Locomotive Insanity: Murder on the BNSF Mixed Consist doesnt have the same ring to it

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Catzilla: May 12, 2003; "Untie the queen"

Robbie Coltrane looking at some steam loco's still in use in Zimbabwe (at least they were at the time of filming)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AdSCihFXgM

Check out the running repair at about 9:20.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2011 22:40

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 17:04

Catzilla: May 12, 2003; "Untie the queen"

echoplex posted:

It never really left us, although sadly a huge amount of our grand old stations were refurbed in our era of architectural malaise - Birmingham New Street is just one of the stations that was ruined. But the met line - where that train from the lorry was on - still has all it's glorious art deco (and nouveau on occasion) stations and fittings. When it was built it was all about social mobility (not even really a pun there) and it was very aspirational, and I love it. My local station is being decomissioned in a few years and I'd love to buy it... can't see that happening though.

Most of the buildings are different, in varying levels of grandness:

Other lines on the London Underground are much more get the gently caress in/get the gently caress out, which makes their stations less interesting.

One of those railway rarities where the infrastructure is more interesting than the trains themselves I guess.

This used to be my local station when I lived in London:

Look at that, a flying saucer in the middle of suburbia. Charles Holden :allears:

# ¿ May 28, 2012 01:17

Catzilla: May 12, 2003; "Untie the queen"

No Pun Intended posted:

Aren't the wagons meant to be sentient

Thats ok, they are just Untermenschen

# ¿ Sep 4, 2013 12:42

Catzilla: May 12, 2003; "Untie the queen"

BalloonFish posted:

Unsurprisingly the story series for kids about sentient talking trains written by a vicar gets weird when you start trying to apply logic to it.

That said... there's one of the later books where a traumatised Percy learns about how The Other Railway (BR) is replacing steam locos with diesels and electrics and how the steam engines are being cut up for scrap (with a suitably graphic illustration of a steam engine - with a face and everything - being advanced on by a workman with an oxycetalene torch. It always spooked me out as a kid).

So within the logic of the books it's the humans - the Controllers - who are deliberately massacring the steam locos in favour of other types on the grounds of efficiency. I'm sure there's a political thesis or two in picking the bones out of that!

Sodor's other GWR engine, Oliver, literally escaped BR - being chased and hunted by diesels as he hid in sidings while moving by night courtesy of sympathetic signalmen - and fled to Sodor with a GWR Autocoach and a Toad-type brake van. So it pretty literally is a reservation or sanctuary. The preserved steam railways in England are treated in a similar fashion.

True. I actually looked up the story rather than relying on a 25-year old memory (it's remarkable how strongly I remember them...but I read the books a lot as a kid) and you're right. Diesel's as big a jerk as anyone.

https://ttte.fandom.com/wiki/Scrapped_Engines for the picture. There is an engine in the background with a black hole for a face.

# ¿ Jul 4, 2020 14:31

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