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life-spire · 11 months
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charlesetal · 11 months
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Victor, Colorado — Midland Terminal Railway carriage 0258. This carriage may have been left here after her final journey in early 1949. It sits on the side of the mountain forlornly, as if waiting for the rails and her wheels to reappear and roll up to the platforms once more. But it never will. She will sit her until she falls into herself, a destiny she is well on her way to fulfilling.
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richwall101 · 1 year
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"Sliding Doors" - Italian Commuter Train
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unrealityliminal · 8 months
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majunju · 4 days
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scarabia aftermath
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escapismsworld · 1 year
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Train carriage from 1904, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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sugerconditioner · 8 months
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Hotel train rides with a bunch of friends, English breakfasts and books galore ♡
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doodlingbot · 2 years
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Ah yes, a single thread.
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boschintegral-photo · 11 months
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Local Train Passenger Carriage NCS B 119 (1904) Spoorwegmuseum (Railway Museum) Utrecht, Netherlands
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life-spire · 1 year
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moodboardmix · 1 year
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Orient Express’ “Presidential Suite’”
The presidential suite occupies an entire cart of the former Nostalgie-Istanbul-Orient-Express, measuring 69 feet long by nine feet wide, with a total square footage of 55 metres.
Maxime D’Angeac & Martin Darzacq for Orient Express
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do-you-have-a-flag · 1 year
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i'm bored and i'm going to bed, reblog and tag your un-ironic favourite pretentious interest and your un-ironic favourite cringe interest
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An introduction to VR passenger carriages, part 1: the blue carriages
In our next series of introducing our rolling stock, we will be looking at passenger carriages. I was actually thinking of doing multiple units next, but @hapotonradio requested I do the blue carriages and a lot of people seemed to like the idea so here we go.
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A Dr13-hauled train consisting of blue carriages arriving in Turku Harbour, 1995. Falk1, Wikimedia Commons
I can already hear foreigners (and non-rail enthusiast Finns too) going "what the hell are the blue carriages?" Well, the blue carriages were/are the first Finnish steel-bodied passenger carriages, with over 600 units (depending a bit on what you count as being actual blue carriages) of different types built between 1961 and 1986. Today, almost all of them have been retired. Which is a shame, because they were sexy.
The first 15 blue carriages were built by the West German Maschinenfabrik Esslingen, who also designed them, in 1961. This original batch were equipped with different types of boggies, from which the Minden-Deutz boggie was chosen for the eventual mass-produced series built in-house by the VR Pasila workshop starting from 1964 (Valmet also built a small number of carriages).
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A combined 1st and 2nd class carriage as built, 1964. At this point they still had steel covering the underbody from the sides. These hems were later removed to better display the arousing technical bits. Olavi Karasjoki, Suomen rautatiemuseo.
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President Kekkonen (the bald dude) visiting the above carriage. Olavi Karasjoki, Suomen rautatiemuseo.
The initial batch consisted of ten 2. class carriages (littera Eit), four combined 1. and 2. class coaches (lit. CEit) and one 1. class coach (lit. Cit). As you can maybe figure out, the -t at the end stood for teräs, steel, to distinguish from the old wood-bodied coaches. In addition to the regular first- and second-class coaches, the blue carriages' base design was adopted for restaurant cars (litteras Rbkt, Rt, Rkt and Rk), combined condutor's and luggage cars (lits. Fot, Efit and Efiti), sleepers (CEmt), aggregate cars to use on non-electrified tracks (Eifet), carriages with children's playrooms (ELht), postal carriages (Pot), military transport (Ems), prisoner transport (Nom), special carriages for the president and cabinet (A), and even a one-off disco carriage. The latter in particular fucked severely. All those sweaty bodies having it on inside a train...
Some sources also list the Eil-class local traffic coaches as blue carriages, but since they had some structural differences and were originally painted red rather than blue, I'm going to cover them in a separate entry.
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Interior of a 2nd class carriage. My photo
Over the quarter of a century the blue carriages were in production, numerous improvements were made to the original design; most notably, the original top service speed of 120 km/h was increased first to 140 km/h and then to 160 km/h in some units.
By the time the last blue carriages were delivered in 1986, their star was already waning. In 1988, the first new Intercity carriages (in a white and red IC delivery) were delivered, and Intercity trains replaced the blue-carriaged special express (erikoispikajuna) trains as the flagship product. With the arrival of the Intercity carriages, and the double-decker carriages from 1998 onwards, the blue carriages were phased out.
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Blue carriages at the Turku depot, an Eifet aggregate car repainted in the Intercity livery in the 1990s and CEmt sleepers (both carriages visible behind the Eifet; the sleepers have asymmetric window arrangements). My photo
Today, the only blue carriages still in use in the iconic original livery as sleepers in night trains to Lapland, and prison transport carriages. Some restaurant cars, aggregate cars and conductor's carriages still exist, but they have been repainted in the newer liveries. Several blue carriages have also been preserved by different instances and they're relatively commonly seen in heritage/museum trains these days.
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heckyeahponyscans · 8 months
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Truly baffled by people who think the Beast was transformed when he was 12, based on a rando lyric in "Be Your Guest."
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Wow, that is one tall, buff twelve year old! In plate mail, no less!
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This is literally what he looked like. Nearly identical to how he appears in the finale. He's probably been twenty years old for a decade. He lives in an enchanted castle.
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elkraincoatart · 3 months
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Doodles on the train whist the entire vehicle shakes
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retropopcult · 6 months
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Pennsylvania, 1905. "Lackawanna Railway station, Mount Pocono."
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