Incredibly cool photos of trains

[Teddy Lop]

FourWheelDrift said:

1929 Schienenzeppelin

"The train now approaching platform 1 is the 8:30 express to Berlin, please stand back from the platform edge, no really stand back"

wow

Why would you use a fan though? Surely driven wheels is more efficient?

[Polite M135 driver]

These are all photos of cool trains and not cool photos of trains?

[CanAm]

Simpo Two said:

Interesting that the American train looks like a classic piece of art deco desgn, whilst the British train looks like an ordinary train with a metal case on...!

That's actually what they both were!

[Hereward]

I took these pics in Tokyo a few years ago. Returning to the UK and commuting on Southern from Surrey to London on the strike-riddled, stale-smelling, dull as ditchwater services took a bit of getting used to. Note the glove and cap wearing driver saluting from the green train.

[Flying Phil]

Fascinated to read that the driving wheels of the locomotive in the OP were lit up - so "running lights" are not a more modern chavvy "thing"

[Equilibrium25]

Cool railroad (train!) photos? You can do worse than google the work of O Winston Link in 1950s USA. Setting the railroad within the country of the time - drive throughs, street railways etc. He used complex lighting rigs iirc, to get his unique style.

I don't know how to post pics, here is wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link

[lufbramatt]

SilverHarrier said:

Was on my way to get some Transit parts from a breakers a few months back, definitely wasn't expecting to see this parked up!

On it's way to the old Hornby hobbies warehouse in Margate which is now full of 1:1 scale trains

[Yertis]

Hereward said:

I took these pics in Tokyo a few years ago. Returning to the UK and commuting on Southern from Surrey to London on the strike-riddled, stale-smelling, dull as ditchwater services took a bit of getting used to. Note the glove and cap wearing driver saluting from the green train.

No doubt super-efficient etc, however I think those trains are very ugly.

[lufbramatt]

Isn't the weird shape all to do with controlling the shock wave as they enter tunnels?

[Polite M135 driver]

It’s to make them look more phallic

My favourite Japanese train is the one with round portholes for windows. Saw it at Osaka airport.

[Tony1963]

Equilibrium25 said:

Cool railroad (train!) photos? You can do worse than google the work of O Winston Link in 1950s USA. Setting the railroad within the country of the time - drive throughs, street railways etc. He used complex lighting rigs iirc, to get his unique style.

I don't know how to post pics, here is wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link

I've one of his books. Some iconic photos, that's for sure.

[lufbramatt]

Polite M135 driver said:

It’s to make them look more phallic

My favourite Japanese train is the one with round portholes for windows. Saw it at Osaka airport.

Well the entering tunnels idea still stands, nature always knows best.

[rs1952]

Tony1963 said:

Equilibrium25 said:

Cool railroad (train!) photos? You can do worse than google the work of O Winston Link in 1950s USA. Setting the railroad within the country of the time - drive throughs, street railways etc. He used complex lighting rigs iirc, to get his unique style.

I don't know how to post pics, here is wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link

I've one of his books. Some iconic photos, that's for sure.

Just do an image search on Google for O Winston Link. Some very impressive results.

As an aside, I watched a documentary a few years ago where he came out of retirement to do one last staged shot. At the end of it his flash array failed to go off... Ho hum...

[Yertis]

Tony1963 said:

Equilibrium25 said:

Cool railroad (train!) photos? You can do worse than google the work of O Winston Link in 1950s USA. Setting the railroad within the country of the time - drive throughs, street railways etc. He used complex lighting rigs iirc, to get his unique style.

I don't know how to post pics, here is wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link

I've one of his books. Some iconic photos, that's for sure.

[Shakermaker]

Yertis said:

If nothing else, the original photo there is going to the "Tenuous and Obscure Simpsons" facebook page that i follow, see if anyone gets it. I'll have to admit having never seen the photo before but of course I've seen the episode!

[5150]

Simpo Two said:

Isn't the gauge the same?

Love these nerdy retorts!

[Yertis]

5150 said:

Love these nerdy retorts!

"An incredibly cool photo of a train" – what else did you expect?

[pavarotti1980]

[superlightr]

chelsea9899 said:

I didn't see a stickied post for incredibly cool photos of trains.

This one is, I believe, from the 30's. I'm afraid I've forgotten the model of train but it, to me, is sublime.

Enjoy!

that's amazing !!! Thanks for posting - I never knew such a thing ever existed. Its a beauty !

[TartanPaint]

Colourised version I found on google.



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_(train)