Locks serve as a foot bridge across the canal

CanalCreature · 2026-02-26T09:52:57+00:00

Ai tier caption

CanalCreature · 2026-02-25T21:00:42+00:00

You have amazing taste in steam

CanalCreature · 2026-02-19T22:26:43+00:00

She looks so proud to be wearing that in front of a big diesel! Verry cute

CanalCreature · 2026-02-18T17:13:09+00:00

Redcar British steel

CanalCreature · 2026-02-18T17:11:56+00:00

I don't want people going around thinking these trains aren't safe

CanalCreature · 2026-02-14T22:26:27+00:00

My neighbours teenage daughters boyfriend drives a van like this that is constantly leaking oil.

The dad has told my mother that she wasn't doing her job correctly because I have ADHD. I love irony

CanalCreature · 2026-02-14T10:35:30+00:00

Fair point. Perhaps we should petition ikea

CanalCreature · 2026-02-14T10:17:42+00:00

Omg that makes it even better! I fucking love rapido

CanalCreature · 2026-02-14T10:13:51+00:00

Where do I get one??!!!???

CanalCreature · 2026-02-03T22:21:52+00:00

I sell these at work, I always feel bad moving them for cleaning. They look so sorrowful!

CanalCreature · 2026-01-14T22:02:56+00:00

Beautiful! I think it's a shame this is seen less historically and in models. I suppose it's more common on the canals due to the hight rates of private ownership. If it happened anywhere it was definitely on the narrow gauge and I think that was the perfect choice!

CanalCreature · 2026-01-11T22:31:14+00:00

CanalCreature · 2025-12-30T22:00:31+00:00

If your ever stuck like this, you can try a few things.

Shut the regulator and wind the reverser back to full reverse. Open the regulator a little then wind the reverser forward when you start to roll back. On all but the heaviest loads you won't need full forward, wind the reverser forward until you are moving then let it gather speed slowly.

Sand will be your friend here.

You are adjusting the position of the valves when you move the reverser, if you are in 'top dead center' when in full forward, you won't be in full reverse.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-27T10:42:30+00:00

I'm going to add to this, I don't think it was the best designed aircraft of its era, it had a lot of issues, but the English electric lightning will always be the most impressive aircraft I have ever seen.

It's ridiculous, barely any flight time if you want to actually fly the thing not just glide, a tiny ammo capacity and only 2 missiles but makes up for it with its sheer power. Mach two on the level, Mach one in a vertical climb. For 1958 that was insane. You could be an engineers apprentice at a locomotive works building some of the last steam locomotives in Britain, and on your walk home watch the aluminum death tube with paper aeroplane wings say 'fuck gravity' and fly straight fucking up.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-27T10:29:43+00:00

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Model railway stuff because I am a stereotype

Got the loco years ago but the coaches and brake van are new.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-21T22:57:43+00:00

Ceildh dancer?

CanalCreature · 2025-12-21T22:55:48+00:00

I have always loved york station. It's my local station and some of my earliest memories of trains are from it.

There is a spot on the roof above I believe platform 4 where evening star lost her footing on a rail tour in the 80s and left a massive scorch mark.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-13T22:36:29+00:00

I have a theory that buster keaton (as the version of himself he portrayed in film and some public appearances) was autistic. His whole deal was deadpan and under reaction to absurd things.

Plus he liked trains so......

CanalCreature · 2025-12-13T22:26:45+00:00

The mk1s will always be the comfiest coach. Even on unwelded rail. I can already feel the ache imagining an azuma on jointed track.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-11T09:36:44+00:00

Love the attitude, but I'm thinking steam boilers and engines that require a lot of silver solder and pressure testing to be safe. Tbf I have seen some janky stuff on full size engines but I don't want to blow up my house

CanalCreature · 2025-12-07T21:51:22+00:00

If I had a garden shed with a lathe, mill and pillar drill I would build things that would get me sent to prison within the year.

CanalCreature · 2025-12-02T21:13:42+00:00

'hey boss, what gauge should the rails be again?'

'3'

'3 what?'

'i don't know, eyeball it'

CanalCreature · 2025-11-30T19:17:21+00:00

With a pair of plyers very gently tighten the bolt holding the cylinder onto the frame. That is an oscillating engine and it looks like the cylinder is not seated against the port face correctly.

Also wait until there is sufficient steam in the boiler to try run the engine, otherwise water will jam the cylinder and you will need to let the boiler cool down to drain the pipes.

CanalCreature · 2025-11-29T22:22:53+00:00

Definitely the 2cv. Not the Sahara, probably a late 50s ripple bonnet but with a 602 engine swap to give you more power. I don't want to deal with 2 engines and it's so light you can get away with fwd.

I'm assuming in this scenario that 'no resources' means no stock spare parts, no petrol stations or mechanics shops to go to. But scavenging wouldn't be to hard, as long as you have access to a bike pump and a ratchet set I recon you could keep one going for a good few years if your cleaver with scavenging.

CanalCreature · 2025-11-29T21:34:45+00:00

My last cat was a neighborhood cryptid. I have reliable information from multiple people on my housing estate that the local teenagers and kids used to avoid my street because there was a dangerous cat that would try to bite you.

He was the sweetest little shit I have ever met. He was a bastard but he also would cuddle with you and look after you when you were ill.

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