Show off your realistic AI railway images!

[Sun Chariot]

And then it was just our memory - do you remember walking between lines of railway vehicles on death row? It's the last chance to see them. As Marillion sang: "Do you remember? You never understood I had to go."

These compositions are inspired from visiting Crewe Works, Swindon Works, MC Metals (Glasgow) and Toton.
@Class15 see - image-compositions get very addictive!
@Cowley oooh, now that would be an epic 7mm layout.

Do you remember a time when people tipped? I dont remember ever getting this much though

Maybe she wants a portion of post 1,482's dish.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Accompanied by Vivian on the piano, Heidi gives a stunning rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera to a delighted group of passengers. Would they be as impressed if her twin sister Harriet sang Iron Maidens version?

 

[Sun Chariot]

Accompanied by Vivian on the piano, Heidi gives a stunning rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webbers The Phantom of the Opera to a delighted group of passengers. Would they be as impressed if her twin sister Harriet sang Iron Maidens version?

And as it's the final four hours for April's images-theme -

Do you remember a mid/latter 1980s Lucozade Advert, with Daley Thompson sprinting off the running-track blocks? Iron Maiden's Phantom of the Opera was used as the music.
Let's hope Heidi didn't scare the listeners off with Killers.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Do you remember a mid/latter 1980s Lucozade Advert, with Daley Thompson sprinting off the running-track blocks? Iron Maiden's Phantom of the Opera was used as the music.

Yes, I remember it well, I never thought of linking it with the thread.

 

[Topological]

Do you remember when you could have fun with stickers and signs? As the theme ends so does the story of the young academics...



At a delapidated seaside terminus, there is no distance left to run. The academic is going home. The memories of the 80s tour will stick long, but as the 1990s dawn, it is time to move on. Whether the suited man will provide a home for his former partner is unclear. The dreams of the executive livery, the classic blue and white, of the sanctuary from the storm, of staying too long in the kings head, of nights watching HST documentaries and staring at the vapour trails under the Westway will fade.

But was this the source of the vengeance of the pasty killer seen on this thread in January?

 

[Sun Chariot]

Yes, I remember it well, I never thought of linking it with the thread.

Brilliant T-shirt. My father was addicted to that darned HoC release....

Super images and "to be continued" back-story @Topological I wonder if Milford's young wags holidayed in Scunthorpe, or Penistone.

 

[Ashley Hill]

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Do you remember when you could have fun with stickers and signs? As the theme ends so does the story of the young academics...

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At a delapidated seaside terminus, there is no distance left to run. The academic is going home. The memories of the 80s tour will stick long, but as the 1990s dawn, it is time to move on. Whether the suited man will provide a home for his former partner is unclear. The dreams of the executive livery, the classic blue and white, of the sanctuary from the storm, of staying too long in the kings head, of nights watching HST documentaries and staring at the vapour trails under the Westway will fade.

But was this the source of the vengeance of the pasty killer seen on this thread in January?

Excellent play on words

 

[Sun Chariot]

Bare Bones - I recall the railway press covering construction of the class 58s; and Young Chariot was excited when brand new 58 002 scurried past along the south WCML.
This image is inspired by my visit to "The Plant", when the 58 production-line in full swing. Some AI wag here added a retro paint-job, before that 58 enters Doncaster Works' paint-shop. Those Ruston power units are a bit diminutive too!

Yes, I remember it well, I never thought of linking it with the thread.

Here, for our younger readers' benefit - and older readers' trip down memory-lane.

 

[Ashley Hill]

A day out at a model railway exhibition. "Wheres Wonder Woman?"asks Holly. Dave still doesn`t know about the superhero`s illicit rides around his layout.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Brilliant tie-in with Dave's T-shirt and model layout. I saw her [the class 55] on the cover of a magazine @Ashley Hill

 

[Ashley Hill]

The friendly branch line goods train.

 

[High Dyke]

One of the more colourful liveries of modern times.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Lovely images @Ashley Hill and @High Dyke That "alternatuve NSE" on the 159 arguably suits it better than the real version.

I bet that "friendly goods train" won't appear quite so friendly when the Clayton self combusts - at the same moment that the local "entrepeneurs" break into the vans, only to discover empty crates of Wonder Woman pasties and absence of Six Million Dollar Man produce.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Night time at a busy yard.

 

[Topological]

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Excellent

Particularly pleasing to note that reliability is so high that nothing is in the shed receiving maintenance.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Let's do the timewarp again - a latter-1970s north-west scene, when monastral blue Rats, Whistlers and Duffs still held firm.

 

[Topological]

Let's do the timewarp again - a mid-1970s northwest scene, when class 25s and 40s still held firm.

They really should not have bought those new padlocks.

New does not always mean progress.

 

[Sun Chariot]

They really should not have bought those new padlocks.

New does not always mean progress.

Ah but in there was BRSA* North West's plentiful stash of "literature"; and mutton chops chap gave some to his son, whom we saw a few years later in post 1473.

* British Rail Staff Association

 

[Ashley Hill]

The future has arrived. Its 1961 and GT3 has arrived on shed. Footplate crew and fitters give it the once over whilst Dave the outside foreman captures the moment for posterity.

 

[Topological]

The future has arrived. Its 1961 and GT3 has arrived on shed. Footplate crew and fitters give it the once over whilst Dave the outside foreman captures the moment for posterity.
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Is there truth in the rumour that this is how the notion of fixed units were the way forward developed. Here GT3 has come with a carriage.

 

[Ashley Hill]

Is there truth in the rumour that this is how the notion of fixed units were the way forward developed. Here GT3 has come with a carriage.

Its probably a Dynamometer car.
It does surprise me how far AI has come over time at re-creating locomotives. I remember some of the complete hybrids or stumpy locos that AI used to generate when requesting specific classes. I was surprised to get a near accurate GT3 first go. The only thing I had to change was the colour from green to maroon.

 

[Topological]

Ah but in there was BRSA* North West's plentiful stash of "literature"; and mutton chops chap gave some to his son, whom we saw a few years later in post 1473.

* British Rail Staff Association

First rule of magazine hiding is to put the magazines in a place which is difficult to find and, most importantly, is accessible when the need arises.

I fear the BRSA North West did not think this through.

 

[Sun Chariot]

The future has arrived. Its 1961 and GT3 has arrived on shed. Footplate crew and fitters give it the once over whilst Dave the outside foreman captures the moment for posterity.
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Stunning composition; and maroon suits much better than the real GT-3's russet colour.
Back in January, I tried getting AI renders of the Ivatt twins 10000 / 10001 and the Bulleid trio 10201 / 10202 / 10203. Gemini was having none of it. I'll try again over the coming few days.

First rule of magazine hiding is to put the magazines in a place which is difficult to find and, most importantly, is accessible when the need arises.

I fear the BRSA North West did not think this through.

I wonder if those are for his reading week

 

[Ashley Hill]

What if Iron Maiden ran a railtour?

 

[Topological]

Stunning composition; and maroon suits much better than the real GT-3's russet colour.
Back in January, I tried getting AI renders of the Ivatt twins 10000 / 10001 and the Bulleid trio 10201 / 10202 / 10203. Gemini was having none of it. I'll try again over the coming few days.


I wonder if those are for his reading week

Some have wondered what is inside these huts. I think it is only right to provide an image from the academics locker.



This particular example, from near Bacup, is slightly unusual in so far as they did add a glass panel above the wooden door. The view from the other side confirms:



In honour of @Ashley Hill excellent effort, the nameplate is a throw forward to the musical stylings of Sonia.

For those wondering the additional bars on the window are a hidden signal that the hut is indeed a libaray of adult literature and not just used for storing plate layers.

 

[Ashley Hill]

In honour of @Ashley Hill excellent effort, the nameplate is a throw forward to the musical stylings of Sonia

That Number of the Beast headboard was meant to be a nameplate on the side of the loco but Gemini put it on the front. I thought it looked good so reversed the colours and a railtour was born.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Brace yourself - North Wales coast, bracing wind, a brace of class 24s, then a pair of 25s. The rattling burbling racket of little Sulzers, competes with the wilds of Mother Nature.

Southern comfort - a crock of umber and cream is at the end of this Kent rainbow

...the nameplate is a throw forward to the musical stylings of Sonia.

Genius! I propose the class 93 be named after UK Eurovision song entries. Making Your Mind Up perhaps a dig at what is the class 93's target market...
Could be worse - Britney Spears' song If You Seek Amy on a nameplate. I'll let this thread's readership look that up.. .

 

[Ashley Hill]

Sunday lunchtimes with Dad.

 

[Topological]

 

[Sun Chariot]

Enjoy the ride.