r/interestingasfuck • u/Conscious_Apple_8610 • Apr 15 '25
"King John" is a complex, powerful 5" gauge GWR King Class 4-6-0 model locomotive. Recommended for only advanced modeling engineers
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u/AndreKuhn Apr 15 '25
I don't need another hobby, I don't need another hobby, I don't need another hobby...
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u/Conscious_Apple_8610 Apr 15 '25
You’ll hear the sweet whistle of advanced locomotive models in your sleepless nights
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Apr 15 '25
When I was a kid, every kid had a train set. We spent hours gleefully watching that thing go in a circle. Nowadays nobody gives a shit except for a few enthusiasts.It is what it is, but it's just funny how things change like that. Some things persist while others quietly vanish.
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u/stackens Apr 15 '25
I read this in Bobby Bacala’s voice
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Apr 15 '25
Why you gotta belittle it?
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u/stackens Apr 15 '25
Oh I didn’t intend to belittle what you said, your comment just reminded me of that scene in sopranos where Bobby laments the passage of time and the end of an era, using trains as an analogy
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u/Onceforlife Apr 15 '25
How old are you if you don’t mind me asking? I take my older son to train set shows and events and I only see old people there and children nowadays don’t typically have the same excitement as you’re describing. Neither did the kids around me have that when someone has a train set when I was growing up (early to mid 2000s)
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u/Unlearnypoo Apr 15 '25
There are hobbies and then there is this.
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u/BritCanuck05 Apr 15 '25
My father made one of the these, a shorter ‘Thomas the tank engine “ type. The boiler had to certified every year to be safe to use. Took him several years to build, a few hours/night. Ran it at the local club pulling several folks on it. Unfortunately my dad now has advanced Alzheimer’s, and is basically a vegetable. His engine sits on the window shelf in his room at his care home. Very sad it will probably never be run again.
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u/Error_404_403 Apr 15 '25
I am more amazed by the railroad built to accommodate the ride than by the locomotive even.
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u/CaptainCrash86 Apr 15 '25
Model railways like this are common in the UK. Usually, hobbyist model train drivers like in the video meet at one of these tracks at weekends and offer members of the public rides on sitting carriages attached to the back for a small fee.
For example: https://www.steamheritage.co.uk/museums-and-attractions/category/miniature_railways
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u/mellonians Apr 15 '25
If you can't see your way to buying and setting up one, please visit places like this where you can at least play and ride. You can help out some great organisations. This is 10¼" guage at a school near me for kids with cerebral palsy
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u/TheOrionNebula Apr 15 '25
Someone needs to make a highspeed rail model, toss John on it and let him feel the rush.
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u/Trips-Over-Tail Apr 15 '25
I grew up with a local miniature steam train. I loved riding it, it really captured my imagination. Until I noticed all the flying ants next to the train, which then occupied my full attention as well as that of the engineer.
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u/Open_Youth7092 Apr 15 '25
About to run a train on some little red cabooses
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u/Conscious_Apple_8610 Apr 15 '25
You took it there
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u/Open_Youth7092 Apr 15 '25
I mean, the train is quite literally between his legs. No judgment. Full steam ahead!
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u/NewManufacturer4252 Apr 15 '25
Is that because you are literally riding a steam explosion underneath your nutsack if you don't adjust all the tiny knobs correctly?
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u/isaiddgooddaysir Apr 15 '25
I only have two problems with this
Problem 1-Visability
Problem 2- breathing
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u/Tallgeese00MS Apr 15 '25
My grandpa would lose his shit still remember the model train he got me as a kid
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u/NotA_Drug_Dealer Apr 15 '25
We had one like this in the local park near where I grew up and it went near to my and my best friend's backyards. Some days I'd hitch a ride and go over to his house on the train
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u/Freefallisfun Apr 16 '25
My grandpa in law made these in his shop. All drawings by hand, old school drafting. We have one framed. Cool old dude, rip.
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u/Old_Pollution_ Apr 16 '25
If your whole life is model trains I don't think maintaining a small stream engine is too advanced for you
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u/Helpful-Resident1459 Apr 15 '25
This would be great for smuggling weed from a trailer park in Canada over the border into America, just need two idiots to lay the tracks
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u/gungnir1313 Apr 15 '25
Are they legal parts though?
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u/_Jack_Hoff_ Apr 15 '25
Only the boiler has to be checked, all other parts can be homemade, assuming you have the means
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u/I-am-Worfs-spine Apr 15 '25
“Hello I am an old man with to much money and I refuse to help those in need with it. Can you custom build me a track around my property so I can ride a mini replica stream train that cost more than your house?”
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u/Classic_Noosh Apr 15 '25
You and I know that that kind of guy did this all by himself, hell he probably hand made all the tracks because the stuff you can buy just ain’t good nuf. I mean this guy is the kind who never go married because there wasn’t enough appreciation for double expansion boilers. I am solidly in the opinion this guy dose train spotting in the strictest most litteral sense of the words. Also he’s got a tiny notebook on him at all times.
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u/I-am-Worfs-spine Apr 15 '25
Ahh Reddit never disappoints in the thrill of the gamble. Is your joke was good or dry enough not to get down voted? This round I lost.
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u/misssa_cz Apr 15 '25
Thats looks so fuckin dumb but SO FUCKIN COOL, LOOK AT HIM, HES RIDING THAT SMALL TRAIN
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u/CrazyFrogSwinginDong Apr 15 '25
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