AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

[Sun Chariot]

ALT TEXT: Musicians crowded into the bus seat carriage of a Class 142 pacer on the Hope Valley Line

Is it my eyes, or do the standing passengers look more than a little riled at losing seats to a bunch of folkies...

 

[Topological]

Is it my eyes, or do the standing passengers look more than a little riled at losing seats to a bunch of folkies...

IF Northern had painted "Folk Express" on the outside, things may have been different...

 

[pdeaves]

a dog with two bottoms

That presumably is why three of the women seated in the foreground seem to give it an uneasy look.

 

[Sun Chariot]

That presumably is why three of the women seated in the foreground seem to give it an uneasy look.

The only saving grace is that it lacks any mouth to scoff the vegetable peelings or the crate of beers. Cue the old joke:
My dog's got no nose.
How does it smell?
TERRIBLE!

 

[pdeaves]

Coal shortages bite hard for heritage railways

 

[Omnidekkalover]

How I love a good ride on the cycle powered BBSPAIVB MOEIWAWG especially when I get locomotive 580B

 

[Ben Anslow]

Got chat gpt to do a northern class 195 got the cab spot on near enough

 

[Sun Chariot]

Halloween is exactly four weeks away. So is it too early for tacky cheesy AI images?

 

[Bevan Price]

Back in 2023, I mentioned AI imaging in this forum. This is what I got when I asked for "British Class 37 diesel loco with Mark 1 coaches. Obviously better AI software is now available.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Those AI images are fabulous @Bevan Price
I particularly like the "Hunslet industrial diesel shunter mating with a steam locomotive".

Yes, class 37s are closer to "plausible" and I've attached two examples from the thread Show off your realistic AI railway images

 

[Polarbear]

Back in 2023, I mentioned AI imaging in this forum. This is what I got when I asked for "British Class 37 diesel loco with Mark 1 coaches. Obviously better AI software is now available.

The front end of the middle picture looks uncannily like a Blue Pullman!

 

[Sun Chariot]

I really must stop thinking about dessert...

 

[Topological]

I really must stop thinking about dessert...

This might be the most realistic picture yet.

I am curious to know the marketing strategy behind the chicken, but for once the trackwork seems right, there are no half loco half carriages etc.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I am curious to know the marketing strategy behind the chicken

Oriental Chicken followed by 1970s dessert.

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The food theme continues.
I always had a wicked thought when I saw this slogan, on the Chiltern Line bridge over the M25. Now I can bring it to life..

 

[Topological]

Oriental Chicken followed by 1970s dessert.

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The food theme continues.
I always had a wicked thought when I saw this slogan, on the Chiltern Line bridge over the M25. Now I can bring it to life..

Those peas stand no chance at all against that 156 turbostar hybrid. Maybe telling Chiltern to stop their turbostar derivatives running over peas that escaped their pods was the whole point of the graffiti.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Those peas stand no chance at all against that 156 turbostar hybrid. Maybe telling Chiltern to stop their turbostar derivatives running over peas that escaped their pods was the whole point of the graffiti.

I now need to think of a custard pie into cab front related image...

 

[Masbroughlad]

When the 185s are used by WCRC!

 

[Sun Chariot]

Yesterday evening, following my wife's and son's complaints about my flatulence, I couldn't resist doing these
1) Anti superhero special power
2) An inflight cabin toilet escape

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Since Google's recent update to Gemini AI image generation, not only has image resolution deteriorated but the reference data no longer renders any UK locomotive realistically.
However, these "not class 56" locomotives look impressive - despite a wholly inaccurate representation.

 

[Topological]

Yesterday evening, following my wife's and son's complaints about my flatulence, I couldn't resist doing these
1) Anti superhero special power
2) An inflight cabin toilet escape

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Since Google's recent update to Gemini AI image generation, not only has image resolution deteriorated but the reference data no longer renders  any UK llocomotive realistically.
However, these "not class 56" locomotives look impressive - despite a wholly inaccurate representation.

Is the role of the two ladies in the photos to use those tools to get the locos looking like a proper 56?

 

[Horizon22]

I'd have to say that for AI, producing an image of the front-end / cab of a train on the railway is probably one of the easier things it can do. Simply because there doesn't need to be much background, the cab can be done and extrapolated, rails and ballast are pretty straightforward so all it needs to be is 'on' them.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Is the role of the two ladies in the photos to use those tools to get the locos looking like a proper 56?

I should have added more power tools into my descriptive input!

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I'd have to say that for AI, producing an image of the front-end / cab of a train on the railway is probably one of the easier things it can do. Simply because there doesn't need to be much background, the cab can be done and extrapolated, rails and ballast are pretty straightforward so all it needs to be is 'on' them.

I'm inclined to agree; the attached "head on" shot, which I did in the summer, to me feels convincing. Ditto post 460's class 37 in snow.

 

[sprinterguy]

Yesterday evening, following my wife's and son's complaints about my flatulence, I couldn't resist doing these
1) Anti superhero special power

Perhaps drawing inspiration from Macclesfield's "Mr Methane", possibly Britain's only performing flatulist. There's a railway connection there as he was also a BR train driver on the Bury line (pre-Metrolink) before finding his, errmm, true calling.

 

[chrisjo]

Gemini's attempt at a speed record...

 

[Sun Chariot]

Gemini's attempt at a speed record...

Meanwhile, on the other side of La Manche, the speed record attempt by SNCF using one inner rail of each track.
With no OHLE contact point, I can only assume the train got a hefty shove at the start.
Let's hope Gemini puts the train on a correct track eventually...

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Even stranger goings on now...

 

[JKF]

However, these "not class 56" locomotives look impressive - despite a wholly inaccurate representation.

Seeing pictures of some of these fictitious locos generated by AI reminds me of my own schooldays creations, probably on the inside cover of an old maths book, of things like a Class 34 or a Class 49, usually with too many grills and windows because they had to look exciting.

I wonder if AI could ‘blend’ locos to create fictitious classes, like a class 34 blending/incorporating features from a 33 and a Hymek, say 3 windows, a head code box and southern jumper cables. Could be a bit like that thing where two human faces would be merged.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I wonder if AI could ‘blend’ locos to create fictitious classes, like a class 34 blending/incorporating features from a 33 and a Hymek, say 3 windows, a head code box and southern jumper cables.

A few choice descriptive inputs to Google Gemini, for "British Rail diesel locomotive" + class 50 + class 47 + Hymek. It only has a limited amount of reference data, so its results vary.

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Strange goings on in Kenya. Whilst creating a composition (link below), Google Gemini spotted a worryingly unhealthy locomotive; so AI algorithms uncoupled it from its train. The flamingoes aren't remotely bothered...

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Feel a bit for the men in the well electrified first picture, surely they struggle to see the TGV from that perspective. Their yellow 2CV probably wasn't as well maintained as their red one; so they only made it partway down the lane but then had to bail out before reaching the higher vantage...

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Class15]

A few choice descriptive inputs to Google Gemini, for "British Rail diesel locomotive" + class 50 + class 47 + Hymek. It only has a limited amount of reference data, so its results vary.

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Strange goings on in Kenya. Whilst creating a composition (link below), Google Gemini spotted a worryingly unhealthy locomotive; so AI algorithms uncoupled it from its train. The flamingoes aren't remotely bothered...

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Feel a bit for the men in the well electrified first picture, surely they struggle to see the TGV from that perspective. Their yellow 2CV probably wasn't as well maintained as their red one; so they only made it partway down the lane but then had to bail out before reaching the higher vantage...

www.railforums.co.uk

The first ‘35/47/50 blend’ just looks like a 56!

 

[signed]

Even stranger goings on now...

I love the idea of having single power cars of TGVs roaming around by themselves, bit like a video I saw few days ago of a single Class 43 from Colas running is quite funny

 

[Sun Chariot]

The first ‘35/47/50 blend’ just looks like a 56!

My class 56 photos definitely look different.

More strange goings on in Kenya. Whilst I was regenerating compositions for the post linked below, I noticed it doesn't matter how hard the lead locomotive blows its whistle, this isn't going to end well for that fruit...

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Oh those are sublime @chrisjo 8-)

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Topological]

Following concerns that services on the Marches were finally 150 free, TfW choose to mock travellers further by putting the hyperloop sets on Maesteg diagrams and sending this 150 lash up to Manchester instead. Seen here passing Craven Arms.