I've been using Flighty (app for tracking flights im taking and such) for a while now and absolutely love it. I really like how it makes something fairly boring into a really nice experience, and it got me thinking that there should be something similar for trains or at least better than whats currently available

So l've started building Trackside. The idea is to have live train tracking, delays, platforms, journey details and history, but with some of the fun stuff too like keeping track of the trains you've travelled on and collecting all of the trains or smth like that hahah

It's still very early and mostly a test project at the moment, but I've put together a website with some screenshots of what I've got so far:

https://trackside-waitlist.vercel.app

If it sounds interesting, there's a waitlist on the site, just to gauge interest

P.S - currently only can track UK trains but might add support for other countries if enough people ask for it :)

MERICA!

V12 does a good job covering all sorts of presidential locomotives and the future of the railroad.

He emphasizes that politics is not the focus, but to hear the story of 4547 is fun and embraces the reason we enjoy the railroad as a whole

A DMIR class M4 “Yellowstone”, is depicted pulling a train of Iron Ore and along side is a road. The two cars along side the giant engine are both 1949 model year cars with the car to the left being a 1949 Chevrolet Fleetline and the car on the right being a 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan. As what’s said in the post title, the image takes place during 1950 so it’s within the time frame the Yellowstones were in service. I like Yellowstone locos. They are big and powerful and you know American loves big and powerful things just look at the cars we by and the cars our automakers make. Yellowstone locomotives truly represent America’s personality in my opinion.

VC: IG/_tryambkam

Saw a lot of power after lunch with family near Cumberland MD. Was curious if anyone knew roughly how much horsepower this train could pull?

On the morning of Monday September 7, 1885 Clint Eastwood, a stranger who first appeared in Hill Valley days earlier, defeated notorious outlaw Buford "Mad Dog" Tannen in a duel in front of the Palace Saloon. Eastwood was then seen leaving town with local blacksmith Emmett Brown. Schoolteacher Clara Clayton, who had just moved to the town, was also spotted leaving Hill Valley soon after.

Eastwood and Brown were next seen robbing the Central Pacific Railroad westbound train, which was led by locomotive 131. Unlike typical train robberies of the time, where passengers were stripped of valuables or the baggage/cargo cars were raided, Eastwood and Brown stole the locomotive itself for unknown reasons.

Locomotive 131 was switched onto a track leading to Shonash Ravine, where a bridge was being constructed. Eastwood and Brown proceeded in the locomotive and Clayton was witnessed chasing them on horseback. Because the next events occurred in an isolated area away from Hill Valley, the exact actions of Eastwood, Brown, and Clayton were unknown. The burnt remnants of locomotive 131 were later discovered in Shonash Ravine, having gone over the unfinished bridge.

Eastwood is assumed to have plummeted into the ravine with locomotive 131, perishing in its fiery crash. As a memorial to his death and heroic defeat over Tannen, the ravine was renamed Eastwood Ravine.

Totally historical and trustworthy sources:

https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Locomotive_131

https://backtothefuture.fandom.com/wiki/Shonash_Ravine

https://www.reddit.com/r/BacktotheFuture/comments/tzzgpc/possible_hill_valley_location/

If you know you know.😉

Or as we here in Bosnia call her "Kennedy* 😊

DL 1776 trailing 2nd in on NS 316, built as a MLW C630 for the British Colombia Railway as 707 in 1970, is spend slowly making it's return home after the 250 locomotive event over in Spencer, NC.

Hey guys I am trying to model the UP844 "Living Legend" and I looked through some videos and pictures, but couldn't find an answer to what colour these working Lights are supost to look like (side ones, under cab and over valve gear and wheels), a more orange coule, o cold white maybe (the same as the front lights?).

As well as the back lights for the Tender. Obviously the top red light is always on, when it moves foward, the middle one should be when it's in return, but what about the other lights?

I appreciate your input!

PS.: the photos are not mine!