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i love being on train twitter. Strasburg Railroad's 475 crashed into an excavator. this is essentially the equivalent of running into a wall with a $100,000 vase.
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twitter is reacting as you might expect.
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#kips shitposts#strasburg railroad#n&w 475#lightbulb nose is inspired by moffitts art#bro it SHATTERED#i think we need the sir handel mask w bandages right about now
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475 Meme compilation 1/♾️
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The Strange Case of Replicas
Replica Engines are something the series has never directly touched on before to my knowledge. The only one ever encountered is Iron Duke, who I seem to recall the book treating as if he was the original? To me this raises an interesting question on what life is like for replicas.
Does Strasburg’s Thomas harbour resentment to the “real” Thomas due to the fact it’s lived it’s entire preserved life in his shadow? Or did the process of rebuilding somehow cause him to believe himself to BE Thomas?
How about Dummy Units? Surely they’d be aware they aren’t engines, but they’re built to act as Thomas and have no other identity from the moment they leave their factory. How do they see themselves?
What of Dave and Douglas? Dave’s been running as Thomas for as long as DoWT has existed, do you think he enjoys the attention? Does he wish to go back to being himself? Douglas hasn’t been able to play the role of No.10 for years now, but he’s not been rebuilt into his tank engine forme, and he’s still known as Douglas to all. How much of an Engine’s sense of self can be changed and influenced by the people they work with, or a rebuild?
Then there’s the engines once homed at Australia’s The Train Shed themepark. I personally subscribe to the idea that any engine big enough to carry people is alive, so what do they think? They’re fully operational engines build to be miniture replicas of Thomas, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and Mavis. Do they have the personalities of the real engines, are they different?
I don’t even want to touch on Nene Valley Thomas, this guy was directly named by Awdry he’s probably got all sorts of identity issues.
Thomas Jr. isn’t real and I refuse to think about him.
#ttte headcanon#ttte discussion#Rev W Awdry#The Railway Series#Thomas The Tank Engine#Thomas and Friends#Strasburg Railroad#Mid Hands Thomas#Mid Hants Railway#I hope this can spark some discussion
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Steam is beautiful :O
Also TIL #90 has blind center drivers (see first photo)
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Postcards from Snagglepuss
How nostalgic can a train ride get?
STRASBURG, PA: In its day, the Methuselah of Railroads, otherwise known as the Strasburg Railroad, was just another shortline railroad just managing to get by for its 4½ miles or so between Paradise, out by Lancaster, and Stroudsburg, a modest little Pennsylvania town in the Amish heartland. But in the late 1950's, its tracks gone to seed and losing money, it seemed as if it was about to be abandoned outright--until some entrepeneurs acquired the Strasburg Railroad and, as if being just another shortline wasn't enough, decided to take the experience full tilt, bringing back old-school steam locomotives as were otherwise being abandoned for diesel-electric power as was becoming the railroad standard.
Yet for some reason, the pull of old-school train rides (and no, not the kiddie sort as would have been around the Wonderland Zoo back when the Hair Bear Bunch were there) drove That Oh-So-Merry Chuckleberry and yours truly over to Paradise, Pennsylvania, close to Amtrak's Keystone Corridor (and rather intense electric passenger rail service), to so experience the genuine article of an old-school train ride.
A la the Strasburg Railroad. As in genuine steam power at the head end, a distinct-sounding whistle at the grade crossings, even coaches of old school design, restored with love and care even (though the rattan seating perhaps leaves something to be desired, the fact of which was noted to the conductor handling our coach ... who was rather surprised at our Funtastic little company and the fact of our being on a road trip).
Still, though, the gentle pacing of short-line steam powered excursion train passing through the Amish farming regions made for something rather exciting that even excited the otherwise excitable Magilla Gorilla and Wally Gator ... and to just appreciate the deep bass-toned bellow of the locomotive whistle as it approached the grade crossings with its long-long-short-long signal of warning to motorists.
Even if the speed was some 20 miles an hour.
And during the stopover in Strasburg itself ... Huck and I, over a sandwich at Cafe 1832, the Strasburg Railroad's cafe at their station, admitted a fondness for maybe treating the crew to some decent Amish/Mennonite-style cookery, local flavour even, especially that treacly-tasting confection of shoo-fly pie, something of an Amish speciality at dessert. One of the cafe staff offered to look us up some Amish-type cafes, but then noted that one of the local churches near Paradise (where our mobile bivouac was parked) was having a benefit supper featuring roast chicken-and-stuffing hot dish, vegetables, shoo fly pie and beverage; "might be worth a try for the real McCoy of Amish cookery" was what the clerk remarked.
So, on our return, trying to memorise the directions given us for that dinner led to quite a surprised look among many of the plain and simple Amish folk, whose fondness for homespun dress and basic colour practically surprised us all. Yours truly in particular ... and of the committee serving the dinner, were they surprised to learn that we had been referred by someone at the Strasburg Railroad when we asked about where we could get some classic Amish cuisine at its most basic. And to be surprised that shoo-fly pie was a sort of molasses crumb cake, treacly-tasting throughout ... Magilla Gorilla himself admitting that such wasn't exactly banana cream pie such as he was otherwise fond of.
I do have to admit, with Huck seconding the whole, that the chicken-and-stuffing hot dish, with lashings of chicken gravy over the whole, couldn't have been more interesting.
At any rate, folks, this could get to be rather interesting as the summer wears on ...
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#hanna barbera#fanfiction#fanfic#snagglepuss#huckleberry hound#postcards from snagglepuss#road trip#motorhome life#strasburg railroad#steam train#amish country#amish food#this could only get interesting#hannabarberaforever
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Update on the Strasburg 475 situation from facebook:
For those who haven't seen yet. The full post is also included in text format in the image description.
#strasburg railroad#norfolk and western 475#strasburg 475#strasburg 11/2#tl;dr the damage is apparently not as bad as it looks and they're saying they'll have her in steam again by next week#they also called the online speculation a 'lynch-mob' which is... a choice
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So I posted this on discord a couple days ago-
Basically I went to the Strasburg Railroad for the first time. AND I FREAKING MET 475 FOR THE FIRST TIME. LOOK AT THIS LAD GO. I was so freaking happy I got to meet them. I also got myself a DOTD book while I was at it too lol.
#475 steam locomotive#strasburg railroad#I LOVED IT!!!#Pictures#LOOK AT THEM#I want a model of them so bad#If I can I would post drawings about them too.
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Humanized Strasburg Railway
Canadian National 7312: a 0-6-0 Switcher engine girl. Known as their "little princess" by the other engines, Canadian National had fallen asleep after overworking herself on the Grand Trunk Railway; until she was saved from scrap. Now she works in Strasburg. She is bubbly, cheerful, girly, and excitable.
Great Western 90: a hefty Decapod class locomotive man. He carried sugar beets during World War II. The war had both emotionally and physically wounded him, leaving him with a scar on his eye. A true cowboy, proud of his Coloradan heritage.
Norfolk and Western 475: The only 4-8-0 loco boy operating in America! He is the oldest of the team. Lives an Amish lifestyle. A collision with an excavator left his eye with a lot of scars, but he's healing and still going strong!
Canadian National 89: Learned survival skills since the flood of Hurricane Agnes (when he was being sent from Green Mountain to Strasburg). He is nimble and quick-thinking. He says "Eh?" a lot. He loves his pancakes with maple syrup!
(I love these trains, and maybe I'll go there, some day, who knows)
#railfanning#strasburg railway#strasburg railroad#humanizations#humanoids#anthropomorphic locomotive#steam locomotive#heritage railway#real life#train art#tw war#tw scars
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Strasburg RR #475 by Jim Strain
Via Flickr:
1906 Baldwin 4-8-0 475 returns to Strasburg after its trip to Paradise; (233954)*
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The Holiday special gets a police escort.
Lancaster, PA
December 1966
#prr 1223#pennsylvania railroad 1223#src#strasburg rail road#prr#pennsylvania railroad#1966#trains#passenger train#history#lancaster#pennsylvania
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SRC 90 por TJ
Por Flickr:
Strasburg Rail Road's 2-10-0 number 90 simmers in the yard before starting up the day's tourist trains as the engineer inspects the side rods and the fireman converses with someone in the engine house.
#Strasburg Rail Road#Strasburg#PA#Steam locomotive#Great Western 90#Train#Railroad#Black and White#flickr
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There's been a... bit of an incident down at the Strasburg Railroad in the USA this afternoon.
I assure you that nobody was hurt but at least some people wish they had been. (or soon will be!)
I stole this from a discord server.
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(Not my clip)
Hope none of you were planning a strasburg trip anytime soon.
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Strasburg Railroad, Pennsylvania by Kevin B. Moore
#amish#door#pa#pennsylvania#railroad#rr#rural#spring#strasburg#trains#window#winter#antique#cars#vehicle#old#transportation#red#rail#flickr
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Postcards from Snagglepuss
Is it really THAT easy to set up a Zoom conference?
For a Jetsonesque technology like video conference calling, the Zoom programme, and its related technologies, seem to make it all so easy. Especially when that pandemic made the likes of Zoom all the more impreative as a vehicle of contact for all manner of organisations and schools to maintain contact.
And me and Huckleberry had to admit that, for a short-notice video conference call such as we were setting up from the swimming pool area of our Myrtle Beach motel on the motel's WiFi innerwebz access to discuss summer plans, such could be daunting. Especially when you want to make sure you've got the greater crew on board, that it's both of us appearing on the main screen to discuss and ask questions of, and the subject of the video conference is to discuss the likes of Character Convocation appearances over the spring and summer.
Yet you want to be relaxed and casual about it, especially when we opened the conference confab after checkin of The Usual Suspects, so to speak:
"Greetings and salutations from the Grand Strand, even!" saith I. "'Tis Snagglepuss--"
"--and I'm Huckleberry Hound," saith my companion.
"--and the purpose for this video confab, I will have you know, is to keep you on the beam as to what we have in mind for the next Character Convocations ahead."
Huck: "I assume you still understand about the cancellation a couple years back of what would have been a rather tasty convocation at the Pie Day in Braham, Minnesota because coronavirus ... but at any rate, we'll actually turn up there on August 4th this year, which is when Braham holds its Pie Day celebrations."
"And we certainly hope," added I, "many of you have designs on entering pies in competition. Which should certainly get to make things rather tasty!" Prompting Magilla Gorilla to remark that he might want to enter a banana cream pie in same, with Bingo from The Banana Splits adding that one such may likewise be entered by the band.
"At any rate, folks," Huck added, "it might not be a bad idea to get started on what sort of pies you want to make for this rather interesting sort of competition." Added I, "With much meet-and-greet in the bargain, even!"
"You can be certain about that!" is how Hair Bear responded, adding that the Hair Bears might have designs on berry-type pies with fresh wild berries picked as much by themselves as with such ursine love-interests they're likely to come across during their mating season road trip "up north," more or less. (Huckleberry Hound: "What could be a more interesting entry?")
After quite awhile of discussing likely Braham Pie Day entries, it was time to discuss more immediate plans in the Character Convocation arena in the months ahead: "The first weekend in May," Huck remarked, "will find us in Ocean City, Maryland."
To which Inch High, Private Eye, asked "What sort of mystery have we lined up there?" Replied I: "Springfest." Which had much the crowd rather stunned, during which I added that the whole will also see a meet-and-greet on the Ocean City Boardwalk.
"Not to mention," Huck added, "a Maryland-style crab dinner."
"Guaranteed to include plenty of Old Bay Seasoning."
"And as a matter of fact," Peter Potamus remarked, "our Travelling SCUBA Par-tay will prepare the whole--including the crab cakes!"
To which Huck responded, "How long must it have been since I had some especially tasty crabcake?" Then: "We hope to have further details in preparation soon, so watch your e-mail for them."
"To be followed," added I, "by a couple days up Wildwood, New Jersey way via the Cape May-Lewes Ferry, taking in especially the 'Doo-Wop' architectural stylings of that particular piece of the Jersey Shore."
Which had TC asking what else would be following, to which I added the Strasburg Rail Road out Pennsylvania way ("we're looking at chartering a car or two as part of one of their scheduled runs," Huck remarked), maybe some time in the Poconos ... and perhaps a couple of surprises segueing into Braham Pie Day.
At any rate, perhaps an interesting spring and summer taking shape.
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#hanna barbera#fanfiction#fanfic#snagglepuss#huckleberry hound#postcards from the road#on road trip#myrtle beach#video conferencing#zoom call#character convocation#upcoming events#ocean city springfest#strasburg railroad#braham pie day#hannabarberaforever
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