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Hi, I’m working on a fiction project set in a rebuilding society 100 years out. It’s fairly utopian so people are prioritizing restoring and improving train infrastructure and service pretty significantly. American cities have high speed rail connecting them, and because I’m building this story out of my daydreams, defunct...

Officially called CSMT, it was originally Bombay VT with VT = Victoria Terminus. Old Timers might still refer by the later name. It is possibly the single most grandest train station in India. This image does not do justice to it but I could not clock in a proper one....

Just for fun, a thought experiment, how much theoretically does it cost to build a commuter rail service? I’ve lived in a city that has thousands of cars commute to a close by city every day, about 30 miles away. It kills me that there is not an obvious commuter line between them....

dark tunnel train station...

I got the bottom bunk on the sleepy choochoo.

Soda locomotives saw very limited use, and though I’ve found some awesome photos and descriptions thanks to the research of enthusiasts online, I haven’t really found anything describing what exactly the process of draining the probably-boiling-hot caustic slop from the locomotive and refilling it with water and fresh...

Lying adjacent to the iconic Fairy Queen, this old engine tells the tale of an era long gone

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About halfway between Tokyo and Nagano....

Photoshop filter not included...

Siddy Holloway is doing a special I’d really like to watch, but it’s only on BBC2 from what I see. Will it be on a streaming service or anything?

From comment on anime series Shuumatsu Train Doko E Iku - Where is the Last Train Going?...

Sir Leslie Wilson was the governor of Bombay(now called Mumbai), hence it was named after him. The first electrified section, IIRC, in India was around ~1930 in then Bombay - Poona....

National Rail Museum, Delhi. The image is ~2 years old and in the scorching summer sun, I never added/recorded the name/extra information about these old locos.

This is the world’s oldest working steam loco still in operation. Taken onto tracks couple of times a year this is kept 70 kms westwards of Delhi, the Indian national capital

MG once almost comprising a third of India’s railways, is now fast becoming an ancient relic with barely a few heritage routes surviving. Most MG routes were diesel based here with few exceptions. This loco belongs to the latter subgroup.

Final image from my collection of Rail Museum, Delhi. I didn’t knew the Metadata of the associated image since I took them 2+ years ago (read:details), so had to look up on Arts and Culture.

Standing in the scorching sun, just me and the loco....

I am not sure if it’s on meter or Narrow Gauge. The image is ~2 years old and I neglected to note the specifications.

I took the image in 2016 with a shitty handycam, hence the poor quality....

Used by the British in pre Independence era, now kept as a showpiece in National Rail Museum, Delhi

Now decommissioned of course, this stands as a relic outside a railway station as a fragment of the gone era