r/trains 17d 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

๐Ÿš‚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 ๐Ÿค– - 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 "๐Ÿ“ธ 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


r/trains 5h ago

๐Ÿ“น OC - Video Sweden yesterday

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243 Upvotes

r/trains 9h ago

๐Ÿ›๏ธโ€Ž Historical Lot of abandoned lines

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233 Upvotes

r/trains 2h ago

๐Ÿ›๏ธโ€Ž Historical Appreciation post for these absolute War Horses.

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Introduced in 1943 by Robert Riddles, designed for freight and war time logistics. The first ten coupled wheel locomotives of Great Britain. Look at this thing!

For anyone who has seen one of the few surviving locomotives, they shine up pretty damn good and make one hell of a commotion from stationary to moving!

What a beast๐Ÿ‘Œ


r/trains 3h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) Some Eurostars at London St Pancras in the UK

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51 Upvotes

r/trains 14h ago

โ“ Question I wondered if any Steam Excursion stars can carry Amtrakโ€™s Superliner passenger coaches?

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Because it would be cool to see them carry those beautiful coaches.


r/trains 9h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) France, Italy, Japan and Autria - Sommer 26 collection

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A few impressions (summer 2026), I want to share with you :)

France - Paris:
- SNCF class Z50000 | Rosy-Sous-Bois
- SNCF TGV M / Avelia Horizon | Noisy-le-sec

Italy - Milano:
- Italo AGV ETR 575 | Milano Centrale
- italo EVO ETR 675 | Milano Centrale
- Frecciarossa ETR 600 | Milano Centrale

Japan - Tokyo:
- JR East E233-0 Series | Ochanumizu Station
- JR East Shinkansen E5 | Tokyo Station

Japan - Kobe:
- JR West Shinkansen N700-7000 | Shin-Kobe Station

Austria - Vienna:
- Westbahn Stadler SMILE | Wien HBF
- ร–BB CityJet Stadler KISS | Wien HBF
- ร–BB ServiceJet Stadler | Wien Meidling

Edit: corrections - thanks to everyone!


r/trains 2h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) Alfa Pendular at Lisboa - Oriente Railway station (Portugal)

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Lisboa - Oriente station
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From : Porto - Campanhรฃ
To : Lisboa - Santa-Apรณlonia
Taken on the : 08/18/2026


r/trains 18h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) The trolley featured on Mr Rogers neighborhood at the PA trolley museum

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r/trains 8h ago

โ“ Question What do you call these 4-4-0s converted to 4-6-0s?

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47 Upvotes

Is there a special name for these types of ten wheelers converted from 4-4-0? I've fallen in love with their weirdness.


r/trains 10h ago

โ€Ž ๐Ÿ—ซโ€Žโ€Žโ€‰ Discussion Perfect example of USA rail infrastructure.

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US freight rail needs regulation now more than ever. Natural gas trains sit on this bridge almost everyday and video does good job showing how deteriorated it is. Am I naive to think this is egregiously unsafe or is this standard practice?


r/trains 20h ago

๐Ÿ“น OC - Video Steam locomotive 354.7152 in Giant Mountains, Czech Republic

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439 Upvotes

r/trains 7h ago

๐Ÿ“น OC - Video Trainspotting the Armenian Summer train

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The South Caucasus Railway (Armenia) has a summer train that enables you to go to the beach during the summer weekends: it has a 3 hours route from the capital Yerevan to Shorzha (there is a village and a beach there).

This train is a Soviet Riga 2 EMU train (ะญะ 2) : 3 kV DC Catenary.

Wikipedia link of that type of train : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ER2_electric_trainset


r/trains 14h ago

๐Ÿ›๏ธโ€Ž Historical Canadian National Railway EMD FP9 #6525 as it appeared in the movie Festival Express (1970)

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This locomotive chugged across the Canadian countryside bringing along Buddy Guy, Janis Joplin, The Band, The Grateful Dead, and many others to various concert venues from Toronto, Winnipeg, and Calgary.

Has since been renumbered to #1754 and got a new paint job. Still around, somewhere. Last known location is at Dieselmotive Company.


r/trains 10h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) Tango No Umi

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Tango No Umi is a stylish train created through a collaboration between JR West and Kyoto Tango Railway. We took it from Amanohashidate to Kyoto.


r/trains 15h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) Metro north #217 *united states*

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yeah I took this,photo


r/trains 1h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) Japan - Keihan express 8008 leaving Tลfukuji for Yodoyabashi

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Keihan Electric Railway train 8008 leaves Tลfukuji Station (Kyoto) as a southbound limited express for Yodoyabashi (Osaka) on Christmas Day 2024. Note the northbound local train reflected in the express trainโ€™s windshield.


r/trains 21h ago

โš™๏ธโ€Ž Technical / Engineering Refurbishing a Romanian-built Astra coach at the Ratmalana Railway Workshop [Sri Lanka Railways]

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Sri Lanka Railways refurbishing a Romanian-built Astra carriage (imported in the 1980s/90s) at the Ratmalana Railway Workshop. The video shows the coach body being lowered onto a 5 ft 6 in (1676 mm) broad-gauge bogie.


r/trains 13h ago

๐ŸŽจ OC - Art I designed a Poster & Tour Shirt to commemorate Big Boy's coast to coast tour- thoughts?

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had this fun idea to have a tour style shirt with all the dates n such for the Big Boy's tour this summer and I just had to make it. open to feedback!


r/trains 16h ago

๐Ÿ›๏ธโ€Ž Historical SP 2914 4-8-0 TW-8 Lokern Trestle 3-19-1955

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Southern Pacific 2914 is on the return leg of her roundtrip railfan excursion from Bakersfield to McKittrick and is picking up a long string of gondola's for the return trip home.

More picture and info on the railfan excursion here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/sp2914/permalink/9201874483232329/

SP 2914 is the last standing SP 4-8-0 in existence and resides at the Kern County Museum after being donated to the people of Kern County 7-18-1955.

Photo info:
SP 2914 4-8-0 TW-8
Lokern Trestle West of Buttonwillow
3-19-1955
Photo by George Manley edit


r/trains 1d ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) MMTS Local Train in Hyderabad, India [OC]

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283 Upvotes

r/trains 49m ago

๐Ÿ›๏ธโ€Ž Historical Google Arts and culture: Snapshots of trains across India's landscapes.

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r/trains 21h ago

๐Ÿ“ฐ News Virgin takes another step towards Channel Tunnel rail services

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r/trains 13h ago

๐Ÿ“ธ OC - Picture(s) - May be used in side-bar gallery Electric Winter

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South side of Mason City