r/BitchImATrain • u/Fr33_load3r • 9d ago

Bitch I'm a dragon

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u/Latter_Race8954 9d ago

How are people supposed to breathe ?

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u/bootstrapping_lad 9d ago

Taking the game of "hold your breath through the tunnel" to new heights

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u/AyAyAyBamba_462 9d ago

This is a staged photo. The fireman is deliberately making way more smoke by adding more fuel to the fire or running the blower to create more draft. The fuel isn't fully burning like it would in a properly managed fire and is coming out thick and grey because of it.

Hyce has touched on this a few times in some of his videos. Steam trains in the US often do this purely because it makes for better photos and videos exactly like this clip here. When it's done properly you get an almost clear stack.

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u/Saint_The_Stig 8d ago

Especially for that engine there which is actually one of the last ones built in the US. It's got pretty advanced steam engine tech in it.

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u/Mediocre-Catch9580 9d ago

Now that is rolling coal

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u/Present_Composer6272 9d ago

Idk maybe a hot take but trains are badass

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

Very.

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u/hybridaaroncarroll 8d ago

For those interested, the 1309 locomotive is known as "Maryland Thunder". It's a 2-6-6-2 Mallet. She currently operates on the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad.

More info here: https://wmsr.com/our-locomotives/western-maryland-scenic-railroad-1309

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u/Auquaholic 9d ago

Yeah, that pretty badass looking.

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u/InflationDefiant2847 8d ago

Try and find something more manly than that!!!!

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u/GearJunkie82 8d ago

What a beautiful work of machinery

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u/Ok-Cap-8656 8d ago

I think Sheldon Cooper would have loved this video

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u/Kayiko_Okami 8d ago

Just don't go looking for Turbo Granny there.

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u/captainmidday 8d ago

This is how people in old movies used to have sex.

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u/psycholee 9d ago

Was expecting an actual dragon. Slightly disappointed.

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u/Appropriate-Cup-2693 8d ago

It's that only steam or combined with coal smoke?

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u/PCstockman 8d ago

Wow. That is a great video. I love the smoke, the power, the steam, the cloud.

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u/dukeofgibbon 7d ago

Steam cleaning the tunnel

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u/DudelyMcDuderson 7d ago

Very cool looking, but WHY are so many great train vids ruined by shooting portrait instead of landscape

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u/journey_mechanic 8d ago

That mountain is so pregnant

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u/BusterOpacks 9d ago

20 minutes after eating Taco Bell.

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u/millenialfalcon-_- 8d ago

Cheefing like an Indian.

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u/annapartlow 8d ago

It’s just steam, isn’t it? A steam train? Or no?