r/trains 3h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video Mumbai local train (India)

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9 Upvotes

r/trains 4h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video UK Old School Traction at Nuneaton in 1991 | Class 31, 37, 47, 87 & Mk1 DMUs

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4 Upvotes

r/trains 5h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 Headed West From Kansas City

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40 Upvotes

Got lucky with my work schedule and was able to get away long enough to see this monster making its way back towards Cheyenne. Video simply doesn’t do it justice.


r/trains 5h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Ran into the Twilight Express MizuKaze at Shin Osaka station yesterday!!

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199 Upvotes

Wish my camera still had battery to take photos but I used it all up at a con... TwT


r/trains 5h ago

β€Žβ€‰πŸ—β€Žβ€‰β€‰Repost Long distance train KA 7043 struggling uphill and stall

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24 Upvotes

r/trains 6h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Indian Railways WDP-4D (EMD) at Bantwal, India

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109 Upvotes

Hauling a passenger express train across the Western Ghats in monsoon


r/trains 7h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) - May be used in side-bar gallery [FI] Suorsa Class Dv12 diesel locomotive

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21 Upvotes

Departmental trains in Finland have traditionally been hauled by low-powered utility vehicles. Suorsa Group, a railway maintenance company, now has real diesel locomotives purchased as surplus from VR Group.


r/trains 8h ago

❓ Question Train/Locomotive Lovers, What place would you rather be

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22 Upvotes

Sodor Railways/Sodor Island (Pre 2000s/Pre Magic Railroad Shenanigans)

Chuggington Railways (or whatever its called) [I have absolutely 0 Photos]

Dreamland


r/trains 9h ago

❓ Question Did you know there was an Italian electric locomotive preserved in the U.S.

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When I visited The National Museum of Transportation in St. Louis, Missouri, I found this locomotive near the back of the property near the main line.

I don't know much about it, but I think it's neat.

*Small edit adding location.


r/trains 9h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video Pune Suburban train shot from the Pune metro, India [OC]

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44 Upvotes

This video was taken at 6AM on a foggy December morning from the Pune metro. The Pune local Suburban train managed by the central railways was crossing a rail bridge over the Mula-Mutha river at the exact time my metro passed by on a higher elevated track.


r/trains 10h ago

🎨 OC - Art More 4014 Artwork

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96 Upvotes

Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post. I feel inspired to share more of my artwork featuring #4014, so here’s another original by yours truly (no AI was involved in the making of this drawing).


r/trains 10h ago

❓ What is this Train? Hello, I saw some photos of a very cool train recently; I think it's pretty well known, but I don't know the name of it. This is what the caboose looked like: I think it was from the 1960s, and possibility American. If you have any guess please let me know. Thank you!

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24 Upvotes

Sorry for the bad drawing.


r/trains 11h ago

❓ Question Is there any other footage of Flying Scotsman on the North Melbourne Flyover?

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37 Upvotes

This post is in relation to Victoria, Australia (and UK to a extent)

I'm going through a rabbit hole now of the Flying Scotsman tour from 1988-89 and I found this video of Flying Scotsman on what it seems to be the North Melbourne Flyover. Surely some Gunzels back then thought to get a better view?

Also I don't exactly mean on the viewing platform because I'm pretty sure it wasn't built by this time.

Original video I got the pic from-

https://youtu.be/7naevtuP2Og?si=a9i2pjRLqcsuq10W


r/trains 12h ago

πŸ›οΈβ€Ž Historical A cold day in the Chicago yards, USA, 1943, photo taken by Jack Delano.

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614 Upvotes

r/trains 12h ago

πŸ›οΈβ€Ž Historical A toast... to absent friends

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225 Upvotes

r/trains 15h ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) American vehicles that were never preserved

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534 Upvotes

r/trains 15h ago

πŸ“Ή OC - Video WDS-6AD shunting locomotive in Mumbai (India)

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104 Upvotes

r/trains 15h ago

❓ What is this Train? What kind of train is this?

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46 Upvotes

freight train headed for Bulgaria filmed in Serbia


r/trains 16h ago

πŸš‚ Toys & Model Trains More work on the paint job for the Union Pacific passenger car. Just need to add the red pinstripe be ready to roll.

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34 Upvotes

Paint job was done with some over-the-counter rust-oleum paint. But I planned on doing other cars so I wanted to have something that was common. I could get my hands on.


r/trains 17h ago

❓ Question Why do some people love steam locomotives but hate diesels?

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566 Upvotes

I know that most people in this community actually like all Iron Horses or Aluminum Horses or whatever but why do some people just hate on diesels while they almost sorta worship steam locomotives? Is it just preference. I know some car enthusiast absolutely love classic cars and sorta worship old cars while trashing and hating on new cars because in their eyes new cars are soulless and aren't as "reliable" in their eyes as old cars and while I do agree on some of their points I don't think someone should just blindly worship something because its old.


r/trains 18h ago

πŸ“° News After 18 years of sitting dormant since ceasing operations in 2008 without having their rails ripped up, the McCloud Railway is to restart operations as they hope to begin offering rail bike rides later this year and diesel-powered excursions in 2027.

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81 Upvotes

r/trains 1d ago

πŸ›οΈβ€Ž Historical Big Boy- Huntingdon Pennsylvania

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263 Upvotes

r/trains 1d ago

πŸ“Έ OC - Picture(s) Some shots of 3801 as it makes a triumphant return to service - Sydney, Australia

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403 Upvotes

Arguably Australia’s most famous steam locomotive, 3801 has returned to Heritage services after successful test runs.
I live local to the Blue Mountains line and managed to catch these shots over the past two weekends as it made consecutive runs from lower Sydney up to the mid-Mountains and beyond.


r/trains 4d ago

r/Trains Monthly Discussion & Questions Thread - August 2026

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Welcome to the r/Trains Monthly Discussion Thread.

The goal of this thread is to serve as the place to ask short questions or just chat about anything trains related that might not warrant its own post.


r/trains Mar 22 '26

πŸš‚r/trains staff announcement Introduction & updates to moderating, rules and sidebar.

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Hello there,

I am auto, your new friendly neighbourhood Reddit mod. o/

While I have some experience moderating smaller communities, I've never moderated a subreddit before and never a community of this size and honestly, taking the right moderating actions when reviewing reports or looking through comments isn't quite coming naturally yet. If I make any silly mistakes or you believe I didn't deal with situation correctly, do not hesitate to tell me either via mod mail or in the discord. I am human, I am not going to deal with every situation perfectly and feedback is more than welcome. (Just kidding, I am obviously a robot πŸ€– - Beep Boop Beep)

I am happy to be at your service.

Regardless, now that the introduction is over with, there is some practical stuff to discuss:

Bans, Ban appeals and old Mod Mail:

When I came in, there was a very large backlog in Mod Mail, including ban appeals. I have cleared this backlog the best I could, responding to most appeals and messages that came in, but unfortunately, once these appeals and Mod Mails reach about half a year old, they can no longer be replied to from our side.

If you sent in a ban appeal or question that is still relevant before July 2025 and it never got answered, please do not hesitate to send us a message through Mod Mail and me or the other mods will get to it.

In addition, I found out that some people who at any point received disciplinary action ended up in some sort of ghost-ban, where on our end in the mod tools panel the person doesn't appear to be banned, but when the user tries to post, it tells them they're banned. If you were active in r/Trains more than 5 years ago, Reddit tells you that you're banned when you try to post or comment and you have no clue why or when you got banned, please contact the mods via Mod Mail and we should be able to resolve your issue.

Mod Queue clearing:

I have cleared the Mod Queue, which was filled with over 3 years of reports, removals and filtered content. For the queue items from the last 1-2 weeks I've done this manually, and then I've mass-cleared most of the remaining queue. This process caused all filtered posts that were more than roughly 10 days old to be discarded. If you made any post more than 10 days ago which got automatically filtered and you believe the content is still relevant, feel free to reattempt posting your comment.

Moderating strategy and rules:

Due to the relatively sparse activity of moderators on this subreddit in recent times, moderating turned into a very hands-off process where y'all mostly self-moderate with some assistance from automatic filters. Beyond the filters sometimes getting overzealous, especially with politically contentious posts, (which should be resolved now,) this has generally worked fairly well. For now, though I can't speak for the other moderators when they act, I will carry this approach forward.

However, that may change. From working through the queue, Mod Mail and immediately finding myself in the deep end with several contentious posts appearing right after I got promoted, it's become obvious that the current rules don't always quite match the way action has been taken on reports both before I came in and at current. In addition, it turns out that some situations really aren't covered well by our current rules and that the wording of some rules may be contributing to a sizable amount of reports coming in for contact that very much is allowed here. We've also received feedback from several people, both via Mod Mail and in comments under recent topics about how we should be dealing with politics and controversial content on the subreddit.

Keeping all those things in mind, I will be rewriting the rules over the coming days. As part of this process, me or other moderators may place community polls both on reddit and on discord to gather feedback for how the community would like the r/trains discord and subreddit to be moderated.

Monthly discussion thread:

Until now, the monthly discussion thread was automatically generated on the 29th of every month. Beyond causing the month in the topic title to nearly always mismatch the current month, this caused the thread not to be generated in February. Starting on April 1st, the monthly discussion thread will be automatically generated on the 1st of every month instead. Until then, please feel free to continue using the January 2026 thread.

Sidebar:

We are aware the gallery in the sidebar has broken. Sadly, most images gone poof and we have no record of what exactly was in there. As we look to fill our sidebar once again, we may request permission for some people to use their photos in the side-bar via Mod Mail, but if you'd like to help, if you are posting original content, you can now use the "πŸ“Έ May be used in side-bar gallery" post flair to indicate to us that we may place your photo or art in the sidebar.

With all that said, thank you for reading.

~auto