#train nerd

[netscapenavigator-official]

Okay, but like, why did Nintendo make the Smug villagers in ACNH so unlikable when they were like this in ACNL??

[latenightillustrations]

BEHOLD! A 2-8-2 Jung wood burning steam locomotive from 1954 (serial number 11943) originally belonging to Brazil's largest steel company that now workson the Rio Grande do Sul railroad as part of the touristic atraction Wine Train, a railroad that passes throught the gaúcho countryside through the cities of Bento Gonçalves, Garibaldi and Carlos Barbosa and offers a stunning view, wine tasting and the best of all, live traditional gaúcho songs.

And I'm about to ride it 😈

TCHOO TCHOOOO MOTHERFUCKERS, Look at me goooo!

[modern-train-enthusiast]

From yesterday's trainspotting session :)

I love this spot

[sharknoseshenanigans1951]

Love that Clicky Clack sound

[shelandsorcery]

So far so good hey? #pleinairpril number 3 - a painting from a photo I took out the train window as I rode from, I believe, Portland to Chicago, back in 2010.

That was a fateful trip for me! I got my first taste of D&D then when we got stopped for a day behind a single derailed freight car and I decided to introduce myself to some folks setting up what looked like a board game in the dining car. Turned out they were designers bringing Dark Sun to GenCon, and were excited to let me join in and see a total newb play it. And from there I was hooked!

ANYWAYS - this piece is in gouache, and captures a particular still, hot, sunny moment from what ended up being almost four days on Amtrak.

[forestpines]

Today, I spotted: a house round the corner from me, with a house number sign that is a half-size replica of a Great Western Railway loco cabside number plate.

[nickthesteamengine]

Two model trains at the Blackhawk Museum completely stole the show for me today. There’s something magical about seeing these miniature engines frozen in time — every rivet, every panel, every tiny detail crafted with so much care.

One sits proudly like it’s ready to haul a century of stories across the country. The other feels more modern, sleek, almost humming with imagined motion. Standing there, you can’t help but picture the worlds they belong to — the tracks they’d follow, the passengers they’d carry, the landscapes they’d cross.

It’s wild how something so small can spark such big nostalgia.

[supertrainstationh]

Look at this.

I thought the whole point of puzzle maps for small children was to be an educational tool.

This is NOT educational, this is a flat out INCORRECT map.

If my parents got me this puzzle map of the NYC Subway as a child, I’d be left wondering why the A train doesn’t even extend across Jamaica Bay into the Rockaway Peninsula where I lived and grew up and lived less than 500 feet from the train tracks I could see out my living room window.

This is OFFICIALLY LICENSED too. Ugh.

Also, they include a bunch of fake letter bullets for lines that aren’t even used, and the H train bullet isn’t even blue, which I take PERSONAL offense to.