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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 3h

Nahhhhh

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 5h

On reflection I guess Gold Runner is sorta relevant to California, but they could’ve gone with something better

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 5h

A friend recommended Golden Gate since this service covers more of ATSF’s alignment

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punkitt ‼️💞 @punkitt.bsky.social · 1d

Hi! I wanted to showcase my friend Nader's campaign. He's a Palestinian in danger because of the occupation and survival resources have been extremely hard to secure. Here's the link to his campaign!
gofund.me/f28a59ca0

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 7h

Also kinda rare for national railroads to stick to just one paint scheme for long

But also we still have Bloody Noses and Warbonnets running in 2025, there will be plenty of variety for a while

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 17h

The fuck is that-

Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 2d

*s i g h*

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Stephanie Burgis @stephanieburgis.bsky.social · 2d

Awful and important.

Obviously we all need to fight against AI - but NOT by recklessly accusing each other without evidence. (This is the art-equivalent of those deluded people who think anyone who uses em-dashes - which I've overused for decades! - must somehow be using AI.)

uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 2d

I got accused of posting AI the other day because I posted a drawing that

1. Used a slight off-white instead of pure white
2. Had an “AI facial expression” (I have no idea what that means)
3. Had an “AI font” (it was my hand lettering, as it has appeared in my work for decades)

The Film Optimist @filmoptimist.blog · 2d

"This artwork has a yellow tint!" is the "This text uses em dashes!" of AI artwork -- artists have a long history of using it to add authenticity to images intended to evoke vintage imagery or to add mood or warmth to an image, but a bunch of people now think it's a sure "tell" of Generative AI.

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Joaquín Baldwin @joabaldwin.com · 2d

Just saw a very cool piece of art shared in a Discord server, and I wanted to share it too, but the link was to Twitter. So I found the same artist in bsky, and they haven't shared the piece here, so I ain't sharing that art after all. Artists: do better.

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · Jul 5

Love this Eco friendly message brought to you by Japanese Railways.

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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 2d

hard pill to swallow for some technologists/futurist tech fetishists out there that the most efficient, greenest form of land transportation was invented 200 years ago and it just keeps reinventing itself

Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · Jul 5

Love this Eco friendly message brought to you by Japanese Railways.

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Phineas @phineas.bsky.social · 2d

New awareness campaign

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 3d

Dammit now I can’t use “Slob a tailpipe” as an insult with these idiots

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Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Romance Author @autumnwolff.bsky.social · 3d

So... after what happened at the border today, Clover and I are essentially homeless.

I've got no choice but to change my GoFundMe while we look for housing. Anything you can spare will help.

www.gofundme.com/f/help-autum...

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 4d

Daaaaaamn you got that shit on 👏🏾

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metalheadrailfan 🔞 🎄🎅 @metalheadrailfan.bsky.social · 5d

🎵 And up in the smokey clouds
You can almost recognize
The ghost of a crazy engineer
With firey cinder eyes 🎵

Happy Halloween!! 👻🚂

#heyarnold

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 5d

My first thread here was about poppet valves if you’re curious

bsky.app/profile/rail...

Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · Nov 7

Let's talk about poppet valve steam locos
...and how Caprotti is a misleading description
(Thread/ALT text included)

Poppet valves are possibly the last core innovation to the conventional steam locomotive, following slide and piston valves, but they're MUCH older than you'd think

Simulation of PRR T1 5550 in the snow, render by Steve Harlow. To use Franklin (or FSSD) type B-2 valve gear, featuring rotary cam poppet valves.

Trainz model of new-build LNER P2 'Prince of Wales,' by user edh6. To be fitted with Lentz Rotary-Cam poppet valve gear with Franklin improvements. Note the fictional BR livery, bearing the number 60507

Preserved BR Standard Class 8P, 'Duke of Gloucester'
Fitted with British-Caprotti valve gear, a different version of rotary-cam poppet valve gear.

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 5d

for continuous high rpm compared to RC poppets.
>2/2

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 5d

The motion of OC poppets compared to piston valves made it fairly simple to convert existing locomotives. FSSD A/A1 gear also incorporates benefits of Young and Bulleid gear. Downside is equipment is harder to access for maintenance or repairs when required, and OC inherently is less suitable
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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 6d

That’s awful…I’m sorry

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 6d

Almost

Franklin A has oscillating cam poppet valve, evident by the rods around the crosshead. You could theoretically actuate the valves with regular Walschaerts or Baker gear; can’t do that with rotary cam

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 7d

Yay…but

Which way Eastern man?

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-4 showcasing “Franklin Type A” valve gear. Poppet valves actuated by oscillating cams

Chesapeake & Ohio 4-6-4 with “Franklin Type B” valve gear. Poppet valves actuated by rotary cams

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Bishop Arrow - Comics & Art @bishoparrow.bsky.social · 7d

Ontario Bill 60 an omnibus that gives the province more power over municipalities, removes tenant protections, makes it impossible to build new bike lanes, and more.

All this horrible stuff with a small handful of good things. Call and email your MPs to stop this bill.

www.ola.org/en/legislati...

A new section sets out situations in which a municipality shall not reduce or permit a reduction in the number of lanes that are available for use by motor vehicles and makes changes to the related regulation-making powers. Amendments are also made respecting the reimbursement of municipalities that provide support or information respecting the removal or reconfiguration of bicycle lanes required under the Act.

7. Subsection 209 (2) of the Act is amended to provide that the Board’s power to review decisions or orders is subject to any prescribed limitations or conditions. New subsection 209 (3) of the Act provides that a request to review a decision or order must be submitted within 15 days of the issuance of the decision or order, unless the Board considers it just and appropriate to extend that time in the circumstances.

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 7d

Pennsylvania T1
The tism runs DEEP for these

Photo of a Pennsylvania Railroad T1 in Chicago

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Prideful Niagara🌈 🏳️‍⚧️🔀 @railfangxy.bsky.social · 7d

post something random or no obligation to post anything November will be ok regardless

Photo of a Southern Pacific MM-3, a rare articulated for the railroad as it not a Cab Forward. Taken by Frank J. Peterson

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