r/trains 6h ago

❓ Question I was watching this steam tractor at a tractor pull, and got to thinking - why wasn't the American West set ablaze, like it easily is now, by the embers of coal/wood -fired steam locomotives?

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r/trains 4h ago

⚙️‎ Technical / Engineering Train car maintenance

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Use to do tankard maintenance, they come in about every 10 years I believe for repairs

If yall have any curiosity/questions cause I know I did when I started working here, on what breaks on these things or what being inside one of those tanks are like💔

Sorry if this is not the right place to post this


r/trains 21h ago

‎ 🗐‎  Repost Vande Bharat gliding across the vast white expanse of India’s largest inland salt lake.

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VC: IG/_tryambkam


r/trains 3h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) New to this sub, want to share pics

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I live in a town where the mainline of the Reading Railroad once ran through. The tracks that exist are now NS. The ones that don’t exist are now paved trails for bikers, runners, walkers. The Chester Valley line ran directly behind our house, which is now a grown in train bed.

One of the big notable landmarks near me is Abrams Yard. I took an interest in it after moving in and hearing the NS engines blaring their horns before departing. Since then, we have visited the Reading Heritage Museum and the Steamtown Museum. Both absolutely incredible experiences. I wanted to share pics and gain some insight if anyone wants to add any info on what I’m sharing!


r/trains 12h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Union Pacific’s Golden Spike Tower

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Some photos visiting the Golden Spike Tower in North Platte, NE.


r/trains 2h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) - May be used in side-bar gallery Baldwin Locomotive Works 0-6-0 #26 leads an excursion past the old Delaware, Lackawanna & Western tower at Mattes Street as it heads out of Scranton, Pennsylvania during Steamtown's Railfest '26 on September 5th, 2026.

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r/trains 13h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Don’t know much about trains, how rare is this find in Olean, NY?

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r/trains 36m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) - May be used in side-bar gallery An A-B-A set of Delaware, Lackawanna & Western F3s sit out behind the DL&W's Scranton shops, looking like it's 1956. Except, the F3As are ex-Bangor & Aroostook, the "F3B' is an ex-Boston & Maine F7B, the shops are now part of Steamtown, and it's September 5th, 2026.

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r/trains 3h ago

🎨 OC - Art British Rail class 800 but in Amtrak livery.

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MERICA!


r/trains 9h ago

❓ Question What do you think about Triplex locomotive

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r/trains 22m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) A highpoint of my Japan visit

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r/trains 23m ago

📰 News Sad sight in Hawaii this morning

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Two 1941 porters have been scrapped it’s the end of the Lahaina kaanapali and pacific railroad


r/trains 15h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Hitachi 8FA-36C in Bangkok while it dark and raining (Thailand)

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r/trains 20m ago

🏛️‎ Historical Happy 82nd Birthday to Nickel Plate Road 765! Left from the Lima Locomotive Works on September 8th 1944.

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r/trains 18h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) I sure am gonna miss the P32S and 42s when they’re gone

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don’t get me wrong I like the new Chargers that Metro North and Amtrak are using, but they just don’t have the same diesel rumble and cool look to them.


r/trains 37m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Through the Sand Pile

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Union Pacific 1342 passes Bonny Doon Beach in Davenport, California on its way back to Watsonville Junction, California. January 2008.

Canon Powershot A520.


r/trains 1d ago

🤣‎ Meme / Humour After I turned 12 it would happen randomly at the absolute worst times

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r/trains 10h ago

❓ Question Colour of working Light for the UP844

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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!


r/trains 25m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) 【OC】Waiting at a Japanese railroad crossing (Fumikiri) during the day.

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A quiet, sunny day at a Japanese train crossing. Always loved the classic look of these local spots.


r/trains 17h ago

📹 OC - Video Midwest Central Railroad Mount Pleasant Iowa.

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#9 Shay from West Side Lumber Co. with Pickering Lumber Co. marking instead for some odd reason. Maria (their oldest engine #6) wasn't running sadly when I recorded this.


r/trains 9m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Metra F40PH departing from the north side of Union Station

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Metra F40PH-3 no. 120, the City of Woodstock unit, leads an outbound train on one of two of the Milwaukee District lines, bound for the suburbs. This photo was significant because at the time that this photo was taken, F40's were still working on the Milwaukee and North Central Districts. A few years after I took this photo, the SD70MACH's arrived, and took over on the North Concourse routes, becoming the new predominant power on the MD-North, MD-West, and North Central routes.

Photo taken on July 1st, 2019

Pro


r/trains 44m ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) CSR Qishuyan

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5113 at Udon Thani, Thailand 🇹🇭


r/trains 21h ago

📹 OC - Video Steam locomotive 99 3312-8 under steam after repairs following a collision with a car in April 2025

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r/trains 14h ago

📸 OC - Picture(s) Trains of Northtown train yard 9/7/26

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Also caught my first H1 standard cab leader and heritage unit leader


r/trains 22h ago

‎ 🗐‎  Repost Mumbai Metro covered in advertisement for the upcoming Wolverine game!

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