreal musk]

September 2001

[hasty hare]

Took some photos while taking the train to Obernai

[peak furnace]

Throwback

[nova pilot]

From what country is that Koploper family relative?

[boreal musk]

Japan

[burnt grove]

Oh yeah this is frm japan right?

[peak furnace]

Yes

[burnt grove]

looks like a Japanese ICm3

XD

I bet the doors on the front are meant to do the same thing

[untold shoal]

183 series i believe?

[burnt grove]

the modern SNCF mu's are nice

at least, they look nice

Like nothing too flash or boring, in that sweet spot for me where I'd be happy to have it in any game if I was building stuff based on looks

ALSO last I checked, france has some decent trains in terms of specs (like speed, power and tractive effort)

[hasty hare]

they do

they are very confortable for regional trains

compared to the UK

And they also fit very well for slow intercity routes

[burnt grove]

Compared to a comfy coach bus that has padded seats?

Like inside a MCI D4500CT which has some nice padded seats that feel waaaay better than any computer chair i've sat in

like after a long day of work, slumping into one of these seets feels like heaven

[hasty hare]

hmm i don't know

Its been a while since I rode a Regiolis

everytime I get an AGC

[drowsy stratus]

1Z85 at Dent en-route to Carlisle earlier today.

[novel bison]

Busy day in Baasrode yesterday

[pearl mural]

Nice, i've got a 59 in H0

[trim egret]

Can I post here railway photos with no train on it?

[limber trout]

idk maybe

[restive trail]

Is that Tubize 2069

first pic

[novel bison]

yes it is

Same day

[restive trail]

Nicee

That one is going to be on the Wolsztyn Steam Parade

In Poland

[novel bison]

True

[restive trail]

Pkp Cargo loco with Pkp Intercity train

You can rarely get anything more Polish than this lmao

[novel bison]

We need to cook

[peak furnace]

Jesse

[feral cedar]

Nice! Had fried eggs same way!

[novel bison]

It tasted like coal for me

[sick tapir]

Gotta love me some crust😋😋

[burnt grove]

Just a homan and machine ingesting some hydrocarbons

[umbral meadow]

Early morning train

[umbral meadow]

Another train... how did I end up here?

[drowsy stratus]

Probably on a plane 😉

Don't take the GatEx tho... take the normal trains that are cheaper...

[cerulean saddle]

Oh look

The white elephant

[drowsy stratus]

They're working more now than they have in about 20 years tbf...

[umbral meadow]

That's not even the first 67 I've seen

[drowsy stratus]

They're semi-regular into Victoria with Pullman's and such, and used to be scattered around the ECML as Thunderbirds

[drowsy stratus]

Ah yes, the rare occasion where GBRf used their own on the sleepers too

[cerulean saddle]

So its less useless now?

[umbral meadow]

Do they still do mk3 push pulls?

[drowsy stratus]

They run services in/out of Manchester every 2 hours to Cardiff now with Mark 4s

Push-pull jobs, just newer stock.

[umbral meadow]

Ah nice

[drowsy stratus]

The Manchester push-pull also interworks with the "Premier" service, which is a 1tpd Holyhead - Cardiff service (alongside the normal service which is typically 1tp2h)

1714 Cardiff to Holyhead calling at the world...

Takes 4 hours and 24 mins, with a quick 5 min reversal at Chester

Not that the Manchester service is much better... 3 hours and 19 mins

It's only 170 miles

[umbral meadow]

Azuma time

[drowsy stratus]

Which one you taking? And where to?

[umbral meadow]

11.30 to Edinburgh, just stopped at Peterborough

[drowsy stratus]

Ew, Edinburgh stopper...

Take it your on advanced tickets and it was cheapest?

[umbral meadow]

Azuma at Glasgow Central

[drowsy stratus]

More interested in the 158 next to it tbf

They're not an amazingly regular sight at Central either these days...

Although why LNER are there in the middle of the day, idk...

ECS both ways, must just be for route knowledge...

The 158 was also ECS transferring from Motherwell to Corkerhill depot

Ahhh, that makes sense... the 158 failed before working the 0559 Motherwell to Edinburgh this morning...

[drowsy stratus]

Yes, that's a normal place for one tho Max 😉

[peak furnace]

[glacial yacht]

damm jake, where will you be in the UK

I am going to the UK tomorrow

and rico will follow half a week later

[drowsy stratus]

Normal place for a 318 too 😉

[drowsy stratus]

I've had that exact unit to that exact station myself

[drowsy stratus]

In 24 hours on that unit, I did Fort William - Mallaig - Crianlarich, and Oban to Glasgow Queen Street

[drowsy stratus]

One of a small number of 156s I need, fairly regular one on the WHL

[drowsy stratus]

Need the Shed, can't work out which 73 it is due to the pic

[drowsy stratus]

Had that set from that station across to Haymarket

[peak furnace]

969

[drowsy stratus]

That's, amusingly, like the only 73/9 I need still

[drowsy stratus]

Numbers?

[drowsy stratus]

800009 I've had from Cardiff to Paddington and Didcot to Reading

I still can't make out the number on the other set

[peak furnace]

802018

[drowsy stratus]

One of the few 802/0s I still need

[cerulean saddle]

hey look

its my friend's fave train

[drowsy stratus]

387170 Maidenhead to Reading and Maidenhead to Didcot.
345002 Bond Street to Liverpool Street

[peak furnace]

do you have some sort of spreadsheet for this

English Rico

[drowsy stratus]

Yes, with an easy search function

[cerulean saddle]

literally his pfp

[peak furnace]

damn

802005

[drowsy stratus]

11th Feb 2019 1702 Exeter St Davids to Taunton
12th Feb 2019 1916 Liskeard to Taunton

[drowsy stratus]

Yeah, need that for haulage

[peak furnace]

802002

[drowsy stratus]

Required too

[drowsy stratus]

19th May 2023 1014 Exeter Central to Exeter St Davids

[drowsy stratus]

Mega 0.775 miles

[peak furnace]

Still counts

[drowsy stratus]

150239, 9 journeys, most recent 18th May 2023, 1044 Starcross to Dawlish
150246, 4 journeys, most recent 20th May 2023 0520 Bristol Temple Meads to Highbridge & Burnham

[drowsy stratus]

9 journeys, most recent 18th May 2023, 1044 Starcross to Dawlish 😉

[peak furnace]

802016

[drowsy stratus]

30th November 2019 2207 Taunton to Exeter St Davids

[drowsy stratus]

4 journeys, most recent, 22nd April 2023 0900 Exeter St Davids to Teignmouth

[drowsy stratus]

This one again:
19th May 2023 1014 Exeter Central to Exeter St Davids

[peak furnace]

god damn

Do you count them both if they're in a set?

[drowsy stratus]

Yes

They're both working to move me

[peak furnace]

Do you walk through to set for it to count

[drowsy stratus]

Impossible with some trains here

[peak furnace]

Ah

[drowsy stratus]

I know people who do mileage by individual carriage in a unit

[peak furnace]

That seems complicated lol

[drowsy stratus]

The carriage numbers are easily visible tbf

So it's just getting the same unit x amount of times

Becomes harder were some carriages are FC only

[peak furnace]

Front coach only?

[drowsy stratus]

First Class

[peak furnace]

ah right

Big expensive

[drowsy stratus]

Yeah

[peak furnace]

A small price to pay for filling in the blanks

[drowsy stratus]

Have you run out of pics now? 😂

[peak furnace]

No but I should really get some more work done haha

[drowsy stratus]

Terrible excuse

[peak furnace]

Don't want to anger the Australians

[drowsy stratus]

Fuck 'em

What are they gonna do, call you a cunt?

They do that anyway

[peak furnace]

I hope so

That'd be a compliment

[drowsy stratus]

😂

[hoary dagger]

And pray why on earth is a 158 used to do this service that every hour is usually run by a EMU

Apart from me assuming it’s going round a diesel only curve?

[drowsy stratus]

It's a 1tpd thing for driver traction knowledge

Runs the last train from Edinburgh to Motherwell, and the first train back.

[hoary dagger]

Doesn’t run from Motherwell to Edinburgh at night?

Can’t put Jake on it then aww

[drowsy stratus]

Nah, it's 0559 from Motherwell in the morning

[hoary dagger]

Nothing a night of Tennants can’t solve

[drowsy stratus]

Having worked the 2313 to Motherwell the night before

[hoary dagger]

Quite the trip

[drowsy stratus]

Does a rare, 1tpd, bit of track on the morning run too, but it's fully electrified throughout

[umbral meadow]

I'll be around Edinburgh for the next week or so

[drowsy stratus]

Hmmmm, I could maybe pop up on the weekend

Depends on how TPE are running

[glacial yacht]

the evening of 2nd of august I will pop up for a night in edinburgh

I will do some railways around scotland

[drowsy stratus]

As it stands, 0603 Manchester to Edinburgh still running on Saturday...

Then I could take the 1903 Edinburgh to Manchester via ECML back...

[umbral meadow]

I'll be back in London on the 11th

[tender fox]

What a coincidence

[glacial yacht]

I uh, will be all over the place

like just one evening in edinburgh just to get a train to mallaig

[tender fox]

I'm heading to Edinburgh on Friday

[glacial yacht]

Ill be on the train from glasgow to thurso and back to inverness

[hoary dagger]

How late in Edinburgh

[glacial yacht]

1805

maybe even earlier

depends on the father of a mate of mine who will be showing his model railway layout

[hoary dagger]

I’m talking more like

Will you be awake at 2300

[glacial yacht]

for a pint?

ofc

as long as im awake the next day at 715 for the train

[hoary dagger]

Go pack your bag

[hoary dagger]

Easy

[glacial yacht]

I am packing my bag rn

leaving tomorrow

for newcastle

[drowsy stratus]

Poor bugger

[glacial yacht]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1071526985320366170/1135596006906535976/20230726_114120.jpg?width=715&height=536

@bright bobcat

[bright bobcat]

WAAR IS DIT

[glacial yacht]

bucuresti

ik kwam dit tegen terwijl ik aan het wachten was op de nachttrein

[bright bobcat]

Dit is fantastisch

[tender fox]

🙁

[viral garnet]

Wtf

Diesel hauled by diesel under overhead wires

[boreal musk]

Romania moment

[drowsy stratus]

UK moment

Or even better UK moment.
Electric hauled by Diesel under wires

[glacial yacht]

this still is one of my favorite uk railway moments

[peak furnace]

Nice train

But this is a screenshot

Actually it's a YouTube thumbnail it seems

[glacial yacht]

did you know max, that I dont really care about your opinion

[peak furnace]

👀 video?

[peak furnace]

Cool, but that wasn't an opinion

sorry I meant ik hoef geen verantwoording af te leggen aan jou

[glacial yacht]

ik vraag jou ook niet verantwoording af te leggen

[boreal musk]

Are there passengers inside?

[glacial yacht]

yes

[boreal musk]

Lmao

[peak furnace]

https://youtu.be/4mgdRyc71E8?t=141

Very cool

[glacial yacht]

this was for a while the regular service to holyhead

something about the avability of 220/221's that virgin rather did not want to put them on service to holyhead

until something forced them to send them anyway

pilot probably knows the details

[boreal musk]

This is wild

[glacial yacht]

if I recall correctly, the 57 did not provide enough power for the entire 390

so only partialy was used

also the 57's werent so reliable either

they got replaced by this

(after virgin went out and TfW was nationalised)

[peak furnace]

Very cool

sometimes I wonder how you know this stuff lol

[boreal musk]

That's what I would've thought

[glacial yacht]

also this ran while virgin ran

[boreal musk]

Based

[glacial yacht]

Just like you, I have the power of the internet at my fingertips

[boreal musk]

Groningen - Cardiff nachttrein

[bright bobcat]

WISSELSTRATEN

[glacial yacht]

doe holyhead, aansluiting boot

[boreal musk]

Better yes

[bright bobcat]

Ja

En dan doortrekken naar Eemshaven

Lokwechsel in gn

[peak furnace]

yes but you already knew this, so you read up on it I meant

I don't usually read through everything that I can find in my field

sometimes I do

[glacial yacht]

there once was a day I didnt know what a train was
now there is a day where I know concession rules for Hoofdrailnet (+100 pages)

[drowsy stratus]

Not directly related

The ATW Push-Pull trains have always been on Cardiff - Holyhead, with a few Manchester turns.

The 57 + 390s were replaced by pairs of Voyagers instead, after XC and West Coast got split.

[peak furnace]

Impressive

[wet loom]

idk the french version of this is just cooler

[glacial yacht]

it is

[peak furnace]

nice

[limber trout]

a desiro and the beautiful CFR Clasă 60, what a shot

[glacial yacht]

I have more

[boreal musk]

send

[cerulean saddle]

Turd train

[glacial yacht]

fucking discord compression ruining all the video's

[cerulean saddle]

IC4

The only cool thing about them is the fact that they’re diesel mechanical so they sound different

[limber trout]

clasă 47 in the back, the red one with a white stripe it's beautiful in person

[glacial yacht]

I think I have a picture of it somewhere

are you romanian?

[limber trout]

yes but i don't live there

i travel there from time to time

[glacial yacht]

I find most of CFR to be charmingly behind the times

same for MAV

[limber trout]

they pretty much are

compared with some spanish trains, CFR trains are pretty old

[glacial yacht]

yeah but the best part is, trains tend to run just as frequent in romania as spain

hehehe

[limber trout]

i guess so yeah, but they're slower in romania

[glacial yacht]

spain builds entire high speed lines just to use em 5 times a day

[limber trout]

fun fact, the average passanger train speed in romania it's 40kmh

[glacial yacht]

I noticed

I was looking at brasov for like 45 min

while in the train

approaching brasov

[limber trout]

well it's the "best" hs system in europe

[glacial yacht]

no its the biggest, not the best

best goes to france without doubt

[limber trout]

idk tbf maybe i'm biased

[glacial yacht]

france runs more on time and more frequent for cheaper fares

[limber trout]

i only use regionals

[glacial yacht]

I'd probably put italy on 2

[limber trout]

in spain there are very cheap options

[glacial yacht]

since the introduction of ouigo, iryo and avlo yes

but whereever they dont ride, the ticket prices tend to be pricey

[limber trout]

that's true

[glacial yacht]

and renfe still is 58% more expensive than ouigo and iryo

on average

[limber trout]

+50€ BCN to Valencia it's a scam

better get the bus

[limber trout]

depends on what you pay

i have a special ticked with illimited travels in all 6 zones of Barcelona and I have renfe regional (rodalies) for a trimestral subscription

you can go anywhere near bcn but if you wanna leave, ouigo iryo or avlo

[glacial yacht]

For renfe madrid - barcelona between 90 and 170 dependent on time of booking and train time

[limber trout]

that's renfe

ouigo 25€ minimum

max 45

[glacial yacht]

Mate of mine did reseatch on the market change since the introduction of the 2 other operators

[limber trout]

3?

[glacial yacht]

I had to collect his dats

Avlo is a renfe brand

[limber trout]

but it's lowcost

[limber trout]

that's very interesting

is it private?

[glacial yacht]

On parts of the spanish network where the 2/3 operators dont ride, the prices are still pricey

[glacial yacht]

I wouldnt know and i kinda dont want to risk it

[limber trout]

fair fair

[glacial yacht]

Ill share some parts of it via dm or something later

[limber trout]

okayokay

thx

[limber trout]

we atleast have a good road and air system

and 70% of spain it's empty so yeah

[glacial yacht]

Its a major advantage for highspeed rail

[limber trout]

it is

infrstructure it's easy to build

i mean that there are not a lot of cities in between

i have a graph of the Mad-Bcn line

[glacial yacht]

Graph :)

[limber trout]

lemme send it

this is not a graph

[wet loom]

@glacial yacht rare tilting demostrators. i liek the tubrotrain tilting

[nova pilot]

do real life trams count?

[limber trout]

sure

[wet loom]

@glacial yacht thats a NS1100 next to it

[glacial yacht]

Wow

Odd thing

[wet loom]

https://www.ina.fr/ina-eclaire-actu/video/caf90044338/wagon-pendulaire-de-la-sncf

french engineering is jsut bonkers... @brave solstice hangende banden monorail...

[brave solstice]

this is good

[drowsy stratus]

And this is why we hate ticket machines...

[bright bobcat]

Welke kauolo heeft dit kanaal gereactiveerd

[peak furnace]

Wat is er mis met dit kanaal? Dit is het enige kanaal waar ik mag maxposten van jullie

[hasty hare]

From the 17/07/2023 to the 28/07/2023

[peak furnace]

LNEP

[hasty hare]

Spamming done

[hasty hare]

Yep, they really care about their signs. Worse is that its the only one advertising LNER in the Station.

[hasty hare]

Also, i wonder why they put Turbostars with 158s. It feels wierd.

Maybe @ ePilot knows

[wet loom]

thank you for screwing over peoples mobile data lol.....

[hasty hare]

😄

[wet loom]

first foto is good, becuz sncf

last one too

2nd to last perfect, because hdf

[drowsy stratus]

Mmmm, pantograph on every vehicle on the second one...

[viral garnet]

second one does have one

at the back

[zealous schooner]

these trains have dual current collection systems too; they switch to third rail for the underground portions of the line

[earnest fossil]

You may not like it

But this is what peak locomotive looks like

[cerulean saddle]

Straight from sub arctic/tropical climate

[feral cedar]

Nice! Have H0 model and it's funny!

[viral garnet]

wait a minute @boreal musk i think we know this place

[viral garnet]

is that Mocănița Maramureș?

[boreal musk]

Ajo

[radiant trellis]

As I was going to St Ives / I met a man with seven wives

[limber trout]

indeed it is

[viral garnet]

Cool, wouter and i looked to plan to go there maybe

[boreal musk]

We should some time

[viral garnet]

In planning it only makes realistic sense to go ukraine tho

[boreal musk]

Let's go

[limber trout]

it's really close to the border

[viral garnet]

Yeah i know, and afaik not too much trains south

[limber trout]

nope

only car

depending from where you are coming, get ready for a almost full day in the road

maybe more idk

[viral garnet]

Well we would be going by train so thats why it's not realistic to go there rn

[limber trout]

there's a train line but idk if it's on service

and didn't see any signals to a station

MM it's really bad connected rail-wise

[viral garnet]

Yeah viseu de jos does have service

Which isn't too far from there

[limber trout]

yes but there's also viseu de mijloc

but yes

regional CJ and you're there

and if i'm not wrong, cluj it's connected with hungary

yes it does

just checked

[viral garnet]

Yes last summer we came from hungary through arad to cluj

[limber trout]

ah okay okay

even tho i believe it's faster through debrecen - oradea

[viral garnet]

Oradea i mean yeah, got a bit confused

Havent been in arad

[limber trout]

ah okay

[viral garnet]

We had bus replacement across the border actually

[limber trout]

arad is more south

borders are confusing in romania

bc you can cross to moldavia by road but can't cross by train without going through customs

and never crossed hungarian border before

[viral garnet]

Yeah and with Hungary it's just they check your passport (1x in romania 1x in hungary if by train)

[boreal musk]

Weird

[limber trout]

yeah it is

ungheni it's a border town

but there are roads that cross prutu

the river

[viral garnet]

Btw do you know if there are trains to moldova from galati?

[limber trout]

at least that's what my Gpa said bc he lived in a border town

[limber trout]

if my geography isnt wrong

moldavia ukraine and romania meet in a 3 point border in galati

[viral garnet]

Galati is south side of moldova

[limber trout]

yeah

but

[viral garnet]

And ukraine is there too yeah

[limber trout]

you want to cross the border or arrive to chisinău for example

[viral garnet]

Yeah i was thinking maybe you can cross there then go to Chisinau and go back via Iasi

[limber trout]

better to cross via iasi

iasi ungheni then you're in moldova

idk if there are any trains

i think in gara socola there's services to moldova

bc it's also a gauge change

yes there are trains to chisinău

[wet loom]

You should galati. Rotterdamtrams and Amsterdam busses there

Next door Braila too

[limber trout]

i would go to galati to see the south of romania but cross on the nord to go to moldova

do București constanța Galați

and visit small towns in thr mean time

also sibiu

alba

etcetc

ofc timiș

[wet loom]

East of donau at galati is devoid of train though untill you reach Constanta.

[limber trout]

a lot of zones in romania is low on train service

but yeah better to target big cities in the south

galati iasi

and iasi chisinău

[wet loom]

Tulcea branch though

[limber trout]

tulcea it's only connected to CT

[viral garnet]

How big is the chance of hitchiking Tulcea-Izmajil

Probably not very big right

[limber trout]

no

[boreal musk]

Maybe hire car

[limber trout]

yes.

doing that rn

[viral garnet]

Hire car across borders yes

[wet loom]

How would that work lol. danube delta has no roads

[boreal musk]

Oh mhm

Just Bolt

[limber trout]

you can cross via cernavoda

[boreal musk]

Taking the e scooter

[limber trout]

but thats far away

[limber trout]

good luck crossing crops

and the river as well

[wet loom]

Idk if there are hydrofoils in danube delta still going to ukrian

[viral garnet]

You can boat to across the border at izmajil but not to izmajil

[wet loom]

Danube delta looked really nice

You should Sulina

[boreal musk]

We should steal the MaxMobiel and cross the border

[viral garnet]

Dont see it go to ukraine anywhere

Hire a boat for plauru-izmajil

[limber trout]

i would do galati to cross border to ukraine

[viral garnet]

Yeah there is a bus there

[limber trout]

yeah and it's the only road connection

[viral garnet]

There is border ferry at isaccea

[limber trout]

how do you get there?

[viral garnet]

Uhhh

No clue

[limber trout]

no trains

galati is well connected from the west, north and south

better to go there and avoid ferries

[viral garnet]

Bus from tulcea

It's more about fun than convenience

[boreal musk]

Yes

[limber trout]

idk if there is border in tulcea

[viral garnet]

No we take the bus from tulcea to isaccea

Then there's a ferry there

[limber trout]

i mean maybe CT to tulcea

teah

yeah

that could work

but now it's a social center

still a border technically

[viral garnet]

24 hours a day ferry

Damn

[wet loom]

I only know there were shitton of passenger hydrofoils around tulcea.

[viral garnet]

Every 1,5 hours

[peak furnace]

Me

[boreal musk]

Nice

[viral garnet]

Yes but those only go to romanian side of border

€1

This is a great idea

[boreal musk]

Yes

[wet loom]

then you just have to hope the isacca ferry is still open and the border open for foreigners

[viral garnet]

The ferry is open

Or website not updated

Which could be the case tbh

[boreal musk]

Yeah

[wet loom]

You cna go with boat form Tulcea to Galati for 2 RON? https://navrombac.ro/servicii-si-tarife-galati/

[viral garnet]

Lol yes

[wet loom]

ohno, i think this is jsut the rivercrossing at galati.

tulcea they mean th eprovince

[viral garnet]

Ah yeah probably

[limber trout]

galati its a judet and tulcea its another one

there is a straig line ferry through the danube

from tulcea

[wet loom]

these ships mus tby the msot random ferry boats in europe though

[limber trout]

romania aint a big ship town

country

town?

[viral garnet]

Country

[wet loom]

danube river vessel in romania are the largest inland ships in europe though

[viral garnet]

Romanian website has a message about something on 28 7 2023 so not outdated

[wet loom]

Romania is the largest ship builder in europe too afaik

[viral garnet]

You want to be on this

[limber trout]

that's crazy to think

[wet loom]

They will fuel the boat so another vessel tkaes over few hours

[limber trout]

very little coast compared with the rest of the most of europe

but if you are correct, something new learned today

[viral garnet]

Wtf ate these bus lines

Wait constanta Odessa bus

Tblisi-kyiv is 3 days

Wtf are these buses

[wet loom]

Mangalia has the biggest yard in europe afaik. Constanta, Tulcea and Galati all have major yards for building ships.

[boreal musk]

This is good

[viral garnet]

Yeah constanta has a huge harbor area as well

With a lot of trains too

[wet loom]

Go via trukey though

[viral garnet]

Yes

Ofcourse

[wet loom]

I met a guy in Venezia-Vienna trian who was going tibilis via turkey by train

[viral garnet]

Cool

[novel bison]

Wolsztyn festival

[restive trail]

Belgian mindset: goes a shit ton of kilometers just to see belgian and luxemburg loco

fr

Its a shame its only 5 locos

[novel bison]

True, nonetheless we had a party

And driving up and down those long branches with nothing but what is practically 2 shunting engines is exciting to say the least.

More pictures from the day of and after the festival

[humble marsh]

Hijack it

[limber trout]

where is this?

🇨🇭?

[glacial yacht]

ive been on this

when I was like 7

[peak furnace]

Damn

Holiday in Switzerland

Big expensive

[peak furnace]

Bix

[limber trout]

bix?

[peak furnace]

🇨🇭

[limber trout]

ahokay

[sick tapir]

Some photos from Grängesberg where lots of old rolling stock from the former TGOJ railway are stored. This rail yard is adjacent to a now closed iron ore mine. The last iron ore train left in 1990.

[boreal musk]

nice

[sick tapir]

M3t 73 in the last picture is a steam turbine locomotive. It's sister locomotive M3t 71 is preserved there and is the world's only functional steam turbine loco. Unfortunately i didn't find any pictures of it (that were mine)

The Bt-loco in this configuration is my all-time favourite electric-loco, maybe even of all locos. The livery reminds me of soviet locos

[winter pulsar]

I didn't catch this well, had a bad positioning and barely time to pull my camera out, but saw this short train shunting backwards with three men keeping watch

[nova pilot]

stupid woman...

[glacial yacht]

Im more worried about the guy with the bike in the back

[peak furnace]

He’s just trying to do his work and deliver some food 🤣

[junior quarry]

This is the first time I have seen so dense departure board. Location: Hangzhoudong (East) Railway Station.

Can OpenTTD go denser?

[hoary dagger]

Byebye XC HST!

[humble marsh]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[junior quarry]

I used to think Tin as Japanese

[umbral meadow]

He's about as Japanese as I am

[cerulean saddle]

Damn weebs 😤

[tender fox]

I can confirm Tin is as Japanese as Jake is, though I'd say probably a little bit more, but it's hardly a negligible difference

[glacial yacht]

ive been to the sheep pen, none of these JP+ mf's are probably japanese
all imposters (except azusa)

[hoary dagger]

ええええ

[cerulean saddle]

NOHAAABB

[umbral meadow]

Blauer Blitz!

[pearl mural]

Yep, but it didn't go anywhere, it stood there all day sadly

Couldn't take better pictures as there wasn't enough space

[feral cedar]

Return of fancy paintschemes here!

[glass vigil]

that looks weirdly narrow

[feral cedar]

It's because it is tall and far away

[feral cedar]

Same EP2K with Siemens Viaggio (european loading gauge) wagons.

[glass vigil]

Why would those wagons have such loading gauge

[feral cedar]

Bought for Moscow-Berlin trains prior Talgo (Strizh).

Now used as premium wagons where needed

[glass vigil]

Ah that does make a fair bit of sense

I didn't really see the point since the track gauge is different

[feral cedar]

There wer trains all the time with bogies exchange where gauge changes.

[wet loom]

Moscow-Nice and Moscow-Paris were cool full RZD stock trains.

ran more as a prestige object then actually carrying passengers. usually it was mostly empty. https://flic.kr/p/atRGEx

[umbral meadow]

I saw that stop in Innsbruck once

[junior quarry]

I can see these coaches in xUSSR set

[novel bison]

waiting for restoration, currently in front of a disco named "La loco"

it is verry smol

[peak furnace]

Most reliable NS train

[novel bison]

Driving a little teeny weeny narrow gauge engine

[feral cedar]

#openttd message

Moving here from off-topic chanel

[junior bobcat]

I honestly don't know my German electrics 😅

[feral cedar]

These 4 are not well known locos, tbf.

[junior bobcat]

But would love to be educated

[boreal musk]

wtf is this

120 x DE 2700

[feral cedar]

German Electric loco

Obviously

[feral cedar]

Hint: that loco belongs to a factory that known for making diesel locos and were never in regular use.

[boreal musk]

MaK?

[honest nova]

i rly only know those in america and canada.

[feral cedar]

Yep

[feral cedar]

Its a US loco that have minor changes to it. I'll accept any name: local or of US cousins.

[honest nova]

minor?

[honest nova]

usually i see locos that are rebuilt almost entirely

[feral cedar]

Copying pics so no need to switch between tabs.

[feral cedar]

Smaller fuel tank and downclocked engines

[junior bobcat]

Ah, the last photo looks like an SD90MAC, but those also came in a 4,300hp variant, which is probably more similar

[honest nova]

Cw46ah

[feral cedar]

Close but nope.

[feral cedar]

Not that old.

[junior bobcat]

Not an SD80MAC?

[feral cedar]

Nope

[honest nova]

Ack battery

[junior bobcat]

I guess could be a type of SD70, I'm just looking at the big space behind the radiator

[feral cedar]

It is

Sbould I reming you of first category I offered?🤣

[junior bobcat]

Yeah, I figured that wasn't a German electric 😛

[feral cedar]

Small fuel tank is notable on a close up picture

[junior bobcat]

Oh yeah, smaller for a lighter axle weight?

[feral cedar]

Yep

Plus it was supposed to use a tender

With liquid gas in it. It can run on a diesel/gas mixture

[junior bobcat]

Neat

[feral cedar]

Poor quality cause of source (YT video)

[cerulean saddle]

looks henschelly

[feral cedar]

Why?

[cerulean saddle]

the fronts

remind me of the DSB EA/ME

[feral cedar]

Shape maybe, but otherwise nothing in common

As for that "American" loco, it is EMD SD42ACeLW

Or 2ТЭ3250

I do like how American loco looks on Siberian rails

[wet loom]

Nah it's a DE1024 with a panto stuck to the roof

this thing never ran but was a protoype idea for a hybrid loco

Basicly this became the stadler eurodual after they bought vossloh, which bought mak.

[feral cedar]

Correct.
It also had a project name "Voith Futura"...

[honest nova]

I didn't know that emd would export to russia

I thought all the political stuff would block it...

[feral cedar]

That have been sold to private railroad and while manufactured in 2015, it only reached it's owner in 2021. Could as well end up being new "Little Joe".

[feral cedar]

As for other stuff here:
Baden A1, Prussian ES5, Henschel E1200.

[umbral meadow]

That's an old comment lol, I've actually been back to Scotland again since I posted that 😅

I rode the HST for one stop across Edinburgh just to be on it haha

[hoary dagger]

And boring AF too

[umbral meadow]

The tables were good for playing cards at least

[novel bison]

I'm part of a project for restoring 200 meters of narrow gauge industrial railway in an old brick factory in Belgium. We have been working in our free time for 2 months and we have just started a Facebook page. We are not seeking financial support, this is just for those who are interested. https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61552624349613

[peak furnace]

Gebaseerd

[sick tapir]

Berlin Weekend meant some trainspotting too!💪

[pearl mural]

Saw this on Facebook the other day

I wonder just how slow it must've been

[glacial yacht]

this is cool

this is like a rolling sauna

the lil box is hot because it just is

and the other carriages cant cool down because theyre going too slow

[untold shoal]

depends

is it in the summer or not

[pearl mural]

likely

23rd of September actually

I think it's a photomontage

[cerulean saddle]

Love the livery

[glacial yacht]

the railbus

[feral cedar]

New-Year season is open!

[viral garnet]

:o

[glacial yacht]

zamm, 1,5 months early

[nova pilot]

yes, The True Railbus

[peak furnace]

#1139526723743002685 message

[novel bison]

he's done

[untold shoal]

they still run 111 + x wagen?

[pastel zephyr]

it was the last ride of it in germany(

[untold shoal]

shame

[sick tapir]

If you ever feel useless, remember👆 😻

[untold shoal]

Nah he has done his work for the day

[pastel zephyr]

I hate when it starts to get darker

[novel bison]

all hail the steam motorcar 🫡

[peak furnace]

Very good

[feral cedar]

You've got a Talent!

[pastel zephyr]

Usually S-bahn operator in my city prefer 1440 on s1 lone but today it is talent

[boreal musk]

NS!

[pastel zephyr]

8n nuremberg

[novel bison]

best way to ride a steam train

[viral garnet]

Is it safe over there?

[pastel zephyr]

In this city yes

[viral garnet]

What city are you in?

[wet loom]

Ukriane has electrified ChME3 too??? or is it some kind of installation for preheating

[pastel zephyr]

Poltava but currently in Kyiv

[pastel zephyr]

It's not electric it need to clear the wires from ice in winter

[dense elk]

D set at gosford

[pastel zephyr]

australia?

[dense elk]

yeah

nsw to be precise

[heady cave]

we love a euro dual

[burnt grove]

Wheres this from?

[restive trail]

Poland

Bridge across Warta river in Wronki

[pastel zephyr]

Polska gurom🇮🇩?)

[rapid latch]

damn I didn't know db had desiro hc's

cool

[glacial yacht]

in nuremberg regio for example

[rapid latch]

nice

[pastel zephyr]

Only in nurnberg yet

In June will be re29 nurnberg-erfurt

And will be easy to get in berlin

[glacial yacht]

Damm theyre going to run an re on that

[pastel zephyr]

Yes

[pastel zephyr]

For me that's good bcs i have D-ticket

And desiro hc have free wifi

[limber trout]

not a train, but a tram

[pastel zephyr]

Best train ever

An its in 600-700km far from his home

[smoky jetty]

Central US railfanning

[restive trail]

how to make photos

[wet loom]

dont know if fyra can be considered a real train though.

[spare lance]

Beijing Metro, Line S1

[peak furnace]

Excellent

[peak furnace]

Damn

[smoky jetty]

@tribal mango

[tribal mango]

yikes

[smoky jetty]

What exactly happened

[pastel zephyr]

On my new camera

[pastel zephyr]

Beautiful V100 and BR50 😍

[rough smelt]

Always need more voyagers in here

[peak furnace]

[pastel zephyr]

3 hours spend but it's worth it

[peak furnace]

good

[fast raft]

Man i love this type of locomotives

No the shape I mean

[untold shoal]

Dc class my beloved

[trim egret]

Metre gauge engine on left, 5 ft 6 in gauge engine on right.

[fast raft]

Wide bois

[fast raft]

I like the concept of the ETR700 tho

dunno why

[fast raft]

Train with pop up headlights

[trim egret]

Giving me 80s vibe.

[rapid latch]

Fyra 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[rapid latch]

very very cool, did you make this compilation/do you know the source?

[fast raft]

I can dm you some videos

I'll send the link

[rapid latch]

That would be very nice :)

[fast raft]

Imma just post it here ig

https://youtu.be/ux87KB0p4dI?si=PffjqeGCGArAo9g1
https://youtu.be/mLvydWRvG0I?si=DhGMRdKgvQ0PTXHA
https://youtu.be/vm7ZaFvedZE?si=pFcI2xyuR1XIb32m
https://youtu.be/hXxRDBOGWuE?si=jswAfOI8YYoh0lPj
https://youtu.be/vm7ZaFvedZE?si=pFcI2xyuR1XIb32m

[rapid latch]

Thank you!!

[trim egret]

Notice anything off with the railway tracks?

[untold shoal]

dual gauge...?

[cerulean saddle]

There’s people on them

[trim egret]

Consider that normal. Find the thing that should've been there but is not there.

[untold shoal]

the second running rail

[trim egret]

Yeah.

[untold shoal]

a lot of bridges are like that

take Irlam Viaduct for example

used to be 4 tracks, now only 2

[trim egret]

In Britain?

[untold shoal]

yes

[trim egret]

Probably done by the same people here in their former colony.

[untold shoal]

lol

[fast raft]

Bro has more gauges than Australia

[trim egret]

There are only 2 gauges using 3 lines in the picture. Because it's on a bridge over a canal, the lines have been doubled for stability.

Here's a picture without the additional tracks.

[fast raft]

Jeez

[viral garnet]

amazing

[trim egret]

Location?

[novel bison]

Steam depot in Wolsztyn, the video is from the yearly steam festival, specifically the steamengine parade

[cerulean saddle]

47, 37 and 20

[novel bison]

lifting of a derailed locomotive

[sick tapir]

Where is this?

[cerulean saddle]

нзмр

диесел гала

[sick tapir]

What😭

[cerulean saddle]

ops

forgot to switch my keyboard back earlier

[cerulean saddle]

nymr, diesel gala

[glass vigil]

You didn't notice? lmao

[cerulean saddle]

i dont always look at what i type

[sacred marlin]

https://www.izmir.bel.tr/tr/Haberler/iste-izmir-metrosu-nun-28-lik-delikanlisi/50435/156

[winter gale]

not my video, but from somewhere near me: trainspotting from a drone! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_exE40EsnzQ

they're building a new station here called Cambridge South, and this channel has a lot of footage of its construction too

[glass vigil]

I wonder what those ex nsb coaches are doing there

[sick tapir]

Not sure, the rest were Blå Tåget but maybe those NSB cars were used in their traffic

[glass vigil]

Maybe they'll convert them if they ever start running again

Uppsala -Göteborg would be sweet but they'll probably be very expensive:(

[sick tapir]

I don't remember what made them stop running in the first place

[sick tapir]

Prague?

[untold shoal]

you aren't wrong there

[limber trout]

S-120 RENFE Alvia

Pamplona -> Madrid-Chamartín Clara Campoamor

High speed train (max 250km/h) serving long distance routes across Spain.

Pamplona, he S-311 is a diesel-electric locomotive that it's main purpose is maneuver the cargo around the station. It has proven a high level of versatility, hence the use that Renfe and ADIF gives to it.

Hendaye, Avelia Euroduplex is a french high-speed double-decker train manufactured by Alstom. In the pic above it's painted with the InOui livery.

[pearl mural]

I really hope ČD Cargo wont retire 372s the moment ETCS is needed on select lines in january

i love em

[heady cave]

120s no way

when was that

[pastel zephyr]

Yesterday on the Route Bad Schandau - Friedrichstadt Dresden

[rough smelt]

Not a sight you want to see often but 2 Scotland bound Voyagers normally an hour apart side by side in Leeds

[peak furnace]

[peak furnace]

Good

[sick tapir]

Some photos from Wadstena Fogelsta Järnväg's 150 year anniversary

[rapid latch]

Saw trains today

[peak furnace]

[sacred marlin]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uciRTh--BYg

[teal kindle]

Voyager down to @potent epoch ends

[rough smelt]

Racing the DDZ 😍

[wet loom]

SZ 363's waiting for single track to clear 🥰

[lyric lynx]

CSR on the Mitre suburban line in Buenos Aires

[coarse orbit]

some spanish trains

so far my best vids

[lyric lynx]

Alstom 100 in Line D, after 6 months of not being in service

(Buenos Aires subte btw)

[lyric lynx]

That's one of the trains running the daily long distance service from Buenos Aires to Rosario

Shitty picture because my phone struggles at night

[lyric lynx]

Went to a railway museum today

the train in the front is running in the Urquiza line in buenos aires

the one on the back is from ths museum

[lyric lynx]

Very cool

[heady cave]

guess the station if anyone knows

[untold shoal]

chafford hundred?

[heady cave]

that was a lot quicker than i thought gg

[lyric lynx]

Just realized I shoul've sent this here rather than off-topic. What do you think?

[lyric lynx]

Very cool

where is it?

[cerulean saddle]

kbh h or near

[lyric lynx]

What

[wary flame]

Is that a GT22?

Kinda like the "dieselpunk" vibe this old Serie 0100 has

[sick tapir]

Vesterport, Copenhagen

[sick tapir]

Røros 2022

[peak furnace]

Bodø my beloved ⬜

[sick tapir]

Wait no it was Røros, I forgot😭

I'd like to go there too sometime though

[peak furnace]

I already thought it looked different from what I remember on the pics that don't literally have the station sign Røros visible on them

[lyric lynx]

It's a G22CU, I'd love to take tge university train in the bottom sometime.

[wary flame]

G22CU and GT22 kinda look alike, I always get it wrong which is which lmao

[lyric lynx]

Don't worry, I had to google it because I had no idea which engine it was

[wary flame]

Hahaha what would we do without Google?

Toshiba EMU (based on the Odakyu 9000 Series) with the Ferrocarriles Argentinos livery

(the video is low quality thanks to the Whatsapp camera lol)

[lyric lynx]

Are you also from Argentina?

[wary flame]

Yes I am haha

[lyric lynx]

Please enjoy this incredibly shaky and low quality video of the Buenos Aires-Rosario train I had the chance to see yesterday

[wet loom]

you guys should go and find the wadlopers sold to argentina

[lyric lynx]

I can't travel to Misiones to see them tbh

[wary flame]

Same :(

[lyric lynx]

Santa Rosa is hitting hard, maybe tomorrow I'll take some rain pictures?

[wary flame]

Would be so cool to see some trains in the rain :D

Maybe I should do the same

[peak furnace]

🤩

[cerulean saddle]

western my beloved

[lyric lynx]

No rain trains today

Maybe tomorrow

[wary flame]

I love how this EMU looks, even tho it isn't too comfortable inside

CSR ZhouZhou arriving + how it looks inside

And last but not least, another CSR in the depot

[lyric lynx]

Hell yeah Roca line

The coolest of the Metropolitan lines of Buenos Aires

I've taken it a few weeks ago to go to the Remedios De Escalada railway club. I highly reccomend it

[wary flame]

Yeah, I love the Roca Line (It's the only one I travel with in my entire life, I hope I can travel with another line any time soon)

[wary flame]

Nice! I only use it to go to La Plata or Villa Elisa because it's more cheaper than using the bus lol

[lyric lynx]

It's probably the furthest from you if you only use the Roca line but some stations in the Mitre line are gorgeous

I reccomend going to either Tigre, Belgrano R or Colegiales

[wary flame]

Yeah, sadly I'm kinda far from other lines :(

[wary flame]

Ohhh, I heard nice things about Tigre, my dad went there last year :D

I should go sometime

[lyric lynx]

It's really pretty and there's the Parque de La Costa as well as a few markets, it's pretty cool for a day out.

[wary flame]

Nice :D
Looks like a good plan to go in the summer :D

I should ask to some friends if they wanna go with me

[lyric lynx]

Buenos Aires to Rosario train!

[wary flame]

What a beautiful train, really love the livery

[lyric lynx]

Yeah, I love how the wave flows through all the coaches

[wary flame]

Yeah, so awesome :D