Apr 27, 2025
A bit of a random question, but do the engines have their own folklore separate from human urban legends?
"What do you mean? Like fairytales and such?"
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A bit of a random question, but do the engines have their own folklore separate from human urban legends?
"What do you mean? Like fairytales and such?"
Hold them gently...
Pretty, little beans out of their boxes for a moment. These are the most precious models I have.
Models of the UHB locomotives are super rare and hard to come across. By sheer luck I was offered to buy all three last summer. I am only missing Bjørkelangen to have a complete set (Urskog and Eidsverket were never produced sadly), but I am not as emotionally connected to him as I am to these three. These three are the ones I work with, fire and drive... They mean a lot to me.
Of course, the models being so small, they are not 100% accurate; the striping on Høland and Setskogen isn't right, but you can't get everything right in this tiny scale.
Prydz, do you like insects?
"I don't mind them. They bother the humans more than me. Some of them are kind of cute too. Like jumping spiders, bees and butterflies."
(Anon from earlier) You know, stories that allegedly happened to a friend-of-a-friend-of-a-friend about ghost trains, alien encounters on railways, railway cryptids, etc.
"No, I don't think we have any of those. We weren't that many engines on our railway back in the day. Five at a time. Seven in total through the years and only two are dead, so we don't have any ghosts or anything really. Maybe the ghost of an old mechanic named "Verksmester Engen", but he's human, and he bothers the humans working here more than us. In the museum era, none of the locomotives that is or have been here has passed away, so no ghosts there either. Well, I guess you can say Cumbersome passed away when he was repurposed into a snowplow, but it seems like his soul rests in peace, despite us literally pushing his corpse around in winter. Okay... that DOES sound a bit morbid now that I think of it... but we only think of it as a snowplow really. Also Bingsfos once thought there was a ghost on the neighbor railway though, but that just turned out to be Flirt, and HST running passengers on the Kongsvinger Line. I guess he can appear a bit spooky in the dark."
Are any of you guys a fan of Thomas the Tank Engine?
"Who??"
Humanized UHB family picture! This really captures their family dynamic really well!
From left to right: Odda, Granfos, Bingsfos, Høland, Prydz, Tinfos and Setskogen.
Drawn by the amazing Dilemmaart! Go give her lots of love!
Okay…. nevermind! i actually kinda prefer when Setskogen isn’t smiling, because the way she looks when she is smiling feels really unsettling!
"When she smiles it looks like she is plotting homicide, so... let's just be grateful she doesn't smile that often."
"That's just because you have never seen her real smiles. But those are reserved for those she loves, so nobody else gets to see them. Like a certain diesel... or Høland back in her younger days."