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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Big Business with the Big Boy at Shafter, Nevada

A photograph, taken 2026-04-04, featuring a steam locomotive and train sitting on a railroad track in the northern Great Basin, Nevada. The locomotive, a compound 4-8-8-4 numbered 4014 built by the American Locomotive Company (ALCo), is Union Pacific’s flagship “Big Boy” locomotive. The engine pauses its excursion West for a maintenance stop in Shafter, Nevada — Shafter is a ghost town, and was formerly the junction between the Nevada Northern Railway and the Western Pacific; today, the NNRy interchanges here with Union Pacific. 4014 bears a black livery with a graphite smokebox and white lining picked out on the running board and wheel rims. A bronze statue of an American Bald Eagle is mounted atop the locomotive’s headlight, commemorating the American Semiquincentennial. Two flags mark the locomotive’s pilot — an American Flag, and the Nevada State Flag. Behind the locomotive is a train of Union Pacific armor yellow auxiliary tenders, two Union Pacific heritage locomotives, and several vintage Union Pacific passenger cars. Employees of the Union Pacific and Nevada Northern Railway alike swarm around the locomotive, inspecting and analyzing the motion and valves. The weather is bright and sunny, with a blue, cloudless sky above. In the far distance are a range of arid mountains.

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victoria scott @victoriascott.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

ATTN: the recent wave of new bluesky accounts. if you use the word “illegals” to refer to undocumented people I’m going to hit you with my car

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

Alternate reality in which Budd survived and we just kept making excellent equipment passengers would actually want to ride instead of mediocre equipment with seats that are too hard for long journeys and no food service.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

The Lone Ranger was already a little cartoony with its approach to late-19th Century rolling stock, so putting those cars behind the Constitution is brilliantly authentic to the movie! It looks great that way, especially with how they were weathered.

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sodor_modelmonger @rwsnwr12.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

chuggington rolling stock used in ways its not supposed to be >

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Sam Logan @samandfuzzy.com · 24/09/2025

Funny pages

This page depicts three comic strips in a stack. Each strip is a parody of a different classic newspaper comic strip. At the same time, the page shows my dog hero and cat mage characters chasing each other, from the bottom left to the top right. They run in and around the comic strips, interacting with their events.

The bottom comic is a parody of Calvin and Hobbes called Alvin and Dobbes. The cat climbs into Alvin's wagon as he rides it down a hill. Alvin asks if the cat ever feels out of place, like he belongs somewhere else? In the last panel, the wagon hits a rock and launches them both in the air, with the car launching up and out of the strip.

The middle comic is a parody of Blondie called Blondy. The Dagwood character is making a huge sandwich, and says all it needs is a hot dog. He reaches down and accidentally grabs the dog hero, lifting him up into the strip. The dog hero climbs up out of the strip by climbing up the sandwich, ruining it. The Dagwood character looks said and says he finally went too far.

The top comic is a parody of Rex Morgan MD called Rex Mason MD. In the first panel, the doctor asks a woman if she is still seeing tiny creatures. In the last panel, we see a close up of the woman screaming as the dog hero and cat mage climb up through the panel, before chasing each other off the page in the top right.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

I caught this one just in time today, right as the air lines were coming apart!

A photograph, taken 2025-09-20, featuring a locomotive and train sitting in a railroad yard in the Nevada High Desert. The locomotive, an SD-9R numbered 250, belongs to the Nevada Northern Railway Museum of Ely, Nevada. 250 wears a special red-white-and-blue livery, to commemorate the upcoming American Semiquincentennial; hence her number, “250”. Behind the locomotive are three brick-red ballast hopper cars, and an orange-yellow caboose. Further in the background are the coal and water towers of the East Ely yard complex, followed behind by a sagebrush-covered mountainside rising up from the valley floor.

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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 17/09/2025

Chiitan loves all transgender people. I've received a lot of criticism for expressing my support, but what's more important is that all transgender people live happy lives. Blue Sky cannot display long posts, so please read this post if you'd like. love you all 🤍 ↓ www.instagram.com/reel/C9qppva...

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Derek Powazek @fraying.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

You are under no obligation to mourn the death of people who would’ve celebrated yours.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

🎶 I can see a new horizon underneath the blazin' sky, I'll be where the eagle's flying higher and higher. Gonna be your man in motion, all I need's this pair of wheels, Take me where my future's lyin', St. Elmo's fire! 🎶

A photograph taken 2025-09-09, of an orange sunset over an orange caboose in a desert rail yard. The caboose, labeled “KENNECOTT”, sits at the end of a short train of rust-colored mineral hoppers, on a siding in the East Ely rail yard owned by the Nevada Northern Railway Museum. In the foreground before the caboose is an empty main line track, and in the background are the railway’s defunct water and coaling towers. The sunset paints the clouds with shades of blue, orange, yellow, and gray.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

He ❤️looooves❤️ me (he hates me but he let me take his picture)

A photograph of an orange tabby cat sitting “loafed” on top of the wood platform deck of a depot in East Ely, Nevada; behind the cat is a maroon box car owned by the Nevada Northern Railway Museum, with lettering stenciled in white reading, “N.N. 1024” and below, “capy. 8000”, “ld. lmt. 99500”, “lt. wt. 36500”, and “Boxes Repacked E.E.N.N.”

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

This slide is one of the handful of images that I discovered in the mid 2010's that helped cement the Alta-California Railway concept. This is a shot of a Ferrocarril Pacifico ALCO RSD-12 posing in front of the modernist depot in Nogales, MX.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

smdh damn fake bonnet fans, can’t even name three ATSF stations.

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dereksagehorn.bsky.social @dereksagehorn.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Theodore Judah respecting this weekend.

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bsquiklehausen @bsquiklehausen.com · 26/07/2025

This is a *huge* benefit of joining a model railroad club if you can - more books than we know what to do with at our club library in Richmond.

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sodor_modelmonger @rwsnwr12.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Sodor Cargo Co. Container Flats! Ive been wanting to make a container train for a while, so I decorated the cargo in homage to TWR

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sam³⁰⁰⁰ @samgavin.com · 20/07/2025

Sorry but personally if a miniature horse woke me up from anesthesia by banging out nonsense on a miniature keyboard it would send me into a liminal space between life and death from which I would never return

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WDTX 1402 @wdtx1402.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Did you know that Amtrak's standard rolling stock variant of Phase VII is the first railroad livery to insult the intelligence of the person viewing it?

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🏳️‍🌈Sir Welcome🏳️‍🌈 @sirwelcome2.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I remember when the working title of Day of the Diesels was Last Exit to Sodor.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Six months on from the premiere of “The Jury”, and I have a question hanging in my mind — in the CMCU, is this “Inspector” the same “Inspector” as from “The Runaway”? They bear a striking resemblance; is this superficial, or intentional?

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rust belt city enjoyer @rustbeltenjoyer.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I feel like a visigoth staring up at a Roman aqueduct

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Obligatory — Rowling is a dirty spineless TERF and deserves to rot in Hell where she belongs. I was not planning on watching the Potter streaming series, and this does not change anything. Mine is a minor grievance in the grand scheme of things, but… I can be mad at two things!

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

“Olton Hall” was selected by Chris Columbus mostly out of convenience — I love the Hall as the design for “Hogwarts Castle”, but the reboot should’ve been an opportunity to go all-in on historical accuracy (e.g. pick an 18th Century design), or all-in on fantasy (e.g. the Jim Kay illustrations)

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I love that they’ve really committed to the idea that, in 1830, the GWR designed a locomotive a hundred years more advanced than contemporary designs, builds it at their rival’s factory in Crewe, and only builds one. Said train is stolen, and nobody thinks to build more for a hundred years.

A screenshot from the Harry Potter Wikia page on Fandom, with the following text highlighted — “In 1830, the Ministry of Magic conducted a large-scale operation involving one hundred and sixty-seven Memory Charms, as well as the biggest Concealment Charm ever performed in Britain”

A screenshot of the Wikipedia article for the Great Western Railway’s “4900 Hall Class” locomotive, with the factory and build dates highlighted separately within red circles

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KorraDaTrainBuff @thelokrailfan.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

After hearing a really depressing story about a woman running a fox rescue program who took her own life a few days ago, I wanted to take a moment to share this: The National Suicide Hotline is 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Look after people you care about, it could make a huge difference for them

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I met a guy in Tehachapi who was staunchly anti post-merger SP Speed Lettering, dude was all-or-nothing SP Gothic — I didn’t have the heart to tell him I love the speed lettering more than anything

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MTA Metro-North Railroad @mtametronorth.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Introducing Locomotive 203! 🚇 The seventh addition to our heritage fleet, this locomotive pays tribute to the original Conrail dual-mode diesel-electric locomotives from the late 20th century, the first of which to sport the silver and blue "MTA Central" scheme. Stay tuned for further details.

A frontal view of Locomotive 203 outdoors, on a cloudy day.

A side view of Locomotive 203 outdoors, on a cloudy day. Many Metro-North employees are posed in front of it.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Steven Universe is a show about God negotiating with themself and discovering profound empathy for their creation by living amongst it, in doing so going through metaphorical death and resurrection. It's Jesus. Steven is Jesus. Deeply Catholic show. Right down to the confessional catharsis aspect.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Farmer Jim had me in hysterics every second he was on screen

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

“The Room” (2003) by Tommy Wiseau

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Interurban Era @interurbanera.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Things I enjoy most in transit oriented videos: ✅ Archival footage/photos ✅ Nice maps ✅ Multi-source research ✅ Synthesis of research into a relevant POV ✅ Behind the scenes insight ✅ If system still exists, fresh footage relevant to story ✅ Good pacing & sense of humor ✅ Ignites curiosity

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Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

In preparation for next week’s parade/demonstration, tanks are being moved into Washington, DC today. Unprecedented. (Photo from a colleague in DC)

Photograph of dozens of tanks on a train, next to I-295 in Washington, DC.

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OregonBeast83 @oregonbeast83.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Oh, you love your puppers? Tell me, did you spent years in the 19th century building a steam-powered time machine from a train just so you could go to the year 1985 primarily for the purpose of picking up your dog? Yeah, didn't think so. Emmett L. "Doc" Brown, greatest dog dad in history.

The Time Train scene from Back to the Future Part III.

Doc saying "After all, I had to come back for Einstein."

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🌈 Hailey Piper 🌈 @haileypiperfights.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

I sure do love KING KONG VS GODZILLA (1962), I mention for no particular reason

a screenshot from King Kong vs Godzilla (1962) where a Japanese official says "if we're lucky, both will die"

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cta @chicagocta.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

All aboard the 2025 Pride Train 🌈

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Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

The heartbreaking statement from Jonathan Joss’s husband about his death.

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

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Morgan 🚂 @spacemanfrompluto.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Yeah! But, that isn’t as alliterative as “trees” and “tracks” lmao

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