AI-generated (not entirely realistic) railway images

[Sun Chariot]

Seasons greetings; health & happiness to Forum members.

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South Devon in the 1980s. Whilst generating Ai "HST drags", Gemini gave me Valliant coupled between the rear Mk3 and rear DM power car. Operating impossibility - but looks cool!

 

[Sun Chariot]

Nun the wiser - savvy Sisters save, with a group ticket. Seems Grantham's devious shedmaster's allocated Robert the Devil.

 

[Topological]

Nun the wiser - savvy Sisters save, with a group ticket. Seems Grantham's devious shedmaster's allocated Robert the Devil.

Now we know where JK Rowling got the inspiration from.

To the right there is clearly a 1/4 platform against the wall, the track appears to serve the nuns island. That must be the other 1/4 to the 93/4 on the other side of the wall.

I noted with your realistic pictures as well, it likes to make something of a cross between Kings Cross and Newcastle, the photos all seem to have a through station feeling about them.

I like the mad thread.

 

[Sun Chariot]

To the right there is clearly a 1/4 platform against the wall, the track appears to serve the nuns island.

I've heard of Love Island. I think we've found a train service to a 1930s eclestical eqiivalent...

 

[Pete_uk]

A class 60 passenger DMU from Bing! Image creator

 

[Sun Chariot]

Monumental - South Dakota's Black Hills are home to a rather more British-themed National Memorial at Mount Rushmore.
Would our American cousins let us do that?

 

[Ashley Hill]

I guess that’s the front unit of a class 13 on the left.

 

[Sun Chariot]

I guess that’s the front unit of a class 13 on the left.

I'm amazed their granite-masons carved that much of an 08, without it breaking off. If they were going for a 13, I'd want to see the master chiselled in behind the slave.

Happy New Year 2026 greetings here:

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Wait, …there’s a theme? :D Northern rail meets Cuneo Hmm....a Northern Rail depot adjacent to Big Ben, with Great Western signals and signalbox? :s At least I managed to find the mouse! :D

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[Omnidekkalover]

A prompt to make a made-up enviro 100 in Stagecoach Local livery for Sheffield from Gemini.

 

[Sun Chariot]

On the Realistic AI Railway images thread, a new year brings a new game:
Each month, a thread contributor chooses a rail-related theme; and anyone can create any AI composition related to that month's theme. January's rail-related theme is pubs.
Mad? Not a bit. It's great fun, though!

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Wait, …there’s a theme? :D Northern rail meets Cuneo Hmm....a Northern Rail depot adjacent to Big Ben, with Great Western signals and signalbox? :s At least I managed to find the mouse! :D

www.railforums.co.uk

 

[pdeaves]

A prompt to make a made-up enviro 100 in Stagecoach Local livery for Sheffield from Gemini.

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AI really struggles with lettering (see, especially, the numberplate). I wonder why.

 

[Sun Chariot]

AI really struggles with lettering (see, especially, the numberplate). I wonder why.

Not surprisingly, AI logic doesn't render a real licence-plate. However, it can generate user-defined plates; as seen here:

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas on Fort George. Giving Moors View a run for their money here @Cowley :D Merry Christmas everyone! 1766632669 Wow, this AI stuff is good… 1766632887

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[Topological]

AI really struggles with lettering (see, especially, the numberplate). I wonder why.

Although AI is getting better, it does not understand words. AI works with tokens that are probably right in combination. Only finer splitting of the tokens allows any form of detail.

It appears that nano_banana is doing well in @Sun Chariot pictures, so we are getting there with text in images.

 

[Sun Chariot]

From Russia with Love - the maddest part of this image isn't the Russian M62 diesel locomotive's body mounted onto a military road-vehicle's chassis
A six-axle version really did exist (see linked article) albeit it was not successful.

The Legend of Russia's Lost Diesel-Electric 12x12 Overlanding Train

It had a 150.6-liter diesel V12, all-wheel steering, and a soul too good for this world.

www.thedrive.com

What next? A class 08 on caterpillar tracks?

 

[Topological]

From Russia with Love - the maddest part of this image isn't the Russian M62 diesel locomotive's body mounted onto a military road-vehicle's chassis
A six-axle version really did exist (see linked article) albeit it was not successful.

The Legend of Russia's Lost Diesel-Electric 12x12 Overlanding Train

It had a 150.6-liter diesel V12, all-wheel steering, and a soul too good for this world.

www.thedrive.com

What next? A class 08 on caterpillar tracks?

No, this: (The camouflage is the removal of the number 1 from the unit number)

 

[Sun Chariot]

No, this: (The camouflage is the removal of the number 1 from the unit number)

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Is that sent down from the Eisteddfod, to stop those fighty English sorts diluting the beautiful placid Welsh way of life?

 

[Pete_uk]

No, this: (The camouflage is the removal of the number 1 from the unit number)

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You know, I like that livery

 

[Sun Chariot]

I couldn't ignore the idea of a Class 08 Centurion Apache...

Sometimes you need a bigger one. Say, a class 37 Chieftan Apache

 

[D6130]

I couldn't ignore the idea of a Class 08 Centurion Apache...

Sometimes you need a bigger one. Say, a class 37 Chiefton Apache

I think that @xotGD may like that second image.

 

[Topological]

The 37 at least has the sense to face the right way.

Unless this is Top Gear again and the 08 is actually Jeremy firing at James May in:

 

[Sun Chariot]

I think that @xotGD may like that second image.

You read my mind! A Lima 37 on the shelf

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The 37 at least has the sense to face the right way.

Unless this is Top Gear again and the 08 is actually Jeremy firing at James May in:View attachment 195402

Epic! That is what 180s were meant for!

My 08 is some way to the left of the 37. The caravan casualty is the same one in both of the images. I couldn't stock up on caravans, as they'd all fallen off the South Devon cliff.

 

[Topological]

You read my mind! A Lima 37 on the shelf

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Epic! That is what 180s were meant for!

My 08 is some way to the left of the 37. The caravan casualty is the same one in both of the images. I couldn't stock up on caravans, as they'd all fallen off the South Devon cliff.

I was trying to think of something slow. My first thought was one of the TfW Mk4 sets, but they are apparently the best thing ever despite not completing their diagrams yet this year. So what better than a self-combusting 180. The other carriages had obviously been fired at by the guns.

Despite being entirely unsuitable to do South Wales to Manchester (hence all the other images I make), the 150 is definitely a good train and not a suitable choice for James May in this AI episode.

 

[Sun Chariot]

That armoured transport of Sgt.Ig likely offers more comfort than an Az-hateful-thing.
I begin to see a use - nay, the fate - for all the stock stored at Long Marston...

 

[Topological]

The armoured transport of Sgt.Ig likely offers far more comfort than an Az-hateful-thing.
I begin to see a use - nay, the fate - for all that stock stored at Long Marston...

You are right, it has given the train an 80x side. I asked for Pendolino and stopped asking when the front looked right.

I thought Sgt. Ig (well done) might benefit from the extra speed and tilt ability.

You can also imagine the commentary as it is narrated that Sgt Ig is a pacifist and has gone for no armour at all.

We better get commissioned as writers, the BBC needs a new Top Gear team so why not?

Flushed with promise of a new career I wanted to create another pub image for the realistic AI thread... Judge for yourself:

 

[rf_ioliver]

No, this: (The camouflage is the removal of the number 1 from the unit number)

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That's the train they use for the last service of the evening to Pontypridd

Or, that's the one we're going to be sending up the Marches Line to reclaim our territories.

 

[Sun Chariot]

Follow-on to post 588. The APTache, the answer to upcycling redundant BR stock.

 

[Fawkes Cat]

Follow-on to post 588. The APTache, the answer to upcycling redundant BR stock.

OK. I'll bite. Which TOC do you expect to be employing Wonderwoman for their APT-copter?

 

[MarkyT]

OK. I'll bite. Which TOC do you expect to be employing Wonderwoman for their APT-copter?

Perhaps it was one of those crew experiences on a heritage rail/airway. Notice she's in the back seat in the second shot.

 

[Sun Chariot]

OK. I'll bite. Which TOC do you expect to be employing Wonderwoman for their APT-copter?

Wonder Woman and her pasties (it has a double-meaning...) has a been a bit of a running gag for the past few weeks, on the thread below; particularly in this month's images theme.

Show off your realistic AI railway images!

Wait, …there’s a theme? :D Northern rail meets Cuneo Hmm....a Northern Rail depot adjacent to Big Ben, with Great Western signals and signalbox? :s At least I managed to find the mouse! :D

www.railforums.co.uk

Her pasties (the Cornish ones) also made an appearance on post 584 of this thread.

 

[Rick1984]

I couldn't ignore the idea of a Class 08 Centurion Apache...

Sometimes you need a bigger one. Say, a class 37 Chieftan Apache

Absolutely love them. The killer Gronk in particular!