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hazel-of-sodor · 3 months
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So apparently Commonwealth of Australia was offered to Australia for Preservation, but was scrapped bc BR didn't wanna pay for shipping the Locomotive to Australia so scrapped her instead. NOT IN MY AU!
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4449fandom · 1 year
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Two little cousins: 4-8-4 SP 4449 Daylight chills with her Lima Locomotive works relatives for a family reunion of sorts: 2-8-4 NKP 1225 from the New York, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad -- aka the Nickel Plate Road. Lima 2-8-4 Pere Marquette Railway 1225. The get together was a little steamy with late nights spent around the turntable hosted by the sisters, little 0-4-0 tank engine Little River 1 and her grown up sister, Little River 110 -- a 4-6-2 with a tender behind -- 1 invited a couple of her friends too, other 0-4-0 tank engines Flagg Coal 75 and Viscose 6.
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They all enjoyed receiving loving rubs and attention. But 4449 wanted more attention, so, like a naughty engine, she stubbed her pilot truck on a turnout frog and made a big fuss. She enjoyed the extra attention while it lasted, but it meant that she wasn't allowed out to play with her cousins later.
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Ah, family reunions...
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guerrerense · 10 months
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Duchess of Sutherland 6233 LMS
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Duchess of Sutherland 6233 LMS por Tony Hisgett
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1863-project · 2 years
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id love to hear why you love 462 steam locomotives
Ah, I can talk a bit about Pacifics, yeah!
My taste in locomotives tends to veer towards high-speed passenger rail, because I'm a bit of a speed freak (note: this is an understatement). As such, I gravitate to locomotives that were designed to go fast and get people somewhere in the blink of an eye, so 4-6-2 Pacifics and 4-6-4 Hudsons tend to be some of my favorites, as well as the 4-4-2 Atlantics the Milwaukee Road ran, the streamlined Class As.
The current world speed record holder for steam locomotives is my favorite Pacific, LNER 4468 Mallard, designed by Sir Nigel Gresley, who was absolutely phenomenal at building Pacifics in particular.
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I know I've explained Whyte notation on this blog before, but you can see Mallard has two sets of leading wheels for a total of four, three sets of drive wheels for a total of six, and one set of trailing wheels for a total of two, hence 4-6-2.
In general, the easiest way to tell what a steam locomotive was used for is the size of the drive wheels. Strasburg #90, the 2-10-0 Decapod I've had the honor of driving exactly one time, was a freight locomotive; her drive wheels are smaller, which allows for greater tractive effort, making it easier for her to pull a lot of weight. Passenger locomotives tend to have larger drive wheels because they were designed to go fast. Let's put that into perspective with a photo of me next to a K4, a Pennsylvania Railroad 4-6-2 Pacific:
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I am 5'2", aka 62 inches tall. These drive wheels next to me are a whopping 80 INCHES TALL. That's taller than the average person. A person who is 6 feet tall is 72 inches tall. These drive wheels are 6'8". Here's a wider shot to really give you a sense of how big these things were:
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Pacifics existed for one reason and one reason only, and that was to go fast. Some of them did mixed traffic (passenger and freight), and some even did freight, but they were designed for passenger work, and it shows in the wheels. Between the 1920s-1940s, Pacifics dominated express service in many places around the world, although as trains got longer and heavier, many railroads upgraded to the 4-6-4 Hudson, which was essentially a Pacific with two extra trailing wheels, allowing for a bigger firebox. Hudsons were heavier, but they could whip, too - the Milwaukee Road's Class F7 Hudsons rivaled Mallard for top speed (and may have surpassed her, but were never officially verified), and of course everyone recognizes the Dreyfuss Hudsons that pulled the 20th Century Limited starting in the late 1930s.
Some of my favorite examples of 4-6-2 Pacifics are, of course, Mallard herself, pictured above, the PRR's K4s (also sort of pictured above; I'm next to the drive wheels), and the CNJ's G3s, which pulled the Blue Comet between Jersey City and Atlantic City:
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They're just gorgeous, honestly.
tl;dr I am a ballast scorcher and like to go fast, and Pacifics are fast
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Blue Comet my beloved
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old-transport · 4 months
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BR loco No. 60031 'Golden Plover' @ Buchanan St. Stn. - Apr 1963
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BR loco No. 60031 'Golden Plover' @ Buchanan St. Stn. - Apr 1963 by Frederick McLean Via Flickr: An old amateur photograph of British Railways (BR) steam locomotive No. 60031 'Golden Plover' at Buchanan Street railway station, Glasgow, in Apr 1963. The station closed to passenger traffic in 1966 and was demolished the following year. The photo reverse is annotated with "Glasgow (Buch St) Stn. Eng No 60031 on 1.15 P.M. Dundee train. 6/4/63". There is no name, just indecipherable initials. Old/new overhead maps view:- maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16.5&lat=5... This was an N. Gresley designed Class A4, 4-6-2 engine, built at the Doncaster Works and new to London and North Eastern Railway (LNER) in Oct 1937 carrying No. 4497. In 1948 the railways were nationalised, becoming British Railways (BR), the engine becoming No. 60031 in Jun 1948. The locomotive was withdrawn from service in Oct 1965, then scrapped in the December at Campbells, Shieldhall, Glasgow. Buchanan Street railway station on Wikipedia:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buchanan_Street_railway_station LNER Class A4 on Wikipedia:- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4 If there are any errors in the above description please let me know. Thanks. 📷 Any photograph I post on Flickr is an original in my possession, nothing is ever copied/downloaded from another location. 📷 -------------------------------------------------
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lovelycleon · 1 month
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Leon's model through the years:
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reunitedinterlude · 3 months
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dab and evan through the years (2017 -> 2023)
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mokeonn · 11 months
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I am trying to decide what I want to draw today so I think I'm gonna make the Mane 6 in the sims and see where it goes from there
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Ah yes, the TmagP avatars:
guy who got peer pressured into eye removal by a building (i assume)
Incredibly talented artist… what will they do? Hurt people probably
Killed his wife, now he’s the garden
Violin player (evil)
73 million needles in a trench coat
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grootficguy · 8 months
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in the tags, post where you’re from and list the first animal that comes to your head for each of these:
1. animal associated with sleep
2. animal associated with singing
3. animal associated with jumping/bouncing/hopping
4. an animal that is cowardly
5. a wise animal
6. a cunning/sneaky animal
see my tags for examples of what i mean. i want to see what other people connote animals with.
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hazel-of-sodor · 5 months
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Presenting the A11 Pacific, a fictional Robinson Pacific.
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gmaxmeltdown · 5 months
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Kinda curious whats everyone’s first Pokémon game? Personally mine was Sun
If it’s a spin-off not listed specify in the reblogs what it was, also some fun additional questions:
Do you still play the games?
Are you still active in the fandom?
What starter did you pick from said game?
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apllecrash · 7 months
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erm, meow?
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thesh4rpestlives · 10 months
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his arms.
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supertrainstationh · 1 year
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Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (France) - PO 4-6-2 steam locomotive Nr. 4541 (Alco 42008 / 1908)
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Compagnie du chemin de fer de Paris à Orléans (France) - PO 4-6-2 steam locomotive Nr. 4541 (Alco 42008 / 1908) by Historical Railway Images Via Flickr: Builder's type 462C195 fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/231_PO_4501_%C3%A0_4600 www.steamlocomotive.com/locobase.php?country=France&w...
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