Hello all, I am Engineer GunzelPunk. Pronouns They/Them. By my name, I'm an Australian railfan (a ''Gunzel" is a Australian term for a railfan used a lot in Victoria; it used to mean something similar in implication to 'otaku', βfoamerβ or even "Queer" in the LGBT sense, but it's changed a bit since then), and think way too much about trains and the Railway Series/TTTE. Here is where I will dump all my odd train thoughts, art (OCs, redraws and other things), some videos and generally engage in nostalgia.
I simp really hard for Henry, the green Black Five. If there is a bit of an excess of Henry content, that is the reason why. I also simp for Victorian Railways locomotives. I do not apologize.
I may also indulge in a bit of TTTE AU (human-This Is Sodor: The Age of Iron)/ Red and Black Steam On Southern Metals (Victorian Railways RWS/TTTE AU/Extended Universe)/headcanoning from time to time.
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I will tag all "adult" topics appropriately for the benefit of everyone, as there will be some topics discussed on my blog such as death, funeral culture and its associated practices, criminality, obscure and bizarre magical philosophies or other such things that may offend or trigger.
Some of my fiction is spoken in my native tongue (liberal use of the word "cunt" will be the least of it). It will offend or be incomprehensible.
There may be gore, violence or drug references.
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#henrycore (anything that evokes my Spooky Henry OC aesthetically; music, fashion, tastes etc)
#Harrycore(anything that evokes my OC Heavy Harry aesthetically)
#redandblacksteamonsouthernmetals(my Victorian Railways trains with faces AU)
#this is Sodor:the Iron Age (my humanised TTTE AU)
#cw gore
#cw violence
#cw suggestive
#cw language
#cw drug use
#cw alcohol use
This blog is LGBTQIA+ allied. NO APOLOGIES. All in the Queer community are welcome at Casa D'GunzelPunk.
It should go without saying but I'm going to anyway... NO TERFS, NO SWERFS, NO FASCISTS.
I don't want to single out Ace/Aros but all sexual/suggestive content will be marked for your convenience, if you wish to proceed.
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Now with all that out of the way, I shall introduce my GunzelVerse under the cut:
This Is Sodor: Iron Age (Gunzelverse human/transformation AU/EU branch)
βAll things pass into the night...
Goodbye Horses! Iβm flying over youβ¦β, Q Lazzarus
The name the βAge Of Iron/Iron Ageβ is supposed to evoke the Ages of Metal in Classical thought, with the Golden Age being the best and the age of Iron the absolute nadir, a Dark Age. (Such phraseology is used in steam enthusiast culture with the term βGolden Age of Steamβ being a well worn phrase, so the reference to the βIron Ageβ is a darkly ironic answer to that.)
It's grimly ironic considering the primary metal that steam locomotives are made of and the fact that during the Lokodammerung ("Twilight of The Locomotives", my term for the mass locomotive scrappings during the Beeching Axe/Operation Phoenix), they were being reduced to this base component.
Given as the AU occurs during that particular Dark Age for locomotives, the 60βs and early 70s, I thought it would only be appropriate as a subtitle for it.
The locos when they become humanised start becoming wise to humans, what it is to be human and messing about with subcultures in vogue at the time (in Britain; Mods, Teddies, Rockers, Skinheads, Greasers, Hippies, Punks, etc, and in Australia; the Mods, Sharpies, Bodgies and Widgies etc.), for them its a second sort of adolescence where new info, new sensations flood their conciousness, new modes of being... and a potent new weapon in their survival against the scrappings.
#GunzelVerse# This Is Sodor: Iron Age#ttte humanisation#ttte gijinka#thomasallgrownup
Red And Black Steam On Southern Metals (Victorian Railways AU/EU)
The Island Of Sodor isnβt the only place with non-faceless vehicles.
On the other side of the world, on a railway network the size of Great Britain and every Victorian human is no more then 25 kms away from a railway line; the steam locomotives of the Victorian Railways live and work.
They breathe and suffer and love like humans; from Newport Works where many locomotives were built, to the notorious soot-caked North Melbourne Loco Depot and the 1-30 slopes of the high country at Cudgewa, known as βK-class Countryβ, and the ever stylish Spirit of Progress and The Overland; when the Oz version of the Beeching Axe and Lokodammerung strike their Broad Gauge fiefdom, their world is upended forever.
And the survivors must carry on as best they can.
This is an Extended/Alternative Universe existing parallel with the Island of Sodor and overlapping with This is Sodor: Iron Age, though the sweep of time is longer. It will feature humanisation.
The 'Red and Black' of the title refers to two common liveries, black for goods work, red for passenger work during the active days of the VR (with plenty of variation such as the blue and gold "Spirit of Progress" livery of the S-class Pacifics).
It will feature OCs of mine based on real life locomotives like VR Pocono H220 βHeavy Harryβ, Hudson R707 βCity Of Melbourneβ (but here called βCerberusβ), A2 4-6-0 No 986 (in this universe, βPlutoβ) and others. And there will be some reference to real life personages.
These are fictional representations of locos and humans and no comment is to be inferred from them, or offense intended in their depiction.
There will be very heavy coarse language (like I said in my intro, the word βcuntβ being used will be the least of it) and adult themes, and be written in the Australian vernacular.
A lot of it will jump time as the mood takes me. They will be dated if possible.
OC Profiles below:
VR A2 4-6-0 No 986 "Spirit of Warrigul" aka "Pluto"
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VR H-Class Pocono H220 "Heavy Harry"
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Letβs say you wanted to glue fabric to wood, but what do you use? What about glass to paper? This to ThatΒ lets you choose two things you want to glue and lists what types of glue is best. (Because people have a need to glue things to other things!)
This is one of the first websites I was told about in props. It also has information about the toxicity, adhere time, price, and other stuff about the glues.
Talk to One Nation supporters to figure out why they want to vote for them and the underlying issues that they care about and then figure out how to get them to see that One Nation is not the solution to those problems and they're being tricked into thinking One Nation could ever solve those issues.
On this day 15 years ago, 18 June 2011: Brand new X'Trapolis body shell sitting on the wharf at Appleton Dock after being unloaded from a ship. Along with an array of brand new cars that were loaded on the same roll-on/roll-off carrier https://railgallery.wongm.com/page/on-this-day?date=2026-06-18
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On this day, 17 June 1971, construction workers in New South Wales initiated a "green ban", refusing to build luxury houses over Kelly's Bush, the last open space in a suburb.
Local women had been campaigning to save the park, and eventually they approached construction workers and their union, the Builders Labourers Federation (BLF). The workers agreed to boycott the work, in a move which became known as a "green ban".
Despite a management threat to use scab replacement workers, the builders and residents won, and Kelly's Bush remains an open public reserve today.
A wave of green bans subsequently began which stopped billions of dollars of harmful development over the next four years. Wildlife and historic buildings were protected, as well as working-class and Aboriginal housing, and bans also took place in defence of women's and LGBT+ rights.
We tell the inspiring story of the green bans in our podcast episodes 47-48: https://workingclasshistory.com/2020/10/30/e47-48-green-bans/
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Friday 15 May 2026 - R707 ready to lead the 707 Operations 'The Riverlander' special out of Southern Cross Station. Plus 82 more new photos in the 707 Operations - The Riverlander May 2026, Commercialising commuters, Track, rail and sleepers, Preserved and heritage carriages, V/Line workshops, yards and shunting, V/Line bits and pieces, Melbourne suburban passenger information displays, V/Line carriage platform strikes, V/Line at Southern Cross Station, Southern Cross Station, Southern Cross Station escalator upgrades, Protective Services Officers, Melbourne rail replacement bus signage, Failing infrastructure at Southern Cross Station, V/Line - Regional Rail Link, Comeng train scrapping, Metro Trains Melbourne - Metro Tunnel, Failing rail infrastructure of Melbourne, Southern Shorthaul Railroad Apex train, Melbourne Airport Rail, HG Corporate Buses, Kinetic Melbourne, Melbourne suburban bits and pieces, McIntyre Loop, Qube Logistics Apex quarry train, Metro Trains Melbourne - Northern group, Metro Trains Melbourne - inner suburban, CDC Victoria West - Wyndham Depot, Metro Tunnel portal works at South Kensington and Free Victorian public transport 2026 albums https://railgallery.wongm.com/page/archive/2026-05-15/
On this day 10 years ago, 15 June 2016: A departing train triggers colour distortion on the CRT monitors at Box Hill station. Also note 'Cranbourne' burnt into the screen - recycled from the concourse at a City Loop station https://railgallery.wongm.com/page/on-this-day?date=2026-06-15
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I love this so much! Also it triggered a memory and I spent far longer than I want to admit trying to find this 2002(ish) pic from Aussie cartoonist Judy Horacek
i did a bit of digging and found that some bloke named Simon Brooke used the OP's joke as his email signature at least as early as March 14th, 1995 according to this quoted text. it takes a while to find a preserved copy of something Simon said but here's an example from mid-96:
