Original Creator: Fallen Flag Fan
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SBB is well known for having driving cabs and/or locomotives halfway a train, as well as mixing single and double decker cars. This train in Olten featured all of above.

I hope that kind of question is allowed. This is a 3D render from the game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 by Carla Devéze (artstation page), and I was curious whether or not if this is a real train - I looked at French trains from the timeframe of the game (about 1880-1910) but couldn't find any equivalent, though admittedly my knowledge is limited.

And if it's not a real train, what would be the closest existing locomotive? Thanks in advance!

CSX’s Chessie System heritage unit made its first appearance in the Springfield, MO area today. This is the fourth CSX heritage unit I have caught (the other three are 1900, 1836 and 1875) and this one ranks near the top of my list out of the 21; however, it’s also probably the unit that pisses me off the most because it would look phenomenal if the entire locomotive was in the Chessie scheme rather than the cab being in regular CSX colors.

The Pm36-1 steam locomotive (Pablok 1937, "Beautiful Polka") is an aerodynamic express steam locomotive with a 2-3-1 axle arrangement (Pacifik), awarded a gold medal at the World Exhibition in Paris. Its aerodynamic, dark blue steel casing was developed at the Warsaw University of Technology, reducing air resistance by 30-40% and allowing it to reach a design speed of 140 km/h (142 km/h in tests). The streamlined casing covered the wheels and mechanisms to a height of 25 cm above the rail, and access was provided by sliding doors and shutters. The wedge-shaped driver's cabin was integrated into the boiler line, improving visibility. The 1,800 hp engine had a twin superheated steam engine, a boiler with a pressure of 18 atm, a heating area of ​​191 m², and a grate of 4.5 m². The overall length of the unit was 24.75 m, and the driving wheels had an impressive diameter of 2,000 mm (rolling wheels: front 1,000 mm, rear 1,200 mm). The locomotive itself weighed 88.4 t (empty) and 105.8 t in service, and with the type 32D36 tender (holding 32 m³ of water and 9 t of coal), its total weight was 167.3 t.

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For me, it's basically: What if the SP regained its footing and was never folded into Union Pacific?

Bought by an excursion railroad near me, WER or "Washington Eastern Railroad"

They use these units to service the grain silo nearby

The further back units are the old conrail units

7363 and 7320 while 538 is the Northfolk Southern U-Boat before it was bought by WER and maybe rebuilt because the nose isn't right for a U-Boat

Clip from "2010 Midwestern Review in HD"

Footage by Chris Wehman

Despite living in the US, I am excited by this. I've always wondered if this was possible, regardless of location. I know you have to meet some modern standards, especially if they run on the mainline, but this arrangement is possible in some places. If this is successful, the Keighley and Worth Valley or even the West Somerset could form a partnership like this. I think the Swanage Railway does operate the occasional commuter service, but I'm not sure. Regardless, I am hopeful that this works out.

My new job has me nearby a shunting yard. thankful to appreciate the scale of these things.

We shoved all the locomotives, box cars and the caboose Sunday evening to the NS yard in Spencer. NS picked them up Monday afternoon.

Hi there!

I’m getting more and more fond of historical mixed goods and passengers trains and looking for pictures and documentation about them, from all over the world (both historical and current).

This kind of trains doesn’t exist anymore in my country (France), but were common on small local lines. If I’m’correct, they still exist in Switzerland at least (on Rhb network).

As an example, here you have an A 80 D, built by the French manufacturer Établissements Billard (now defunct), which can often be seen towing small good trailers on the metric CFD lines (pictures here with a RM30 mail car).

So, if you have any knowledge, pictures or stories to share about such trains, I’ll be more than happy to see/read them!

Picture: Wikimedia/Didier Duforest (CC-SA)

Triangula D-TRG 60 80 99-01 501-8 Wohnschlafwagen (Begleiterwagen 662) am 25.5.2025 im Sächsischen Eisenbahnmuseum Bahnbetriebswerk Hilbersdorf in Chemnitz.

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I am working on a road builder / traffic management game called Traffic Architect. New districts keep appearing on the map by themselves - you never place one and you never zone anything - and everything you build is the network that has to reach them and carry what they generate. They fill your roads with cars until the roads choke, and trains are how you take that load back off.

A train carries far more people than a bus does, for less upkeep per seat, so one busy line does what a fleet of buses can't. Every line is set to carry passengers, freight, or both, and that choice turned out to be the most interesting thing in the whole system. Goods stops are slow. People walk on and off while the doors are open; a container has to be craned across, and the train stands there for it.

The catch is what a combined line is worth on paper. Nobody is assigned to a line here - every trip compares riding against driving and picks - and the estimate a rider goes on has to assume the long stop everywhere, because the line might get away with a short one but nobody can count on it. So declaring a line combined costs you commuters before a single crate turns up. The train itself only pays the long dwell where it really does goods work, but the schedule people plan around never knows that in advance. It's the honest price of keeping the option open, and it means a dedicated line beats a hedged one without any rule saying so. Going freight-only pays you back with a longer train, since a boxcar rake doesn't have to fit a platform.

Metro is underground, and it's passenger-only. You can't work goods through a tunnel station, so a line that touches one is locked to passengers until you take that stop out.

Changing trains costs time, and how much depends on the platform rather than on the station. Two lines standing at the same track is a step across, however grand the building around it. Two platforms means an underpass or a bridge. A hybrid station, with surface trains above and metro below, is the slowest, because you're going up or down. That time is priced in before anyone decides to travel, so a slow interchange can lose you a connection that looked fine on the map.

Level crossings included - the barriers close on where the train physically is rather than on a timer, and they only lift once the tail is clear. The part I like is that the car routing counts the expected barrier wait as a cost, so a road over a busy line becomes less attractive and traffic drifts onto the roads that don't cross it.

Coming to Steam this autumn, with a free demo before that: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5028050/Traffic_Architect/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=level_crossings&utm_content=trains

I caught BNSF 1660 (?) again on the Golden/Coors line in Colorado! I've seen it pretty much every day since a week or two ago, but I haven't gotten a video in a bit. Sorry for the potato quality, I might need to go down to the tracks and wait sometime. Anyway, 1660 was doing switching at the Coors logistic center on 44th pretty much all day.

I've simply took the diagram of a Class 745 FLIRT as a base then converted it into a 24 meter long conventinal bi mode unit.

I've moved the engines to each end of the train, seperate from the motor, A bit like the class 205/210, You can see the exhaust just above the side grill and made the roof more flush.

On the second image, theres a micro buffet and wheelchair space on the 5th carraige with the 6th being first class. while still maintaining low entry layout. There is a high possibility that Stadler could actually make similar to these for the UK, Stadler is one hell of a clever company after all.

The liveries and branding I've made my own version of GBR divided into sub brands.

Network Mainline

Regional Express

Transpennine Express

Recently came across train vhs tapes at goodwill and digitized this one by Japan railways. Thought it might be of interest.

This is the pre-war Lionel power station 840, seems pretty rare. I was doing some research before putting it on eBay but everything I found was from years ago. Any info from a current collector on value or back story as to why it’s so popular/rare would be greatly appreciated thanks