#railfanning

[welldigger62]

An eastbound, headed towards the Flint yard

Here was an eastbound freight headed towards the Flint Michigan yard. After that I am not sure where it was heading. As you can see, all the train nuts were waiting for this one. There are more behind me, as you will see in the last pic.

This is one of the few places I know of where you can be this close to a moving train.

Being this close gives you an idea of how enormous these locomotives are.

It was an enjoyable day.

[collinthenychudson]

Some photos taken at the Douglas Railroad Interpretive Center in Douglas, Wyoming.

Taken on 06/16/2026

Pictures C) Me

[puppyn0waaa]

HAPPY NATIONAL TRAIN DAY!!!!!

this marks the day that the Golden Spike was placed in Promontory, Utah, marking the completion of the first transcontinental railroad!! Have fun, and stay safe!

[bristolthefurry]

I love that Rambley's a fellow railfan :D

[eggshe77y]

Starlight Express, IronDragon!AU ——

Okay but what if they’re dragons

Greaseball, and the Giants of Union Pacific.

This AU is exactly what it looks like. They’re big metal dragon robots.

(All but GB are ocs based on real trains.)

(in order of appearance;)

GREASEBALL, “Man’ O War” #844, “Stevie” the Centennial #6945, and “Big Boy” #4014.

LMK if you want more info on the AU!

[eethend]

red line train car 01757 is screaming today

[steelstyle]

Are you interested in Starlight Express and a railfan? Looking to join a discord server made for both? I may just have the server for you!

The Rails is mostly StEx based, but we have things for railfans and are open to suggestions for more railfan based channels!

WHAT EXACTLY DOES THE RAILS OFFER?

- Members get their own forum via the Members Yap channel, in which they can talk about anything aslong as it abides by the rules

- Vent & roleplay channel access roles

- Wonderful mod team!!

- Discussion forum with tags for productions of StEx, identification, railfanning, canon & oc discussion, brainstorming, and more!

- Channels for channel navigation, server information, faq, and tonetags!

faq is not yet done as we haven't gotten any questions. 💔 COME ASK US QUESTIONS !!!

- For roleplay, you can claim any character from any production you want! Even post-2018 and pre-2018 bochum! [ Includes characters off the lists :-) ]

-We have a channel for when mods can indicate to the community if theyre off or on duty for mod responsibilities

-We also have mod roles, that are explained in the notices (<- that are also visible to everyone), that indicate if the mod is able to deal with community problems, bot problems, roleplay problems, etc!

Silly channels! Such as 'dad-jokes-only' & 'positive-thoughts' :-)

Separate roleplay rules, announcements & map to make it more organized!

Petpet emojis for nearly every character! (also made it to where they are at the bottom of the emojis so members dont have to dig through the devil's ass crack to find certain emojis)

Plural, selfship & alterhuman friendly!

OC list channel where people can send their own message of how many ocs they have and who they belong to

fun bots!! such as OwO, Yggsdrasil, Akinator, TorD & MarriageBot! Again, were always open to more suggestions, such as bot suggestions!

Frequent Free4All rps where everyone and anyone could join!