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I'm Peach! This is my TTTE sideblog for fun engineposting and maybe art! Forewarning! I am an adult and I swear probably too much for my own good. If you don’t wish to interact for any of those reasons, that’s fine. c:

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It’s my birthday which means I can legally say whatever I want

THE PRIMARY REASON IT’S STUPID THE ENGINES IN THE NEW SERIES HAVE EYE COLORS THAT MATCH THEIR PAINT IS BECAUSE PAINT IS TEMPORARY.

BY THAT LOGIC, IF THEIR PAINT GETS SMUDGED, DO THEIR EYES CHANGE COLOR TOO? BLACK NOT ONLY LOOKS BETTER AND FITS THEIR ORIGINAL DESIGNS, BUT IT’S A NEUTRAL COLOR BECAUSE AN ENGINE COULD CHANGE ITS LIVERY ANYTIME.

IF THOMAS WAS IN HIS ORIGINAL GREEN LIVERY AND HAD BLUE EYES, WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? OR DO THEIR EYES ALWAYS MATCH THEIR LIVERY?

DO YOU SEE? AAGH! WHY DO I CARE ABOUT THIS?

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How we feelin' about this, steam team?

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Do trains ever think about us and how different we are from them? How we can’t just rebuild ourselves from scratch? I suppose a train has never had to consider immunity or bacteria from a place of genuine fear for its own mortality.

If we choose to see a train as a living thing, what values would they possess? We can agree punctuality, regime, structure, safety, speed, and strength are what a train would value most of all. These are principals to devote oneself to and they are good.

Adherence to these values give trains enrichment and joy. They are built to be what they would love most of all. They can be reborn again and again, their souls content to haunt whichever vessel they’re called into.

Passengers like us could only hope to live as long as an engine. Our hearts can only hold a finite amount of memories. Our cells can only divide so many times before they replicate into a terminal typhoon of tumors and we expire, leaving behind flesh, friends, and ghosts.

I wonder if a train remembers every passenger it has ever had? I wonder if they know that they are what they are because we could never be like them.

You are the last of your class. There will never be another you and no one can ever replicate you. Yet you are not on static display. You live in spite of the knowledge that you are one of a kind.

Maybe that’s why it feels sad to see a steam engine on display and not out on the rails where it belongs. We want to preserve them like we wish we could preserve ourselves, but we also want them to be free to live their purpose. Isn’t it funny how we’re the same but different?

I like to think that trains understand that they need to be on time because they know we have so little of it left.

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Anyway here's Gordon at the Shanghai Wonderfest Bachmann model railway. I'm not a good photographer, but I was on the scene capturing a brief glimpse for YOU.

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Artistic Defense of Trains

Trains are cool for many reasons. One of those reasons is that they inspire musicians to create music in their honor. Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that ANYONE can edit, says there are nearly 800 songs about trains. That is almost one song for nearly every citizen living (and abroad) in Vatican City WHICH HAS ITS OWN RAILWAY, MIND YOU. I think that's pretty cool. When the world train population was still strong and beautiful, humans sang for the trains as a way of appeasing them for their hard work and to quell their innate desire for human flesh. Don't worry about it! Meanwhile there are only 32 songs about traffic. Why? Because few who have been in traffic (too many of us!) want to revisit the experience by writing a song about it. Because. It's bad. Johnny Cash sang over a dozen songs about trains. Before you say he wrote about cars too, the train songs outnumber the car songs. He also sang 'Ridin' the Rails' ON a train and said everybody oughta ride a train. Are you going to argue with international treasure ghost Johnny Cash? Woe'd be unto you if you did. YOU were never on Columbo! Listen. Trains bring people together and so does music. Thank you, trains.

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viaduct :(

[theflyingkipper]

(werewolf ripping shirt off image) I FUCKING LOVE TRAINS

[theflyingkipper]

when they go beep and when they go BWAAA and when they go wooOOOOOOOOOOAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUHHH

I love! being in the carriages!! and you can hear the tack-tack. tack-tack. tack-tack going over the rails. yea eyaeyayeayeyae yaeyaeyaye

and I a;lso love The Presence. they are like horses they are so much bigger in person. I love when a steam engine's wheel is taller than you and the coupling rod needs 2 people to lift it.

RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

[damnea]

"Its pissin' down."

- Not Henry in 'One Track with Phonics'

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How Gordon really burst his safety valve

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pour one out for Edward

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TTTE Achillean Ships Poll Tournament

Second Round- Poll 2

Duncan/Peter Sam vs Diesel/Duck

Duncan/Peter Sam

Diesel/Duck

🍿- Can’t choose/Spectating

Voting ended onJun 24, 2025

[kayapostsstuff]

DUCK X DIESEL CMON YALL

[togetherness23]

"#i need those toxic gay men to win #they’re gay your honor"- @/kayapostsstuff

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Looking at comment sections regarding rail transit in the us is like choosing to open a box filled with plutonium and getting a face full of bone warping radiation.

How is a train a **luxury** but a car is a necessity? I SHOULDN’T NEED AN EXPENSIVE MACHINE I HAVE TO FEED AND CLEAN AND PAY INSURANCE ON TO GET AROUND!

That’s like saying friends are a luxury but dogs are a necessity. I gotta PAY for that dog! And feed it and get it medical care. The comforts it could bring me would be nice, but a human friend already does that AND I don’t need to fucking buy them flea medication!

People are so brain-dead it’s unreal. If we had regular, well-maintained trains with well-paid workers and drivers, we could rely on it for so much more. A beautiful, on-time railroad system would benefit everyone everywhere.

But America isn’t a country. It isn’t allowed to be a country. It’s a scam built on stolen land and unpaid taxes. It’s rapidly being turned into the business it was always meant to be and we voted for it. Awesome.

Trains are the heroes we need but don’t deserve.

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So yesterday I was in Suzhou with my friend and her family and we were camping by a lake when a helicopter passed over us. We were all kind of surprised and I was like, “Wow, it’s flying rather low, huh? Must be a commercial airbase nearby.”

Then my friend just came into work and she said, “I just found out something weird. Do you remember that helicopter we saw yesterday?”

“Yeah? The low-flying one?”

“I just found out it crashed.”

“NO WAY! The same one?”

“Yeah, because I checked the location and it was around the same time after we saw it and the same area.”

That’s fucked up right? What are the odds?

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Crazy how I can’t listen to Everybody Wants to Rule the World without thinking of steam engines now. It’s officially a train-centric song. You could play it from the perspective of a train, or from a conductor’s pov, or a railfan pov, third person omniscient, it just works!

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BoCo shows up at Brendam Docks in quite a few magazine stories!

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They turned him into an orb as punishment, but he’s okay with it

[alfea]

every pokemon is someone's favourite and i'm determined to find a person for every pokemon so please reblog this and tell me what your number one favourite pokemon of all time is