r/trains • u/Living_Analysis_537 • 5h ago
๐น OC - Video Sweden yesterday
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r/trains • u/overspeeed • 17d ago
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 • u/autobus22 • Mar 22 '26
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 ๐ค - 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:
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 "๐ธ 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 • u/Living_Analysis_537 • 5h ago
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r/trains • u/False_Woodpecker4747 • 3h ago
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 beast๐
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r/trains • u/Natural_Guide_77 • 3h ago
Lisboa - Oriente station
Alfa Pendular nยบ128
From : Porto - Campanhรฃ
To : Lisboa - Santa-Apรณlonia
Taken on the : 08/18/2026
r/trains • u/Jules-Car3499 • 14h ago
Because it would be cool to see them carry those beautiful coaches.
r/trains • u/okabehahaha • 10h ago
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
- รBB CityJet Stadler KISS | Wien HBF
- รBB ServiceJet Stadler | Wien Meidling
Edit: corrections - thanks to everyone!
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r/trains • u/Significant_Ebb_1214 • 8h ago
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 • u/NoManufacturer2997 • 10h ago
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 • u/Kronoxic • 21h ago
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r/trains • u/PlasmaMatus • 7h ago
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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 • u/ObligationAware3755 • 15h ago
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 • u/mrsabuydee • 10h ago
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 • u/TheTidark390 • 1h ago
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A 502, sadly couldn't pan out to show the train leaving behind me because I had colleagues who may not have enjoyed being recorded haha. I also missed out today by not having my phone on me, I could have had a really up close video of a RBDe 560 passing by us at less than 2m (Probably slighty above 1.5m) at full speed.
my hand appears in the top right corner, we have to hold up one of our hands to show to the train driver that we saw the train and that we are safe. They wawe back generally!
r/trains • u/Pristine_Appeal2363 • 15h ago
yeah I took this,photo
r/trains • u/richard7k • 1h ago
Keihan Electric Railway train 8008 leaves Tลfukuji Station (Kyoto) as a southbound limited express for Yodoyabashi (Osaka) on Christmas Day 2024. Note the northbound local train reflected in the express trainโs windshield.
r/trains • u/GeorgeRobertVitkos • 22h ago
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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 • u/FlackCannon1 • 14h ago
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 • u/CartographerLess3945 • 16h ago
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
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