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', ‘foamer’ 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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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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#redandblacksteamonsouthernmetals(my Victorian Railways trains with faces AU)
#this is Sodor:the Iron Age (my humanised TTTE AU)
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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)
“All things pass into the night...
Goodbye Horses! I’m flying over you…”, Q Lazzarus
The name the “Age Of Iron/Iron Age” 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 ‘Golden Age of Steam’ being a well worn phrase, so the reference to the ‘Iron Age’ 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 60’s 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 isn’t 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 ‘K-class Country’, 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 ‘Heavy Harry’, Hudson R707 ‘City Of Melbourne’ (but here called ‘Cerberus’), A2 4-6-0 No 986 (in this universe, ‘Pluto’) 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 ‘cunt’ 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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Stanier took one look at Poor Henry and had to make at least one member of the Hatt family responsible for whatever the fuck happened here.
Also that phone call/ letter to the LNER must have been interesting, because they would have surely needed a copy of the final version of the A1's blue prints as a starting point.
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I don’t think Steam index is being actively updated anymore but ngl that’s fine because we get to see Railway Historians and the people they’re talking about at their cattiest
I feel Iike there’s been an effort in Wikipedia to clean up a lot of the vaguely unhinged claims made by railway historians. Like on one hand I’m grateful that Wikipedia is working to become an unbiased up to date source of accurate information. But like come on I do miss the brief amount of time where you could open Edward Thompsons Wiki page and find O.S Nock quotes that are borderline fighting words.
The crime Thompson committed? Rebuilding an LNER A1.
Reading through Steam index after reading a Wiki page is very much is like going from a BBC article to the bitchest tabloid ever, with the key difference being all the bitching is coming from 50+ year old men.
Examples include:
Like come on this is debatably gossip, debatably actual nonsense happening on the LNER. But ethier way it’s worth a read. 10/10
There’s absolutely more to be found both in the section about Thompson as well as the other CME’s but this post is long enough.
This has gotta be one of my favourite photos of Sir Nigel Gresley for a litany of reasons the first being the fact that its a fun rebuttal to the whole duck thing.
Like I'm not doubting that Gresleys own grandchildren knew him better than the wider world, what I will point out though is:
Gresley is hand feeding these ducks, Mallard specifically, birds tend to be a little skittish around people. Even ducks that are fed by the public regularly, but these ducks are actively taking food from his hands- they know him, this is a regular occurrence.
Equally its funny to me that
Gresley is doing this in a full suit, dress shoes and all
You can see his hat in the background, casually left on the grass,
Also what's presumably the family dog trying to figure out what's going on.
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i feel like too many people's response to the moral panic around horror movies or violent video games turning people into psychopaths who are obsessed with murder, is to instead claim that wholesome cozy media is actually evil and will turn your children into evil bluey adults, where as edgy media always results in mature adults who never harass women or minorities, which is ironically how i think we got the Modern True Crime fandom.
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“Searching for ways to attract passengers in the post-freeway era of dwindling train ridership, New York Central was investing in several projects, including high speed rail. One of the questions that hung over the prospect was the whether or not the existing rails could handle high speeds. To answer that question, they built a high speed train - on the cheap.
“The build came in the form of a US Air Force surplus General Electric J47-19 jet engines in a B36-H bomber engine pod planted on the roof of a modified Budd commuter car with a custom made, fitted cowling. On a high speed test run between in 1966 between Butler, IN and Stryker, OH, the M-497 reached a top speed of 183.681 mph - still the current high speed record for light rail in the United States.
“With the rails proven capable of high speed transit, the experimental was dismantled and the M497 returned to civilian duty as an NYC commuter car, running the route between Poughkeepsie and Harmon for Metro North where it live until its sale to Conrail in May 1976. In an undignified end, the car was cannibalized for parts in Dec. 1977 and scrapped by Metro-North in 1984.”
Photo taken circa 1966, from the collection of Nathan Vester. Quoted text above by Ben Wojdyla (source)
G'day I have a question: Any thoughts on the North Western Railway having a total of eighty locomotives? According to The Island of Sodor: It's People, History and Railways.
Speaking personally I just ignore it. I think it was a pointless thing to throw into the lore book that has done nothing but cause discourse and made people feel obligated to fill 80 slots with characters they don't like or care about for the sake of accuracy. When I'm writing I operate on a system called "Do I like you" and if I don't I don't use them. - Vivian
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